Passion is arguably the strongest feeling in this world and finding your passion is what people really care about these days. You can be passionate about anything – music, writing, sports, politics, law, oration and so much more. There is just no fencing when it comes to passion. For every individual, passion holds a different context, a different definition, and a different gist. Passion provides us with a motive and direction. But has it ever occurred to you that: your passion can become your profession. Imagine how fun it will be to not doing a monotonous 9 to 5 job and actually being your own boss and that too in an area where your passion lies.
Below are mentioned the utmost major factors that will help you achieve your dream job, that is, a business which runs on your passion:
IDENTIFYING YOUR PASSION
Know the difference between interest and passion. Interests change but it is the passion that gives you the impulse and a sense of purpose throughout. Your passion drives you forward in life and serves as an impetus for the sense of euphoria that fills you up. Many times, most of us, mistake our interest for passion but the reality becomes evident when we get bored of doing what we once loved. The realization of what completes us leads to the identification of our passion –a particular activity or idea without which we reckon our personality is hollow – something which means to you as the key means to a lock. Once the passion is truly recognized, the road to the initiation of a business centered upon it becomes smoother.
HARD WORK:
Hard work is the seasoning to your business, an essential, without which, your project will lack the essence, the brilliance, the boom, and intensity, hereby required. Working sincerely hard on your passion and streamlining it as your business is one of the many factors which will provide finesse to your work. Great things are not done the easier way – they demand our sweat and energy to feed on. Working day and night for your goal helps in constructing, controlling and expanding the business you love. Hard work fuels success and yields best of the results possible. So work hard on finding your passion.
PERSEVERANCE:
“Perseverance is falling 19 times and succeeding the 20th ”
Determination is the best trait a person can possess and if you are into business, nothing will work better. Being focused on your passion and knowing what to extract and achieve is crucial for a thriving business. Never backing off and denying to be brought down by any difficulty, however huge, is an assurance that your project will work wonders. Rising above all criticism and pivoting on what will be profitable for your business will take you to new heights. Streamlining all your energies and thoughts in a set direction will bring your business fortunes, you never even dreamt of.
BEING YOUR OWN CRITIC:
Having self-confidence is important but excess of that confidence will prove detrimental to the success of your business. Identifying the loopholes in your planning and procedure along with finding the fault-lines in them is a staple. Turning a blind eye to the gaps in your work will prove fatal to your prosperity. Ignorance may be called bliss, but for people in business, the case is opposite. Welcoming critiques and being open to divergent opinions will not only help remove the gaps from your project but will also assist you in improving it altogether.
GIVING IT TIME:
Do not rush to success – hurriedness will only complicate matters. Inculcate in yourself patience and wait to see the fruit ripe at the right time. It is in human nature that we want things done instantly and results revealed immediately. But impatience in business proves counterproductive. Our business may not yield the desired outcomes primitively; the initial market response may not be pleasing and we just may go into believing that our business was never viable or workable – only to later come to the conclusion that- “all good things take time”. It is with time that you gain experience, professionalism and business sense. These gifts of time will prove to be the pieces of Lego for your business empire. Time is the key element to finding your passion.
BEING INNOVATIVE:
Stalemate is something; your business should never be in. Predictability and monotony are indicators of a dispassionate business. Bettering your work with more effective processes and services will save your business from dying.
Adoption of new ideas and current trends will prove to be a blessing and will completely add on to the aura to your work. Catering for the changed circumstances, respecting the choices of customers, experimenting in the market system, and reforming the ways you pursue your business will revive you project extensively.
ORIGINALITY:
In this contemporary world of ours, ‘something common’ is tantamount to ‘something boring’. With so much newness surrounding us, creativity and originality have to be redefined.
No longer do people enjoy, tolerate or appreciate the same old puns, ideas and projects or thoughts – they want to see something new, something quite different. Thinking out of the box and making people experience something unconventional, will leave everyone nodding in approval of your business.
Uniqueness and originality will prove to be your wild cards in making it in the list of the business giants. Remember, finding your passion is what you need to focus on.
TAKING RISKS:
Initiating a business is, in itself, a great risk. If you have been courageous enough to do that –taking further chances, should not be a problem. We often settle for what we have achieved in life, even though we desperately urge for more, the risks involved are what deter our spirit. But has anyone ever achieved anything substantial, without risking anything”? The answer is a definite ‘no’. Similarly, in business you cannot succeed until you are ready to take risks. Until and unless you are not prepared to face the outcomes, positive or negative, you do not qualify as a thriving business-person. Nothing comes easy – you have to sacrifice. You have to gamble in the casino of life.
DEVELOPING A BUSINESS FRAMEWORK:
Orchestrating a layout for your project is mandatory. Composing the techniques you’ll apply, the audience you’ll target, the ideas you’ll imply and the steps and procedures you’ll follow, add on immensely to the “x-factor” of your business. Without an outline, the business will not have a direction, a goal or work-ability. Building of an articulated framework will make sure the practicality and feasibility of the project. This will assure our control over the business, will indicate the difficulties which we might face in future and will make us able enough to compete in the market.
EXPANDING THE BUSINESS HORIZON:
“Your network is your net worth”
We will be guilty if we put limits to our business. Confining the scope of the project to an area, a particular audience or a specific profession, will sooner or later bring us in loss. This world has so much to offer, it is on us how far we take the leap. In this connected global village, expansion is the trend. Businesses are expanding -over continents, connecting millions, from different regions, cultures and histories. Offering your business as a franchise, targeting diverse audiences, licensing your product and services, involving other renowned businesses in your work, aiming at various markets – all these steps will guide you and will ensure that business expansion is the best thing you ever did.
SETTING REALISTIC GOALS:
Keeping high aims and high standards are qualities worthy of appreciation but practically speaking, it is always better to have a set of pragmatic and realistic goals for oneself. This not only helps one channelize all energies and resources in a kosher way but also each milestone of success that one crosses, recharges and motivates him for further progress. Success in business, is like climbing a mountain, to reach the summit, you would first have to get to the base of it. Your business startup will suffer if you keep your hopes incredibly high because initially your inexperience and newness to the market will one way or another get onto you. Taking baby steps is what will provide you stability and steadiness to reach your destined goal.
START FROM TODAY
Mostly, beginnings prove to be the most tricky and taxing. That is why most of us keep on delaying things we should have had done much earlier –“I’ll do it tomorrow” is a phrase which is so often repeated by us all but we ourselves have this realization that that particular ‘tomorrow’, actually never comes. So everything has to be done today. The proper application of time is essential and knowing the worth of taking decisions for your business and initiatives for projects earlier in life is essential if you want to succeed. Leaving matters to future will never help – living in the moment and doing something great in it is all what counts. Procrastination and holding-up your tasks and ideas will worsen things beyond damage-control.
