PASSION AND PURPOSE GO HAND IN HAND

                                                                                     - By MILAN K SINHA
Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it’s something you’re tremendously passionate about.” -  Steve Pavlina

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”-  John Maxwell

Inventor & Author, Vadim Kotelnikov writes,"Steve Jobs was one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our generation. His success story is legendary. Put up for adoption at an early age, dropped out of college after 6 months, slept on friends’ floors, returned coke bottles for 5 cent deposits to buy food, then went on to start Apple Computers and Pixar Animation Studios." Steve jobs died of cancer on 5th October,2011. But Steve was Steve because he loved himself and tried to do what he used to profess,''Do what you love to do.   Find your true passion...The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

      Please look at what other renowned persons have to say on the subject:

• Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. - Napoleon Bonaparte 
• I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” -  Albert Einstein
• Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.-Anthony J. D'Angelo 
• Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.” -  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Passion is the genesis of genius.” -  Anthony Robbins
• Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -  Howard Thurman
• One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”- E. M. Forster
• Purpose may point you in the right direction but it’s passion that propels you.” - Travis McAshan
• If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.” -  T. Alan Armstrong

       Truly, as Anthony Robbins,Speaker and Author says,"There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it’s the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.” So, why not take another example of a most passionate human being who lived on this earth only for 39 years, but his contribution has been unparalleled and unmatched. He is the man  widely known all over the world as Swami Vivekananda. He was full of passion to know himself, his motherland and the rest of the world with a view to serve the humanity at large in his own inimitable manner. As a young man of 25, he started his Bharat Darshan and travelled through length and breadth of the country like a wandering monk for five years.

   There are numerous examples of such persons in our books and also before all of us in different fields of activity ranging from literature, singing, dancing, cooking, mountaineering to administration, agriculture, space science, film making and whatnot who made us extremely proud by their life and work filled with enormous amount of passion. Undoubtedly, pursuing one's passion is full of suspense and pleasure moments worth experiencing.  

                                                        Will meet again with Open Mind. All the Best.