Day 358 of wisdom
“Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.”
Samuel Smiles
Greatness is not achieved by any means other than through the path of determination, dedication, and focus. One thing that keeps these three afloat and alive is enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the intense eagerness and interest applied towards ensuring the actualisation of a particular dream or purpose. It is the mother of all great achievements, as Ralph Waldo Emerson would say, "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." Without enthusiasm there would be an abortion of so many dreams before it is birth.
Talent alone is not enough, skills cannot do the magic, but enthusiasm will provide the drive, the will, the determination, and guts to keep on going for what you desperately want irrespective of surrounding circumstances. It is like a fuel that keeps the engine rolling. When everything seems difficult, and impossible let your enthusiasm keep you going; when you have tried over and over without the results you wanted, never let your enthusiasm go low. If it is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well, it is worth fighting for, it is worth finishing.
As Samuel Ullman once said, "Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." Never let your enthusiasm be sapped out of you by anything or anyone. The man who never loses his enthusiasm is the man who will consistently and unfailingly achieve everything he has set out to do, he will always get what he wants as long as he goes for it with the same enthusiasm.
Even if you do foolish things, do them with enough enthusiasm, you will one day in the foolishness do something that will bring a major transformation into the world. Thomas Edison was on the track of foolishness until he successfully invented the light bulb. Whatever your mind and heart has found peace, pleasure and comfort doing, do it wholeheartedly, do it so much that it brings you to the point where you are considered obsessed about it. Fail, fail, and fail again but keep your enthusiasm intact.
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