It is my pleasure to introduce my friend, career solutions expert, and guest blogger Jackie Peterson. She revealed how we can live and work “in the zone”, with our talents, dreams, and career in perfect alignment. This is the place where creativity is unleashed, passion exudes from our mind, and you deserve to be!
Jackie says,
I believe one of the most important things you can do is to follow your passion. I work with many solo, encore and creative entrepreneurs. Many of them are trying a variety of things. My advice always is to focus on one thing. But which one thing? I often draw a Venn diagram (three intersecting circles) and point to the spot where the circles intersect. That is the “sweet spot” for your business. The three circles are passion, talent and money.
Think about it, if you just choose to pursue what you love and are good at, you have forgotten about making money and what you choose is probably not sustainable. If you just choose what you have passion for and it makes money, it probably won’t work either as you are struggling to be good enough to be really successful; you forgot that you have to have talent as well as passion. Only choosing something you are good at and something that pays well, you have chosen a career that lacks passion. And when passion is missing it is like living a bland but maybe “safe” life with no zing, and no spirit to carry you through the hard times. The plain vanilla life is pretty boring.
So, what I know is that all three, passion, talent and ability to make money are important.
Where is YOUR sweet spot? Are you focused on it? Is it where you are investing your precious time, attention and energy?
Jackie B Peterson
Author Better Smarter Richer, 7 Business Principles for Solo and Creative Entrepreneurs
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