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Passion is a sincere dedication to something specific.

Talent is a persistently practiced dedication to something specific.

There is a difference between the two.

For instance….I am a passionate musician. I love playing the guitar, keyboard and singing. I get excited when I’m playing music and could easily go for 6 to 8 hours without even thinking about it on any given day.

I am not, however, a talented musician because I fail to practice enough to become a talented musician. To be a talented musician I would need to practice my passion daily. Persistent practice would qualify me for talent.

Unfortunately passion doesn’t get you paid and talent usually does.

In shortest terms…..It’s wonderful to be passionate about something but it’s lucrative to be talented at something.

Many of us spend our lives aimlessly waiting for the next good thing to happen to us.

We’re so busy in our daily routines that there is no time to be productive.

Life in general can be very hectic. We get up….make the kids breakfast, get them off to school then we go to a job for 8 to 10 hours a day. We come home and eat dinner then watch a little TV with the kids and get ready for bed in preparation for the next day.

When the weekend comes we’re ready to relax and play.

While this isn’t a terrible routine, it could be quite a bit more productive.

I’ve just recently found that by mastering my time I am able to master my own world.

In other words….I set a schedule now days for just about everything. I dedicate a certain amount of time each day for sleep, the kids and family, for my television weakness :), for learning and reading, exercise, duties, work etc.

I also opened up a 3 hour window everyday to direct toward my websites as they are my passion and will hopefully one day be my primary source of income.

Scheduling my daily activities has allowed me to create extra time which I didn’t think was available.

It has allowed me to gain a vast amount of knowledge I didn’t previously have. I’ve freed up enough time to write hundreds of articles, create multiple websites and begin to make money from something I love doing.

A good amount of sleep helps also. I try to follow the old adage….early to bed early to rise.

Setting a good regular sleeping habit will help to master your time as well.

Even if you can only spend 1 hour a day working on improving a project or building a business….you would still be well on your way to completing your goal within months.

Being successful is all about mastering your time.

In fact…..I should be using a voice to text software right now instead of actually typing this article but I guess I’m just a bit old fashion when it comes to writing.

Anyway…the point remains the same.

If you can learn to master your time…..you can then master your world.

Best Wishes!

The term success means many different things to many different people.

For example, Joe and his wife are in their 40’s. They have two kids and live very modest. The couple is extremely happy earning a hundred and fifty thousand in there 7th year at their family restaurant. They have a nice home and don’t require much to be perfectly content in life. There is always plenty extra money if something is needed or wanted.

Sara, however, is a single 30 something lady and earns closer to seven hundred thousand a year from her 4 year old interior design company. She loves what she does and has made a name for herself. Sara enjoys a more extravagant lifestyle with multiple houses, flashy cars and a few beach side vacations a year. She seldom has much disposable income around when it is needed and seems to be always buried in credit debt. Sara is thrilled living her life in the fast lane and could not be happier.

Then you have Jacob and Katie. They’re a young newlywed couple with no children in their early to mid 20’s. They started their own internet business a year and a half ago. They both work hard on their shared business. Jacob and Katie are on track to earn forty thousand dollars net in the second year. Both drive older cars which are paid off and they live in a small apartment that cost them 650.00 a month plus utilities and food. They are completely beside themselves with joy and go out and do whatever they want whenever they want.

Which of the people out of the three examples above are more successful?

The answer would be that neither is more successful than the other.

They are all doing what makes them happy.

The best part about it is they are earning money from what makes them happy.

Their success, however, is not measured by how much money they’re earning but instead measured by satisfaction in the lives they are leading.

Money is well and great and certainly needed but we can’t measure our success with it.

Success has to be about something more important than money.

Best Wishes!