Find Your Passion

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Confucius

“I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.” George Burns

“My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general, if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” Pablo Picasso

If you wake up in the morning and you tell yourself that you are going to work, then with all due respect, you are doing it wrong. You need to find out what is the reason you were put on this earth. What is your passion?

What drives you? What job …or I should say…what passion makes you happiest? If you are happy doing that passion instead of a job, then you will be incredibly productive as you don’t see it as a job. You see it as your raison d’être or your passion and purpose.

Do you ever notice how athletes and musicians don’t look like they have a job? The Beatles or Led Zeppelin or Michael Jordan or Wayne Gretzky didn’t have a job. They had a passion. Don’t think you are too young to be amazing at your passion as all of the aforementioned people had their greatest creative brilliance in their 20s.

And for those of you that think you are too old to start a company based on your passion, I respectfully say that you are wrong because the average age of someone starting a company in the US is now over 50! It’s never too late to start over by following your heart.

Rejection or failure shouldn’t impact your ability to live every day doing what you are passionate about. You only have to be right in business one time and almost every successful business person failed more times than you and I have. There are so many examples. Here are a few – let’s just focus on authors and, by the way, I want to again reinforce that these people all failed more times in their lives than you and I have combined:

1. Agatha Christie: She was rejected consistently for 5 years. Now her book sales have exceeded $2bn.
2. Dr. Seuss received a rejection letter that said this: “Too different from other juveniles on the market to warrant its selling.”
3. C.S. Lewis: He said that years of rejection do not break his spirit. It just made him more determined to succeed.
4. Nicholas Sparks: 24 publishers said NO to The Notebook. The 25th said yes.
5. John Grisham: 12 publishers said NO to A Time to Kill.

The list goes on and on and on. The point here is that the 5 aforementioned authors were successful in having a passion and not a job because they never gave up. I want you to find your passion and then be a pit bull on a pork chop and never give up until you are living your dream.

Today’s Exercise: Ask yourself if you have a job or a passion. If you think you have a job, think of ways to have that passion by switching careers within 10 years.

Ask yourself “What was the reason you were put on this earth?” What is your purpose, passion and preferred profession?

What would your ideal profession be within 5-10 years that you would really enjoy and never see as work?

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Take action and think of 10 things you can do right now (or in the next few days) that will get you closer to ditching your job and replacing it with your passion within 10 years (including relentless networking, which we have covered in 4 previous articles: click here for article 1, click here for article 2, click here for article 3 and click here for article 4):

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Find your passion so that you can live life on your terms.

Thanks,

Chris

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