11. Why your passions hold the key

Money is obviously a great motivator. Getting your bills paid is important but I’ll never forget the conversation comedian Jim Carrey had once in a speech where he watched his father fail at something he hated. If you’re going to risk failure, why not try something you’re passionate about instead? In Jim’s case, he was passionate about making people laugh and he didn’t fail. But even if he did, failing at something you’re enjoying doesn’t seem as bad as failing at something you hate.

Some people haven’t discovered their true passion yet. Some people lose interest in their old passions and some people never discover them at all. It might help if you replace the word passion with obsession, or maybe interest, or it might be something you’d like to try and don’t even know if you like it yet. 

• Why your passions hold the key for a creative side business
• Why you should let go of old passions
• How to create a passion plan
• Why your focus should be on novelty 
• How you can choose between a passion, an obsession, or an interest
• Strategies for sparking your interests into passions
• How to get clear on what makes something important or meaningful
• The importance of cultivating interests into passions.

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• Robert Sheehan IMDB
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