Dec 16

Passion Equals Profit

Business Etiquette, Entrepreneurship, Get Rich and Retire Add comments

If you find it hard to get out of bed, watch the clock, and look forward to weekends, you probably not passionate about what you do. And it will be evident in your demeanor, your bank balance, your relationships, and your body.

If your family doesn’t call you a workaholic fanatic and your spouse doesn’t have to beg you to “stop working”, you’re probably not doing what you love.
If you regard what you do as “work”, you’re a mercenary / prostitute.
If you have to be persuaded, reminded, cajoled, and threatened to do what you do, you’re simply a paid, robotic slave.

But if you can’t stop thinking about what you do, and regard it as a hobby, a mission, a cause, and a pleasure, you’re probably damn good at it, and you’re probably making serious money. If not, learn how to monetize it and get rich.

Going Through the Motions

Without passion, there’s no perfection, production, or power – simply automatons going through the motions to survive. You see them in most businesses – the glazed eyes, the apathetic attitude, the lackadaisical approach, the thinly veiled, passive aggression, and the sloppy, slow, sluggish movements. The indentured employees who sneeringly deign to serve you, but would obviously rather be sucking on smelly cigarette outside.

Wanted: True Believers

“Workaholic” is a word with a negative connotation that demonstrates that the person using it doesn’t understand someone who is passionate about their work. We wouldn’t call someone a “Golfaholic” or a Swimaholic” or a Vacationaholic”, would we? The word, “Fanatic” applies to true believers. When you believe in what you do, and your work creates value for others and profit for yourself, you should be pleased to be called a fanatic. It’s not like you’re strapping on a bomb to blow up a few local kids…

Living a Happy, Fulfilled Life

People who have been smart enough to align their values and beliefs, their passion and their purpose, with their lifestyles and work, who live a life of integrity and congruity, and who do what they love, create massive value and live happy, fulfilled lives. It’s a choice.

If you mix with like minded people whom you love, like, and respect, and who add value to your life, and design your life according to your own agenda instead of someone else’s, and only do what you’re passionate about, guess what? You’re probably rich, or getting there fast. Your passion will excite and energize you.

Designing a Life or Making a Living?

It helps to look at life in a “black or white” manner. We can either affect the world around us and be change agents, or we can be the scum on the water that is blown this way and that by any prevailing wind.

We can either create our circumstances or react to them.
We are either designing a life or making a living.
You’re either buying jewelry and fur coats for your own wife or your boss’s wife.
You’re either in control or being controlled.

Like the Cadillac advertisement that goes,

“They say the nail that stands up gets hammered down. Be the hammer.”