Passion

Fulfilled

Garth Beyer

Fulfilled

Knowing what you like and dislike is helpful in discovering your passion, but it doesn’t make you feel fulfilled at the end of the day.

I’ve explained it like this. Discovering what you’re passionate about is easy because, by default, no one wants to do what they don’t like to do. By writing down all the things you like to do, you’ll quickly find a pattern, which is your passion.

However, not everything you like to do will make you feel fulfilled.

The passion you have needs direction.

What are you passionate about? isn’t question enough. Better to complete this sentence:

I feel fulfilled when I….

 

Stay Positive & Passion Is The Fuel For Fulfillment

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Episode 43: Leaving Your Job For Your Passion, Work Satisfaction, Creativity And More (Podcast)

Garth Beyer

On this episode of In The Box Podcast we talked about what sets us back in our creative minds, if continuing education classes are worth the money, one tip for leaving your job and starting your passion, when to feel satisfied with your work and how to deal with someone who is falsely positive. Enjoy and subscribe.

Episode 43: Leaving Your Job For Your Passion, Work Satisfaction, Creativity And More

False Positive – One tip on how to deal with someone who is positive in a false manner?

Satisfied – Is there a right time to be satisfied with your work?

Work to passion shift – What is one tip you would give someone wanting to stop working and transition just to their passion?

Creativity – What do you think is the biggest destroyer of creativity and how do you combat it?

Bonus – Are continuing (non credit) education classes worth it or are you better off spending time in the library?

 

Stay Positive & When Are You Satisfied?

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Episode 27: Getting The Credit, Supporting Someone’s Passion, Giving Gifts And More – Podcast

Garth Beyer

On this episode of In The Box Podcast, we chatted about being okay with someone else getting the credit for something you may have had a major influence on, what makes a goal a “good” goal, the best way to support someone else’s passion, some things to consider when receiving a gift, and whether it’s better to read fiction or non-fiction.

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Episode 27: Getting The Credit, Supporting Someone’s Passion, Giving Gifts And More

Credit – Is it okay with you if someone else gets the credit?

Goal – What is one thing that makes a goal a good goal?

Support – What is the best way to support someone else’s passion?

Receiving – What is one (best) way to learn to receive gifts from others?

Bonus – Is it better to read fiction or non-fiction?

 

Stay Positive & Fiction/Non-Fiction Blend It Is, Right?

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Episode 19: Interpretation, Delight, Place Of Anger And More – Podcast

Garth Beyer

On this episode of In The Box Podcast, we talked about the concept of forgive and forgetting. We also chatted about handling situations where someone interprets a situation differently than you, why it’s hard for businesses to delight customers, what it means to be a professional and if it’s possible to do good work when you’re angry.

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Forgiveness – Forgive and forget?

Interpretation – How do you handle a situation where someone interprets something completely differently than you?

Delight – Why is it so hard for businesses to delight customers?

Expert/Pro – What does it mean to be a professional or to go pro?

A place of anger – Do you find you do good work when you’re angry, fed up or frustrated?

 

Stay Positive & Focus On The Passion

Where The Magic Really Is

Garth Beyer

You don’t need thousands of investors, subscribers or participants to launch, to be on the path toward success.

Skillshare, one of the largest educational online platforms started their first class with only 6 participants. Look where they are now: millions of people enrolling in classes, signing up to teach, developing hundreds of creative projects – oh, and they’re making a ton of money from subscriptions.

Many would argue a lot of magic happened in the middle of their story, between their first class and where they are now. They obviously refined a lot, trashed bad features and focused on developing a minimum viable product. While there may have been passion, I don’ believe there was much magic during their progressional phases.

The real magic happened when they decided to keep providing classes and improving the system after their first class of 6 students.

Think if you were in their position: only six students in your first class you worked hours and hours on? Would you press on? Or would you be disappointed with the number who showed up? Obviously it’s not a good idea if so few people sign up at the start, right?

Poor turnout is often a passion killer, but you don’t have to let it be. Remind yourself that those 6 participants have 10 friends, and there’s an insane amount of magic there.

 

Stay Positive & Press On

You’re Doing It Wrong

Garth Beyer

I’m not fond of advertisements or PR campaigns that are built on the foundation of people doing something wrong.

Drinking bud light? You’re drinking wrong, drink this instead. Starting fire with newspapers? You’re doing it wrong, do it this way instead. Spending countless hours playing video games instead of being outside? You don’t know how to have fun because you’re doing it wrong.

No matter how right one may be right, I can’t justify getting behind a campaign that embraces a product or service’s rightness by pointing out the user or consumer’s wrongness.

It takes a certain amount of passion and faith about a product to state to someone they are doing it wrong and to do it right they should invest in your product.

It takes even more passion and faith (and a great product) to not need to.

 

Stay Positive & Focus On What’s Right, Not What’s Wrong

p.s. also by giving examples of wrong ways, you’re planting the idea of doing it any of those ways instead of the “right” way you’re suggesting. What’s wrong for you might be right for them.

p.s.s yes, this may be a bit abstract. Feel free to email me to chat more.

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Episode 16: Luck, Being Early, False Equivalency And More – Podcast

Garth Beyer

On this episode of In The Box Podcast, we discussed the concept of luck, the need to experience something to passionately sell it, whether life mirrors business or if it’s the other way around. We also talked about the advantages of being early and argued about false equivalency (fortunately never settling to agree to disagree).

On an earlier podcast Michael and I chatted about how so little surprises us anymore. On this podcast Michael stuck a check-up question about surprises in the box. It was a good time. Well worth the listen.

Episode 16: Luck, Being Early, False Equivalency And More

Selling – Does one have to experience a product themselves to sell it passionately?

Luck – Is luck something that finds you randomly or something you create?

Early – Do you believe it pays to be early? (early to a meeting, early to send email, early to say I love you?)

Surprises – Been surprised by anything lately?

False equivalency – How can we eliminate false equivalency?

Mirror – Does life mirror business?

 

Stay Positive & Refresh Your Life, Refresh Your Business