Don't Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort.

What really a passion is?

It’s merely an emotion which makes thy body, and essentially heart, HAPPY.

I constantly hear it all the time from people.

“I’m passionate about it.”

“I’m not going to quit, It’s my passion”.

Or I hear it, as advice to students by others and popular posts, stories on social media for eternity

“Follow your passion”

Isn’t it? “Follow Your Passion” is easily the best fictitious advice you could ever give or get.

But Why? Because everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it. There are always going to be things we love to do. That we dream about doing. That we really really want to do with our lives. For many, those passions aren’t worth wholly.

Think about all the things you have been passionate about in your life. Think about all those passions that you considered making a career out of or building a company around. How many were/are there? Why did you bounce from one to another? Why were you not able to make a career or business out of any of those passions? Or if you have been able to have some success, what was the key to success?

Was it the passion or the effort you put into your job or company?

If you really want to know where your destiny lies, look at where you apply your time.

Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own. Heard it a lot of time, right? But we usually forget it as days pass by.

You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or don’t use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you.

- Ashik Shafi

That is, whether you’ll achieve nothing and would be just appreciating other’s success or make others proudly appreciate yours.

That’s deep. Read it again.

We are humans, we want best in everything but the biggest problem with today’s youth is that

“We want best, we just want”

We are not ready to work for it.

If you have the COURAGE to say “I want to be a ….. !” (With fierce emotion in your eyes and splendid grace)

Please! Think before saying. Ask yourself. Are you really ready to work hard for it? Are you ready to sacrifice some unwanted stuff from your life? Will you willingly, put off distractions? And the most important. WILL YOU FOLLOW WHAT YOU SAY?

Be persistent and precise with what you say, what you want, for what you will really work hard!

Let me make this as clear as possible,

When you work hard at something,

you become good at it.

When you become good at doing something,

you will enjoy it more.

When you enjoy doing something,

there is a very good chance you will become

passionate or more passionate about it.

When you are good at something, passionate and

work even harder to excel

and be the best at it, good things happen.

Don’t follow your passions, follow your effort.

It will lead you to your passions and to succeed.

- Ashik shafi

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