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A big part of building a life and business you love is doing fulfilling work that produces a high income.  Some may relegate that caliber of work to the one-in-a-million, unicorn-type anomaly – a dream job that doesn’t exist.  However, research-based evidence proves otherwise, finding that 38% of US employees report that they are “very satisfied” with their jobs.  It is possible to do business that makes you happy and highly successful.  If you can meet both of these objectives in a single career, what’s the secret?  How can you deliberately find and produce work you love, so you don’t settle for being one of the more common 62% majority who is less than satisfied?  John Rampton outlines the criteria in his Entrepreneur.com article, 9 Keys to a Happy Career Making Millions.

Table of contents#1: Don’t Just “Follow Your Passion”#2: Do What You’re Good At#3: Do Work That’s Engaging#4: More Income Is Better, To a Point#5: Help Others#6: Work-Life Balance#7: Find Variety by Merging Education, Autonomy, and Security#8: Work with People You Like#9: Eliminate the NegativesMake Fulfillment a Top Priority, NowBook a Call to Find Out Your Next Step to Time and Money Freedom

#1: Don’t Just “Follow Your Passion”

Unfortunately, the world is filled with broke, passionate people.  Following your passion may sound like the answer to escaping a soul-crushing, mind-numbing job and finding the nirvana of purpose.  But, many well-intentioned, ill-advised people have taken the leap of faith out of a well-paying corporate job, followed their passion, became an entrepreneur, and wound up losing everything.

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Remember the foundational wealth principle that dollars follow value?  Rather than following your passion, instead, find what other people want, need, value, and are willing to pay for.  Then use your passion and skill set to meet that need in a better, faster, or more efficient way.  This is how to find what you love that other people love you doing. And that means you’ll be paid handsomely as well.

While passion is important to fulfillment, it isn’t everything.  Just because something is exciting and important to you doesn’t mean it will lock into the gear of economic transactions.

Instead, fulfilling work requires the intersection of your passion, mission, vocation, and profession.  This means that you are great at it, you love it, the world needs it, and you are paid for it.  Your purpose is at the center of this alignment. This is where you create the maximum impact.

So, passion isn’t everything, but it’s one part of a bigger puzzle.  You need to solve the whole algorithm to find work you love.

#2: Do What You’re Good At

When you do work that you can perform with excellence, you gain pride and a tremendous sense of accomplishment. This contributes to and elevates your fulfillment.

But where does that leave you if you feel a calling to new work?  Maybe you want to write or invest in real estate, and you haven’t yet developed skill in that area.  

When you start out, you won’t be amazing or command a substantial income.  But through committing the time and discipline to practice as Stephen Pressfield discusses in The War of Art, you’ll become a master.

#3: Do Work That’s Engaging

Engaging work is defined as work with variety, a sense of completion, autonomy, feedback and a sense of contribution that your work affects other people’s lives.

It's all about how you impact others, which is a result of how much value you provide, as demonstrated in The Go-Giver.

Stimulating work means that you are at the edge of your comfort zone.  And that means that you are continually growing.  To grow, you need to develop a growth mindset that asks, how can I become this, rather than a fixed mindset that believes, this is who I am.

#4: More Income Is Better, To a Point

So many people pursue higher and higher incomes and leave their ...