Part of the problem, as I see it, is that anyone can become an online entrepreneur, all you need is a computer and an internet connection. But then most who proceed to build some form of online business seem to come along with nothing original, they just follow what others have done, and worse try to copy them completely.

Those who are successful help to shape the future of online business by being innovators. They are pioneers who develop totally new ideas and processes that shape the future of their market place.

One such entrepreneur is Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon. What an unbelievable example he is.  But I want to start this series of articles with Oliver Cookson. He is the entrepreneur who founded online sports nutrition brand Myprotein with a £500 overdraft in 2004 and went on to sell it  to The Hut Group for around £60m.

While at the helm of MyProtein he turned it into a £16m-turnover business employing more than 50 staff and selling over 250 products across the UK and Europe. Many people see the business as just an online company but it is much more than that. They manufacture and distribute protein powders and other supplements.  Oliver Cookson built the business, including his powerful website while doing a full time job and turned it into the leading online sports nutrition brand in the UK.

Oliver Cookson’s story not only demonstrates the results that you can gain from working hard and relentlessly but as importantly, as I try and educate others to understand, he clearly shows that when you drive a business powered by your passions then you have a winning formula.

He says how much he loves working on computers, something that had been the case ever since he got his first computer. Then there was his love for working out, something he did for himself on a regular basis which he supported by taking supplementation. Bringing these things together he built an incredible business. And it looks as though he is setting out to do it all over again.

I’m enjoying following him on Twitter @gonutritionuk and reading his blog about his new sports nutrition at http://www.gonutrition.com/community/blog/.

What he has achieved already who can doubt he will be doing it again!

When you start off in business my suggestion is you should provide huge value for people in whatever it is you offer. 

When I started up online I didn’t consider for one second how to start an online business. Life online for me started through blogging something that I didn’t just enjoy doing but that I found to be a sensational way to share my ideas, knowledge and experiences as a platform to make the difference for other people. It was my hobby, something to fill in time for me while I was recuperating from my eye surgery and unable to train or work in the gym.

It didn’t take to long for me to realize that this was what I wanted to be doing for the long term, I was hooked. As I progressed and found that not only was I loving everything to do with blogging it also seemed that others enjoyed what I was contributing evidenced by the growth in my traffic and the correspondence I received. This was the start of an amazing journey one which has seen me evolve from a hobby blogger to a proficient dare I say online entrepreneur.

I started to explore the internet to find the answer how to start an online business. I now had a well visited blog, was active in social networking, but had no revenue sources and little idea where to start. What I soon discovered was that I wasn’t alone looking for this answer. It seems everyone online has a dream of making money online. Alas so many of them seem to go down the wrong path, easily done with the multitude of crap information you will find. It’s like a maze, so many areas to monetize your blogs but in truth so few work really well. What you actually discover is that most who find how to make money online keep it to themselves for fear of others being able to learn and then compete against them.

I stumbled along trying different ways for myself. I failed many times. But by failure I simply mean I found ways that could absorb plenty of time but would not reward me financially. So I simply moved on to try something different. That’s the great thing, there are so many opportunities available, so much we can try, but the hard thing is to find what really works.

In this blog I intend providing you with what I believe is the best way to build for yourself a secure bright future online. Feel free to read on because I’m not going to be trying to trap you into buying a course, or an eBook, nothing like that. I’m not even going to give you a link to my shops. Why would I, they have nothing to do with what I’m writing about. This is my personal blog, and my opportunity to give something back into the world of blogging, the place I feel that I have come from. If you get value from what I write then you can share it in your social network and that is all I ask of you.

The Internet makes it possible to set up a business that can do business with the whole wide world, and sell almost anything. Anyone with a computer and an internet connection can build an online business. Success of course is not guaranteed.

