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Does Passion Have A Price?

Written by: Laura Posey

Article Overview: If you’re like me, you’ve got a lot on your plate these days. We’ve recently added some new revenue streams to our business, I’m starting a non-profit organization to save homeless animals and I’ve begun dating someone who lives 4000 miles away. I’m also working on my golf game, walking my beloved dog and catching up with some very interesting brain research I’ve been studying. Oh yeah, and I’m learning Italian and German.

Does Passion Have A Price?

If you’re like me, you’ve got a lot on your plate these days. We’ve recently added some new revenue streams to our business, I’m starting a non-profit organization to save homeless animals and I’ve begun dating someone who lives 4000 miles away. I’m also working on my golf game, walking my beloved dog and catching up with some very interesting brain research I’ve been studying. Oh yeah, and I’m learning Italian and German. Yep, it’s a busy time. So, I’ve been wondering, what is all this costing me? Does passion have a price?

We all have things we’re passionate about – careers, family, hobbies, organizations – the list is endless. But what do we give up to pursue these passions? In most cases it boils down to time, money and energy.

There is an opportunity cost to pursuing something you love.

Every minute I spend working on the new website for my non-profit is time I don’t have to chatting online with my new sweetie. And vice-versa. Each day I hour I spend studying Italian is time I don’t have for studying this new brain research.

Every choice to pursue a passion comes with a price.

The nice thing about passions is you gladly pay the price because you are doing something you love, something that fills your soul or brings a bit of bliss to your life.

Let’s not forget, though, that there is also an opportunity cost for pursing things you don’t necessarily love but feel you have to do. Like work.

For every minute you spend working, you must give up time doing some else you might enjoy more. Every minute you spend with a bad prospect is time you could be spending fishing, golfing, playing with you kids or just relaxing on a beach somewhere.

Every minute in the office is a minute you don’t have to pursue your passions.

My question for you this month is:

“Are you working to live, or living to work?”

Can you find a way to get so good at what you do at work that it takes half the time and therefore frees up 50% of your day to go do the things you love? Imagine a month in which you were so productive, so focused and so good at what you do that you could earn a month’s income in two weeks.

It’s not only possible, it’s not as hard as you think. Get passionate about your life and you’ll find you’re willing to pay the short-term price of changing your old sales habits in order to live your dreams.

Does passion have a price? Yes, it does. And it is worth everything you have to sacrifice to get it.

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