Imagine meeting the love of your life. Feel the moment as the chemistry just clicks. Adrenaline and nervousness almost completely take over your brain, but you manage a smile and a, “Hey, there…” You are excited and you have no idea what might happen next.
Next, think about how your romance started; the passion, the love, the days that went by without you even noticing. You loved what you were doing because you loved that other person— no questions asked.
This drunk-on-love feeling isn’t always reserved for other people. When I was young, I loved the outdoors and also loved computers. From there I fell in love with human interactions and how we all think. When I say I fell in love, I mean I spent thousands of hours studying it.
What did that create? Well, I absolutely loved creating new things. When I grew up, I spent a lot of time by myself. Even though I was extremely social, when I was home I would do one thing: “computers” (as my nan would call it). I had so much fun. It was the thing that I honestly couldn’t do enough— it just wouldn’t stop going through my brain.
I’ve learnt a lot about falling in love, that irresistible thing you can’t get off your mind. Always wanting to be with that love, always wanting to go the next step — yet never knowing what that step will bring you. Passion in what you do feels like that love. It gives you that sickening feeling that if you ever lost what you’re doing, you’d surely die. Yet at the same time, that passion is redefined every morning you wake up to it.
Your life should be like that — that adrenaline that you felt the first time you spoke to the love of your life, the thought that keep you up at night. That is what you see in successful people — they read that adrenaline and love as something that HAD to do.
Like when I was younger: technology blew my mind away and it does right to this day. Because I LOVED it, I wanted it to surround me every day. Similarly, I love human interactions, and so, after thousands of hours of researching and understanding human interactions, I have a deep understanding of marketing.
I want to convince you to fall in love
I want you to fall in love so much with what you do that you don’t want to do anything else, that work and life are the same thing. Why? Because this will happen:
- You won’t work. Seriously. If you’ve ever had that feeling while working on your hobby or simply something you love doing, it’s like that EVERY SINGLE DAY.
- Your quality of life increases. You know what happens when you follow your passion instead of following a career? Your quality of life gets better. And it also happens for the people around you. Your stress decreases, what you do is enjoyed, and so you take time to do it right.
- You innovate. When you follow a passion, you have to innovate! Why? Because you’re constantly involved in your work. You will want to improve it because it’s PART of you instead of being its own thing.
- You’re proud. Have you ever worked on something and were proud that you worked on that project? That YOU made a difference? If you fall in love with your work, you get that feeling every day before going to sleep—that your 16 hours today counted towards something.
- You achieve success. Steve Jobs said, “If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.“ He knew what he was talking about! When you truly love what you do and follow your passion, it’s inevitable that you’ll give it all and that you will get it “all.”
Successful people follow their dreams.
Listen, it won’t be easy.
Although there are a ton of reasons to follow your passion, you seriously need to think about your passion first. Can you be successful with it? Do you want to make your passion your life or keep it a hobby?
But you will be in love
You will love waking up in the morning. When you are a passionate individual, you don’t have to sell anyone anything — people feel passion and they want to be around passionate people.
So, the question is… Do you want to fall in love?
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