When people see our live performances, they always comment on how much passion and intensity we perform with. It’s one of the most important ingredients I believe why we get standing ovations night after night in our live shows.

But, it’s funny how people comment as if it’s one of the rarest things. I always take it as a great compliment. But, actually, it’s quite simple how it’s done.

In our world travels as we meet people from many countries and many walks of life, it’s sometime alarming how so many seem to lack passion and intensity in their daily work  – the very ingredients that would put a glowing smile on their faces and to all those around them.

Passion and intensity sometimes seem like rare commodities. But, like a lot of things, once you know how to activate them, they’re really simple for anyone to duplicate.

But, still, I often wondered why people wouldn’t do everything possible to discover the triggers – the very ingredients that would bring them unending happiness and pleasure not only to themselves throughout their daily life’s but to all the people who come in contact with them.

It seems that we put so much emphasis on hard work and yet very little on finding new ways of activating our passion for what we do. Of course, persistence is an important ingredient to success. But, infusing your work or workouts with passion and intensity is equally important – if not more.

So many let monotony dull their senses leaving them not thoroughly engaged and inspired throughout their days. They go through the motions and yet when their brains aren’t inspired, the muscles receive lackluster commands. Day after day of lackluster commands coming from a brain unconnected to passion and purpose leads to low intensities in the way we express ourselves, move through life, and perform athletically.

The mathematics seem so elementary once you are aware that Passion IN creates Passion OUT – just like computer jargon that says, “garbage in = garbage out”.

When I was practicing the piano for major competitions that are like the Olympics for the piano held every two to four years, I used to practice 8-13 hours every day. People who know the intensity that is needed for such efforts sometimes gasp in disbelief.

Most people’s backs start hurting, their muscles cramp up, and their motivation slacks tremendously within just an hour. They cannot even conceive of 8-13 hours of super high intensity.

They end up sore and exasperated feeling they’re spinning their wheels - not making improvements even though they have the discipline to do the same thing every day. And yet, they wonder why they end up passionless in their delivery of inspirational content, why they fail to make the gains they so badly want, why they feel so frustrated their bodies aren’t responding quickly in comparison to all the hard work they’re putting in.

People sometimes think I’m some kind of discipline nut or cyborg from another planet who’s completely oblivious to boredom and the pain of hard work – or who is just one of those “born happy” people who’s “lucky” to have found things I love to do for a living.

But the truth be known. Passion and intensity can be developed once you know how to and can be applied to anything you do – even if it seems monotonous. Believe me, I too spent years and years of frustration getting uninspired results – even though I had a tremendous amount of persistence.

First, I will agree that I AM grateful everyday for loving what I do. But, again, it’s quite simple - I practice being grateful with intensity every day and remind myself that without intensity, being grateful ends up being passionless, unless it’s infused with intensity and passion.

To me, passion, intensity, and feeling grateful are developed not only from making the effort every day – but more so in making the effort EVERY moment to find new ways of doing the “same old thing”; utilizing new ways of focusing our intent; tweaking our energy and electrical firings and synapses to higher levels; seeing new details of light, color, and sound in our imaginations; – ANYTHING new and engaging enough that you get excited about for the pure pleasure of learning, expanding, and growing as a human being – on your own journey to become a Master.

When you can look at the same thing every day and still see new things you’ve never seen before and genuinely make the effort to get excited and generate feelings of being grateful at the same time – you’ll find that intensity and passion are yours too. They are NOT things only for the “lucky few”.

8-13 hours a day of practicing to win 13 thirteen gold medals like I did still will give you sore muscles and cracked fingers. But, finding new ways of seeing the same old thing with renewed passion and increased intensity are things I practice every day – and remind myself to do as often as I can.           

It’s really not a mystery, magic, or luck. It’s simply knowing that new ways of thinking every day along with regenerating your energy that’s focused on finding something that’s new and inspiring to you will always give inspired results that seem extraordinary to others.

Indeed, if you do this, you WILL seem like one of those “lucky few”. But, best of all if you remember that Passion IN = Passion OUT, you’ll reaps benefits of accelerated learning and performance EVERY day – and I’m am certain you will feel grateful – and everyone around you will benefit from your practiced and well rehearsed passion you’ve put into everything you do.

To Your Strength and Mastery,
Garin Bader
 P.S. CoreForce Energy is a conglomeration of my life’s work in how to look deeper into how not only the mind works but how if your energy is optimal and IS CONGRUENT with your body’s actions, you will gain super-learning capabilities along with almost superhuman strength and speed. I know, because I developed to use myself – not just in an attempt to find something to sell – that I don’t actually use every day myself.