Passion for your Business

What would life be without passion?  If you are in business, and your business is your life, as it is for most small business owners, what would life be without a passion for your business?

Think about it:  All the greatest stories in history have been created around people who did what they did for passion.

The movies – Gone with the Wind, The Sound of Music, Zorba the Greek, had passion as a theme.  But look further, to the heroic actions of the people made famous by events in history.  Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln, Dr Albert Schweitzer, Nelson Mandela, and you see the passion running through their lives.  And it needed to, for their lives were no ordinary lives.

But what about us?  What about you?  Why do YOU need a passion for your business?

Look at it in reverse. Strip away the passion for your business, and what have you left. A place where you are required to spend 40-60 or more hours each week, sometimes taking home less income than the people who work for you, stressed about the bills, the marketing, the flow of work, the time away from your family.

What is there to make all this worthwhile for you, unless you have a passion for your business?

What could give you a passion for your business?

What if your business was something you believed was making a difference?  What if you were a printer and you knew that your work made it possible for hundreds of other small business people, working just as hard as you, to be successful in their businesses that also made a difference in hundreds or thousands of other lives?

Suddenly, it seems worthwhile, doesn’t it?  The hours you invest are an investment that touches the lives of perhaps thousands eventually.

Or maybe you have a restaurant, with the long and often odd hours that operating a restaurant requires.  What keeps you there, while everyone else is out enjoying and celebrating, what keeps you out in the heat of the kitchen, doing the hard work, and don’t tell me it’s the money.

Money is fine but as a motivator, it only goes so far.  There has to be more than the money…

And there is more.  The passion for you in your kitchen could be the delight and joy you experience both personally, from producing amazing dishes, and also from the patrons, whose eyes light up when they see what you place before them.

What gives me a passion for your business?

Just like you, I operate a small business, doing some wonderful things in the areas of support for other small businesses.  For example, business coaching, and we also deliver an amazing Diploma of Business.  Check it out here.  Just like you, we have downline support for hundreds and possibly thousands of people, just by offering our services to you, and assisting you to be the best you can be in your business, so you can assist all those businesses you work with and for.

But none of that matters, if you don’t have a passion for your business, in fact, if you didn’t, you would not have read this far!

But passions can flag, and we get tired and we forget why we were once so passionate.  This is where I can really help.  I can help you rediscover your passion for your business, and then put a business plan around it to make sure you keep it alive always.  And it’s all free!

Just go here, to the FREE BUSINESS RESOURCES page on my website, and download the PROSPER FROM YOUR PASSION worksheet.  In a few minutes, you can perhaps rediscover a passion for your business, or discover a new one.

It gets better!  Prospect from your Passion – Business Development is a FREE business plan template that focusses on building your business around your passion.

You might know someone else whose passion is flagging. Perhaps your good deed for today will be to forward this blog link to them, so they can reignite their passion for their business.

Business can be hard, unless we are driven from within by our passions.  Everyone deserves a chance to live a life of passion, and that’s what I offer to you here.  My wish for you is that you rediscover your passion for your business!

Til next time, take time to enjoy the life you live,

Ray Jamieson

Business Coach and Trainer at Executive Mastermind