A burning desire is the generation plant for creating your own electricity. Real success and pure happiness come from within and self-motivation. Regardless of where you are in your life, what you are experiencing, adversities you are facing, or the goals you have achieved or failed to achieve, passion and personal ambition are the sources of inner power that lead to success and happiness. External stimuli are fleeting; internal enthusiasm is ever-lasting.
Being dependent on anything or anyone to create your own electricity is like hoping that the sun shines every day. When you depend on your own inner thoughts, passions, and zest for life, you know the sun will shine every day, even if it’s behind dark clouds and stormy skies. You can turn on your own electricity and never turn it off once you understand you have the power to do so!
Napoleon Hill, in his classic book Think and Grow Rich, suggested that the #1 principle for living a rich and rewarding life is having a burning desire. Hill said, “When you have a burning desire and place all your energy and willpower toward that desire, dreams come true because desire is the force that makes all dreams come true.”
3 Easy Tips to Generate Your Own Electricity:
1) Focus on what you have not on what you lack
What are you grateful for in this moment? Your eyes can see; what it you were blind? Your ears can hear; what if you were deaf? Who loves you, whose love are you taking for granted? What opportunities are waiting for you if you just generated enough electricity to focus on what you have rather than on what you lack? When you change your focus, you’ll generate your own electricity to be happy and successful.
2) Focus on what you want not what you have
The Wright Brothers didn’t focus on the fact that flying was impossible. They focused on what they believed was possible when it wasn’t. NASA didn’t focus on the fact that going to the moon was impossible. They focused on what they believed was possible even when it wasn’t. When you change your focus to what you want and what is possible for you, not on your current reality, you’ll generate your own electricity to be happy and successful.
3) Focus on what you can control not what you can’t
Focus on your own thoughts and beliefs, not those of others. Focus on your dreams and ambitions and let them pull you forward; don’t let other people or circumstances push you back. Spend your precious energy on all that you can control and let go of what you have no control over. When you focus on what you can control, not what you can’t control, you’ll generate your own electricity to be happy and successful.