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The most well-intentioned plans, the most heart-felt desires – they’re great.
That’s the fuel that can help things get done.

But that passion can also be blindingly detrimental, strangling the life from an otherwise excellent venture or project.

Sometimes your passion will get in the way of your success.
Sometimes your passion will paralyze you.
Sometimes your passion is actually setting you up for failure.

How, you say?   The rest of the story...

• By giving you the false hope that what you’re doing is the best way to do it.
• By allowing you to rationalize procrastination as “due diligence.”
• By helping you to stubbornly refuse seeking or adopting better tools or methods.
• By ham-stringing you with the thought that with a change, all your work will be undone.
• By making you dig your heels in because you didn’t come up with the idea first.
• By painting the illusion that it’s too hard to learn something new or better.
• By filling you with a fear that it will be too scary to make changes.