How to Create Unlimited PASSION for Your Job

Imagine that you are a candidate looking for a job, and the recruitment consultant who is assisting you to source for a job looks “DEAD” and talks like a “ZOMBIE.” Would you feel great or feel excited about the offering given by the recruitment consultant? Unlikely, isn’t it?

Do you think this person will continue to be in the same job in 6 months? The answer is pretty obvious….Most likely that particular recruitment consultant will not be with that company or even in that industry after awhile.

Have you met someone with such a nature? Well, I am sure you have. It may not be in the recruitment industry, but I believe in other places, such as a shopping mall where you are buying things and the cashier or sales promoter just goes through the routine to “SERVE” you, you will definitely feel the lack of PASSION and energy in this person; and because of that, there is a possibility that you might not even buy from this person….

Well, if you would like to create more sales and have more customers, PASSION is so important that the distinct lack of it will usually boil down to a lower number of total sales or cases you will close for the month. You don’t just need to be passionate with your customers; you need to be passionate with your boss and with your fellow colleagues. If you do that, you will have the energy and motivation to carry on with the task you are supposed to do, right?

So how do you create passion for your job?

In fact, there are two answers for that:

First – Do you like what you are doing? If you do, you don’t need any motivators or any third party to push you to be passionate about it. It is all IN you.

Second – If you do not like your job, then you have to ask yourself the following questions and work things out:

a)     What is interesting about this role I am working on?

b)     List 20 ways this role I am working on could be interesting.

c)     What needs to happen to make the role more interesting?

d)     List 20 things that could happen that will make this role EXTREMELY interesting.

After you have listed these answers, work on at least one of them, and most likely you will find something fairly interesting about what you are doing.

The Solution

The key thing is this—FOCUS on the things you think are interesting and exciting. Send all your complaints and things that are not that great to the “Recycle Bin” temporarily, and you can choose to retrieve them back later, if needed, but at the present point, put all your effort and energy on the POSITIVE side of the role.  You will need to re-focus on the POSITIVE side of the role every SINGLE day, as you could probably have a habit of staying monotonous for a while. One spark of PASSION for a day will not last long; you will need to put the energy spark into your role every SINGLE day so that it will take over your previous habits.

Habits are not created within a single day. Add the passion every day into your life, and after a few weeks, it will be automatically in you.

Good luck, and live life with PASSION!