Create Work You Love

The first key to making big money your way, is to create work you love.

Well-known business consultant Ken Blanchard co-authored a book titled Big Bucks in 2000 with Sheldon Bowles, about work you love, and making money. Big Bucks was the third in a series of Blanchard and Bowles bestsellers including Raving Fans (about creating happy customers) and Gung Ho about creating happy customer-care teams.

In Big Bucks, the lead character Len is asked, “ . . . why do you want to be rich?” His reply is: “I want to pay my bills . . . The car is falling apart, but if I buy a new one, it just means the monthly payments will go up. I don’t really want money for expensive things, but I do want to be able to provide properly for my family, get the kids a good education, make sure that if something happened to me (my wife) would still be okay financially, and stop worrying once and for all that the wolf is just around the corner and ready to arrive at our front door. . . I’m working my head off right now, but nothing seems to change. There’s got to be a better way.”

Well, if that’s you – there is a better way These are the critical insights about and connections between work you love, and making money, in Big Bucks. These ideas sound deceptively simple; in fact, they are very, very powerful:

· You can’t make money unless you’re having fun.
· Fun provides commitment and intensity.
· Commitment and intensity lead to quality services and products that people value.
· Quality services and products that people value, drive sustained business success and money making.

Another perspective on this subject is explained by Laurence Boldt in How to Find the Work You Love: “In today’s dynamic economy, security resides not in clinging to a position, but in identifying your passions and talents, and creatively adapting them to the marketplace.”

In an excellent new book (Success Built to Last - Creating a Life That Matters, 2006), co-written by Jerry Porras (a co-author of Built to Last), Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson -- the authors exclaim, "Listen up -- here's some really bad news: It's dangerous not to do what you love. The harsh truth is that if you don't love what you're doing, you'll lose to someone who does!" They go on to quote from an interview they conducted with Larry Bossidy, a former vice chairman of the General Electric Company and retired CEO of Allied Signal. "It's a competitive imperative," he insisted. "Only by loving what you do will you actually do more and do it better than the person sitting next to you."

And yet another bit of similar advice from famed business consultant Peter Drucker: "Find a passion and do it right. If you do it right, do it for money. And if you do it for money, do it for lots of money."

Here are the keys to creating work you love, and making money:

* Discover your talents
* Develop your talents
* Focus on strengths
* Be the best.

There are many, inexpensive books, audio programs and other tools to help you create work you love. One of the most succinct, easy-to-read and use explanations about living on purpose and goal-setting, is Me, Inc.: How to Master the Business of Being You - A Personalized Program for Exceptional Living by Scott Ventrella (2007), available through Amazon.com.

If one of the desires of your heart, is to do work you love, and make money, you can begin by taking a little time to discover your talents . . .