UNLIMITED ENTHUSIASM

When a group of two hundred executives were asked what makes a person successful, eighty percent (80%) listed enthusiasm as the most important quality. More important than skill. More important than training. Even more important than experience.

Before water will produce enough steam to power an engine, it must boil. The steam engine won't move a train an inch until the steam gauge registers 212 degrees. Likewise, the person without enthusiasm is trying to move the machinery of life with lukewarm water. Only one thing will happen: that person will stall.

A. B. Zu Tavern asserts that enthusiasm is electricity in the battery. It's the vigor in the air. It's the warmth in the fire. It's the breath in all things alive. Successful people are enthusiastic about what they do. "Good work is never done in cold blood," he says, "heat is needed to forge any­thing. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart."

You may have all of the skill, training and experience you've ever need. Add enthusiasm to those assets and you will be truly unstoppable!

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How true it is that enthusiasm does make a big difference between you and others. When you are interested in your job and feel enthusiastic in doing it, you can perform better than others who are still lack in enthusiasm. Why? That’s because with enthusiasm, you are more certain and sure of your skill, potential and experience, thus you are in a better position to excel in performance than others.

With enthusiasm, there is accomplishment and you can become a good leader. With unlimited enthusiasm, you will become a great leader. Not only you can influence other persons but also you will have a high command over them to accomplish what you want them to do as you have earned their respect. A great leader is always there to teach, to train, to coach, to guide, to motivate, to encourage, and to lift up team members so as to make them leaders too.

In Beijing Olympics 2008, Michael Phelps of USA, at 6ft 4ins tall with unlimited enthusiasm in swimming, became “The Impossible” winning 8 gold medals in the 400m medley, 200m freestyle, 200m butterfly, 4x100m free relay, 4x200m free relay, 200m medley, 100m butterfly and the 4x100m medley and set world records in all the eight finals. Usain Bolt of Jamaica, at 6 ft 5ins tall with unlimited enthusiasm in running, became “The Incredible” and the new fastest man on earth breaking both men’s 100m and 200m world records. He also won another gold medal together with his teammates in men’s 4 x 400m relay event, breaking the world record too. Both of them are great sportsmen indeed!

Don’t be just a good planter. Show your unlimited enthusiasm in whatever you do in plantation management, and “you will be truly unstoppable” to become a great planter.