Passion to Success

As I told passion is one of the sources of success and achievement. Being passionate means having a state of being with some idea every time and everywhere, 24 hours per day, even while sleeping you dream and breathe with it cause it is in your mind. The more passionate you are the more chances to succeed, to achieve your goals. 

Even if sometimes you don’t have enough skills or abilities to pull something off, however with passion you can organize it and be on a right track, you can get the ball rolling even if you don’t have enough funds or facilities. This situation is quite familiar to those people who have started their enterprises from completely nothing, except passion. Possessing a passion you can induce people in what your dreams are about, and in turn they will respond your ideas and finally help you in your start. 

Referring to Inamori’s way of describing passion, he represents the initials of seven essential principles of managing the company as follows:


P- Profit
How to have a profit? Obviously, by maximizing sales and minimizing expenses. The advice here is not to be a slave of the money, instead of persuading profit, let profit follow you. 


A-Ambition
How to nurture the ambition? To foster ambition you have to desire it so strong and constantly that it becomes a part of your mind first and life after. Being ambitious means always having strong desire and clear vision of what you want to do, your goals, causes and ideals.

S-Sincerity
What does sincerity beget? Sincerity begets to trust, trust begets respect, and respect enables you to lead your group10.You should be sincere not only with your subordinates, but also with your customers and competitors to create this harmony where you earn customer’s respect and compete for it in a fare way. 

S-Strength
How to be strong? Don’t be afraid of taking responsibility and risks. A prosperous entrepreneur needs to convince his employees in their strength, the courage to do the right thing. He also has to create this confidence in them to not let them to be cowards or escape from the difficulties or uncertainties.

I-Innovation
How to be innovative? Being innovative means using new techniques in creating something, making something better than anyone and than it was done before, you must be creative at the same time. To be innovative you need to raise creativity inside of you, to make it a lifelong habit. 

O-Optimism
How to be and stay optimistic? Even in the most difficult situations you have to be cheerful, positive and full of enthusiasm, try to avoid all negative thoughts and pessimistic tune. Moreover, this either positive or negative attitude will directly influence the work force and the way you deal with customers and suppliers. 

N-Never give up
How to manage to never give up? Keep trying - is the tip number one, we have a huge number of examples of great people who achieved and prospered in their life but we don’t know how many times they failed, and mostly it doesn’t even matter. To achieve something you must be willing to make untiring, constant efforts toward your aim despite all the uncertainties, risks, obstacles and frustration. 

These are just several tips for Success, but if you at least follow all of them you will be more able to create your own path to the Success. 

10.  A Passion for Success: Practical, Inspirational, and Spiritual Insight from Japan’s Leading Entrepreneur,
 Kazuo Inaori, p.98