Mark Cuban was quoted as saying the worst advice he got was "Follow your passions!"
Instead of waiting to find your passion, get good at something. Your passion will follow.
This is almost heretical to the "follow your passion" advice you hear thrown around by commencement speakers, career "experts," and parents.
I love eating spicy food, but nobody's going to pay to take a stupid class on this.
I also love ironing clothes. How many of you want to pay me to iron creases in your sleeves so sharp that they cut your face? Yeah, that's what I thought.
Hence another one of my guiding RULES in life:
Passion isn't everything.
This is actually a relief! You don't have to turn your passion for cake decorating, movie trivia, or spicy-food eating into a business.
You're free to keep loving those passions, then find an actually profitable idea for your business. One that's built on things you enjoy, things you're good at, and things other people actually want.
Even better …
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You don't need to wait for lightning to strike. There are actually great business ideas you can COPY.
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You can get started today, right now. I created a page all about it here: The BEST online businesses to start.
Read that page (5 min) and you'll be much closer to starting your business than you'd be after months of passion hunting.
Thanks for reading!
More coming this weekend,