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Tired of working for someone else? Looking to find a business idea thatreally excites you? Or are you already in business but find it'sbeginning to feel just like a job? Well, you may want to think aboutlooking someplace other than the opportunities section of your favoritemagazine for business ideas. The next million dollar idea might behiding in a most unlikely place: your own heart. A recent survey foundthat entrepreneurs are increasingly starting businesses in search ofpersonal fulfillment and there's no better place to find it than in thethings that you love to do. Whether you're looking to launch yourbusiness online or just around the corner, discovering what really movesyou, is a key part of success. Here then, are a few tips and suggestions that just might help you turnyour hobby, talent, skill or passionate interest into a thrivingbusiness that might free you from having to work for anybody else everagain and give your life a meaning you never thought a business venturecould![The following is an excerpt from Turn Your Passion Into Profit:Information, Inspiration and Ideas to Help You Make Money Doing What YouLove] This book is for anyone who has ever dreamed of being free and incontrol of their own life, to go to a movie in the middle of a weekday,play golf on a Tuesday, pick the kids up for lunch, or just see whatit's like to make decisions about how they spend their days withoutanyone's input. It's for anyone who feels enslaved by the situationninety-five percent of society finds itself in working for someoneelse. It's for anyone who has ever thought that it was unnatural anddemeaning to be forced into confinement for 8 or more hours every day,told when to eat, how to dress and how to speak. It's foranyone who wants to break free from such a life-style of servitude inorder to start doing something that really inspires and fulfills them.It's for people who are searching for their life's passion. This book is also for the individual who may already be anentrepreneur, and who may have found profit, but not passion. This book is for the person who wants to make more money, or at leasthave no limits on the amount he can make. It's for the champion who istired of playing a mediocre game just for security, benefits and someoneelse's idea of "a lot of money." It's for the person who wants to createsuccess on his own terms. This book is for the person who feels mentally unchallenged by what shedoes day after day and wants to experience a bigger world of biggerpeople, bigger places, and bigger ideas. This book is for people who have started to ask questions. It's forpeople who may have spent many years building someone else's dreams andhave started to wonder if that's all they were put here to do. It's forpeople who are feeling the need to do more, be more, experience more andleave a lasting legacy that's theirs and theirs alone. They want to maketheir lives monuments to something other than a paycheck, to somethingother than a profitable third quarter on someone else's year-endstatement. They want to make a difference in the world and havetherefore, started to ask themselves "What am I building? What am Ireally doing here? Is this all there is?"Your L.I.F.E. P.A.S.S.I.O.N. The thing that is your passion and which will eventually findexpression as your passion business and provide you with thesatisfaction you seek, will be what I call your LIFE PASSION. LifePassion doesn't mean that this is what you'll spend the rest of yourlife doing. It simply means that it is one of many passions that hassignificance in your life. It is "A" life passion not "THE" life'spassion. L.I.F.E. P.A.S.S.I.O.N. is an acronym you can use to remindyourself of the qualities of your passion.L-love Your passion will be something you love to do.I-interest Your passion is usually something that interests you.F-fulfilling Your passion gives you a sense of fulfillment.E-empowering Your passion usually empowers and energizes you.P-personal Your passion has personal significance to you and you alone.A-abilities Your passion capitalizes on your assets, attributes andabilities.S- service Your passion will usually provide a service or fulfill aneed of some kind for others.S-spiritual Your passion and the pursuit of it represents some aspect of your spiritual growth that you are here to experience.I-inspiring Your passion is inspiring to you and therefore will inspireothers too.O-obvious Your passion, once found, is usually something obvious toyou.N-natural Your passion is often unstudied; and comes naturally to you.FINDING THE RIGHT IDEA There will be many ideas that come to you. What you will find as yougrow is that the most intimidating part of listening for ideas is notthe fear that you won't find one, but that there are so many that youwon't know which one to pursue. So all that's left is to offer you a fewfilters through which to hear the ideas that come to you. So here area few tips on how to assess them.1. Don't Limit Yourself to Just One For All Time As was pointed out before, the passion you decide to pursue may be oneof many that you indulge throughout your lifetime. Don't feel that anydecision you make today is written in stone, or that you are obligatedto pursue this single passion for the rest of your life.2. Don't Limit Yourself To Currently-held Jobs, But Use Them As Clues Did you take the job at the record store as a way to be close to themusic industry? Is your current gig as host, maitre d' or waitressmasking your own passion for starting your own restaurant. Use thesejobs as clues to your true passion. Consider them "fact-finding"missions to get the experience you need to take the next step.3. Beware the Aptitude Trap I was good in Math and Science, so my high school guidance counselor inschool sent me off in the direction of my aptitudes. I ended up in ajob I hated, doing something I was trained to do, but which provided meno enjoyment. Don't get caught in the trap of following your aptitudes.As you read through this book, you'll come across people who are doingthings that you could be doing. Sure, you say, I know enough about realestate to help people buy a house. But, keep in mind that your goal isto follow your passion, not just your proficiency. The title of thisbook is NOT "Turn Your Competency Into Profit."4. Create Your Own While it's possible to make money selling someone else's product, myadvice to the passion seeker is to focus on creating something of yourown. There's greater personal fulfillment as well as more profit inbeing first in the creative totem pole. It's said that you only have tobe 10% different from the competition to be perceived as radicallyinnovative. Of course, it's hard to quantify a 10% difference betweentwo slices of pizza. But the point is that many seemingly new productsare simply the repackaging of things that exist. It's easier than youthink to create your own product.5. Beware the Gold Rush Beware the "lemming effect" of rushing headlong off the side of thecliff simply because everyone else is doing it. There are many newfrontiers of business and "flavor of the month" concepts and productsthat may be lucrative, but have no chance of offering any sustainableinterest or passion.6. Look Closely At Things You Already Do Like Kermit Pembreton, who at age 16, capitalized on the fact that healready loved to talk about pro sports, and set up a custom tour packagefor a single fan, and ended up making $1000 from that one personvisiting from out of town. He grew his love of sports into SportsServices of America helping prestigious corporations improve their imageby linking with sports figures who would then endorse products or makespecial appearances. Often, your passion is something indirectly relatedto something you're already doing.7. Finding Your Passion in the Traditional and Nontraditional Since there are as many passions and ways to express it as there arepeople in the world, many passions don't fit neatly into the boxes oftraditional job descriptions that exist in the corporate environment.However radical your idea is, however, it helps if you can fit it into alarger category. These categories include Writing, Teaching,Consulting, Entertaining, Making Crafts, Designing, Inventing, Cooking,Creating a food Product, Social Work. If it can fit into one of thosebroad categories, you can then search for the information necessary foryou to create a business around it. At the same time, not everyone who discovers their passion will findexpression of it by jumping out into entrepreneurial waters. As was saidin Chapter 1, being an entrepreneur is not a prerequisite for living alife of passion. Many people find passionate fulfillment within theparameters of structured, traditional employment, as long as they aredoing something they love. Neither of these courses is better than theother.8. If The Need Doesn't Exist, Create It Sometimes effective selling is about finding a need and filling it. Atother times you'll need to create the need, and force people to askthemselves "how could I have survived this long without this?" Who wouldhave guessed that we all needed to have doves released at our weddings?But it's now something I'll consider for mine!9. Go with your gut If it feels good in your gut, go with it.10. Don't tell the world right away Keep the energy of your new idea within the incubator of your mind.Give it time to grow in the energy of your commitment before youintroduce it to the world and the possible ridicule, judgement andspeculation of well- intentioned, but small-minded visionaries. Article Tags: Passion Into, Someone Else's, Life Passion, Many Passions