Envision for a moment, doing what you truly love and getting
paid for it. Having a hard time? Most people do, unfortunately,
because they've been conditioned to think of work as something
that?s unpleasant, but necessary.
These days, however, fulfilling your passion in the workplace is
becoming more of a reality. What if you have a love of the
outdoors? I have a friend who turned his passion for hiking and
camping into a profitable summer business as an independent
guide for week long hiking trips. Another friend of our family
recently took her interest in health and fitness and used it to
build her business as an independent trainer.
In their excellent book, Finding Your Perfect Work, Paul and
Sarah Edwards give several examples of people who have taken
their unique gifts and passions and turned them into a
livelihood. For example, Bob Bell and Ted Seibert started their
company, The Sand Castle, from a love of building sand castles.
Of course, their sand castles don?t get washed away, because
they build their two story castles in shopping malls, trade
shows and fairs throughout the country. Stephen Yoke took his
hobby of collecting miniature toy cars and turned it into a
business selling them at car and toy shows. Within months of
quitting his old job as real car salesman, he was bringing in
over $200,000 in sales.
What passion do you have that could be turned into a profitable
business? Whether it?s painting, writing, teaching, speaking or
anything else, all it takes is some motivation and creativity to
get started. Check out Dan Miller's Turning Passions into
Profits for more ideas.
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www.careercalling.com/Archives.htm and read edition June 03,
2005.
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