I perfectly remember when I was a child I used to have wonderful weekends. I practiced sports, I stayed with my friends, we went to restaurants to have dinner with my parents, we watched football on TV… A lot of activities that I loved and made me very happy. I have great memories of my childhood weekends. However, as Sunday night drew near, all I had all kinds of problems. I had a vast repertoire of ailments: headache, tummy, angina, general malaise … Fortunately, my parents ignored these complaints, because they knew perfectly well the origin of my illnesses: I did not want to go to school because it bored me deeply.
Later, as I have grown older, I have remembered those Sunday nights many times. And I have realized that in your professional career, the most crucial moment of the week is, in my opinion, Sunday night. It is the moment you realize what your work and the project you have in hand means to you. I suppose that for most professionals, Sunday nights are sad, disappointing because leisure ends and boredom begins. I am convinced that a good part of the people who today are lucky enough to work (it should be remembered at a moment like this), have these feelings at the end of the weekend. In some cases, it is even possible that the ailments that I mentioned before my childhood appear.
Fortunately, for some people, Sunday night is an extraordinary time. It is a moment when your head boils; You go over the week’s schedule, you come up with ideas, and you are really looking forward to the week to be able to do all these things that you have in mind. From what I have seen in my experience, you only achieve great professional success when Sunday nights are in this way, active, exciting, full of motivation… Because to achieve great results, passion is essential. If we review the stories of great stars, of successful people in different disciplines, there is an element common to all of them, passion. It is practically impossible to see someone who has succeeded in their discipline without being genuinely passionate about it. I still haven’t seen anyone. And it is not necessary to go to the great world cracks, it is merely required to look in our closest environment. Surely we all know some close people who are achieving great results. And I am fully convinced that all of them share passion as a critical element of their success.
I like to define passion as what you would do even if you didn’t get paid for it. Because when you work with passion, the results are diametrically different. Time flies, you become much more creative, you motivate others very quickly, you are much more ambitious, you are in a good mood … There are countless benefits of working with passion or your passion, compared to not doing it. Because, as Sir Ken Robinson – education expert, writer, and speaker – says, “we all have a place where we do what we really want to do and where we are who we have always wanted to be.”
And you, have you already found your place, your passion?
