Imagine this: you’ve found your passion and want to make it your career.
You’ve got your business cards, a website, and even a sales page showing off your work. Eventually, word of mouth gets around that you’re the best basket weaver in all the land.
(By the way, in this example your passion is basket weaving. Work with me here.)
You’re feeling pretty impressed with yourself until you’re seeing a headline on “Basket Weaving Magazine” that says:
“You need to be making straw hats too! You need to buy Adwords! You need to focus on SEO for your website! You need to buy a tent at a farmers market! You need to charge more money! You NEED, need, need….”
All of a sudden, you’re tweaking your dream into a nightmare.
Your products aren’t as good because all the attention to detail went away when you started spreading yourself thin and trying to do everything that you “needed” to do to become “successful”.
If you aren’t being authentic, and true to yourself and your passion, then you won’t be attracting the right kind of people for you and you won’t even be attracted to yourself.
Suddenly, you get pulled from your passion and into the money game.And this is one of the most dangerous traps for anybody who has a passion.Because changing your beliefs or behavior just to make more money is BAD. You stop being real and everything starts sucking.
I’d like to think of myself as a classic example of this possible “passion trap”, along with anyone who is interested self development and being authentic.
Check out today’s video to see what I mean on how to stay true to yourself and still be happy and successful.
And if you don’t know, now you know.
-Sasha