SNM042: Find Your Passion

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There are some birds making some noises. Hopefully, this location I've chosen today is quiet enough that we can get a nice recording. What I want to talk to you about today there's a bird just going crazy here. Suddenly, as soon as I start, expertise is howling. So we're gonna try another spot. Just walk a little further up the beach and see what happens. This is the real challenge of where I live. One of the biggest challenges I faced with recording these podcasts is finding a place that's quiet enough. I live on a tropical island right now on the beach. I can't see single other person, and you never really discover how noise of the world in which we live is until you want to record a quiet podcast. I spend most of my time before these episodes walking around, trying to find a spot on the beach where I can't hear anyone hammering using saw or too much road noise. Just now, I was trying another spot in there really loud bird on this tropical island. For some reason, everyone takes the muffler off their motorcycle to make them as loud as possible. And unfortunately, as happens when you're dealing abroad and you're doing other countries, the police don't do anything. There's no enforcement of traffic laws here. There's no enforcement of any type of noise control, so people make their motorcycles a lot as possible. I'm not really sure why, but it's pretty consistent. Everyone also disables the speedometer on their motorcycles. Those the two things I've really noticed. It's been more time weakening rather than improving their machines. But fortunately I think I've found a spot where it's not too loud. There's not too much road noise. Hopefully, you can hear me over the birds. And I want to talk today about finding your passion. It's so important to work on something you love and one of the challenges. I get a lot of emails about people asking, How do I find something I passed about? How do I know what I want to do in five or 10 years? I was very passionate about teaching for a long time, actually love helping people, which is why I've moved into the industry. I'm in right now. I'm still a teacher. The only difference is I now control the university. I've taught in high schools, grammar, schools, colleges and postgraduate. I've taught all four levels throughout my teaching career, and what I hate is the institution. Just this morning I was speaking with my girlfriend, my father, about how I planned educate. My Children were now moving to that point where I want Thio really plan for my Children's educational development, and it's hard. It's hard to find that perfect plan now and a couple of episodes not tomorrow, not next episode with one. After that, we'll go into detail about that experience. But I really am not a big believer in the college experience. Any more talk about this since everybody in the book I talk about on the block. This is not a surprise if you've been with me for a while. The cost of education is so extreme it takes so long to pay it off. I stopped being passionate about it. Everything became about politics, even with my final job. But I was in charge of six other teachers running a small department. The amount of infighting and back biting I experienced was a nightmare. Very few people cared about. The student experienced, cared about the end of the journey. It became very selfish as people are want to dio. Whenever you introduce your accuracy, you decrease the quality experience for everyone. So I lost my passion for teaching. When I left my teaching career behind, I wasn't disappointed at all. I have no desire to go back The thought of standing in front of the classroom where if I say the wrong thing right, teach the wrong part of a lesson people can tell on me and get me fired or complain about me. All of those things right. The students have more power than the teachers. In most situations and postgraduate education. You have to follow the specific rules. You have to follow these specific paradigm. You have to teach in a certain way, even if you find a method that's more effective. If it's not officially sanctioned or it's not officially the way you're supposed to teach or if it's not the official textbook, you're not allowed to use it. All of these rules burned out my passion for teaching, and I transferred into a world where I can teach and have total control. There's no one who has any oversight over these lessons. I'm sharing with you. It's meet the buck stops with me. I'm in total control of my destiny, finding your passion. It starts with asking yourself a few key questions when I want to find out what someone is passionate about it saved them their right to work again. Get enough money in your life that you never had to go into an office again. You could do whatever you wanted, and no one would ever judge you question you or say anything bad about what you do. What would you spend the rest of your life doing? This is a question I developed when I was a single guy, and I started asking people a lot, asking women a lot because I wanted to find someone who was on the same page and someone who had a passion for life. And I discovered that people give really three types of answers. One type of answer that's very common is the totally selfish person, the person who just wants to buy more things. Who wants to acquire as many things as a kid. I would buy more houses. I would buy more shoes. I would buy this. I would buy that. There's certain number people that that's their answer. They're passionate about buying things, and for me, when I was dating, that was an instant sign that I would never want to see that person again. I could never be in a relationship with someone who only cared about acquisitions. Now there are plenty of men and plenty of women, both who have this mindset. It's just not me. It's not someone I want to be with. I've dated women like this one of my last girlfriend's before. The one with now was obsessed with spending as much money as possible, buying as much stuff as possible and caught up in that lifestyle. I'm very glad that relationship ended because that's not where I want to be in life. That's not who I