Passion-The Key to Achievement
No matter what you want to achieve in life the surest way to succeed is to have a passion for it. When your heart rules, your head will follow. This is true in just about any new endeavor in any field, whether it be business or play.
Passion rules. But alongside passion, sits optimism and knowing what you want. When you have that fervor inside and you can see the final result in your mind, your optimism will make you creative in setting guidelines to reach your goal.
Look at the professionals in any sport. Basketball’s Shaquille O’Neal has a definite passion for his sport and has become one of the leading stars in the NBA today. His skill was only attained because he had the passion to follow his heart and an optimistic attitude to be the best in his field.
Bill Gates is another example of how passion was set in motion. His emotional attachment to his vision made him the business magnate he is today with Microsoft. And so it goes with successful people. Their sheer optimistic desire fires them on to be the best they can.
Now, we may not have visions of such magnitude, but don’t you have some passions that you haven’t yet acted on? In your heart have you wanted to learn to paint, be creative with arts and crafts, or learn to play a musical instrument? Some people go to plays and think, “I wish I’d done some acting when I had the chance in high school. If I were up on that stage, I’d probably be good at it and I’d have a blast.” Well, what’s holding you back? Do you have a hidden passion for these sort of things?
How about learning to dance? Have you ever tried tap, jazz, or clogging? There are free online clogging lessons available for you to learn the basic dance steps at home at your own pace to fire up that desire you have to learn to dance. You may even want to learn with a friend and be accountable to each other. Double the desire, double the fun.
No matter what your passion, follow your heart and your head will follow. Until you give it a try, you don’t know how far that “fever” can take you. Be optimistic and your creativity will flow. Go follow your passions. Yes you can. Go. Do. Enjoy.
| Fran Tellor, owner and clogging instructor, invites you to visit her website at http://www.clogging101.com for free online clogging lessons aimed at the beginning clogger. Additional beginner clogging DVD’s and CD’s are also available as well as clogging shoes, clogging taps, and clogging accessories. |
Testimonials- The Proof Is In the Pudding
Have you heard of the expression ‘the proof is in the pudding’, or the longer version ‘the proof of the pudding is in the eating’? You can tell the world how wonderful your product or website is over and over in hundreds of different ways, but when your readers respond with their own comments it rings a bell of credibility to hear it from strangers.
An excellent way to bring credibility to your product or website is to let other people brag on it. Every website should offer a comment section, asking for opinions and suggestions for improvement. It lets the public know that you are working to make your product/site the best possible for their use as well as letting them know that their opinion counts. This comment section should be posted on your home page and the comments or testimonials made visible for visitors to read. The most current comments should be listed first.
Another good idea is to have a separate category for testimonials. That way when the comments become so numerous that they don’t fit on the home page, you can have a compiled list of new and old testimonials which can be quite impressive over time.
You may also want to mention or remind your readers to complete their review from at least one other section on your website to stress how much their opinion means to you.
Testimonials give you a better understanding of what your market is looking for and may inspire you to improve on your products or add additional products or information to satisfy the requests of your visitors. Strangers will share their feelings and experiences that give you more insight into your niche and its demand for a certain product related to what you offer. Their unbiased, objective opinions can be more valuable to you than spending a lot of time and money researching it for yourself. You will also learn what it is that people love about your products. Hopefully most of your comments will be of this nature and will build trust and confidence in you and your site.
So take advantage of other peoples’ opinions, welcome them, and use them to your advantage in giving your site or products the credibility that you alone can’t always provide. ‘The proof of the pudding is’, indeed, ‘in the eating’ and when your readers ingest a savory tidbit, they’ll tell you- if you ask them. So ask and you shall receive.