If you’re going to make it as an entrepreneur, you better have passion for what you’re doing. It’s cause and effect—passion begets persistence and persistence begets success. If you do what you love you won’t give up until you succeed. Pretty basic, right?
While this message is 100% simple and 100% true, finding your passion can feel like a mystery you’ll never solve. Until today.
If you have the desire to succeed in business but aren’t sure what you really want to do, here’s a surefire way to figure it out. Make a list of answers to the following questions:
1. What’s the first thing you want to do when you get some free time? What activities do you find yourself saying, “yes” to most weekends? What do you like to do on vacation?
2. What do you love most about your job? Which tasks do you look forward to doing? What aspects of your job come easy to you?
3. When you look back on your life, what were your proudest moments?
4. What causes do you feel passionate about? What have you volunteered for or donated money to in the past?
5. Outside of work tasks, what do you Google most often? What type of blogs do you gravitate to; what kind of books do you read? What are your hobbies?
6. What are the most outrageous daydreams you’ve had about your life?
7. When you were a kid, what do you want to be when you grew up? List all of them—even Wonder Woman.
8. If you could go back to school and be guaranteed a fantastic, crazy-good job in your field right after graduation, what would you study? Or, if you had loads of free time and didn’t have to worry about a degree or a job, what would you like to learn more about?
9. If you never had to worry about money again, what would you do with your time?
10. If the movie of your life was up for a Best Picture Academy Award, which clip would they show on Oscar night?
The entrepreneur’s path can be rocky. You’re going to get knocked down. A lot. So you better build your business around what lights you up inside, otherwise you won’t have the will to get back up.
You’ve got passion. You do. Really. Don’t believe me? Look at your list.
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