Alas it can become a very dirty business, virtually dog eat dog. Today let me talk a little about a place where we make a good monthly income from. I’m talking about Amazon. This can be a great place for you to start trading. Build up your experience of selling products and servicing customers. It has grown into virtually a worldwide shopping mall where you can find whatever you are looking for. Consumers feel safe buying in Amazon and so sellers who do things right can build a very good business. But be warned. When you do succeed, making money others will see this, jealousy will rear its head and unscrupulous people will try and copy everything you do. 

If you find a product that you believe in and that you believe can help change lives then you should take it to Amazon. Being a healthy lifestyle blogger it was natural I would find products that were perfect for me to sell. At first it was quality life changing supplements. I wouldn’t sell anything that I didn’t believe in and I was fortunate to find my way to the Proto-col range, thanks to Darren Rhodes an old friend.

When you do it’s important that you create a fantastic page for it, get a brilliant description, use accurate but searched for keywords and then let Amazon do the rest. This is what we did. We introduced a product to their marketplace, and saw our sales increase month by month. You will never have things to yourself for long. 6 months later others followed and began selling on our product through our page. This was fine, by now we had many other products growing our revenue and we were no longer a one product company. This isn’t to say you shouldn’t protect what’s yours. We certainty did, particularly because one of our so called competitors was doing things that wasn’t acceptable on amazon such as duplicating listings, and cutting prices below recommended retail prices in an attempt to win what’s called the buy box. We actually hold our own very nicely, and considering Amazon now is only a tiny part of our business we smile to ourselves how others are obviously working so hard to just keep up to us. They see us as the market leaders and they want to take some of our business. We will let them keep trying, and while they do we’ll just be innovative and keep building new and better things.

There is the key to why we are successful both on amazon and in the other areas we work. We are innovative, we try to be different, trying new things all the time. We don’t just copy what others are doing.

My next post, I’ll talk about how we started on our ecommerce trail, and where that’s taken us.

I know that I’m working to my potential and my future is developing so fast. Things are hard at the moment in that what I’m doing doesn’t set my creative instincts alight, but nothing can be more important than putting products into your eCommerce store. It’s time consuming, fiddly and at times exhausting. It means that my time is limited, and I get to write a lot less than I would like, blog on a more limited basis and social network to a minimum. But the big picture is incredibly clear, and you only have to build a mega store once.

It seems in the last few months work has taken over my life. I am spending almost every hour, week and even month building my online shop.  I do really enjoy it in truth, who wouldn’t  I’m building my future, creating my legacy, fulfilling my dreams.  I’m working with things that once upon a time were a key part of my passions. Fitness and sport have always been very close to my heart, and I now feel that I’m privileged to be building a business around these very things.  I’m about to start selling, what better than selling sporting and fitness goods that I not only believe in but also will benefit those looking to improve their lifestyles.

It’s not just about the job it’s much more than that.  We are trying to build something significant, bringing our ideas to life. Everything we do excites and motivates us and it gives us fun and excitement every day. We believe in what we are doing and always have and we work every day to make our dreams a reality. Having built a popular, well visited healthy lifestyles living blog, it makes such perfect sense to create an environment where we make it easy for people to buy quality, affordable products to support their efforts in attaining a healthy lifestyle.

That’s the beauty of building a business.  Following your  vision, ideas, creativity and bringing them together into a business model gives access to new possibilities that you would never have considered. There is no limitation to what we can create as individuals. It really demonstrates what it is I say as a personal development blogger, it’s not the destination but the journey that holds the real power for us.

Who would have believed that in such a short time we would have stepped up from a hobby blog to eCommerce store owners. That in itself changed our life, this next step will take things many steps further. Over the last year we had made our initial move into this field. Our internet sales have grown at an impressive rate and we have had the opportunity to hone our skills, methods, and knowledge on how to build and market successful online shops.

As I started this exciting journey I’ve met many people from all over the World who want to create a better future for themselves and their families. Alas most don’t succeed in finding the way to make working online change their life.  My intentions, by using this blog now as my journal, I will give them the way, showing how two normal guys broke through and created a business that truly is changing their lives.

