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As I shared in my latest update, I’m in the middle of writing my 1st ever book on Passion And Money. It is on how you can pursue your passion and earn money with it.
The book will:
- Bust common myths surrounding passion & money
- Share my story on how I successfully pursued my passion and earned money
- Unravel what passion is
- Share with you:
- How to discover your passion
- How you can start pursuing your passion, right now!
- How to achieve great success pursuing your passion
- Key concepts/strategies/principles that worked for me and how you can apply them for yourself
- And more!
Since this book is written for all of you out there who are interested in pursuing passion and earning money, I want to hear what YOU have to say! Namely:
- What burning questions do you have surrounding the pursuit of passion (and money)?
- Any specific things you want me to include in the book?
- What would make you want to buy the book?
- Any other thoughts/suggestions on how I can make this a better book for you
I’ll be opening up the comments form specially for this post and it’ll close 7 days from this post (7 Nov, Sat). Your comments will play a role in shaping the content of the book and will be invaluable in helping me to make this a useful resource for you in pursuit of living your best life. Please don’t shy away from giving your feedback! I look forward to reading what you have to say! 
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Filed in: Books | Posted on Nov 7 2009
Hi Celestine, love your work. “Bon courage” and all the best with your book. Just earlier this week I recorded a “Passion” vid & post – feel free to use, or not
as you see fit. Passion deserves all the promo it can get! http://www.beatschindler.com/success-strategies/beattitudes002
Hi Celestine
I would like to ask a few questions which might help you:
How do you overcome your partner being opposed to your ideas to make money and give up the day job?
How do you find a passion if you don’t know what it is?
How do you overcome procrastination?
Hope this helps
I’m always striving to live in the present moment, but I find it hard to pursue future passions while living in the moment. Have you struggled with this? If so, how have you dealt with it?
That reminds me, how do you overcome unsupportive parents who are extremely against your giving up your job to pursue your passion.
It feels like everytime I want to spread my wings, two persons come running out to chop them off.
Hi Celes,
Thought I share some of my dilemmas for your book.
My first thought was that it might be a myth, but I see passion as the emotional equivalent of some kind of “force of nature” with the possibility of being uncontrollable — like the dash of a squall, the hotness of magma. Something that could be an almost endless source of energy and vitality — but what I also saw to sweep others off from their feet. (And it’s pretty much the same for passionate love, and other passions, like someone living for a job, etc — it can be great, and it can be dangerous.)
QUESTION 1#: how can we keep the balace? How can we make sure that the passion will be a good one, that it won’t overwhelm other important things?
And another one: I studied the thing I wanted since high school, I love it, and I’ve almost have finished the five years. But here’s the economic crisis, and I live in a country where the government tries to save money on health, closing hospitals, and such. My fellow students are having hard times to get a job due to these measures, and even the few who could are very much underpaid and work among adverse circumstances. I’ve lost a great deal of my motivation, and sense it as a dilemma betveen being paid or doingg what I wanted to, not to mention that even if I choose the second, I won’t have as many opportunities to help as I thougt I’d have.
QUESTION 2#: What are the ways to solve such a situation? Do I have more chances than getting a job that’s okay but not with that much vocation; or taking my original path with a pack of serious compromises; or hoping that I could come up with a third way that I couldn’t find yet?
Good luck for your book, and thanks for the blog!
Melinda
Money can distract one from their passion. So once the money starts rolling in it’s important to keep focused on the core of your passion and not get sidetracted with making money.
Hi Celes! I think the most important thing that most people struggle with are:
1)They don’t know to begin with what their passions are
2)They know what their passions are, but don’t know how they can contribute to the world using them, can’t find a need for what they have to offer
3)Courage, they don’t know how to find the courage needed to leave safety and security they have now and pursue their passion.
Keep up the great work, you are an inspiration for so many!
Hi,
You pose an interesting question for me, namely what is my passion, how do I find it, and then once I do, how to feel the inertia from it to make an income? I’ve been a mother for 20 years and have loved it. Its the only thing I definately knew I wanted to experience. But now that my youngest is nearing his teen years, I’m rethinking what gives me satisfaction to this degree? Who else am I? What goals do I have?
I’m divorced and have been entangled in legal matter for far too long, and this in part has diminished my spark and creativity. As I’ve let ithis energy go, I’ve hoped for a reemergence of my creativity but nothing is coming to me and I find myself sad to not be able to answer the question of Who am I? So any info in your book that can address how to rekindle and reconnect with self to find passion, would greatly help me. Thanks!
hey, A passion leads to a business..
Being in a business is all about entreprenuership.. in the book would you share some tips as an entreprenuer. As some of the passion people had will never be about making money.
“The first rule of entrepreneurship is to train yourself to see vacuums, or gaps in the market, and then to fill them. These businesses exist because there is a need for them.” You had done that.
good luck, i place order for the book.
Hi Celestine
You don’t know me, but I have been “following” your progress right much earlier on. Ever since the your articles surfaced on digg.com that is.
As a fellow Singaporean, I applaud you for breaking out and crave out a niche for yourself. As you have shared, you appeared to have everything going for you, but you were brave enough to forgo all the supposed great things you have achieved (career, high pay, status etc)
A little about myself, I’m too is inching to realise my dreams. Your articles were great, and your progress from writing blog articles, to opening a school serves to remind me that everything is possible, if we put our minds to it.
