Energy and Enthusiasm: E² = m(omentum) · c(onfidence)

After getting over a bad day, after compensating failure we are now back to our 2012 momentum, as the saga continues. This discourse is on another significant component of success: enthusiasm!

I for my part have spent a long 25 years on doing all kinds of different things; that is probably the only thing to distinguish me from my fellow friends. I talked to one this past week and he was utterly astonished about all the kinds of different things I have already done in life. There is some truth to it that I have done and still do a lot of things because it fulfills me, and I will tell you how I am able to do all that: with heart!

An enthusiastic heart can be the greatest catalyst for a human being. Get involved, get engaged, get ambitious, be patient, persevere, dream...but do it with enthusiasm. There are always people trying to set the world on fire, but there are little who do it with enthusiasm. These few enthusiastic ones, in fact, are those who really have the capacity to do something big, those who have the capability of changing things.  When you ever worked with an enthusiastic person before, you know how much more fun and much less of a hassle it is than working with a dull person focussed on vague goals. The sublime thing about enthusiasm is that it radiates as steady as the fuel rods of Three Mile Island. And that is, where you as a formerly innocent by-stander get infected very easily. Enthusiasm will flood you in no time, because it comes from the heart, it is true and it is great.

The American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." Being successful is as simple as that, do not merely think about it, go out there and try it, do it! School, job, internship, housework, repairs, hobbies – do it with enthusiasm, love what you do, have fun doing it, go out there and go for it, because you obviously decided to do that activity for a reason, right? Is it stressing, time consuming? Once you do it with an enthusiastic heart you will not even realize how time flies by, only because enthusiasm is flowing through you. In a little bit you will see how much fun you can have in school, in your job, your internship, your housework, repairs at your property, your hobbies – because let us be honest: We live at free will, whatever it is you do, you do it by choice, you intended to accomplish something, and in order to do that you decided to go down a certain road in life. Have fun going down your alley of life, love what you do, be all about it, for it is your life, it is what you came to do. What about the success? It will come by itself, because if you are enthusiastic, you do your deeds full time with all your heart, and that’s the only way to succeed. And guess what will be a nice side effect – your colleagues, your friends, your fellow students will start wondering soon: wow, what is going on with him or her, look at him or her, what (s)he is doing looks so easy, so released, how can you have so much fun doing this crap?

Well, dearly beloved, there is only one answer to it: enthusiasm...so go out there, and do what you do with heart!