What is that mystery ingredient in success? By Philip Dodson
I have read many business books, blogs, articles, listened to many speakers…..I have read about ‘eating frogs’, systems for this, strategies for that.
There are so many, so called experts out there, all offering free tips, downloadable chapters from their award winning books. We are told that we need a business plan, a marketing plan, a mission, vision, and so on.
We must have systems for follow up, we must have processes for this, we need advisors, non-execs, mentors, coaches….the list goes on.
A number of the above things are vital, as long as they are simple & can be actioned quickly and I am not for one minute suggesting you just start a business and see what comes.
However, after 26 years of running businesses, some for others and some for myself, I have realised that all of my successes have hinged on one thing, that without some other elements in that win, the success would have still happened, but not without the mystery ingredient.
So what is it?
Passion
Without it, you will never achieve your goals or get the successes you are truly capable of. I would not buy from anyone who isn’t passionate about their product or service. I would not employ anyone who doesn’t have it. Life pure and simple, whether for business or personal, will be 100 times more enjoyable and fruitful. If you do the things you love, then you will be truly passionate about it.
I mean passion that is 100% honest and from the heart, not the manufactured ‘reality TV show’ kind, where everyone unconvincingly blurts out how they are really ‘passionate’ about ‘cooking’ ‘selling’ ‘whatever’
So my successes have only come when I’ve been doing the things I love to do, because that’s when the passion flows.
One life – be passionate
Philip Dodson 