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It is difficult to find a person who has not heard the phrase: “Do what you love, and you will not have to work a day in your life.” It seems that everything is elementary: it is enough to understand what the soul lies in, and the rest will follow. The stories of world celebrities and acquaintances confirm that this is real. Then why do so many fail to achieve the desired goal?
Everyone has a hobby and not even one that could definitely be turned into a life’s work and a source of income. Yet millions of people continue to struggle to get out of bed in the morning, commute to jobs they hate, and earn wages they don’t like. In megacities, they stand idle for a huge amount of time in traffic jams.
Some are quick to get excited about the idea, but soon give it up because of the first difficulties. Others have problems with self-esteem, a lack of self-confidence. Still others are not engaged in what the soul lies in, follow the lead of advisers who drown out the timid inner voice. The fourth has insufficiently trained will and ordinary discipline, combined with excessive daydreaming. Someone pays too much attention to the final (as he thinks) result, which is expressed in money, and completely forgets about the process. Sometimes all this happens at once or in turn.
What to do with it?
1. Criterion of truth
Try to understand whether this is really your goal, and not imposed from outside? Sometimes it is not easy to separate real desires from those that were formed under the pressure of others or stereotypes about how one should live. “Invented to sew clothes for dogs? What nonsense! Go do your best.” And the man repels the dream. Try to write down a wish list on paper, and not 10, but 100, better than 200, small and global, everything. Then carefully study this list. If 80% of what is written there is not related to the current lifestyle, this is a signal that it is time to stop looking at opinions from the outside.
2. Self-belief, limiting beliefs and perfectionism
It happens that most of the thoughts about the business of life are occupied by doubts and limiting attitudes. They leave no room for determination to move forward. Striving for the perfect result, especially at the beginning of the journey, does much more harm than good. Let action take the place of doubt. Just start doing, experimenting instead of thinking, collecting for years, analyzing and predicting failure. As you drag out, you convince yourself more and more that nothing will come of it. It’s a vicious circle. There is no limit to perfection, you can make changes in the process.
3. Bringing yourself into a resourceful state
Pay special attention to this point. There are frequent complaints that there is not enough energy. In this case, it is worth sitting down and thinking, what has been done so that this energy comes from somewhere? What is the amount of investment in yourself compared to the “exploitation mode of the body and brain”? Even a car requires regular maintenance, rest and care, otherwise one day it will cease to serve the owner.
A person is much more complicated than a machine, but he often approaches health in the spirit of “maybe it will cost, I will endure,” thereby continuing to pour water into a leaky vessel. Determine for yourself what exactly replenishes the reserve of strength, helps to relax? What are these activities and activities? Incorporate them into your daily routine along with your responsibilities. Think about who and what takes energy away, eliminate it from life one by one. Amazement will not keep you waiting and the world will shine with completely different colors. The ideal situation is not to bring yourself even to the beginning of an energy decline.
4. Deadlines
If you want to turn a hobby into a source of income, determine the time period during which you are going to achieve your desired goal. Break the process down into rough steps. Everything should be thought out as specifically as possible. Visualization, collages of desires, writing in beautiful notebooks, many hours of discussion with like-minded people over tea – all this is good, but it is absolutely useless if you do not start taking action.
5. Self-discipline
About 80% of people quit what they started within 3-6 months. You can return to point 1 and, at the first difficulties, begin to doubt: “What if this is not my calling?”. Try your next favorite thing and get the same results.
In this case, the root of the problem is the elementary lack of discipline, perseverance, system and regularity of actions. Everyone wants everything to magically work by itself! But, alas, in 99% of cases this does not happen. The first step is always the hardest. You will have to put a lot of effort, work, patience into the business, until the plan begins to bear fruit, inspire and grow like a beautiful tree, delighting its owner.
6. Moving away from templates
Sometimes a strange situation arises: everything is in order with discipline, the plan has been drawn up. You use the advice of professionals, coaches, go through trainings, listen to webinars, and still nothing works. Hands begin to drop. Try to turn around and get away from the templates by 180 degrees.
Experiment more and do what your intuition or someone else’s advice may seem silly and impractical to do. Learn to listen not to coaches, but first of all to yourself. Try on someone else’s experience to learn yourself. Like clothes: “This fits well, I take it, but this one doesn’t suit me.” If you study the biographies of prominent people, you will notice a general trend: the majority went against all the rules, not listening to anyone. Someone’s experience, even impressive, the prism and vision of the situation – all this developed in their circumstances, and not in yours. Someone else’s experience can only be used as an auxiliary element.
7. Ability to sell yourself
You can fail if you look unpresentable, this applies to both appearance and oratory skills. Let’s go back to the dog clothes example. If you are going to sell such products, think about the portrait of the target audience. Who buys clothes for animals? Most likely, these are people who are well dressed themselves, otherwise they would not have thought of dressing up a pet at all.
This problem is easily and quickly corrected with the help of a public speaking teacher and a stylist. If there is no money for such specialists, you can find a huge amount of free information on the Internet.
8. Understanding Strengths and Weaknesses
Thinking, wanting to do and doing are completely different things, for which different processes in the psyche are responsible. Some have a lot of ideas, they quickly light up and rush into business, but just as quickly lose interest. Others dig too deep into details, missing the big picture. Still others do not gush with ideas, but they have the talent to filigree launch and set up the mechanism of any business.
In order for the components to work equally well, and this is not so easy to translate into reality, identify what comes out of it the easiest for you, and what stalls. A well-defined reason is half the battle. You can come up with your own system, turn a weak link into a point of growth. Or, for a synergistic effect, invite another person to cooperate, who easily succeeds in what is boring and difficult for you.
Meet, make friends with yourself, experiment freely and have endless fun with this process. In this case, your favorite business is doomed to success. It will become a way of life, an integral part of it, and at the same time well paid.