Comments on: Essential Lessons on Making Difficult Decisions in Life http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/01/18/essential-lessons-on-making-difficult-decisions-in-life/ Live Life to the Fullest - Personal Growth and Effectiveness Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:12:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Donald Latumahina http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/01/18/essential-lessons-on-making-difficult-decisions-in-life/#comment-52701 Donald Latumahina Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:46:54 +0000 http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/01/18/essential-lessons-on-making-difficult-decisions-in-life/#comment-52701 David, Thanks for sharing your thoughts. There are a lot of insights in your comment and I agree with you on both points. I especially like the way you connected passion with determination and perseverance. It's clearer to see why passion is essential that way. I also like your warning about time. David,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. There are a lot of insights in your comment and I agree with you on both points.

I especially like the way you connected passion with determination and perseverance. It’s clearer to see why passion is essential that way. I also like your warning about time.

]]> By: David Legan http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/01/18/essential-lessons-on-making-difficult-decisions-in-life/#comment-52198 David Legan Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:11:24 +0000 http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/01/18/essential-lessons-on-making-difficult-decisions-in-life/#comment-52198 Excellent take, all in all, but hardly original. There are two random comments that come to mind. 1. Of course your friends and family encouraged the safe route. Not for the reasons you presume, however. They did so out of two motives: a. that you might succeed, thereby leaving them behind, and b. they feared endorsing the dangerous path, in the event that you might fail and have them to blame. The former is insidious, the latter cowardly. 2. Nothing can help someone succeed like passion. It is the well from which springs determination and perserverence, which is the cornerstone of most success. The only, and I mean only enemy of genuine passion is time. Even the most passionate of seekers will fail if health and energy dissipate. One can only succeed on passion if it is given enough time. And some of us WILL run out of time. Excellent take, all in all, but hardly original. There are two random comments that come to mind.

1. Of course your friends and family encouraged the safe route. Not for the reasons you presume, however. They did so out of two motives: a. that you might succeed, thereby leaving them behind, and b. they feared endorsing the dangerous path, in the event that you might fail and have them to blame. The former is insidious, the latter cowardly.

2. Nothing can help someone succeed like passion. It is the well from which springs determination and perserverence, which is the cornerstone of most success. The only, and I mean only enemy of genuine passion is time. Even the most passionate of seekers will fail if health and energy dissipate. One can only succeed on passion if it is given enough time. And some of us WILL run out of time.

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