am. But that's one type of passion. And for those people, it's still possible to build a career. Read your passion. You can create a block where you review everything that you like. You talk about fashion. You create a fashion instagram. There's all sorts, things you could do in a more entertainment or education, best based direction rather than teaching. You mostly review other products and stately like this. What you don't like about that point out good qualities and bad qualities, all of those things you can go in that direction. The second type of answer that people often give is change the world answer I want Thio do this type of charity, and people have a very wide variety of answers. A lot of people are passionate about different types of charities. They want to help anyone. Girl, She was a makeup artist and she wanted to. I didn't fully understand it. Unfortunately, had something to do with helping Children through. Making them look better was it's actually a type of therapy that I didn't know about. But it was a real type of therapy, something to do with, like beauty based therapy or something like that. So people can have really unique passions and really need directions. You want to take their charity. And third type of answer is people who have a passion for travel. That's a very common answer. Those are the three most common answers ever experienced. Every answer I heard for anyone fit into one of those three categories, And with each of those three categories, we can start to find the passion that will fund your ability to travel. Or you could be someone who logs about traveling those blog's exist. I read them all the time. When I'm thinking about traveling somewhere else, I look up information from people who lived there who travel out about those locations. There are people who travel the world as families and blogged about the family travel experience or single people that do it. There's people, relationships that do it, all sorts of them, and I find someone who's similar to me. I used to follow a single guy traveling. I look for family travelers because it's different flying on a plane with two young Children. As you know, it's very challenging, and I don't want to be a parent whose Children crying on the plane. So my thoughts and concerns about traveling are completely different. You need to decide if you're someone who your passions built around doing or observing. The more you pay attention to what you like doing, the easier it is to find the answer to this powerful question. I like a lot of things. I like surfing, kayaking. I like riding around in boats. I like send a paddling. I like riding my bike, but I'm really passionate about my work and this whole project, everything unserved a master's me teaching about my work. It's me talking about what I already d'oh! So I found a way to express my passion when I have extra time. I sometimes have to resist the urge to do extra work. Other people, when they have free time, want to go for a swim. I want to go for other surf or watch a TV show. I want to jump back on. The computer will work more. In fact, right now, my son is taking a little nap in the my bedroom. So I thought, Hey, I'll go record this episode rather than grabbing free time or something like that. My desire was to get a little more work done. I love recordings, episodes. I'm passionate about what I d'oh. You can also actively seek out your passion, and this is something that I teach to a lot of people who are single and kind of trying to find a passion in life is very important for the single people. I audience in my relationship books to find a passion because, and that's how they could become more attractive. That's how they can connect with the their emotional state. Women off complained that men don't talk about their emotions in the way for a man to do that is to find a hobby he's passionate about, and then when he talks about it, the way talks will be in real connective emotional language. It's a way to teach men to be emotional without it being too emotional. What you can do is dedicate the next year of your life to finding your great passion. What I recommend in what I think is very valuable is to pick one day a week and say, every Tuesday from 5 to 7 PM I'm gonna try something new until I find my passion and you go and try another activity every week and every city in America, In every city in the West, there are social clubs, sports clubs, adult activity leaves. There are city and state sponsored activities. There are a lot more things your government spends money on than you realize their adult kickball leagues their adult hand. Bali's there don't dodge ball leagues. They're don't softball leagues. There's Frisbee, Leaguesfirst be golf, ultimate Frisbee. All of these different types of sports. There's lots and lots of activities you confined. If you simply go to meet up dot com or go to Google being Yahoo and type in adult activities in the name of your city. There's the Learning Annex. There are adult learning centers where they offer classes and wine tasting. I know if they do cigars, but they might. There's classes in different types of art. I love art. I just don't have a lot of time for it. I'm a painter. I love doing pastels. I don't do it very much cause I expressed my artistic creativity right now through my writing. But I always have an artistic passion in my life. You may find it. That's what you love. Once you spend some time trying out lots, lots of things, the thing you want to go back to every you know what I'm supposed to hang gliding this week. But I want to go back to the painting class. I want to go back to painting again and again. You've now find your passion. It's thing you want to do when you have free time, the thing you want to do more than watch television and you can proactively find it. In fact, trying passions could be your passion. I'm a hobby collector. I am moderately to advanced, medium skilled in dozens of hobbies. I could do a lot of things I could do. Archery, horse riding. I can shoot just about any type of gun in the world. I don't own a gun. I've never owned a gun. Are there places? Especially why I grew up where you can go rent a gun at the gun range