Once I truly realised what excited me and how I could use my knowledge to make the difference for others, the faster I found my path developing in front of me. It was amazing how opportunities started to show up totally in sync with my passions and talents.

Upon reflection, I’ve had to work harder this year than I’ve had to before. It has been an awesome learning experience. It goes on and on, learning every day but my ultimate results are going to be breath taking.

I’ll be honest and say that it has not only been hard work but at times tough going and I’ve had to make sacrifices along the way. I’ve put in over 60 hours a week every single week, often more, and I’ve had to use my whole personal development arsenal to enable me to stay laser focused and motivated constantly working towards my goals. My determination has kept me going through every situation I have found myself faced with.

My commitment was set in stone right at the beginning of my online journey. My dreams and goals were so worth attaining in my mind that they inspired me to action every single day. And no matter how hard it felt at times, because I am doing the things I love , my passions come to the forefront enabling my creative juices to flow and helping me to become more resourceful, and this gave me the power to succeed.

Have no doubts you must be strong when you are trying to get a business off the ground because you’re going to face a lot of obstacles and make a lot of changes. You won’t get things right straight away and you learn lessons from everything you do.

It feels so strange knowing that less than a year ago I was just a hobby blogger finding my way online. Now I am making a very good income through an E-commerce store and am currently creating a major new massive sports and fitness ecommerce store and memberds area which will take me to a completely new level.

I have learned that it is an excellent business to go into, if you’re prepared to learn the right ways to do things, and accept the failures you’ll experience, and that you take the time to develop everything properly.

If you’re looking for a get rich quick scheme this path won’t be for you, but if you’re prepared to give it time, like I did, the outcome will be incredibly beneficial.

What subject would you just love to be writing about, and what products would excite you if you could be selling from your site? Doing the things I love was my formula and I am convinced it will work for anyone. 

Yet even when things don’t seem to be going well, you have to keep going, knuckle down and keep working hard. Persistence is without any doubts one of the most important keys to success. At times people look at how you’re doing and tell you that you’re wasting your time. Others want to offer you their wisdom and show you a better way of doing things.

I assure you there is always going to be people who will tell you that what you’re trying to do can’t be done, or your idea isn’t going to work. But what they think or say isn’t what’s important, your beliefs are what count.

I don’t deny it can be daunting task trying to build an internet business at first and at times it felt like we were trying to push up a really steep hill.  There were many times where I told myself that I should just quit the whole “internet” thing, but I’m NOT a quitter so I kept forging ahead.

I pushed myself forward, adapting things, trying things, never being frightened to try out new things. I was lucky I was supported all the way by Neil, my business partner, best friend and the guy who has been by my side for the last three years.

Throughout my life the one constant that has been with me throughout my journey has been my continual constant belief in myself, the things I’m doing and my dreams. Even though the path I have taken has seen many twists and turns, equalled only by the ups and downs, I have never lost faith in my ultimate success and the achievement of my long term goals.

Commitment and discipline hold things together. You may have a dream, with a vivid clarity of vision, but unless you are willing to commit, achieving the goal will remain impossible. You must always remember one thing – whatever idea, ambition, aspirations or goals you have it is absolutely crucial that you keep following through.

The last 6 months have been the strangest yet. It seems at times that I am on an escalator heading straight for my targets which is being part controlled by me but in part by another, dare I say a higher power.

The month of March was the most incredible example of this. Neil and I came to the realisation that we could no longer be work from home entrepreneurs. For a start both our houses were beginning to get overrun by our computer equipment, and dining tables had now become large desks. Worse still rooms were being filled with the products we were selling from our ecommerce shops. It was alright in the beginning when we were selling maybe a few products a day, manageable when it got to around 5 daily, but now when between 10 to 20 products were being purchased from us on a daily basis the stock we were holding was of a sizeable amount. Then there was the packaging we needed to send our customers their purchases, so boxes, brown paper, labelling and tape were everywhere. So we were living in a bit of a chaotic state.

