#836: Should you pursue your passions or profits when building your ecommerce income streams?
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Is it good advice or possibly dangerous advice to tell someone to "follow your passions"?
Is it better to "pursue profits" instead of "following your passions"?
Are there business models that you can become passionate about once you see the happy customers you've served well all lining up to say "thank you"?
Which comes first, FEELING GOOD or TAKING ACTION?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, business building warrior. Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio. I'm your host today, |
| 0:06.6 | Jim Cochram. And if we've never met before, I've got to tell you, it's an honor that you're |
| 0:10.6 | going to spend a little bit of time with us today. And let me just get right into the topic, |
| 0:14.4 | and then I'll fill in a little background. So what I want to discuss today is something that |
| 0:18.8 | was prompted by an interview that I've heard. |
| 0:21.8 | I've actually heard this as a theme with a handful of people that I've heard online before podcasts. |
| 0:26.1 | I listen to that sort of thing. |
| 0:27.8 | Talking about the disservice we do, especially to young people, |
| 0:33.7 | by telling them to follow their dreams, pursue their passions. If that's not delivered |
| 0:42.2 | in a way that gives a lot of specificity to exactly what you mean, it can definitely be a |
| 0:48.2 | misleading, and I would argue, borderline dangerous thing to do, to tell a kid to do that, or even an adult. Hey, pursue your |
| 0:57.0 | passions. You know, because inherent in that message is a very selfish, self-centered message. |
| 1:04.4 | And if you've listened to many episodes of this podcast, you know, the foundation that we go on here |
| 1:10.1 | goes back to a biblical standard. And I can |
| 1:13.5 | defend the things when it comes especially to business philosophy and your approach to life. |
| 1:17.9 | I can defend scripturally the things that we get into. But it's a very mixed audience. |
| 1:22.8 | There's plenty of people in our community, for example, plenty of people who have no interest |
| 1:26.4 | in diving into the Bible. |
| 1:33.0 | That's perfectly fine. Just know that that's the premise under, the foundation, under the arguments that I would make. So I'll be very clear, as clear as I possibly can be, when it's Jim's |
| 1:38.7 | opinion based on my experiences versus biblical standards and biblical truths that are demonstrated throughout the best-selling |
| 1:46.7 | book in all of world history, which happens to be, and I could demonstrate this as fact, |
| 1:51.2 | the greatest business guide ever written. That book says twice as much about money and business |
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