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Enthusiam takes you further

Years ago
when I started looking for my first job
wise advisers urged
"Barbara
be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience."

How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure
extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
" wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers
"I can do it!" when others shout
"No
you can't."
It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock
a geicist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine
to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.
We are all born with wide-eyed
enthusiastic wonder as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant's delight at the jingle of keys or the scurrying of a beetle.

It is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air
whatever their age.
At 90
cellist Pablo Casals would start 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 made 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 in the word itself. "Enthusiasm" es from the Greek and means "God within." And what is God within is but an abiding sense of love -- proper love of self (self-acceptance) and
from that
love of others.
Enthusiastic people also love what they do
regardless of money or title or power. If we cannot do what we love 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 least 30 years
and the quality of her work led one 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 need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be."
We need to live each moment wholeheartedly
with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden
the crayoned picture of a six-year-old
the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes
a lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from our souls.