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"Passionpreneur" is a word I created to describe someone who has used his/her passion as the basis of a passion-centered business. But before I go any further, let me say something very important to the whole passionpreneur concept. And it's this: It is impossible to raise your standard of living working a job!

That's why you need to know what a passionpreneur is. Becoming one is the only way you will be able to satisfyingly change your present condition and move to the standard of living you're dreaming of.

I know that first statement might be a little shocking. So let me put it this way: It's impossible to make the sort of money you are ultimately capable of making at a job because, even if he or she wanted to, no employer can or will ever pay you what you're worth.

Now don't get me wrong, it is possible to make MORE money at a job. You can beg for a raise every year, work more hours, or go on a constant quest for the next higher paying position in an effort to improve your life, but conditions will invariably only improve slightly. The only way to REALLY raise your standard of living is to leverage your talents, your gifts, your interests and your hobbies to create a product or service that you can sell to increasing numbers of people and free yourself from the cycle of trading time for money.

In other words, you need to become a passionpreneur and turn your passion into profit!

Passionpreneurs are men and women of every age, ethnic group, educational background, profession and religion. They include housewives, inventors and artists. They are a diverse group of people from every corner of the globe. However, Passionpreneurs do share one common trait: they've all found something they enjoy doing and have decided to keep doing it.

More significantly, not only do Passionpreneurs enjoy what they do, they get paid to do it! They've found the hidden value in their talents, interests or pastimes, offer that value to the world in the form of unique products and services, and do so for profit.

Passionpreneurs realize that their business is an extension of themselves. They therefore desire a business that is not only financially profitable, but one that supports their highest calling as well. They realize that even a profitable business can prove unfulfilling if it does not respect one's purpose. Passionpreneurs, therefore, differ from traditional entrepreneurs in the following ways.

A traditional entrepreneur's business is market-driven
A passionpreneur's business is purpose-driven

Traditional entrepreneurs first ask, "Where's the profit?"
Passionpreneurs first ask, "Where's the passion?"

For traditional entrepreneurs, the activity comes 2nd:
("I'll do what I need to do.")
For Passionpreneurs, the activity comes 1st:
("I'll do what I love to do.") In other words, they've created businesses that allow them to make money doing what they love. As a result, many have walked away from frustrating jobs to live what I call a Passion-Centered lifestyle. They set their own schedules and control their time. They live according to their own personal value system rather than someone else's. Furthermore, Passionpreneurs experience the joy, empowerment and unique satisfaction of being compensated for being who they choose to be, honoring what they believe in, and doing something they feel divinely called to do. So why should you become a passionpreneur? I can think of no greater case one can make than simply happiness.

But I know what you're thinking: "I don't have anything unique about me that I can use to start a business." Well think about this: Everything in nature has been endowed with what it needs to survive. There is no living thing that isn't inherently equipped with the skills and abilities it needs to secure its continued existence. Whether through instinct, size, camouflage or speed, no gazelle, lion or giraffe has to go to trade school to learn how to survive. That's the beauty of the divine plan. We, as humans, are part of this plan and therefore, each one of us is given something that sets us apart from everyone else; something that we can use to ensure our own survival. Before industrialization sent hoards of us to the cities to work on assembly lines in factories, we all used something we did or owned and exchanged it for the things we couldn't do or didn't own. Experts say that before the Industrial Revolution, 80% of us where entrepreneurs. The fact is, everyone has unique, extraordinary potential.

Unfortunately, because we now live in a capitalistic society, we rarely have a chance to be rewarded for the extraordinary potential we bring to the universe. Instead, as employees, we are rewarded for our lowest common denominator--something we share with just about everybody else: our time and our presence. Think about it. In your job, you're usually paid simply for showing up to a position for a certain number of hours to do a job which somebody else could just as easily do; It's this replaceability that ensures that big business--which competes on price--can stay in business. If people were compensated based on the real value of their skills and talents, big business couldn't survive.

So how do you move beyond the limitations of a job? First, you need to understand something I call The Cycle of Success.

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