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In my previous post, I talked about the importance of allocating time to your dream. This post is about the quality of the time you put in, and how it affects your chances to succeed.

When you define your goal, you have to be careful to choose something that you enjoy. Something you are passionate about. Your goal involves a series of actions or steps. If you are passionate, then after each action you will feel good, and you will look forward to the next action, and then to the next. You will enjoy every step. You’ll want to allocate more time, because you like doing what you’re doing. When thinking of your project, you’ll feel joy, happiness. On the other hand, if there’s no passion, then you’ll hesitate to take on the next task, and when you finally do decide to do it, you’ll feel bad and you’ll want to get it over with as soon as possible. You won’t do your best, you’ll just do whatever bear minimum you can to mark the task as done. And once it’s done, you’ll dreadfully look ahead at the next action, which you dislike doing even more. You will procrastinate. When thinking of your project, you’ll feel boredom, even disgust.

The chances to succeed are close to 100% if you put in the two ingredients: time and passion. If you just put in time, there is a chance that you might still get there, if you aim low enough. But if you aim high (which you should), then time and passion are both needed. Needless to say, just passion with no time allocated will get you nowhere.

If you believe in the law of attraction, then another reason to enjoy the time you put in your dream is to attract the good outcome. Even if you don’t believe in it, you will still notice it: when you are working towards something with passion and determination, things start happening that help you get there. Guess what? Those things may happen anyway (with or without your passion), but you only notice them if you have the right mindset. You realize that one office in that fancy office building which you see every day on your way to work is perfect for you to open your beauty saloon. This fellow you have coffee with every day wants to partner with someone to start a business too. That commercial on the radio for dance classes is an opportunity to meet the supergirl. All sorts of coincidences occur, which you wouldn’t notice without the passion mindset.

Another good thing about passion is that it has a snowball effect. After each milestone on your way to your goal, if you put in passion, you will have more passion for the next step, and more chances to succeed.

Passion is the fuel that gets you there. Time spent plus passion is the recipe for achieving your goals.

Read also: Put in the Hours: Quantity.