HOW TO DO WHAT YOU

LOVE
DISCOVER HOW TO TURN YOUR
PASSION FOR LIFE INTO A PASSION
FOR BUSINESS
Posted by: Team Tony
You’ve heard the old saying, “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” In
many ways, this saying is true. If you’re passionate about what you’re putting your energy
into, it won’t feel like you’re working. On the other hand, many people use this ideology as
an excuse. Why put time and effort into something if you don’t love it?
The truth is, if you’re doing what you love for a living, you probably started out by taking
small steps to reach that goal. Most people don’t enter their careers and immediately dive into
doing what they love. The thing these people do have in common? Purpose. If you use your
own sense of purpose to inform your professional decisions and progress, you will end up
doing what you love.
As Tony Robbins says, “Change is automatic, but progress is not. If you want to make
progress you need a plan, a strategy and ongoing habits to get the results you want.” We’ll
break down these three components and discuss how they’re necessary if you want to do
what you love.

1. MAKE A PLAN
The first step is in thinking clearly about your purpose. What empowers you? What do you
wish you could wake up and do every day? For some people, it might be helping others. For a
different person, it might be being able to express their thoughts and feelings creatively.
Others are looking for things like being able to travel or spend time with their family. Once
you’ve really thought about your ultimate goal in life, consider how you’ll achieve it.

Unless you’re born into money, you’re going to have to work to be able to do what you love.
Start with a plan. How can you achieve your true purpose through work? How can you
combine that interest with a real-world career? Plan how you can make your vision a reality.

2. STRATEGIZE WISELY
You’re never going to go from point A, as a total beginner, to point Z, in which you
miraculously are doing what you love and have reached complete financial freedom. You
have to go from point A to point B to point C, and so on. Strategize wisely! How can you
most efficiently go on your career journey? There are a few things you can do to expedite this
process:

 Find a mentor: Whether it’s someone you know in real life who has achieved
massive success or someone you haven’t met in person but greatly admire, find out
how they found success. How is it that they’re able to do what they love? How can
you model the path they took and adjust it to meet your own specific circumstances?
 Work with a coach: You might be missing the expertise to go after your passion on
your own. Work with a Results Coach who can help you focus on your end goal and
help you develop a strategic plan to reach it.
 Continue innovating: When you’re working toward your goal, you will encounter
failure – that’s inevitable. The key is to not fold at the first sign of failure, but to
continue innovating. How can you refine your approach? How can you change what
you’re doing to more swiftly meet your goal?

3. DEVELOP POSITIVE HABITS

In realizing that it might take a while for you to do what you truly love at work, you need to
make sure you’re developing sustainable habits. This includes professional habits, like
becoming a great networker and regularly attending seminars to better your skills, and
personal ones, like ensuring you’re taking enough time off and doing things you love outside
of work, like listening to entertaining podcasts and spending time with your kids. When
practiced regularly over time, these habits will sustain you even when things get tough. As
your professional journey progresses, you can always fall back on these learned and
cultivated skills.

Doing what you love for a living is possible, but it takes time. Decide today to start working
toward your goals, and realize that there are many steps along the way between where you
begin and where you want to be. Most importantly, cultivate habits that fill your life with joy
as you travel down the path to success.

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