Front man Jon Bon Jovi has led the self-named American rock band to 13 studio albums, 2 compilation LPs and 2 “live” albums selling more than 130 million records worldwide. Bon Jovi has performed more than 2,700 concerts in over 50 countries for more than 34 million fans. The band was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, honored with the Award of Merit at the American Music Awards and as songwriters and collaborators, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
It’s a challenge to encapsulate that kind of musical legacy into one word but Jon Bon Jovi notches another #1 with a bullet:
“Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you do with your life, be passionate.”
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Todd Bucher traded in a successful career in the advertising, marketing and magazine publishing fields to renovate a 1940s classic diner that whips up down-home American eats from breakfast favorites to burgers. Along with his wife and partner, Nina Kurath Bucher, Todd reinvented his career and pursued his culinary passion, serving up unique solutions to new business challenges along the way. He is a classic reinventor who converted a mid-twentieth century Silk City diner into a 21st century success story. Todd still finds time to pursue his favorite pastimes such as hunting, winter camping, travel, motorcycles, and the Packers and Wisconsin Badgers.
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The secret sauce of finding, freeing and following your passion is being true to your authentic self. You have to be an original YOU to achieve success on your terms. German duo Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, aka Milli Vanilli, had a debut hit album with Girl You Know It’s True which earned them a Grammy Award for Best New Artist and their career soared during the ’80s and ’90s.
When you try to be someone you’re not, eventually the synthetic, albeit perhaps societally compliant, side of you ends up wearing the emperor’s clothes. French philosopher, author and journalist Albert Camus offers this advice:
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I’d say Oprah Winfrey knows a thing or thousand about following your passion to success. Best known for The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated television program of its kind in history, this talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history and is currently North America’s first and only multi-billionaire black person. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and been bestowed honorary degrees from Duke and Harvard. Therefore, when Oprah offers advice that benefits entrepreneurs and those looking to reinvent themselves, her words are worth taking to heart:
The recent release of a video showing Donald Trump speaking of women in vulgar sexual terms delivered a punishing blow to his campaign and plunged the Republican party into a crisis just week’s before the election. It was not this single video that did Trump in. Relying purely on his ego and an inflated sense of self, Donald Trump believed he could reinvent himself as a viable candidate for President of the United States without following the essential rules of reinvention:
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 and was the country’s first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by confronting racism and promoting racial reconciliation. Mandela later became an elder statesman and focused on charitable work, combating poverty and HIV/AIDS through the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Reflecting on the scale of his legacy, he gained international acclaim for his activism, receiving more than 250 honors including the Nobel Peace Prize, the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Soviet Lenin Peace Prize.