Longevity, Life Quality, Passion and Power

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Your life is extended, and its quality maximized due to many factors. But one of them is most definitely passion. If you pursue your passion, you increase your strength (physically, psychologically, and psychically),your cognitive abilities, your general energy and efficiency levels and, well...everything else that matters. Passion is your power. Follow your passion to live your best life. --DC

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Perhaps it's time for a little change in your life.

Entrepreneurs, Future Leaders, Athletes and Celebrities: Your Passion Is Your Power.

As a child, you had a perception of limitless possibilities and opportunities for yourself. You had not experienced a great deal of failure, or disillusionment -- if you being brought up in a decent place, your self-esteem was fair to good. And your instincts, and intuition attracted you to certain pursuits, ideas, hobbies, or objectives.

These later became increasingly limited as your own highly-parametized self-limited beliefs (amped up by other people's constantly telling you how your chances at success were "one in a million," or that you should start thinking "practically" and "realistically" about your future. Since most people are failures, even by their own internal standards, your principal influences stopped becoming those passions and drives from deep within and started become a cacaphony of negative voices. If you are like most people you compromised, grew resentful, downgraded your plans, and learned to adjust (i.e., to stifle or suppress) that longing for the passionate feelings and love for things you had as a child.

As a child, your passion was your power. And as an adult, nothing has changed -- your passion is your power. If you deny your passion, you deny your own identity. You never get to play the role that you really wanted so desperately and longingly to play.

It is not too late. Sit down with yourself. Listen to your own inner voice. Be honest about the gap between what you'd really love to be doing and for that which you have settled. Don't consider anybody else's embedded voice or repeated assessment of you. Identify yourself with the things that excite and delight you. Odds are that those things that once drove you, that kept you daydreaming, that got you out of bed early, that fed your fantasies are still at the core of you.

If you know what you feel passionately about, you are close to knowing who you are and what you were meant to do. Do whatever you must to get back to that childhood mission. Everything of brialliance and beauty in this world was born of unbridled, uncompromised passion. Plan to make a change, as aggressively (yet as methodically) as possible in order to get back on the direct highway to the pursuit of your passion. Your life will begin to "feel better" on you. You will find yourself interested in what you are doing, or what you would rather be doing. You will incite the rebel within yourself.

And, if you are relentless, and have truly decided that you want the power that is your birthright in this world, realign your actions and your pursuits with those passions. Tell all of the naysayers and pragmatists and realist and other terms which I use use as euphemisms for "child killers" that their opinions are their own, and are not solicited by you. Understand that you are the only one to judge what is right and what is wrong for yourself.

Listen to your passion, and let it drive you once again. You might re-locate, change careers, suffer a bit of trauma, take a few body blows, but you will be in YOUR arena. And the role that you will play on the stage of life will be as yourself. The more you yield to, and build around your passion as a creative, energetic nucleus, the more grounded and powerful you'll be.

You can lead better if you have passion. You can feel better about yourself if you have passion. You can increase your energy level and operating efficiency if you have passion.

Your passion is the power that will give you command of yourself. And once in command of yourself, you will far better suited to command others. A person with a powerful vision is a social magnet.
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As an aside, I had wanted to be a musician and performer when I was much younger. When I played my rock and pop and blues, it was as if unseen forces were guiding my hands. I loved every second of it. I was absorbed in it. I was constantly getting better at it.

As one of my bandmates once said of our group (funk and soul stuff) and of me: "Man when we play, we go HARD. And when you in your space, you play, you sing....Man..... like ain't nobody's business!"

Passion is a pathway to power and to command.

Don't neglect your passion or you'll be like the rest of the zombies you see at a commuter train station every morning. Stop living a life of quiet desperation -be who you really are. You'll find strength that you didn't even think that you had ever had.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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