Passion, Skill & Demand: 3 Factors for Success

Ever wonder why you dread yourself waking up in the morning?
Many have been said about positive mental attitude (PMA) and the law of attraction to achieve what you want in life. However, if you do something that you don’t love doing and no matter how much PMA you have and daily recitation of the positive reafirmation statements will do little help. It’s like running with a 50kg bar bell attached to you leg and shouting “Today is a great day!, I deserve to be successful because I add value to other people’s life.”
Here is what you need to discover in order to have a happy and fulfilling endeavor.
- First you need to find out about your passion. The things that you love doing and you would do it without feeling tensed or pressured. For example, in business, some people love meeting up with people to solicit business but some would prefer using the internet medium to do likewise.
- Secondly, you need to find out the things you are skillful at. The things you are good at doing. For example, my dad is good at expressing excellent ideas, opinions and thoughts through writing and a sought after newspaper article writer but clumsily repairing the water taps. On the other hand, my father in law is a skillful handy man who can single handedly renovate his house and a sought after man for repairing home utilities but hardly expressing himself writing. Looking at business point of view, some people would be good at figures and facts and excellent for stock market or option trading. However, some creative ones will resort to internet marketing and multi level marketing. The point is when you do things you are skillful and good at doing, you will be doing it with a good job with less obstacles.
- Lastly, having found your passion and skills, you must be assured that both your skills and passion coincide with market demand. You can’t do a things you love and good at but no market value or over supply at that point of time. Having said that, this third factor is with the least effect as you can find the niche easily with the help of the two prominent factors mentioned above.
In summary, the key to success is to find a business or career with the intersection of the three factors (passion, skill and demand) and you can achieve success easily coupled with consistency and discipline.
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Passion is the core criteria in our life whether in career, relationship and health. Be passion on things we want and we will be shown the clear way. That will lead to compassion stage. We can be skillful at one thing but skills can be learn and be picked up whenever we believed we could. There is no obstruction to be skillful more than one thing. … Read MoreMarket demand can be very vague. We can have skillset that oversupply and no market value in this region but may not be likewise in latin America or South Africa. There is always opportunity, is very much depending on us to choose. It’s a choice
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