Then there was the fact that we were no longer working side by side, at the same dining room table. We were operating from our own homes, so the time we got to spend together and brainstorm had reduced tremendously. One thing we both knew was that when we worked together we gelled so well constantly coming out with great ideas, we wanted to be back in that situation again. So the decision was made time to find an office.

It didn’t take too long before we found a perfect location. Really nice offices in a serviced centre only a few minutes from our home. It had fantastic facilities including meeting rooms, conference room, and as importantly fibre optic internet. We went to see it twice, chose the room that was perfect size for us allowing for expansion that we can see fast approaching requiring a few extra desks, and were ready to sign papers to get started. But then something happened.

A close friend of Neil on hearing that we were looking at offices mentioned a friend of his had an office to let. We decided there would be no harm in looking at it so arranged a viewing.

One of Neil’s dreams has always been to own a warehouse. Don’t ask me why, he’s a strange lad. But it has been something he has often talked about and the thought for some reason excites him. So there we were at the beginning of our viewing and the first room we saw was the warehouse with its shuttered entrance. I looked at Neil and burst out laughing. It was like seeing a child in a toy store. But I could also see the home for the products we are selling and the packaging area that we so badly needed.

We then found a brilliant large room, well lit the perfect size for what we were looking for and a separate room where I could create my videos and audios that I am so desperate to get back to on my blogs. The whole place was perfect. But the best was yet to come.

We met with the guy who was renting out this office. He took us into his area of business and as we walked through the door, both Neil and I exactly at the same time in tandem stopped to a dead halt in the doorway, looked ahead then at each other and grinned in a way where we both communicated that we had both seen a miracle. We were standing in an Aladdin’s cave designed with healthy lifestyle entrepreneurs in mind. We were looking at every conceivable type of sporting equipment you could imagine, together with fitness and workout equipment and supplements. This was a complete shock to us, and yet it immediately was so clear that destiny had played its hand. All our hard work, resilience and commitment had led us to this point.

We had already discovered the power of the internet for selling supplements. With our Proto-col Green Magic we were doing pretty well already, but we had only a week before been discussing that the time was now right to bring what we had learnt to our main site at www.healthylifestylesliving.com and build an ecommerce shop selling healthy living type products. We agreed that we would start looking at what products we could find. It seems we had no need to look, forces beyond our comprehension had delivered the answer.

I asked one question to our potential landlord. Had he considered using the internet as a way to reach more people and expand his market or had he already created an online presence. His answer was that he hadn’t done anything about it but had for a long time thought it was something he would love to do, but wouldn’t know where to start.

Within 24 hours the deal was set and now the three of us are working together to create an online sports, fitnesss and health shop on Healthy Lifestyles Living.  This will be supported by a Member’s Area which will include our Energy for Living Program, Healthy Lifestyles Living Plan, Get Rid of Stress Program, The Power of Passion Do What You Love Course, Fat to Fit Exercise Program and many more over time. So if some of my followers are wondering where has Larry disappeared to, maybe you are getting the idea that I’m rather busy creating my dream work.

We moved in to our offices 2 weeks ago and have met already some amazing people, have had some fantastic meetings, and much has happened, I’ll save that for my next post.

Understand one thing, none of what is happening would be possible if we hadn’t followed our passions, and driven a business that we love. The money came to us, we didn’t start by finding something that had ‘make money fast’ labelled to it, we went with something that we loved to do and believed we could create a business around. The model we’ve put together which again I’ll talk more about in the future I believe is the big difference for us and would work for anyone and is what is making dreams a reality. But that’s all for now.

After all isn’t success one of the things that drives all of us. I know it is a major driving force in my life together with my strong desire to be the best at what I do. This has always been one of my motivators, never accepting being ordinary, always striving to be extraordinary.

For a long time now I’ve had a dream. I’ve never doubted my ability, but I’ve also known you have to show real character to first survive, then to prosper to ultimately complete your journey down the road of success. At no time have I doubted the road I have been on no matter the twists and turns I have been taken on. What I have come to realise is that winners don’t look for the easy road because that won’t lead to where you want it to go.

