What is Your Passion?

I'm sure you would have heard of this phrase often, "Do what you love and it will never feel like work." But I'm sure the thought of how could you do what you love and still earn enough to pay for your bills and your monthly expenses.

Lets say for example, that what you really love to do is to go to the gym. Now imagine this, you take a whole week off at work and while you are off, you go to the gym for the 8 hours that you otherwise would be at work. Hows that for enjoying what you love?

If you truly enjoy that experience, then I highly suggest that you take up a position at the gym, be it as a personal trainer or as an executive, and that would truly be doing what you love and you will definitely enjoy every single day.

However, for most of us, after the 2nd or 3rd day, we would be thinking of doing something else, getting out of the gym or might even form a phobia for gyms.

Over the weekend, I attended a seminar and I picked up two very important points. One of them being that for most of us, when we formulate our 'dream life' or 'dream day in our life', we formulate it out of the need to escape from what we are in right now. In other words, it does not mean that we truly love those activities but rather, its based on the things that we rather be doing than going to work, for example.

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How would you then be able to find out what you are truly passionate about?

Spend 5 - 10 minutes, sit down, relax and think back through all the activites that you have done, whether its work related or its recreation activity.

Remember how you felt when you were working on that activity. Was it frustration, wanting to get it over with, enjoyment or excitment? Identify those activities that you were enjoying yourself or feel excited about, and then imagine doing these activities every day for the whole week, as cited in the example above.

If you find that you can do that activity every day for the whole week, you can safely say that you can do that activity every day for the rest of your life. That is what you are really passionate about.
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The second thing I picked up during the seminar is that the every one's passion is different and not everyone is passionate about making money. Yes, I repeat, not everyone is passionate about making money. Well that came to a shock for me, but to say the truth, I'm not passionate about making money either. But the next thing that followed that was, to do what you are passionate about, do it well or scale it big and the money will come.

So there is two sides of the coin. If you are passionate about making money, then great, you have a head start on getting your dream life, and reaching your goals. But if you are not passionate about making money, like myself, then you have to identify what it is you are passionate about and going about to do that to the best of your ability, and the money will come, whether its through new clients or through a pay raise.