I have intense purpose and passion that brings me success.

Intensity burns fast. That isn't a moral observation, it's closer to thermodynamics — the people who blaze into a project at full heat are disproportionately the ones gone by spring. Steady warmth accomplishes more and photographs badly. A craftsman at the same bench for thirty years is not intense on any given Tuesday. He simply doesn't stop.

Passion is real and better understood as direction than as temperature. It tells you where to point, not how hard to burn.

If you are running hot on something right now, plan the pace you could hold in November. That version finishes.