You have to look at the impossible setting your heart on to your dream and chase after it with everything you’ve got. I see so many people failing, most lack a dream, many don’t put the hours or energy into their work.

Maybe they’re the smart ones. They can’t fail or be disappointed. They won’t put their heart and souls into their work, burn the midnight oil, fight every day to take small steps forward towards the achievement of their goals.

But then again they’ll miss the thrills of every sweet victory. They’ll miss out on the journey where you are creating something new , different that you yourself has made. The self-satisfaction of have seen through to the end, getting through the long haul journey with all its difficulties seeing a glorious victory at the very end. Being luck enough to build a business that comes directly from our hearts.

I love everything I do. I am proud that I’ve been willing to work hard, really hard, wanting to be the best at what I do. There are no secrets or short cuts to success I assure you, the simple truth is you need a great idea, a passion for what you do and a willingness to work really hard.

Hard work is a major ingredient that will help you achieve your greatest dreams. But you also have to have a steely determination. This will ensure you never give up on your dreams, but instead drive you to do everything necessary to succeed.

Over the next few months I’m going to reveal exactly what it is we’ve been doing, and help you set your life alight with inspiration to create a wonderful business online. As long as you’re willing to work hard and heed my advice. Maybe the best thing is that I’m not going to be selling any courses or eBooks here teaching you how, I’m just going to give it to you straight.

I hope everyone has a very happy holiday weekend! I luckily got a 4-day weekend, and had a wonderful break at the Village Hotel, Newcastle. I’m totally chilled out, but now can’t wait to get back to work tomorrow.

]He is in retail, but he only runs a bricks and mortar site and has no online presence and certainly no ecommerce shop. So with his supply line, our powerful site, and skills in blogging and ecommerce its natural that not only would we think yes these offices are great, but we’d all think what a perfect partnership we could make, and what a business we could build. It’s so exciting, such a surprise and came from nowhere.

There can be no doubt that Neil, my business partner and I, have demonstrated passion and perseverance towards our goals. We have worked incredibly hard and for two years have slowly but surely built a successful business, and a good reputation. In both our minds there really is no way around it, working hard is necessary if you want to get what you want.

We’re also lucky in the fact that we both lover what we do. We are living a life filled with passion and enthusiasm. One of the greatest assets that results from this is that other people tend to trust and respect people like us and are willing to listen, and that opens doors to new opportunities like the one we have just walked through.

But it wasn’t planned. There are some amazing coincidences in life but overall, I reckon we decide our own road in life. Working hard, being persistent, showing determination has definitely positioned us in the right place. But meeting the guy that could supply us with the perfect products, that needs people like us to do it for him online, well there’s only one word that comes to mind, and that’s luck.

I believe luck in business plays a very vital role and if something is in your destiny you definitely will get lucky, and feel as though fate has played his hand. But you have to have done the hard work to put yourself into the right position to be able to make the most of these moments of fortune. We can set goals and strive to reach them, but at times we need some luck to go our way, but I do believe we earn this.

My theory is that it’s possible to change your prosperity with hard work, positivity and some good fortune.

There is simple formula that I now can see:

Success=Hard Work +Persistence + Passion + Determination + Luck/Fate

Do you believe we earn our own luck in business, or is it simply a predetermined path we cannot change?

Most of what I read to me seems to miss the main points by a mile. With the internet it’s become even easier than ever to start your own successful business. People from completely different backgrounds, educations and experiences have started and built thriving businesses. So what possibly could be the common denominators they share that brought their success.

Being someone that believes in keeping things simple, I want to offer you my slant on what the key components to entrepreneurial success are.

