I just thought I’ll share with you all what I posted for a contest entry in Litemind.com, for a Personal Excellence Project (Great concept and thanks to author Luciano). here it goes… 

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Internal Conflict questions Passion

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We have passion to do something and there are other forces that pull us away from Passion. Though we are passionate about doing it we are not sure the true purpose of things we do. For example I know many people who have wanted to write the best of personal development blogs (including myself). They have 2 reasons to blog for, one is to give help others achieve more and secondly to make money. Though the passion is to help others, because of wrong strategies people fail to make money. They are caught in a fix and thats when the internal conflict arises. Either to it for money or for the true purpose. When this confusion starts, though you begin to work hard, you don’t get what you want. Primarily because you are not attracting. You start feeling that are people thinking that I am doing this to make money. Then you start defending your actions, and this conflict also arises a lot of negative energy and you feel drained every time you think about it.

There are 2 things to this

1. Making money is not evil. You can do lot of things with money. Even Mother Theresa the most noblest person ever lived wanted money 2. There is not harm in doing things for money.

The thing is that you must be sure of the reason behind you doing something. Be it Purpose of changing people or the purpose of making money be 100% sure of that. This will make sure that your conflict does not arise.

Other major conflicts people face are

Careers Vs Family

Money Vs Purpose

Health Vs Pleasure (Every time you eat that extra piece of Chocolate cake you feel guilty and that guilt makes things worse inside of your body)

Do feel free to list down more.