Whether its a web app, blog or info product, if you’re business is becoming a chore, its destined to fail.
The word “passion” has been thrown around a bit recently. Long articles on “finding your passion” have been written and although the advice in these articles is most likely good, I prefer to look at it from a simplified approach
If you wake up and get excited about your business each morning, you’ve found your passion
Excitement
Passion and excitement go hand in hand. You can’t have one without the other. Therefore, its the perfect way to measure a products success. If you can get excited about your product, thats a great start. If you can get other people excited about a product….well you’re probably already making a small fortune.
Chasing A Passion
Stop. You probably know what it is. Its simply a matter of taking the first step towards your dream job right now.
Write down the three steps needed to get your business/product off the ground. Do the first one now.
Brain Dump
Every month, I dump my brain onto paper in an effort to be extremely honest with myself. I’m harsh to the point where reading this piece of paper later on down the track is an unpleasant experience. This process is simply a matter of rebooting yourself and making sure you’re not going off on a tangent of non return. It’s now you can identify your business has become a chore. Have you lost the enjoyment? Are you still excited?
Write down what you will change for the coming month.
Quality
When it comes to blogging, I throw away lots of content. I hate doing this because I feel like im wasting time. But the content I throw away is created when I’m blogging simply for the sake of blogging or because I haven’t met a quota. Yes I’m into quotas, and use them, but this unfortunately also turns work into a chore.
However, I believe, and I thnk you should to, that in the long run, if you only create quality as opposed to quantity you will be happier and more successful.
Please don’t use this as an excuse to stop hustling, instead, try and focus on what really excites you.
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Finding your passion in business is essential. But that doesn’t mean that you won’t have days that your work feels like a chore (it just means that you have less of those days).
I love your focus on quality because that is one of the things that I have set as a standard for my blog.
yeah there will always be some days – but the trick is to make the majority exciting
Completely right Anthony; passion can not exist without excitement.
I think there are times however when even though you have passion and excitement for something (like a blog) the regularly daily actions can feel less appealing some days. I know after a day of building up my reading list of posts I want to read and comment on that I can feel a little uninspired if the list is particularly long. But if I start at the top and get stuck in usually I get the enjoyment back after a few posts. If you can break through that little mental block we all get from time to time then we can keep up that excitement.
I like what you said in the post, Anthony, and also am in agreement with Ben up there.
Unfortunately for me, I wake up and go ‘Noooo I don’t wanna get up and get ready’. Lol. Working on changing that
Btw, I’m stealing your idea of a brain dump. It’s the only way to be truthful to yourself.
All businesses can become a chore after a while. That’s usually because we get trapped in a cycle of routine. After years, everything can get old… like marriage. We have to constantly find new ways to add excitement into the mix. You have to get creative. Twist things around. Blog at different times of the day. I always try to stir things up, post long one day, short the next. I do something fun and silly, then do a serious topic that has a lot of advice.
Sometimes branching out helps. Going outside of your focused niche and stretching it a little. You can ultimately tie a niche to everything if you find the right link. It’s all about getting creative.
Many people still work, even though they consider it a chore.
For the simple reason that they need the money, I agree with your statement though but only when you have the money to support the “giving up your chore job for a while to look for a new and better job”
I’m willing to bet that 95% of all people don’t do a job they are passionate about!
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