If you want to effectively influence others three key elements summarize all you need.

Let's say you want to manage a project with a high return on investment. What if you need to gain a lot of followers politically. Maybe your desire is to be an influential spouse or parent, friend or member of society. In short, to achieve any kind of success, you'll need three specific deliverables:

Beginning from the bottom and moving upwards:

• First and foremost, we need power coming from the inside to become unstoppable. (cf The RED heart)

• Second, we need to foster an environment where others succeed when we do. (cf The BLUE battery)

• Third, we need to open our minds to adopt success behavior - meaning we put away old unproductive patterns and replace them with proven skills. (cf The GREEN bolt of lightning)

This time, let's consider what it means to become unstoppable.

Passion is immortal...

Some people may think that to be a real stayer you need to be physically or mentally strong - and more than anything - the owner of a powerful self confidence. Our experience indicates that this is not necessarily the case. While it's useful to be strong, and while self worth helps to guide our choices and direction, this is not what makes someone seriously and insurmountably tough or invincible. What in fact is needed is neither strength nor a positive self image, neither great talent nor strong will. The real deciding factor is simply "passion" (symbolized by a red heart). Once passion has taken hold of you, all that is required is a careful feeding of "constant fuel on the fire". Only microscopic quantities are required to keep passion burning and alive once it's there. (What that fuel is becomes a completely different matter.) Regardless, whether the driving force is a good or a bad one (e.g. love and compassion or revenge and honor), passion is such a conclusive force in the life of every human that even on its own passion can outnumber any group, outsmart any opponent, overcome any type of force and more than anything, it can indeed outlast and conquer all enemies with time as its most effective ally and friend. Passion is simply unstoppable – it cannot be defeated unless you "kill it". And even then, it tends to outlive its possessor through the succeeding generations affected by it.

Passion is yours...

Passion can only be dimmed by its owner; your passion is yours - my passion is mine. That's the essence of passion. It belongs to each of us just like free will. It's personal and completely individual. It simply cannot be taken away from you once you have it. We can decide whether or not we will stay passionate or not. That's the nature of passion. If I "decide" to be passionate about something, no one will ever be in the position to rob me of it, steal it, let alone have any influence over it, whatsoever, unless I give my consent. Passion is our heart.

Passion can be destructive or a power for good...

Herein lies both the blessing and the threat of passion. Some people use passion to accomplish great things, while others apply the same power to pursue hurtful or even dangerous, habitual and harmful appetites, either to themselves or also to others.

In passion on a stand-alone basis there's an element of sheer madness. It contains that wild and enthusiastic obsession that can spread to others. It's scary and alarming, it's contagious – even charismatic and convincing. Passion can be equal to extreme, in the real meaning of the word. Passion on its own behaves more or less without logic. It may even appear to be without fear or pain in warm favor of a naive cause to which one is completely dedicated. While passion can have the outward expression of emotional and wholehearted love, it can also be the intoxicating addiction of a fanatic, lacking any kind of empathy or feeling for others.

Passion is only the beginning...

This sensation of one sided and blinded excessive zeal has both the capacity to a) work enormously grand results or b) to destroy and leave stains never to be erased from human history. Such is the mark of passion. Quite overwhelmingly so, when found in a person it always will "blot the carpet of life", and usually many lives, too. It not only can make a difference, it will and always has a huge impact on society! It's the beginning of influence.

That's the power of passion - the first step of real influence. Want to know how to get passion..?