Find Your Mission and Get Rich

In a previous article, I asked the question, “Are you on the job or on a mission?”

Now I want to ask you a few simple questions that will help you qualify and clarify your level of commitment and passion regarding your business.

As I said before, you’re either working feverishly on your Magnificent Obsession, or your business is simply a part-time irritation that you feel obliged to feed, like an ugly plant that you reluctantly water only because it’s there, a stepchild.

Which Master Do You Serve?

If playing, visiting friends, attending the ball game and having dinner take precedence over your work, it’s work, not a passion.
If you have to fit your work into you busy social schedule, your work is not a mission; it’s a necessity, like washing the dishes.
If it’s the other way around, in other words your business is your mission and passion and everything else comes second, you will get rich.

You can’t serve two masters – “you will love the one and despise the other.” Remember that.

How do you know you’re on a mission?

You obsessively and excitedly start working before you have breakfast or get dressed.

You wake up at night thinking about your business.

If you perceive it as a job, you will find every excuse under the sun to procrastinate and put it it off; everything else will be done first, and finally you may get around to your work, if you indeed “find the time” to do so. And in that case, your contribution will be mediocre at best.

Your work is either an interruption or a burning desire. You will be very good at anything you’re passionate about, and vice versa.