You should never think of passion as being enough to succeed

I'm sure you have heard people say before something along the lines of "Once you find your passion, you will become successful"

That's probably one of the worst bits of advice you could follow if you're looking at using it in a business sense, I personally think it's complete nonsense.

See there's a big conflict between passion, and the ability to produce an income or results from that passion.

I remember once hearing a saying that went something along the lines of "A passionate salesperson is a brilliant salesperson BUT someone with a passion isn't necessarily good at sales".

That is an amazing saying and it's sums up pretty much what I want to talk about in this thread! I'll explain, a salesperson that's passionate about what they do and the product they are selling is usually good at it because you can see their passion shining through their sales pitch.

Whereas someone who has passion most likely isn't very good at sales, they don't have the knowledge and or experience of selling so their generally pretty bad at it

This is why people are so wrong when they say "Follow your passion and success will follow". Sure, you might enjoy what you do but you're not very likely to see any results in a business sense.

Passion + Business Skills = Success

Being passionate about what you do just means you enjoy what you do. I love what I do, I design and make things for the web and I actually make a full time income from this but I wouldn't be able to do it without having any sort of business knowledge what so ever.

If I just followed my passion without focusing on learning business and marketing, sure I might enjoy making websites for myself but it wouldn't be something that generated me an income.

By all means, do something you love with your time Warriors but remember, if you are doing it with the intention of making a business, remember to actually learn about business.

Have an awesome day!

Joe Crosbie