Years ago, when I began seeking my very first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any quantity of expertise."
How proper they were. Enthusiastic individuals can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into chance and strangers into pals.
"Nothing terrific was ever achieved with out enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is actually the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It can be the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you cannot."
It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be usually accepted. But she did not let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she by no means thought of stopping.
We're all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder as anybody knows who has ever seen an infant's delight at the jingle of keys or the scurrying of a beetle.
It's this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic persons such a youthful air, whatever their age.
At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would commence his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. Music, for Casals, was an elixir that produced life a never ending adventure. As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, lies within the word itself. "Enthusiasm" comes from the Greek and indicates "God within." And what's God within is but an abiding sense of adore -- correct love of self (self-acceptance) and, from that, really like of other people.
Enthusiastic people also adore what they do, regardless of funds or title or power. If we cannot do what we really like as a full-time career, we can as a part-time avocation, like the head of state who paints, the nun who runs marathons, the executive who handcrafts furniture.
Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended bouts of depression that had plagued her for at the very least 30 years, as well as the excellent of her work led 1 critic to say, "I am tempted to call Layton a genius." Elizabeth has rediscovered her enthusiasm.
We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We want to turn the tears into sweat as we go immediately after "what-can-be."
We require to live every single moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses -- locating pleasure within the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the crayoned picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It's such enthusiastic enjoy of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our actions and smooths the wrinkles from our souls.
How proper they were. Enthusiastic individuals can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into chance and strangers into pals.
"Nothing terrific was ever achieved with out enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is actually the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It can be the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you cannot."
It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be usually accepted. But she did not let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she by no means thought of stopping.
We're all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder as anybody knows who has ever seen an infant's delight at the jingle of keys or the scurrying of a beetle.
It's this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic persons such a youthful air, whatever their age.
At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would commence his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. Music, for Casals, was an elixir that produced life a never ending adventure. As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, lies within the word itself. "Enthusiasm" comes from the Greek and indicates "God within." And what's God within is but an abiding sense of adore -- correct love of self (self-acceptance) and, from that, really like of other people.
Enthusiastic people also adore what they do, regardless of funds or title or power. If we cannot do what we really like as a full-time career, we can as a part-time avocation, like the head of state who paints, the nun who runs marathons, the executive who handcrafts furniture.
Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended bouts of depression that had plagued her for at the very least 30 years, as well as the excellent of her work led 1 critic to say, "I am tempted to call Layton a genius." Elizabeth has rediscovered her enthusiasm.
We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We want to turn the tears into sweat as we go immediately after "what-can-be."
We require to live every single moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses -- locating pleasure within the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the crayoned picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It's such enthusiastic enjoy of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our actions and smooths the wrinkles from our souls.
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