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If only every entrepreneur would follow their passion. Far too often, I run across small business owners, new entrepreneurs, and college students who, instead of following their hearts, follow the crowd and end up terribly disappointed. Why am I telling you all this when I am dedicated to helping business owners?

As an entrepreneur myself, I can show people strategies, techniques to improve their business, success patterns, but I cant teach Passion. But I can help them figure out what there passion is. Passion is some thing that is within someone, their own private inspiration. People of passion are are excited about what they do. What I can tell you is all the successful business people I know or study are passionate about their product, service, company, or cause. Instead of doing what someone else told them they should do, they went with the feeling in their gut—and made a business out of the one thing that consumed their thoughts. Some of the fortune 500 leaders never finished school because they had a burning desire to follow a path that others thought was crazy.

Unlocking Your Potential

How do you find your true passion? Bill Strickland, the author of Make the Impossible Possible offers some clues, writing: "Passions are irresistible.… If you're paying attention to your life at all, the things you are passionate about won't leave you alone. They're the ideas, hopes, and possibilities your mind naturally gravitates to, the things you would focus your time and attention on for no other reason than that doing them feels right." I  believe what Strickland is saying is true. I not only have expereinced what that passion can do in my own life, I've seen the transformation in others when they figure it out. Strickland goes on to say  that only by following your passion will you unlock your deepest potential. "I never saw a meaningful life that wasn't based on passion. And I never saw a life full of passion that wasn't, in some important way, extraordinary."

When you choose a profession becasue of money,  a colledge to be with a friend, start a business because of money, do anything becaue someone else is successful in it, you increase the likelihood of failure. When you enter a career, business, group,  because  someone made a lot of money in it last year, you increase the odds of not only living an unsatisfied life, but waisting the most valuable thing on earth - Time.

Starting a business is full of hurdles and setbacks. But if you're following your inner voice of passion and purpose, failure is never final, just part of the journey.  If you get close enough to many of the successful entrepreneurs or have a chance to read their stories, the lessons are in their struggles.  I just finished reading "Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur by Richard Branson", and it is now one of my favorite business books. I think it is a must read for any entrepreneur. He talks about his struggles, how he overcame them, and how much better he became because of them.

To be successful, you have to go through certain gates in the journey. Some go through them faster then others because of their experience, but we all have to go through them. Many will look at the end results of success, but don't understand the years it took of gaining experience, learning, or challenges they had to overcome to get where they are. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither are succesful people. What makes the journey excitng and fun rather then boring and wastful, is passion.

Don't let your passion die. Embrace it, revel in it, and use it to stand apart. Follow your heart and not the crowd. Make a difference!