The burning question on my mind is of the most practical – money. We all know that in a lot of scenarios, passion and money do not go hand in hand. How do we feed ourselves, while chasing our passions?
As a young married person, I’m always under the pressure of money matters. My parents are getting older, and I’m worried for their eventual medical bills. My peers are getting kids, but we 2 are putting it off coz we feel that we will not have enough if we were to plunge into what we want to do for our passion.
It is all the many hats we will need to juggle that is sometimes tiring. Will it be considered selfish if we do what we wanted to for passion, and ignoring the rest of the responsibilities we are supposed to bear? (like staying in a higher pay dead-end job to pay for bills and such?)
Best of luck!!
Hi Celestine,
although I am aware that I get no real satisfaction from my current job, I am not able to discover my life’s passion.
I have tried your steps to discover my real purpose but in vain.
I have written down about 5 things that I love doing but all partly resonate with the depth of my soul.
What am I doing wrong?
Keep up your inspiring work!
great work.
How about considering a portion on avoiding the pitfalls of passion turns business.
Sometimes it is easy to be prey to others if not careful. I personally created a multi-million dollar company with my passion only to give it away to so-called ‘partners’. It brings me down to my lowest point in life.
Keep up your good work!
How do you keep the momentum when things are looking good, and how do you keep the faith when things are bad?
Hi, Celes.
First of all, allow me to congrats you for getting this book into reality. As a Singaporean and someone who is currently working to make my living with my passions, you’re a great inspiration to me.
“What would make me want to buy the book?”
I feel it’s like asking, “What would make me want to pursue my passions and make my dreams into reality? Not in 5 years time, not a year later, not next week, not tommorrow.
NOW! I want to do it, NOW!”
So my suggestion to help you make this a better book for the readers(and for you, Celes.) is write what is truly from your heart— What you FEEL like saying to the readers. Let your feelings be the guide. Passion is a feeling, after all.
I think the most common problem about pursuing passion is most people choose what they do that is in fact, mostly based on logic than emotions. In their mind, they THINK that what they NEED to do, yet in their heart, they don’t FEEL that it’s actually what they really WANT.
Doing what we love doesn’t have to make sense, especially to others. Goals are just a destination.
What’s important are emotions, beliefs and values. They’re the fuel, the direction to drive us to make our choices constantly.
A common trait I spotted when reading books published by authors who own blogs which you can avoid is that most of the content in the book is already available in the blog. Some are even “Copy and Paste”! This could give the readers the feeling of “This is just a crap of hardcopy while I can just read the damn thing on the internet, FOR FREE!”
Ensure that more than 50% of the content are new and never seen before in your blog so that readers won’t see the book as a marketing niche.
Your example make me step out to make the move to pursue my passions. Thank you and good luck!
There are my current thoughts on this topic which is very relevant for me right now as I’ve just resigned from work and am unemployed contemplating just this topic.
The question I face is how do I match the things that I’m interested in – which largely revolves around volunteer oriented work – with the need to make money to put food on the table?
I’m not after the $1m income but I’m not after $20,000 either.
Hi, some new qns!
How do you keep yourself constantly motivated while working within the constraints in your life (before you can make a transition comfortably)?
Is it possible to have multiple passions instead of just one?
Do you think it’s ever too late to want to achieve something that depends on factors such as age, health and physical body. For e.g careers in sports, modelling, dancing etc.
On #2 …
- remind folks money is a means, not end.
- connect passion to values (living your values is the fuel)
- compelling mission (fuels the fire)
- internalize rewards vs. externalize
… and finding a hero is the key. Heroes inspire us, fan the flames, and light the way to kick some arse and take names.
My question is,
For a person who knows what their passion is, but commits to it only part-time, how do they begin to establish a pattern of commitment and thought that will deliver them to a full involvement with that passion- the kind of involvement that becomes a lifestyle and potentially a business?
HI Celestine,
I’ve achieved great financial success in my life before based solely on drive, passion, and desire, really. I wasn’t methodical about it at all, I was just extremely passionate.
My questions would be the following:
-What beliefs would you say are important to hold to successfully pursue your passion?
-In what ways can someone go about pursuing their passion methodically?
-How much support from outsiders is necessary, or is it? What role does that play?
-How important is detaching from the outcome, and diving into the process of the pursuit? Obviously the outcome is important, but how does one reconcile these two?
I’m really looking forward to what you have to say. I enjoy your blog and your insights quite a bit.
Cheers,
Miche
Thanks everyone for your comments!!
Extremely great insights that are giving me better perspectives on to make this book better for all of you! I’m duly noting your feedback and will address them accordingly in the book. I’m extending the comments for 3 days for others who want to offer their thoughts but have not done so.
Dear Celes,
When will your book be published?
My input:
1) A common advice you hear is the importance of having a mentor. Is it a must to have a mentor to teach you the ropes?
2) Another common advice is that you ‘must’ develop a support team, because apparently, no one can make it alone.
How, specifically, do you go about doing that, when you’re starting out alone?
Sounds very interesting! I am looking forward to reading it when you have it all finished.