Lessons I Have Learned as a Young Entrepreneur – This Has To Be Your Passion

If you truly want to be a successful entrepreneur, then you must love what you do and have a passion for it.  You can be rich and famous while hating what you do or not loving it, but you cannot be successful.  Being a successful entrepreneur is loving every second of the time you spend in your business and being willing to do it for free if you had to.  For 99.9% of the entrepreneurs out there, you will have to work incredibly long hours, face huge obstacles, take substantial risks and live/breathe/eat/sleep your business for years and years.  Do you really want to do all of that for something you don’t love to do?

I say this a lot during my keynote talks – imagine how much happier and more successful everyone in the world would be if we all did what we were passionate about.  Imagine all of the lawyers who would be much happier owning a restaraunt or the accountants that would rather have a landscaping company and work in jeans everyday.  Unfortunately, most people disqualify themselves from doing what they are passionate about, with such thoughts as:

- “I’m not smart enough…”
- “I don’t know how to start a business…”
- “I’ll never make any money doing…”
- “If I started this business, people would think that I…”

If you are going to start your own business, you need to do what you are passionate about.  For those of you willing to take the risk and put in the effort necessary to build a successful business, then you absolutely have to start something that you will enjoy doing for the rest of your life.  Owning a business is already difficult enough; by combining it with something you don’t have a passion to do you will almost certainly fail.  Even if you do succeed you won’t love it, so whats the point?  Make it your passion and give it your absolute best!!