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Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Passion Gets in The Way of Money

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Business

3.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

My friend sent a note on a subject that profoundly resonates with me.  He asked me, "What's more important, passion or money?" Ask any person who knows me, and they will tell you that I am all about doing what makes my heart sing - PASSION!  After all, you know what they say — "Do what you love, and the money will follow!" I bet you've heard that most of your life. I will also bet that you have personal experience that would suggest otherwise, and there are millions of starving artists, writers, actors, and other creative types that would agree with your observations.  That list should also include stay home moms and dads, school teachers, police officers, and many more.  I believe there is no happier life than living a passionate life. I also believe that everybody has different monetary requirements that make them happy. And, I know that, while our quest to live with passion may be why we live a prosperous life, it's also what gets in the way of that life. If you desire to do what makes your heart sing and live a happy and prosperous life, there are two things to remember: 1) Focusing entirely on your passion at the expense of other and more routine aspects of life eventually stops you from living your passion. Life will get in the way. 2) Focusing exclusively on money and other routine aspects of life will force you to postpone doing what you are passionate about - possibility forever. I know many will disagree with this statement, but my experience and ScottLOGIC has taught me something — Life is long, and it is impossible to focus on ONE thing without covering everything else. It may work short-term, but acting that way is a recipe for disaster and frustration. The solution comes down to a simple equation— Passion + Realty + Discipline = Everything you want! Like it or not, when you obsess and demand that you do what you love, accept the reality and costs of real life, and discipline yourself to strike a balance, you will get everything you want in life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

How are ya? Happy, happy, happy Wednesday, getting closer to the new year.

0:22.0

Woohoo! Get through all this crazy times and get back to getting stuff done and what's next you're gonna be like? Is it gonna be different for you?

0:29.0

Are you gonna go off when you're passionate? If you talk to me and spend 80-time with me, you'll know that I'm all about living your passion.

0:35.0

And doing the things you love, do what makes your heart sing and getting paid for. Some people miss that equation.

0:41.0

I do what I love, why can't I make any money? It happens. And you gotta think about it differently. We'll talk about that today because it could be getting away your pocketbook.

0:49.0

We don't want that to happen, do we?

0:51.0

It is a daily boost from motivationabove.com, they're positive and practical, you know, thing you need every single day.

0:57.0

It's not perfect, but the stuff we talk about is perfect, whereas my grandma from Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, she's like, it's pretty near perfect.

1:04.0

It's true though, when you think about it, there's not much in this world that hasn't been figured out. If you'll just do what you know to do, assuming you know and if not, you have to learn that.

1:13.0

But so many times I chat with people. And I say, go do this. One, two, three. All that makes sense, I've heard that works. Great, go do it.

1:20.0

Next week, would you do nothing? Why? I get a little like, it's so easy if you just do it. So if I had a dream for you for the coming year would be that you would figure out exactly what you want and figure out those two or three steps it takes to get there and then go do it.

1:37.0

Can you do that for me? I bet you can.

1:39.0

Passion sometimes gets in the way of money, okay? It does. So friends, have you know, at one time, it's just really recent, actually a couple of months back.

1:49.0

And the subject was kind of profound for me. It very, very much resonated with me because he said, what's more important, Scott?

1:58.0

Passion or money? Like I said, this is a true question. Are you testing me? Seeing what I think, what I know.

2:05.0

And like I said, any person who knows me will know that I will tell you it really all the time that I'm going to do what makes my heart sing.

2:16.0

Does it always work out for me perfectly? Hell no. A lot of challenges sometimes because, you know, listen, society has kind of made up of folks that don't do that. They just get out of bed.

2:26.0

Go work for 20 or 30 years at a job commuting an hour a day, living two hours away from home sometimes just afford the house.

2:35.0

Knowing they'll do their passions someday when they're 65 if they're still healthy.

2:41.0

I never made that choice every single day. So it's got challenges to it, but we can make it work. And you can too.

2:46.0

So you know, they say, right? If you do what you love, the money will follow, right? You've heard that. How many times that just count real quickly?

2:52.0

You've heard it a bunch. You probably also heard, hey, if you do what you love, you'll never work another day in your life.

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