Good Morning Everyone,
I define passionate professionals as people who go all out to realize their dreams and aspirations. They do not care so much about the money part of their success as much as they do about the connection they feel with their work. They are always thinking about their career situation – and more importantly – about how they can perform with greater proficiency and how to be more productive.
Their careers are usually full of drama and they are generally the center of attention. Most often, they are professionals like no other, their skill, their passion, their intelligence and their career savvy makes them stand out from the majority of their peers.
Passionate professionals are self-governing individuals. No one has to keep an eye on them to ensure that they are getting their jobs done. They love what they do and as a result they do it to their best ability. Rarely, do they ask their supervising authority what to do; they meet management at their point of need. What makes them practically indispensible is that he / she is always coming up with solutions to his or her boss’s worries.
People with professional passion are fearless. They are ready to tackle head on any obstacle that comes their way. When they do feel overwhelmed they just take one more step in the direction of their goals – refusing to retreat or to turn back. If they do fail and they face an uncertainties, they do not give up, instead, they recalculate, refusing to stay for very long in a place of despair.
And, here’s the truth, any professional can claim to be passionate about their career, but they most likely, are not, if whenever a challenge presents itself, they choose to close the door to what could actually be an unexpected opportunity in disguise. Recognizing this dynamic as fact is what separates passionate professionals from others who only claim to be highly motivated.
People with passion for their careers take every negative thought captive and refuse to allow anything to enter into their consciousness that weighs them down, diminishes their power to navigate or to create new options for themselves. They know whatever difficult circumstance they are engaged in regardless of how bleak it appears at the present moment, it will for the most part change, if they can just give themselves enough credit for trying during a setback to move beyond their feelings of stagnation.
I am sad to report the death of John Wooden, former coach of UCLA Bruins basketball team, who at the ripe old age of 99 passed away today. Wooden was also the author of the Pyramid of Success which he worked on from the years 1934-1948 simply so he could become a better teacher. It was this pyramid structure that he used to identify a small number of his ideals at one point that he expanded gradually to have a greater number of items at the opposite point that became so valuable prior to his death. His pyramid was all about his philosophy that he believed led to competitive greatness. During a recent interview he mentioned he was sending out over 2,500 copies of it per year worldwide to people who were requesting from him.
To make up the pyramid he listed: poise, confidence, good mental and physical condition, skill, team coordination, self-control, alertness, initiative, friendship, loyalty, cooperation and enthusiasm as factors that would all result in success if actualized. He defined success as something more than the acquisition of fame and wealth – to coach Wooden; it was how close a person came to his or her full potential. During his 27 year tenure he led his teams to 10 national championships. Only one time was a UCLA basketball coach able to accomplish this same feat thirty-five years after his retirement. This is why Wooden was considered one of the greatest coaches of all time.
Steven Covey author of “7 Habits of Highly Successful People” is a devoted admirer of John Wooden’s pyramid of success. Coach John Wooden was a truly passionate individual who was not only considered an amazing mentor and teacher, but a fantastic leader who dedicated his entire life to making the dreams of other’s come true.
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