Find Your Passion, and Profit from It...

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley

A recent television ad for a large investment firm said in part, “This is what you’ve been working towards doing your whole life”. When I saw that, I immediately thought: If it’s that important to you, why wait to do it? Some people retire and play golf. Tiger Woods is playing golf NOW. That might be a poor example since you may not be able to command millions of dollars as a professional golfer. However, if you love golf, and you’re not doing anything golf related at all right now, you have to ask yourself if you really love it. Maybe you can’t make millions of dollars playing golf, but there are millions, yea billions of dollars to be made in sports. In fact, to put Tiger Woods in perspective, consider the following:

Comedian Chris Rock once described the difference between rich and wealthy. He said, “Shaqeel O’Neil is rich. The [person] that signs Shaqeel O’Neil’s paycheck is wealthy”. Point being, a whole bunch of people that don’t play professional golf are making millions of dollars, and they are signing Tiger’s paychecks. Tiger is a marketing expense, a mere footnote on the budget of multibillion dollar global corporations.

You can examine the beginnings of one of Tiger’s major sponsors, Nike, for a little insight on Bill Bowerman. A man who definitely made his living doing something he loved to do, and was passionate about. You probably don’t think of Nike as the kind of company that makes the soles of its shoes in a garage with a waffle iron. Nor, would you think that they would sell them by driving around to track meets and selling them out of the trunk of a car. Yet, that is exactly how Nike started out. Bill Bowerman started a multibillion dollar global empire literally on a shoe string, following his passion. Same with another company you may have heard of-- can you imagine an airline using one of its founder's personal credit cards to buy jet fuel? Southwest Airlines did. Southwest is more than a mere company, it's a cause.

The whole modern concept of “retirement” really boils down to doing something you either tolerate, or hate for four or five decades while saving up enough money to do what you really want to do when you’re 65 or 70 years of age. Don’t get distracted! Stay with me, here. I know not everyone hates their job. The point is, if you really want to do something, why wait until your life is nearly over to do it? What if you could make all the money you wanted right now, doing something you love to do? Or, what if it was possible to work as much, or as little as you liked because you were able to develop streams of income that supported the lifestyle of your choosing? You’d be extraordinary in an ordinary world.

There are all kinds of ways to discover your passion. You don’t always need to lead from passion to begin with. In an interview with Mike Litman, Jim Rohn related a story of a friend of his who is now very successful who once took a job as a night janitor in Chicago. People asked him why he would settle for a job as night janitor, and he replied, “malnutrition.” Necessity can be a powerful beginning motivator; I just don’t want you to live that way forever. At some point you’ve got to make a change. That man became very successful, but he did not become successful by remaining a night janitor.

A great way to discover something you’re passionate about is by asking yourself what’s important to you.

One of the tragedies of the modern career mindset is that so many people end up doing things that are unimportant to them. It breaks my heart to see people who are so dispassionate about their work, that their lives are divided into compartments— personal and professional. From Mother Theresa to Bill Gates, it’s hard to imagine an extraordinary person from any walk of life whose life’s work was something to be “left at the office”. The horrifying implication is that what you will spend the majority of your life doing—working; is too unpleasant to be discussed, or is so meaningless that it’s not worthy of excitement. The work-life separation sounds a lot like a life of imprisonment with evening and weekend furlough. Your work should be something you’re passionate about; something you can create a mission around; something that excites you, and rallies you to work.

Rick Warren, author of the inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life says, “We grow up to give out. It’s not enough to keep learning more, and more. We must act on what we know, and practice what we claim to believe. Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to stagnation.”

My purpose in writing this is to show you where your thought process has fashioned mental fetters for you. I want to erase the idea that you cannot do what you love doing right now. You can, there are serveral ways to do it, and you don't have to wait.

(Excerpted from my FREE e-book, becoming a Lifestyle Entreprenuer- Building a Business That Revolves Around Your Life (Not the Other Way Around)...to obtain a copy of the full version (FREE), just shoot me an e-mail at [email protected])