I have frequently maintained that the key to wealth, health, fame, power, love, happiness, and personal fulfillment is simple. All you have to do is do what you feel passionate about. In fact, it seems to me that doing anything other than what you love is a total waste of time.

Whenever I write (or say) something like that I am deluged with questions and rebuttals. Folks inevitably point to the innumerable starving artists, musicians, writers, and actors who are, well, starving, even though they are following their passions.

I also hear from guys who tell me the sole reason they were put on earth is to run an animal rescue operation or some such low -paying/no -paying occupation. And then they challenge me by asking how are they going to get rich/famous/successful doing those things?

On the other side of the bell curve, I hear from people who say they are passionate about a bazillion things. They ask how can they possibly decide which one to pursue.

Here is what I tell all these folks:

I believe that it is not enough to begin your journey by following a path characterized by only one passion. I have noticed that success comes when you incorporate several passions at once. It seems that an activity that combines several passions is a more complete reflection of who you are. Not only do the possibilities seem greater when more passions intersect, but the joy of doing is fuller.

For example, I love sports (playing them, watching them, reading about them and talking about them). I love to see the mystical/spiritual side of stuff. I love to meditate. I love paradigm shifting ideas. I love to write (or more accurately, I love having written). I love starting businesses. I love promoting them and growing them. I love to collaborate with other people. All these passions (and probably many more) are intersecting in my latest project. I couldn’t be more stoked.

But the key question is how does one get there in the first place? Here is what I do to identify my next project when I am in a lull:

I just start playing around with lots of small projects and ideas – whatever strikes my fancy. The vast majority don’t amount to a hill of beans. But every now and then, one shows a glimmer of liveliness. When that happens, I go by the following maxim – where there’s smoke, pour gasoline. I feed those little glimmers with more of my energy, attention, and enthusiasm. If the glimmer gets brighter and the idea starts to sprout into something viable, I know I am on the right path.

This way I don’t have to go through any intellectual gymnastics trying to analyze which is the best opportunity or which will be most lucrative or which is the best fit for me. I let nature decide. I just go with the projects that grab me. If they take flight, I hop on board and enjoy the ride for as long and as high as it takes me.

The operative word, however, throughout the whole process is PLAY.



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