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Live passionately…
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Moustafa Hamwi
Passionpreneur & Chief Energy Officer
Award Winning Author & Speaker
Moustafa.com
MASTERING PASSION
About Moustafa
Moustafa Hamwi is an award winning author &
speaker. He is the world’s leading expert on
Passion to an extent he became known globally as
"The Passion Guy"
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MASTERING PASSION
– THE STARTING POINT OF ALL SUCCESS
BY MOUSTAFA HAMWI
Without knowing the answer to this question you will feel like something
is missing no matter how successful you are; which is how I felt many
years ago while I was running multi-million dollar businesses in the
entertainment, modeling and events industries in Dubai.
The more glamorous my life became the more empty I felt, and that
made me realize that making an enormous amount of money while being
unhappy is failure! Most of us while in pursuit of happiness lose sight of
our ultimate destination and get stuck in the rat race for more money, and
there is never enough money!
during this long period three questions were constantly occupying most
of my mental space:
I encourage you to look closely into your life. Is your apparent success
masking the true answers to these questions and stopping you from
getting 100% satisfaction out of life? Are you pursuing outer success at
the expense of inner fulfillment?
I have distilled the learnings from my many months in India and years of
research into passion and purpose; keep reading and I will help you gain
clarity without having to buy a one-way ticket to India!
People talk about passion but not many know what it truly means!
I guess you did not see that coming. People think passion is something
that comes to you while on the contrary; passion is that which you are
willing to suffer for and endure pleasure and pain in the pursuit of; and in
this process you bring passion to life.
Passion is consistently doing what you love, what you are good at
and is of value to the world.
Forget happiness
decipher what passion means to you; it’s not only about waving your
hands and it’s not only emotions. Passion comes from the heart and not
only how it’s expressed physically, it’s about how you live your life.
Passion is service
Your passion is a gift from God, you are meant to do it and you
are not doing yourself a favor if you are not using it to be of service to the
world. Your passion is your participation in this world; it's been given to
you to bring to life just like a bird singing or a tree giving fruit and shade.
The quality of your purpose defines the quality of your passion. One
can be passionate about the wrong things as well; extreme dictators had
passion and terrorists have passion but it’s the wrong kind of passion.
Aside from the thousands of hours I spent researching and studying the
topic of passion, I host a talk show called “Passion Sundays” where I have
interviewed over 50 global leaders, sports champions, award-winning
artists and celebrities diving deep into their interpretation of passion and
its impact on all aspects of success and one thing is blazingly obvious:
Passion is a crucial element on the journey to success.
Pursuing your passion will put you on the road to becoming everything
you are capable of becoming; it puts you in a place of power against all
the odds for many reasons:
1- Passion is energy
If you are doing what you love, it provides you with a continuous
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source of energy that gives you momentum that feeds your willpower.
This is one of the most crucial elements to success, because it’s not
the odds that kill us, but losing the will to fight.
When you are working towards your passion, you will feel fulfilled
regardless of the ups and downs and you will have an unlimited
source of energy.
When you feel fulfilled with what you’re doing, you don’t even call
it work, you call it fun!
It's simple, when you love something you find ways to make it
happen. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Brian Tracy talks about the key principles of leadership and success
that have been discovered in more than 3300 studies going back
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to 600 BC, and the first one is the principle of “objective” which
requires that you are absolutely clear about who you are, what you
want, where you are and where you are going. The principle of
objective means that you have absolute clarity on what it is you are
here on this planet to accomplish.
Here is one of the most effective and efficient ways to find your
passion without having to buy a one-way ticket to India:
Look at that check with one billion dollars in your name, tear it off
and look at it again – it feels amazing! Feel free to fold it and put it
in your pocket, close to your heart.
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Now that money is out of the equation, you’ve got no more financial
concerns. Your loved ones are taken care of and you’ve got enough
financial resources to make any dream come true, the question is:
What do you want to do with your life? Would you still be doing
what you are doing now?
I know some might say: I will go on a very long holiday, and that’s
fine, but what’s next? As humans we are designed to be productive,
so you will get bored after a while. How do you want to invest your
time? How do you want to use your energy? What skills do you
want learn? What impact do you want to leave on this planet?
Once money is no object and you exit the rat race, what makes you
tick?
Keep in mind in many cases you will start doing something, and
after a while you will realize that there are parts of it you enjoy
and others that you don’t. This is a guide to where you should focus
your energy and course correct; living passionately is a journey not
a destination.
On the journey to success you will hit failure after failure and it
is normal to occasionally run low on energy and motivation. It’s a
game of ebb and flow and if you stay close to the vibrancy of your
inner core and be true to your values then you will make it through.
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If you are unable to find external motivation, then tap into your
internal inspiration, your “Why” the billion-dollar question! If you
answered it from the heart, then you will always find energy there.
3. Do your best
You will only be passionate about something you have earned; it’s
your work that gives value to things and makes you passionate about
them. Passion comes from doing your best; it comes as a result of
something you keep working hard on till you get good at it.
Passion is the most amazing way of living life. This chapter is summarized
from our experience in empowering leaders to win the game of work and
business of life. It’s a great tool to bring out the best in ourselves and the
best from each other, hope you found it valuable and practical.
Live Passionately!
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TRUE MEANING OF PASSION
AS DEFINED BY THE WORLD’S LEADING EXPERT ON PASSION
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THE BILLION DOLLAR QUESTION
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