How to Make Money Doing What You Love Learn advanced self-improvement techniques that will get you out of the job you hate and into making money by doing what you love.

Do you lay awake at night in silent anger, wondering when you’ll be able to quit your job and pursue your dreams? It’s easy to fantasize about walking into your boss’s office and telling him or her that you quit and you’re going off to do what you truly love. Then you wake up to the fact that you’ve got bills to pay and children to support and you have no clue how you’re going to ever make money doing what you love.

However, a silent anger is brewing within your soul because day after day you find yourself going to bed at night, another day gone by, wondering when you’re going to muster up the courage to make the jump.

I’ve taken this path in my life before. I had a stable job, making enough money to pay my bills and keep my finances afloat but I hated it. So I quit to pursue other ventures. Two years later I was almost bankrupt. A real dose of reality hit me square between the eyes and I went back to work.

There was a huge lesson I did learn though from this little adventure. I learned that no matter where we work, and what we’re doing we’re always free to pursue what we love if we really get down to the core essence of what we love.

For example, when I went back to work, I didn’t go there to do the work that I was originally hired for. Yes, I did that work and I did it very well. However, I also had an agenda in my mind of all the things I wanted to learn. I wanted to learn how to run businesses, so I began learning while doing my job. You see, I didn’t look at my job as a place I go to just to earn a paycheck; I looked at it as an opportunity to learn.

The great thing is that because I have always been conscious of what I love to do at every point in my career since I went back to work I have been able to experience all the different kinds of things I loved to do. In the beginning I thought that I loved being a programmer, so that is what I was doing. Then, I realized that programming wasn’t as exciting for me as leading a team of programmers, so I worked towards becoming that. Then, once I overcame the challenges of that, I wondered what it would be like to run a software development company, so I ended up running that. Then I realized that I didn’t enjoy the whole process of running a company, but I did enjoy the people aspect of it, so now I’m doing that.

You see, the biggest mistake people make is what I call the “EITHER OR” mentality. They think that they can EITHER go to work at a job to pay the bills OR pursue what they love. What I suggest people do is utilize the “BOTH” mentality. Why not keep your job right now, AND work on what you love, and better yet, work towards loving your job even more by getting clear what you want.

Let’s say you currently work at McDonald’s and you dream about running a video game development company. You’ve done a bit of programming in your spare time and you dream of the day when somehow you’ll be able to run your own company but you’re waiting to quit your job. Well, why not do both? Why not start working on your company in your spare time?

Also, why not start looking at your job at McDonalds as a learning opportunity. For example, when you begin running your software company, you’ll probably need employees, right? Ok, so you’ll have to learn how to hire, train and motivate people, right? Ok, well why not do that at McDonald’s while you work on your software development company plans in your spare time? You could speak to the manager at the McDonalds and tell them that you’d like to work towards the crew trainer position.

This is just a fictitious example, but if you really open your eyes you’ll see that even something like a job at McDonald’s is an opportunity to take you closer towards your software development company dreams. It’s a business like any other. In fact, it’s a very successful business model that’s been franchised out and they have worked for decades to perfect the business model. There is a lot to be learned by working within the organization, as long as you stop looking at it as a crappy job, and start looking at it like an opportunity.

Imagine that you are a student doing a case study, instead of a minimum wage employee. The same can go for anywhere you work. You just need to open your eyes and think like you would if you already quit, and now you’re looking to learn the skills you need to be successful at doing what you love.

What if you work at a totally dead end job which offers no opportunities to learn anything of value that you’ll eventually use when you’re doing what you love, but you can’t quit the job because you’ve got bills to pay. Like, let’s say that you work as a parking lot booth cashier, but your true passion is playing guitar. So your dilemma is that your job pays your bills, but there’s nothing to learn there, however you have no clue how you’d make money playing guitar.

Ok, in that case, what you can do is find an in-between job. You can go looking for a job that isn’t perfectly exactly what you love doing, but it would pay your bills AND offer opportunities to learn skills that you can use later. Like, for example you could get a job at a music store as a cashier. It may not be ultimately what you want to be doing, but it’s one step closer towards your dream. Now at the music store you can maybe look into the business of teaching people how to play guitar.

The challenge is that what most people do when they find what they truly love to do in life, is that they purposely make themselves hate their jobs. They think that by complaining and progressively making their job something they hate going to more and more on a daily basis, it’s just a matter of time before they’ll get frustrated enough to quit and then everything will be amazingly beautiful and they’ll be free to pursue their true love in life.

This is a wonderful fantasy which runs through most people’s heads, only to be shattered by the bills that arrive in their mailbox. In fact, often times you’ll see that the least ambitious people at jobs who have pretty much given up on doing anything else in life except their current jobs are much happier than the ambitious people who dream of doing something greater.

You don’t need to make yourself hate your current job. Change that thinking right now. Why not make yourself enjoy your job as much as you can, why not learn as much as you can, while at the same time pursuing your dreams outside of work. Think about it from this perspective. What can you do at your job right now, today, that would take it just 1% closer towards what you truly love doing in life? If you want to be a comic book artist but you work at McDonalds, maybe you can volunteer to design the monthly employee newsletter.

Please understand that I am not asking you to settle for something you don’t truly love. I am simply saying that you have a choice to make your life move closer to doing what you love, right now, today, if you don’t think in terms of “EITHER OR” and instead think in terms of “BOTH”. Get to the essence of what you love doing. If you want to be a painter, ask yourself why. Is it because you love to capture the beauty in the world that you see through your eyes? Is it because you love to express yourself creatively? How could you express yourself creatively at your current job?

If you worked on improving your job, on a daily basis, and you worked on learning the skills you need from it on a daily basis which move you closer towards pursuing your dream, think about the worst case scenario. You wake up two years from now and you still aren’t doing what you love full time, but you are doing it part time, and your job situation has improved by +%500, and you don’t hate going to work every day anymore. Would that be so bad? Would you rather wake up two years from now miserable instead?

Why People Resist This Path

The reason most people will resist this path is not because they can’t take their current job and take it a little bit closer towards what it is that they love doing. The reason most people resist this path is because they think that if they make their job bearable, then they will never pursue their dreams. Their thinking is to make themselves hate their jobs so that they get fed up and quit in a dramatic fashion and be justified doing so.

You need to start trusting yourself a bit more. Get in contact with your dreams. Use the law of attraction to attract the resources, the people, the opportunities to help you move closer to your dream. Visualize yourself doing what you love and making money with it. Spend your free time working on what you love and learning how to become so good at it that you can start making an income with it. However, in the meantime, don’t torture yourself by purposely making your job worse than it is. Don’t worry, when the time comes to make the leap you will do it. Even if you are able to take your job 90% of the way towards doing what you love, you’ll still be drawn and energized by the other 10% to make the leap when the time is right. The good news is that in the meantime, you won’t be suffering so much.

One Final Point

The shortest path towards doing what you love is not by pushing against what you hate and making it so horrible that it drives you to snap and make a giant dramatic leap towards what you love. The shortest path is by taking a step towards doing what you love, right now, no matter what you’re doing and having the faith and trust in yourself to know that you won’t stop until you’re 100% there.