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Today
we will talk about Money vs. Passion - the dilemma.
What do
you do to find balance between the two?
When
you’re single, it is easy to chase the passion - live on the couch, have a
roommate. But what happens when you didn’t find your passion until you get a
little bit older? You have a family, kids, mortgage – people to support – what
if you want to chase your passion then? What do you do?
You
get stuck in a situation where it’s like, “Hey,
I can still chase my passion and if I only get to make a little money I can’t
really support the ones that I have to take care of. Or I could do something I
don’t really like but at least support them while they’re here then MAYBE
someday I’ll get to go after my passion.”
Here’s
what’s interesting and I will give you my 2 cents for what it’s worth:
If
you are really, really passionate and in love with what you’re doing, it won’t
feel like work. Here’s the fun part: look
at it as if it’s an opportunity to live for every day.
Yes,
there are times where you have to work to pay the bills, you have to take care
of your kids, put food on the table, take care of the mortgage or rent or
whatever it is and in that case, you’re going to need a job. Ideally, find a
job with lots of flexibility that you can do on performance – the better you
perform, the more you make. That way you can set yourself up to perform,
perform, perform, have a giant lump sum you make and gives you a lot of free
time on the side that you can chase your passion like crazy. If you can’t find
that or it’s not available where you live or with what you are doing, then you
might want to take a job where you have your standard 9 to 5 and that takes a
lot of effort, energy, and focus to show up and deliver. Come home and have
family time. Maybe you get home at 6, you’ve got from 6 to 7 or 8 to have
family time, get the kids ready for bed, maybe at 9 put them to bed and maybe
from 9 to 11 in the beginning – hustle, hustle, hustle just to build the base
of your business.
Let’s
say your business is service-based, photography or something creative that you
have to go out and do during the week. An easy thing to do that is to spend all
week at night creating your business, generating leads, closing deals via
email, using automated online messaging systems to create deals and write up
contracts and draft agreements and figure out times on the week, where maybe at
6 pm on Thursdays someone else watches the kids and you go and get to do the
job you are passionate about to build up some side income. If you start to
balance like this – it takes a lot of effort, a lot of skills, a lot of
thought. But you don’t have to do it like
this forever.
This
is the transitionary point
where you hustle, get to do a little bit of your passion project and make a
little bit of income doing it. As your passion business grows, you start to
make a little more income from it. As soon as it gets close enough to match the
income from your standard job, at that point you can decide and say I’m going
to let go of the job, save up to 3 months’ of income, then I’m going to drop
the job and let my passion business grow.
I
know this from experience and that was the strategy I used when I got started. I
had 3 jobs – I was doing inside sales, a service-based service for a large
company in coaching and I was managing and stuffing boxes at the warehouse
(managing shipments and organize stuff around there). I was doing 3 jobs during
the week when I built my little side coaching business or coaching practice online,
setup a website, hustled in the off hours, got lots of marketing on my lunch
hour and everywhere else I could. Slowly and eventually I got a client. I fit
that one client in between all my other sessions and all my other duties and
responsibilities. Then I got 2 clients and fit them around it. I
