Are you a 110%?

October 31, 2008

The people that I really honour and respect in life are people that work hard, or work with a desire to give 110%. They want to be the very best that they can be.

110%, it comes with choice – Life is full of choices.

My husband Jai was teaching a young boy the other day on the violin. However, he wasn’t playing up to his normal standard.

Jai asked: “Have you practiced this week?”
There was a moments pause and the student answered: “Not really”
Jai replied: “Is that a not really, or a yes?”
The student replied: “No, not much”

Jai went on to say:

What is passion?

October 31, 2008

Passion, this is something that I’ve been thinking about lately. What makes me passionate? What makes me have a strong emotion, a rage, a love and a belief? What is something that I know without a doubt in my mind that … “This is what life is all about!”

This is how the dictionary defines “passion”:

1. a strong feeling or emotion

2. heat: the trait of being intensely emotional

3. rage: something that is desired intensely

4. mania: an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

5. love: any object of warm affection or devotion
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