empire of you<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\nSure, we\u2019ve been hearing a lot of stories about how a few lucky people struck their pots of gold. Sometimes, it makes us bright-red with pangs of bitterness. But is it really possible for the average person like you and me? Or are those who made it to their promised land really have the grand scheme of the universe going for them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, after years of doing business unusual, I have good news for you\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following your passion vs staying at a stable job<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m sure that there\u2019s something that you love doing, or even business ideas you\u2019d been developing that someone else would be happy to pay top dollar for, right at this moment. But if that\u2019s the case then why do 80% of the workforce don’t resign from jobs they can barely swallow?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The simple truth is that it\u2019s not that easy. And most people aren\u2019t really prepared to give up their salary\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeah, rockers, following your passions, and trying to make a living out of it means not working for those stable employers (though it\u2019s possible) and getting your regular paycheck every two weeks. Instead, you got to figure out how to make money on your own. That\u2019s the hard part. This is why most people would just grudgingly settle for the paycheck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The secret behind the success of every successful passionate people<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Of course, I know the why’s of it all still remain unanswered. Why some people seem to attract enviable success. A fortunate few jumps seamlessly from one passionate venture to another acquiring achievements one after the other. On the other hand, there is the unfortunate majority. Those that can’t even take the first step in finding their passions and building the same profitable careers out of it. Is there some voodoo or mystical mantras behind it all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As it turns out, passionate people live not by their passions alone. They seem to possess the uncanny ability to know what\u2019s actually possible. They have an open, wide view of the steps they need to take. And then they just dive headfirst to whatever creative idea that excites them in any given moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the rest of the world seems too absorbed with bills to pay that the most spectacular ideas are often smothered inside the creative minds of the average Joe without ever seeing the light of day. It\u2019s sad, and it doesn\u2019t have to be this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you agree?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let me start by telling you that you don\u2019t have to give up your day jobs just so you can pursue your passions. By all means, keep your jobs to pay the bills but delegate enough time to tinker around. After all, if an idea or product evokes so much emotion, then you won\u2019t even notice the amount of time you spent perfecting whatever it is that inspires you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Remove the barriers in your mind<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
The next step lies in removing the barriers within your mind. One of the most common hurdles stopping people from living off their passions is a wrong sided belief. Believing that you don\u2019t know something well enough to get paid to teach it to somebody else. That\u2019s a lot of bulls\u2014t, you know more than you think. Expertise is largely based on perceptions, and it is always relative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To my mind, the last and greatest burden is purely cultural. We grew up in a society conditioned to believe that it\u2019s not possible and downright impractical to build a career around your passion. I think the only way to get around this negative, collective mentality is to hang out with people already living comfortably by creating value out of their passions. If you spend enough time with people living squarely off their dreams and insanely proud of doing it, then the impossible becomes possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Try this; the shift in psychology will rock your world\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Start by doing one small thing to build the empire of you. I started out by booking a lot of unpaid speaking gigs about blogging. It made me aware that I was too geeky in my approach to the audience. But because of that, I became known as the Danish blog girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then I hit upon this (great) idea of turning companies into rock bands, which I spent 14 nights writing an ebook about that I gave away for free. And later, people could purchase it by opting-in to my newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An empire of you is built on baby steps. Take the first one now. If you should do one tiny step in the direction of having an empire of you in a couple of years, what would that be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Making a living off your passion, is it possible? Is it even possible for ALL of US to have our passions be our main source of income? Can you make a living off of your passion and build an empire of you? Sure, we\u2019ve been hearing a lot of stories about how a few lucky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,48],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","category-launching","tag-legacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":331,"url":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/16\/humanity-needs-a-new-renaissance\/","url_meta":{"origin":139,"position":0},"title":"Humanity Needs A New Renaissance","author":"Henriette Weber","date":"January 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Not a renaissance in terms of invention. We need a renaissance in order for us to make the world a better place. The world needs a new era of creativity and creative approaches apart from putting stuff on your website and sharing stuff on social media. A new 'Belle epoque'.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Creative Futures"","block_context":{"text":"Creative Futures","link":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/category\/creative-futures\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":448,"url":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/31\/business-rocknroll-total-population-one\/","url_meta":{"origin":139,"position":1},"title":"Business rockn’roll? total population: one.","author":"Henriette Weber","date":"July 31, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning I read an article on VentureBeat called \"Why following your passion is bad for business\". Even though the article had something to it that I see as helpful advice to some of the most blue-eyed and naive entrepreneurs out there, I think for the rest of us, it's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Creative Futures"","block_context":{"text":"Creative Futures","link":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/category\/creative-futures\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":90,"url":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/17\/dont-be-fooled-by-the-curls-that-ive-got-im-still-henriette-from-the-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":139,"position":2},"title":"Don’t Be Fooled By The Curls That I’ve Got, I’m Still Henriette From The Blog","author":"Henriette Weber","date":"December 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week, I found out that my company, Toothless Tiger, and my personal website full of curls had its 7th birthday. I was blogging on Blogspot for a couple of months before buying the henrietteweber.com domain and turning into an army of me. A 7 year birthday is something to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Entrepreneurship"","block_context":{"text":"Entrepreneurship","link":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/category\/business\/entrepreneurship\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":215,"url":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/12\/passion-lucrating-on-the-long-tail\/","url_meta":{"origin":139,"position":3},"title":"Passion lucrating on the long tail","author":"Henriette Weber","date":"May 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"These days I think the internet is a true wonderland - more than it has been before. As well as we see former geeky communities has gone more mainstream, we are seeing so many people actually starting to make it into very profitable subscription based services. Two of my favorites\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sustainable Business"","block_context":{"text":"Sustainable Business","link":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/category\/business\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"rock on","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/henrietteweber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/rock_on_henriette_transparent.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":360,"url":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/08\/purpose-is-the-best-currency\/","url_meta":{"origin":139,"position":4},"title":"Purpose is the best currency","author":"Henriette Weber","date":"January 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"We do like cold hard facts right in the business world, right? More than branding. More than purpose. it's so interesting that we, have this urge to collect a lot of data to find security in that our actions are the right ones. Then when the data is collected -\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Substance"","block_context":{"text":"Substance","link":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/category\/business\/substance\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"rock on","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/henrietteweber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/rock_on_henriette_transparent.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":205,"url":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/18\/is-purpose-the-best-currency\/","url_meta":{"origin":139,"position":5},"title":"Is Purpose The Best Currency?","author":"Henriette Weber","date":"January 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"We do like cold hard facts right in the business world, right? More than branding. More than purpose. It's so interesting that we have this urge to collect a lot of data to validate our actions. And just when the data is collected, we forget about it. We write a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Impact"","block_context":{"text":"Impact","link":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/category\/business\/impact\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"rock on","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/henrietteweber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/rock_on_henriette_transparent.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}