1. First, you must find the right business for you.

2. You need to be passionate about the business you choose.

3. You must be willing to dedicate time and effort to the business before realizing any fruits from your labour.

4. Build a business where you place meaning at the center of innovation, and so create more value.

I know for myself I love what I’m doing. I have a heart for my business. I love helping others and contributing to the world in the way I do. During the last week I have been producing my new course which has taken up all my time and has kept me away from blogging here. Although I missed working on this site I was totally absorbed in what I was doing. The words just flowed out of my mind I was inspired and time just raced by. I love to share my knowledge and help others and when I am doing something that I know not only shares my passions but creates unbelievable value I feel like I’m living a truly meaningful life.

That’s part of the secret. Building a business where you make a stand for something you feel is important. You have to choose what your business will stand for and what you’ll be known for. By making a stand and choosing something that makes your business unique, you’ll become known for that unique quality and stand out from the crowd.

I have met many people who are trying to build a business on line. Many of them have major doubts, often based on their progress. They wonder whether there is any chance of things ever working out successfully for them? They seem to be constantly battling without seeing many victories.

Well each entrepreneur is unique with their own passion, ideas and motivations to pursue their dream. However as I wrote on point four you have to build a business where you place meaning at the center of innovation, and so create more value.

One of the problems that these people who doubt their future is that they have too many distractions that get in the way of their creative thinking time. So they offer nothing different, there’s nothing unusual about their offering, and in many cases they don’t really have much value to give. Not because they don’t have within them the knowledge and passions that they could create into something very valuable, but just they haven’t found that ah ah moment where what it needs to be comes to their mind.

Innovation is the driver of growth and prerequisite for remaining competitive. Innovation is what will successfully help you create new products and services that will make your business successful.

So today be willing to get innovative, and do something which has meaning to you, then you’re going to provide unbelievable value that will make your business a huge success.

While an entrepreneur’s passion for a business and its product and their own belief that all will go well is undoubtedly an asset, a huge one, optimism is not a business plan. It is no guarantee of success.

Today I was asked to look at a website for a business. What was obvious is the entrepreneur follows my number one principle and that is do what you love. His passion for his product comes through loud and clear. He seems to be my sort of entrepreneur, he lives and breathes his business. It’s a hobby, something he would do in his spare time for free, but which is so good that he wants to bring its benefits to the world.

While I was looking at his site, reading about him, I wanted so badly to hear this man speak to me, really get his passion for his products from his voice, his words. I’m very visual, but I’m also auditory and kinaesthetic, a really mix match me, and a video of this gentleman telling his story, speaking about his products would have been a gigantic leap forward in what his site is doing for him right now.

But his voice isn’t all I need to hear. Having looked at his twitter account, I know there are many people, including top sportsmen and women who use and love his product. They rave about it. But his website has no testimonials, no happy clients singing his praises. The craziness is, it’s obvious, he could get tons of testimonials and these really would boost what he himself is saying about his products.

The thing that disappoints me the most, and I know it’s not his fault, is the way his site is designed. It looks brilliant. Anyone who visits it would thing this is a really nice looking site. So at first glance you’d say great job web designer. But then you’d notice that all the important ‘keywords’ are created as images and not as text. In fact from a keyword and SEO point of view the site is a disaster.

To support this view I took a look at Google. First I checked adwords to see are the keywords being searched for. The answer was yes, and in descent numbers. Then I searched for the keywords and found that the website I was looking at wasn’t featuring on any of the search terms on the first 5 pages of Google. Not surprising with the way his site has been set up. So it’s important for your site to look good but it’s essential that it’s designed in a way that the search engines will find you.

The other thing that surprised me was, wait for it, he has no blog. Now of course as a blogger I’m going to throw my toys out the pram and say, if you want to grow a business online you must have a blog, it’s obvious right, well not to most new entrepreneurs online, alas.

Here is a guy, who has a passion for his products, the country he lived in for a time, sport particularly rugby, that also has another job that I’m sure has loads of interesting stories to tell. This guy could be blogging away about all these things, attracting visitors interested in what he has to say, winning new customers all the time.

I hope to get the opportunity to meet this guy, simply because you know I love talking with people who have as much passion for what they do as I. I also want to, and will get him to see this post, because I have no doubts his passion, his product, his business could be a real winner, particularly online, and just these simple things I’ve mentioned put right will make a huge difference for him.

