Work… what a Passion

Sometimes I find myself talking with professionals and businessmen about their jobs and I feel like they don’t want to deal with some issues, either because they’re not interesting or even hard to tackle.

These businessmen and professionals try to escape, clumsily getting away from something or someone they are upset or suffer about. They try to communicate that working time is over and it’s time to do something else…having fun!

I tried to study and challenge this situations with these unaware “guinea pigs”. I wanted to truly understand the causes of their reactions to face them later on. Many thoughts and causes have aroused: an unpleasant job sector, a position they dislike, colleagues they have nothing to share with.

Why do they do it then? Reasons are many: someone has taken over a family activity, someone had no alternatives, others couldn’t afford to study or feel unlucky.  Causes may be big or small and most of them related to external factors. This is not my fault man, let’s blame someone else….

Alas, if we don’t take on our full responsibility about what happens in our life, we allow excuses to pave the way to failure.

The evolution of job over the last years and the split up of many activities  led many to do even two or three jobs to meet the month’s end, to live up to their need and those of their family. Doing something for earning only, without taking into consideration our real inclination towards a product/service, has increased the split between work and pleasure.

When I started developing my activities in Referral Marketing working with BNI, I surged to Heaven, a great protected garden, where businessmen and professionals, the real ones, could fully express their common passion for the job they were born for.

Yes, too many had access to that garden before, but now the project is evolving and the real businessmen has even more opportunities to be successful. One of the best things in Referral Marketing is that people get into contact and can share their views on personal and working paths: they can express their passions so that, later on, the real self comes out in their thoughts, words and daily actions.

At this point, only if someone has a real passion can challenge and win over any evolution of living together, always highlighting the search for perfection, using even fantasy to create something that didn’t exist before.

Listening to these professional is a wonderful thing, with shiny eyes they juggle in the circle of life and they talk like real narrators. Although at first they are shy and fearful, now they master the stage and their life, they’re passionate and happy to share what they have.

As a trainer in Referral Marketing, I’m used to listening to various causes for learning a new way to do Business: the most surprising one was the engagement many professionals showed in giving even before getting something in return. They tried hard to follow difficult paths, going beyond their comfort zone and trusting the Team. Today, as a Trainer and Coach of Asentiv (if you want more information, READ HERE), I work daily with far-sighted professionals who really love their job, have the courage to go beyond, to have a specialization that create a competitive advantage over a pseudo competition. They’re sure and aware that success comes when you’re centred with your goals and, with the right tools, you can play as a real professional on professional fields.

That’s what happened some days ago… in a room with about 700 people, the speaker asked how many professionals thought they had been doing the same job for more than 10 years (a challenge to those who often change their job). More than 90% of them raised their hands (as an answer to the challenge, to prove that they were centred on the activity they had chosen). The room chilled when the speaker said that most probably nobody there had been really doing the same job for 10 years ago; they were working in the same sector probably, but their role had changed, their daily activities had change as their life and markets changed. These changes were not positive for those who improvised, but for those who chose to specialize.

Specialization is the keystone nowadays: it takes engagement and, above all, passion to devote all your time with love and dedication to the activity you chose.

“Work…..what a Passion”, let the Professionals speak.

ANdrea.