using at the gun range. Then you leave it there and you go home so you know how to use as a tool. And many people find it's actually a lot of fun. I like anything like that. I like the batting cages. I like girlfriends is like the shooting range. I liked Archer in all of these things where you go do something at a target and you leave the equipment and you go home. I like those. You could create an entire business around exploring different hobbies. Very, very successful. That could be your passion trying new things. You could develop an entire following nice tribe of 1000 people who love to hear about your adventures every week, almost like an amazing TV show. And in fact, they have some TV shows. They're like that, don't they? Where you follow someone who is trying different things or traveling the world in either loves driving or hates traveling. They have those. Finding your passion is just about putting the little effort. And in fact, even if you say you know what, I just want to sit on the TV and watch us on the couch. Watch television all night. I don't want to go anywhere. Well, then your passion could be television. I listen to all of the bad movie podcasts. I've mentioned this a few times. I shift between them. There's three really big ones and I know about, and all of them unfortunately inject unnecessary politics into their episodes. So I would love to hear one where it wasn't people constantly mentioning their political beliefs when it's completely irrelevant. Very recently, I listened to a podcast where the guys talked very disparagingly about one actor for being Republican but another actor who got caught with a young child doing something horrible. They just called his troubles, and they continue to watch his movies now. For me personally, hurting a child is far worse than your political beliefs. So listening to people on entertainment podcasts go so beyond the pale is a little bit annoying for me. It's like me. Just talk about the movie, okay? Don't keep hating on someone for political beliefs when you're okay. For someone who was convicted, this isn't an accusation. This is someone who was convicted of the crime. I don't understand that. So there's opportunity, no matter what you're interested in, to really talk about those things to develop an entire product, an entire story, the right type of podcast entertainment podcasts can become very successful. Some of podcasts been around for five or six years and took them three or four years before they started making money, started finding their audience. They just put in the time, and they put in the effort. Recently, someone I know was complaining that they're an expert in their field, but they can't get anyone to listen to them. And he started telling a story about someone who was a lot less than them. But the guy put up a video on YouTube every single day for six months, and after six months I started making money and I said, Well, why did you do the same thing? It's not the knowledge it's the effort become passionate about, not just your content but also your medium of delivery. I've always really liked writing block posts, and now you'll notice my block. Post count is way down because I'm so busy recording these episodes. I record five podcast episodes a week, which almost no solo podcasters d'oh in this format. But I love it. I love creating continent of connecting with you tell any stories standing here in the ocean. I get to do this without having a set of the computer. It's really fun for me. It's really a pleasure. I'm sitting here. If you could see what I see, you understand everything I say in a second what I'm looking at. It's so beautiful. Perfect clouds, perfect waves at a person in sight. Actually, if I looked to my right about two or three kilometers away, there's a couple of boats. I think people are surfing. It's far enough away that I'm not sure if there's anyone on the boats. That's it. That's amazing. My passion for traveling led me to developing a career that would allow that I wanted to move to this island. Three years ago. I was passionate about here and be my girlfriend, developed a plan We changed my business. My business model used to be very interactive. I used to do a lot of webinars. I sent out a lot of live e mails, communicate with people a lot. We visited here three years ago. The power go out for two or three days. It would go out for 45 days. So I developed a business. Really Focus on Amazon, which would allow me to keep making money even if the power went out. Now, since I've moved here, the infrastructure is very strong. I have to high speed Internet connections. The power does go out. The power went out today five or six times for a few seconds at a time. So you don't still have the flickers with the power. But where I live has a generator. So even though I develop this entire plan for this island, once I move back here the infrastructure strong enough my planet was no longer totally necessary. We have total control over our priorities. Every time you say to me, you don't have time to work on something. You don't have time for that. I want you to be honest with yourself. And look at how you spend your time Dr today? Do you watch television? Do you watch movies? How much time do you spend in the car? If you have a long commute to work, you could instantly become the comedian podcaster, where you tell stories and record yourself talking just in the car, you can use time proactively. I know most of my listeners listen podcast in the car. It's a way to effectively absorb knowledge. This how you continue to the next level you don't listen to every day. I would love for you to twice a week recorder episodes and become proactive. Start creating content. You could use that time proactively. It's about finding the opportunities. And when you're locked into your passion when you actually love what you d'oh, it becomes a lot easier to prioritize that time. That's why this journey is so important. That's why finding what you're passionate about is so important where I live. Everyone is passionate about surfing. They all want to surf and everyone serves all the time. Most people drop out of school. People come from all over the world