As a continuation of Saturday's post, I'll dive a little deeper into the discussion on passion.
Passion is a well-worn subject on business blogs, and I know you could find plenty of great insight on it if you poked around online.
I would add one thing to what many others have written: Often, a freelancer's passion is what they specialize in (I.e. Interior design, photography, painting). The actual work is what they love. Often, the business end of the venture suffers because it's easy to get lost in doing the work they enjoy. If there is a balance (or if the freelancer hires people to run the business end), the work of creating art can be fully enjoyed.
On the other hand, the entrepreneur typically has a passion for something outside of the product. Tony Hsieh from Zappos loves customer service. He built a billion dollar company around the art of providing knock-your-socks-off service in an industry that lacked just that. Tony's passion for treating people well gets him out of bed in the morning.
What gets you out of bed? Today, write down the thing(s) about your work that make your work worth doing. Then grow that (although, maybe not to the same extent) like Tony did.
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