People often ask me, “How can I make a living (or be wealthy) while living my passions?” What a great question. So many people who take The Passion Test have tried to reconcile this apparent dilemma. It’s especially puzzling when your passions are things that don’t necessarily earn you an income – like traveling, scuba diving or spending time with your family or pursuing your art.

As I pondered this for myself, I noticed that one of my top passions is “Doing work that inspires me and brings value to thousands of people”. Over the past 6 months in my roles as a small business marketing coach and a Passion Test facilitator I found myself doing work that inspired me but noticed that I wasn’t having an impact on thousands of people (more like a few dozen). I knew I wanted to bring value to more people but didn’t know how to do it.

Then I remembered something that Chris Attwood taught me. He said that making a living while following your passions requires 4 things to line up in your life, and they are:

  1. Your Passions
  2. Your Skills
  3. Your Talents
  4. You must offer value to other people

Armed with this advice I took an inventory of my passions, skills and talents and realized that I enjoyed the detailed work of producing training programs, designing websites and writing marketing copy. So I approached Chris with an idea: “Would you be interested in partnering with me to develop a program to bring The Passion Test to thousands of people via weekly online video trainings?” Chris said yes and “Passionate Life Secrets” was born.

Janet PLS videoTwo months later this content-rich program was launched.  We’ve kept the 4th thing on the list above in mind throughout the development of Passionate Life Secrets by constantly asking, “How can we offer the most value to people?” If you have 5 minutes, check it out.

Now I’m on my way to living one of my top 5 passions of doing work that inspires me and bringing massive value to thousands of people!