Young people should be taught to be passionate. They should be able to lift up their eyes and see who they want to be. They should be allowed as much as they need to visualize what they want to be.
Passion manifests itself in restlessness. Children are a prime example of this. Children are normally, by default, restless. Unfortunately, the more we grow, the more we lose that restlessness.
If you don’t push life, you will stay where you are. You cannot afford to be too comfortable for where you are.
“Woe to those who are at ease.”
Restlessness is a blessing. An opportunity you are not prepared for is not an opportunity at all. You should never be passive. Life is urgent and you have to live it with a sense of urgency. You should never be married to your comfort zone.
If you want your child to become passionate and successful, you will need to let your child linger in environments that trigger their success. Who do they talk with? Who do they play with?
Do you allow them to come in the midst of wise people to let them be triggered? As a parent, you need time to talk to your children and ask them, “What are you thinking?”
Passion makes you live with intention and foresight. You should plan your life on how to make your tomorrow beautiful. You should be able to wake up to a day you have planned, so when you wake up, you don’t waste time.
When you plan your life, you can accomplish a lot in an hour, but when you don’t have a plan, you can be given four hours, and say that you don’t have time.
Without goals for your life, it will be impossible for you to become great. Passion reflects in having a plan for your life. Passionate people break rules. If you have not broken any rules, you are not going to be successful. If you are passionate about what you want to do, and you are sure that it is right, then go ahead.
Sometimes, it is easier to get forgiveness than to ask permission. You cannot be a great person by walking along the lines. The majority is not going to be successful. If you are going to achieve success, you should understand that you are going to break some rules.
At the end of the day, everyone likes success. If you offend your father by breaking some rules in your pursuit of your vision, your passion, and you come back with 10 million to apologize to him, don't you think he will forgive you?
Don’t stay calm and quiet. Break rules, go somewhere with your life, and become significant. There is a way passionate people speak. They speak with certainty. “I *must* do what I need to do.” Their language is the language of obligation.
Something else passionate people have is that even though they break rules, they are under authority. There is a difference between breaking rules and breaking laws.
Therefore, keep at it, don't let a day go by and you remain the same. It's a costly life we all can't afford, being mediocre.