to live here and sleep on hammocks, mostly been tense all the time. just so they conserve as much as possible. None of them that a single person's island has transitioned that passion into any type of career. There's no surf blog's from around here. There's no there's one sir photographer, but he just tries to get tourists to pay him to take pictures of them surfing. He's not building an amazing sir flog. We're building an amazing catalogue of photos or any of those kind of next level. Things like we teach about not creating books, stories or pictures about surfing. That's where you take your passionate turn your career. Passion alone isn't enough. That's what I really want you to connect with. Having a passion is great, and that does help you with your career. We also have to be willing to put in a little bit of effort and talk about your passion. Teach about your passion. I love writing books. I really d'oh! But I haven't written anything in gosh, maybe 10 days. I finished my Yeah, I finished my last book last week that I said It's theater and haven't started working on the next book. So for me, that's a really long time for most people that doesn't sound like a lot of downtime. I normally have two days in between books. Most. I've been working on a lot of video projects, a lot of rebuilding my website. As you know, I'm still going to that journey of trying to fix it. Oh man, I changed and fixed a bunch of things this morning that found it, did him wrong, had to redo everything, had to redo two hours of work. I just want the website to be perfect and in fact, the problem. My website is the main reason I'm slowing down the launch of my next book. I would have put it up on Amazon. Already accepted. I want follow up ages, just like restaurant. Com Backslash book looks amazing. I want to do the same for orbit, which is the book, which is the page that is all the individual information of the next book. I haven't had as much time to invest in that Paige, because I am changing my website over. So it's effort combined with passion. We talked a lot about over some of the recent episodes developing that energy, that effort that motivation and locking it when you combine my system my engine with passion, and then you put your effort in there, you're gonna be very successful. My system works. Anyone who falls my system and then releases books falling my methodology finds success. It's something I'm very excited about, something that I know can happen for you. And I want to give you each of the little keys that are gonna get you there. When you find your passion, it becomes a lot easier. Some people go too far down the path where they find something they really passionate about, the no one else cares. But I've told you before, we've talked about this in the research message lessons. You do have to find something other people want to hear, but I care about so we do have to find the intersection of passion and profits. But it starts by finding things that you're passionate about. I don't use every single medium for delivering content. I don't record a lot of videos. I don't record a lot of live action videos. Most of my videos are screen capture videos, their videos demonstrating things or slideshow presentations. I don't do a lot of videos of my face. I just recorded a couple of videos for one of my publishers and was a total nightmare dealing with lighting, so that reminded me of why I don't do it very much. It's so hard to get the lighting perfect. And even after I put in all this effort recording, the sun got sunburned. One of the owners complained to me, the photo editor, the video editor guy and I said, Look, I'm not redoing it. It's hard enough. I don't do a lot on YouTube of every act from YouTube. I'm every active on every social media platform. Now I am expanding more and more. If you listen to this episode a little bit in the future, my social media will get stronger and stronger. But it's impossible for a single person to be expert at everything. I don't record a lot of YouTube videos about writing books. If you were passionate about making videos and writing books, that could be your angle. That could be what you d'oh and it could be very powerful. That's a direction you can go in. You just need to start with passion, get really motivated, excited about where your journey can take you and think about how you could unlock freedom and lock your future and start putting in that effort. Find the path to profits All of the little steps in this process I've covered throughout previous episodes of this podcast, I've given you every single tool that you need. It's just about taking action. Our choices reveal reality. People often tell me that they're writers, but they've never written a word. They've never published a book that never show anything they've written. You're not a writer unless you've written and really a writer, unless rewards are out there. Some people write an entire novel, and then they throw it on a block where they put it on ah, free website because they're afraid no one will pay for it. We still haven't crossed that finish line. It's devastating the amateur and the professional and our society. It's very easy now, with technology to become professional, you just have to flip the switch. So I want you to dedicate yourself as you're thinking about today's lesson before you jump to the next lesson or jump back and listen to some of the past. To really dedicate yourself to finding that passion you want to build your career about. What do you want to write books about? What do you want to make videos about? What type of business do you want to build and find where your passionate profit intersect? And that's how you can build a successful, improper business. That's how you can unlock your future, unlocked the finances you need, the freedom you need and very soon, just by following your passion, you could be living on an amazing tropical island, just like I d'oh, Thank you for listening to this week's episode of Serve No Master. Make sure you subscribe, so you never miss another episode. We'll be back tomorrow with more tips and tactics on how to escape that rat race. 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