When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.
Interpretation
Pursuing your true passion in fundraising leads to personal growth and mastery of skills essential for success.
This quote emphasizes that when one is genuinely passionate about what they are working towards, particularly in the context of fundraising for social causes, the intrinsic motivation to succeed compels them to refine and excel at their abilities. Passion fuels dedication, which in turn leads to the development of expertise necessary for turning dreams into tangible accomplishments.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a fundraising event, I shared this quote to inspire attendees to pursue their passions.
Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we speak, and look the way we look. We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.
At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.
For me, getting your number retired is the greatest accomplishment. There is no accolade with more significance that you can receive from an organization or school. Whether it was my four years at Central Arkansas or all my seasons with the Bulls in Chicago, it's a sign of respect for what I have done.
Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.
Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.
I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said to myself, 'Hey, I'm a professional writer now.'
I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first Aboriginal to win this. Isn't that something? I wish my Dad was alive to see it. He'd be as proud as I am.
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