Take a look at your site, are you really thinking about how to make your website what it needs to be to make you a success. Here is a tip, I’m not talking about spending fortunes on website designers, because everything I mention you could, easily do yourself. You can do more than design a pretty website and today’s example demonstrates no matter what you pay there’s no guarantee others will do this for you, so why not do it yourself.

The meaning and definition of virtue according to Think Exist Dictionary is

Now I’m not referring to the chastity of a virgin, I will leave other sites and their different understanding of passion to discuss that. To me the power of producing and doing something you love and taking pride in and passing it on to others is the virtue of following your entrepreneurship passions.

It was Aristotle that said “the good of man is activity of soul [psyche] in accordance with virtue [excellence], or, if there are more virtues than one, in accordance with the best and most complete virtue.”

‘An Entrepreneur can be defined as a person with a vision, original ideas, decision making and daring to try. He acts as a leader, and boss of the show, who decides how business should be done, who coordinates and arranges all factors of production, who has expertise in the field, who anticipates the market trends, demand patterns and prices. The entrepreneur is also an inventor who bring in new ideas, new commodities, new processes and encourages his team in new activities. An entrepreneur is also an organizer’.(Badi & Badi, 2005)

I have the fortune of supporting others on their entrepreneurial journey. They remind me of myself a few years ago when I began my pursuit of building a business online.

I offer them one fundamental principle that I completely believe, and that is the virtue of entrepreneurship passion. They must have passion and go into the business that they love.

The question I ask them to consider is “What within me is it I want to be doing that I love and could make a great living out of it?”

Some entrepreneurs continuously struggle to bring a single idea or product to market while others seem to be able to do it almost effortlessly, time and again. Steve Jobs, achieved a renowned level of success with Apple and is an example of somebody driven by his entrepreneurship passion.

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” Steve Jobs

If there were ever someone to take entrepreneurial advice from it was Steve Jobs. He is correct in that the love of your work is felt in the heart. But what about those that have not yet found what they love? Steve Jobs suggests to keep looking until you find it — don’t settle!

Many of those I am working with knew they wanted to start a business but they didn’t know exactly what it was. They got hooked into Network Marketing, and like hundreds of thousands of others they ended up trying to sell products they had absolutely no passion for. I even know one who couldn’t use his own product because he was allergic to it. To me, there would be no excitement, fun, enjoyment in selling products that had so little meaning to me, that meant nothing than the money they could earn and the possibility of recruiting others to do the same ‘boring’ things as me. Who would want to get stuck doing this for a lifetime when their passions could far easier make a fabulous living for them, allowing them to enjoy every second of their work. My advice to them was stop, see where your heart will take you. This question, and the time they give it for reflecting on the answer has proven to be an unbelievable catalyst to propel them forward.

Once the penny drops, and you feel entrepreneurship passion reverberating through every part of your body for a chosen field, suddenly the mindset of an entrepreneur sets in, they become inventive, committed, confident, tireless with an intense level of focus. You see we are the most motivated when we are doing something we love. It’s your true calling.

You will think about your business all the time.

You will enjoy what you are doing.

You love nothing more than talking about it

Your work comes naturally to you.

You love what you do.

You look forward to working the moment you get out of bed.

In place of obstacles you see only opportunities.

So understand here and now, passion is what drives an entrepreneur. It’s what makes someone work 20 hours a day at times. It’s what inspires you to spend countless hours developing a new product. Without passion, there is only ‘work’ to be done. With passion, there’s an excitement to share that can make a difference.”

So if passion is not the thing that drives us, I do not know what else is.

And it’s working for me.

But here is my question for you “What one thing are you so passionate about that you can build a business around it and truly bring your dreams of Entrepreneurship Passion to reality?

If you are at the point in life, where you are ready to make changes, big changes then you’ve come to the right place. If you’re stuck in your career not knowing the right way forward than i can help you clarify your vision for the future.