Build around your passion, and measure what you build around what you are able to change.
One of the strengths of What Matters Now is that the ebook will affect everyone who reads it differently. At the same time, while the messages are personal and introspective, they all encourage taking action that affect your environment and the people around you positively.
One thing that stumps a lot of people as they start building off their passion is that they often rely on their close circle of friends for support and guidance. The problem is that your passion is not always the same as what your friends and family are committed to. They won’t understand it, they won’t accept it. You’ll come off as annoying or missing the point, being lost and looking for validation of your ideas.
Those people are supposed to react that way. It’s not their passion, it’s yours. What your friends and support group needs to do is understand what your passion is and tell you when your actions are not aligned with it.
Then, you can go back to annoying them at all the time you spend talking about it.
Be honest, be authentic, and speak from your passion. Yes, it means taking a risk. But the results might surprise you. – Mark Hurst
The Year That Matters is a series by Malcolm Bastien that goes through the ideas and concepts presented in Seth Godin and Friends’ ebook, What Matters Now. Each day a new idea from the ebook will be reviewed and discussed. Subscribe to Open Mode to get the entire series.
