Many of us only want to do what we enjoy. We want to focus on what we love and what we are passionate about. But many people fail to understand that if you keep doing only what you are passionate about, you may never achieve great things.
Why? Because many of the things necessary to support, strengthen, and expand your passion are not always enjoyable.
If you study many of the top founders and billionaires in the world today, you will see this clearly. Many of them started with passion. For example, Mark Zuckerberg was passionate about building software and creating tools to solve problems. But building a company around that passion was not the passion itself. Managing people, building structure, making difficult decisions, those were not necessarily the things he naturally enjoyed. Yet he had to learn them, and that is part of what took him to where he is today.
Many of us want to stay only with the part we love. We do not want to grow into the bigger assignment attached to it.
Usually, your passion is connected to what God has called you to do, but it does not end there. Passion may reveal direction, but purpose demands responsibility.
You must develop the discipline to do not only what you want to do, but also what you need to do to fulfil your assignment.
So in summary, stop focusing only on what you enjoy. Focus more on what is necessary.
Do not think only about your feelings. Think about God. Think about the people you were sent to bless. Think about the assignment attached to your life.
Even if you are not passionate about the next stage, ask yourself:
How important is this to my purpose?
How important is this to the people I am called to impact?
Passion may start the journey, but purpose is what pushes you to do what is necessary until the assignment is complete.
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