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Read more books, watch less TV, stay away from mindless internet sites like Buzzfeed and Facebook. Wake up early, meditate, exercise, start writing down ideas that pop into your head in the notebook (real or electronic) that you are going to start carrying around everywhere with you.<br />
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Keep visiting sites like this one, start sourcing courses for stuff you might be interested in, use social media for networking and building contacts, not for watching cat videos.<br />
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Then one day; probably while taking a shower or a walk BOOM your happiest thought will come flooding into your mind like a raging river bursting a dam, flooding your brain; drowning out all other thoughts. Hopefully by then all the action you've taken to improve yourself will translate into action to implement your idea, otherwise the idea will be worthless.<br />
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You may fail, in fact you probably will, but as MJ says failure is the sweat of success, so you'll get back up and do it all over again, do this steadily for the next few years and you'll either be in or well on your way to, the fastlane.<br />
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As far as passion is concerned you'll get passionate about anything you're good at and/or you genuinely enjoy, I'm passionate about the kids game Connect 4, I can beat anyone in the world and I'll put serious amounts of money on series of game. Problem is nobody is mental enough to share that passion, therefore if I followed that passion it wouldn't do squat for me.<br />
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I'm passionate about golf, but I'm never going to be a golfer, I'm passionate about quantum physics but I'll (probably) never publish a breakthrough theory. I could go on, but I think you get the point. Screw passion, people often mistake passion for enthusiasm which you have done in your post.<br />
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If I paid you $500 an hour for flicking beans into a tin cup for 8 hours a day you would muster extreme enthusiasm for the job and even though it was mindless repetitive work, you'd get enthusiastic about it because each day you'd be clearing 4 grand. Heck you'd even start telling your friends about this sweet gig you've got for flicking beans into a cup. They in turn would also get enthusiastic about it, begging you to get them a job in the bean flicking industry seeing as you were well on your way to being Chief Bean Flicker and you were already clearing $1,000,000 p/a <br />
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But of course you would never ever truly be passionate about flicking beans into a cup, because passion is linked to limbicly (is that a word?) charged emotions such as love, hate, anger, empathy. Take the money away and your sense of achievement would evaporate instantly and thoughts along the lines of "what the F*ck am I doing?" Would be swirling around in your brain.<br />
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Passions are for hobbies and interests and for the rare few that are good enough to elevate that hobby to a job that pays millions. For the rest of us we have to use enthusiasm to keep us going, money is a good way to be enthusiastic but there are other ways and that is your (rather enviable) journey to begin.<br />
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Buenos Suerte
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</blockquote>I've been reading this forum vigorously, and this post has applied more to me than almost anything else. Thank you sir [emoji2] <br />
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