Don’t Prepare To Follow Your Passions Later – You May Just Get Trapped

I don’t know about anyone else, but the rain is getting to me. Well, the rain and the fact that I’m sick.

Never a fun combination.

This morning I woke up still not feeling well and determined to find some motivation to get started. Not five minutes later I opened an email from my darling friend Allison. She had discovered the below video and thought watching the advice at the 30 minute mark would make me smile.

She was right.

So right, in fact, that I wanted to make sure you all watched it too!

Jenn and I often ask successful people what advice they have for young entrepreneurs. Call us biased, but we couldn’t agree more with John’s advice that most of us start chasing our passions too late in life.

We often fall into the trap of believing that we need to pay our dues. That everyone has that office job they hate. In all actuality, what often happens is that we end up stuck.

The number one response we heard from our co-workers when we quit our jobs at The Agency was, “I’m jealous. I wish I would have taken that risk when I was your age.”

You see, we all think it’s going to get easier as we get older – once we’ve “paid our dues” and have “learned the lessons.” In reality, it actually gets harder. We get comfortable with the paycheck, the title, the routine. Everyday we stay where it’s easy, it becomes harder to take the leap – the risk – involved with following our passions.

A few of the people we’ve discussed DreamChamps with think it’s arrogant and entitled to believe that college grads can and should land a dream job right out of college.

We disagree.

Jenn and I truly believe that we as Americans have been fed the wrong stories about what makes us happy in our work. We’ve been told that the bigger paycheck, fancier office and more important title is what will make us happy.

Instead, most of these people at the top end up retiring at 60 or 70 to try and discover what really makes them happy.

Is this how we want people to live their lives? No – absolutely not!

It is time for a new generation to change the way we approach work and how it fulfills our lives!

If you agree with us that life is too short to do work you hate, then join us for the launch of our career happiness revolution on May 1st.

It’s going to be one fun, no-holds-barred adventure and we can’t wait for you to be part of it!

Dream Bigger,