Not All Passions Are created Equal.
Who said you must have only one passion?
The dream of almost everyone on earth is to make money doing what they love.
The issue is that individuals experience decision fatigue trying to choose the one thing they are passionate about because they like more than one thing.
I had the same problem before having a breakthrough.
I said all passions aren’t created the same, and I designed a classification method.
I classify passion into two categories. Purpose Passion, and Lifescreaten.
This method also helped my clients in creating more clarity on their missions and design healthy lifestyles.
Most importantly, they are no longer confused.
What a good feeling! CLARITY.
Here are the two categories, you can start using today
1. Purpose Passion
Doing something you love is one thing; doing something you love with a clear purpose is another; doing something you love with a clear purpose and making money from it is like the Holy Grail of living on purpose.
I define a “purpose passion” as identifying as doing a task you love with a clear purpose related to what you want to do with your life.
You can see yourself earning money from it, and you can see yourself doing it for an extended period.
It’s the one thing you love and are ready to continue doing it forever.
It’s your natural inclination; you are gifted at it and ready to continue developing your skills and knowledge to reach mastery one day.
Your “Purpose Passion” could be your current job or completely different.
It’s how you want to be remembered or known.
2. Lifestyle Passion
The lifestyle passion category includes a list of activities and hobbies that are good for your emotional well-being and could contribute to balance in your life.
They add to your fulfillment equation, but you don’t want to put your entire focus on them.
You can live without it; it’s not exactly what you want to do with your life. This is not how you want to be remembered.
You can have more than one lifestyle passion. These usually help you energize, rejuvenate, and feel balanced.
My Lifestyle passion is Latin dancing. I like it, I’m good at it, but I don’t see myself having it as a vocation for the rest of my life.
I don’t see it as a possible primary source of income. I don’t want to invest most of my available time in training.
Let’s say you are a product manager who likes fashion, investing, CrossFit, and diving.
Your day job is your product manager. Fashion, investing, Crossfit and diving are your passions. Things you love doing!
One of these would be classified as a Purpose Passion. Assume here it’s investing.
The Lifestyle passion category will have fashion, CrossFit, and diving.
Now you have clarity, and it will allow you to design your schedule efficiently.
You will schedule a CrossFit session once a week or bi-weekly but never do it intensely for a long time. You won’t spend time reading material on how to become a CrossFit athlete or instructor.
It’s just a lifestyle passion. You love doing it; you like hanging out with the same interests.
You will maybe go diving once a month or once in 3-months.
However, you will spend most of your available time reading about investing. You will look for ways to become better at it.
Eventually, you will find ways to create a service around it for people. You are gifted at it, love it, and are ready to invest time in perfecting your knowledge and skills.
You see yourself investing and sharing services around it for the rest of your life. Product manager is just another zone of expertise you capitalize on to make income for the moment.