How To Find Your Passion And Mission To Millions

Do what you love what you do artwork

I get asked a lot about passion. Lots of people simply don’t know what their passions are; what it is that they’re most passionate about.

Just keep this in mind: Opportunity lies where your pleasure, passion or skill intersects with other people’s pain or problem.

“Great, Harv, thanks, but what the heck does that mean?”

I’m saying that if you find yourself having this problem of trying to figure out what your passion is, approach it from the opposite direction. Instead of asking, “What’s my passion,” ask, “How can I help people?”

Here’s another question: “How would I love to help people?”

I remember talking about this exact thing in our program. When I would talk to somebody in the front I would say, “How can you help?” They would say, “By sharing landscaping ideas.” Then I would go to the next person and say, “How can you help?” They would say, “By taking people on underwater tours.”

I would ask someone else…“By showing people how to use a computer.”

“…by fixing their little radios and things like that. I’m great with my hands.”

It was like … in a second, they just came up with answers. It’s because it’s a spiritual connection. The way that you can really help people generally is what you’re passionate about, but we tend to put this big charge on the word passion.

Do you think you can help people in an area you have no interest in? Of course not, so stop asking the question “What’s my passion?” and start putting your energy and focus on other people and helping them.

I’ve had people ask me to help them find their passion and then create a business around it. What do you think the business is going to be, your passion? No! The business is not your passion.

The business is the value you give to others, and they pay you for it. The business is the problem you’re solving for them. The business is the pain that’s being alleviated by you.

I teach success. Why? I think that’s my purpose in life. Why? I wanted to be successful, but I had such a hard time with success. I had so many problems around it, so many crappy feelings, and so many issues that challenged me in my life. The day I was able to overcome those challenges and feelings I felt like it was my duty to help others.

The question is: did the chicken or the egg come first? What happened? Was it that this was my destiny all the time, to teach success, so I had to go through all of the crap for all of those years so I could teach it better? Or, did I go through all of that crap and from that problem I overcame it, and that became my purpose? I don’t know, and quite frankly, I don’t care.

I do know this: they seem to have coincided somehow–opportunity resided where my skill and learnings intersected with other people’s problems with success. The biggest challenge I had when I was young turned out to be my greatest gift and the way I can help people the best.

Thank God that when I started becoming more successful I loved writing all of the courses. I loved writing my Warrior and Wizard programs and Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind book, but the one that was surprising to me to write, and that I couldn’t believe how much I was enjoying, was Life Directions. It was almost like it was it was just coming through me.

In this case, the passion came after the decision that this was how I was going to help people. Maybe it’ll be the other way around for you. Very often if you’re having a hard time finding a direction, when you do find it, that might be your gift.

So just keep these two things in mind every time you’re worried about finding your passion:

1. Step outside of that thinking for a moment and consider how it is you can best help others.

2. If you’re stuck even with that question, consider what challenges in life you are or have been hell-bent on overcoming. There’s certainly passion in that!

Tell us what’s on your mind. What are some challenges that you’ve overcome in your life, or are trying to overcome? How could you translate that into a business? Or how did you translate that into success? We want to hear from you!

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