4th Aug 2010
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
Ella Fitzgerald
Before reading this peace, take a paper and pencil and list at least five things you started doing with all enthusiasm and determination, and gave up ultimately. Then think for a few minutes as to why you have up. One answer I get in my time management seminar for this exercise is that if we don't love what we have taken up to do, we easily give up.
Last week I was on a picnic with a marriage party. In the same bus was a mother and her three year old daughter sitting just behind me. The mother was feeding her child curd rice. I missed my video camera! It was a fantastic example and case study for perseverance. The whole `operation feeding' took about an hour! The mother never lost her temple even once. The child was doing everything to end this `operation', but the mother won ultimately!
I was wondering what made the mother to pursue what she did. It was her love of her child! Isn't? Recall your younger days when your mother struggled with you to make you do which you never wanted to do? Did she give up? She didn't, because she loved you so much.
Next time you watch a tennis player or a football player in action, notice their hard work and physical strain. Imagine what will be their stamina if they don't love their game!
Jot down one project you have initiated during the last thirty days and ask the question: how much I love this project? Rate the intensity of your love on a scale of one to ten. This score will decide your enthusiasm stamina!
N C Sridharan
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