{"id":416,"date":"2006-09-26T06:56:02","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2006-09-26T06:56:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T13:56:06","slug":"blogoff-post-39-work-for-passion-not-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/416\/blogoff-post-39-work-for-passion-not-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogoff Post #39: Work for passion, not money . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Problogger ‘How To…’ Group Writing Project<\/a>, March Choon advises us that if you work for passion, the money will come of its own<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Yes you need money to run your business but that should not be the driving force though. The issue is not to lose sight of your passion, the reason why you’re doing this instead of working for a monthly pay from someone else. Lose sight of that and your work will be tedious. What’s worse is that your customers can sense that you’re not doing it for the passion but rather for the money. That is greed. And greed is the path to the dark side…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a long article, and quite a bit of it strikes me as happy-babble.<\/p>\n

I like the basic idea more than I like the execution, and I’m not 100% in love with the basic idea. I do believe in working for passion, but I think it’s important to focus your passion on things that pay well. An admirable poverty is only admired from the outside. From the inside, eventually, it can come to be a tailor-made hell.<\/p>\n

So: Passion? You bet. Money? If you don’t make an effort to snatch it, someone else will…
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Technorati Tags: blogging<\/a>, sellsius 101<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n

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From the Problogger ‘How To…’ Group Writing Project, March Choon advises us that if you work for passion, the money will come of its own: Yes you need money to run your business but that should not be the driving force though. 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