3 Ways To Turn Your Passions Into A Successful Career
again my name is david p
jones i am a serial entrepreneur with
businesses in real estate
brand management and consulting i’ve
been featured in publications like
thrive global
medium authority magazine women in
business
delaware business times and delaware
today for
my work in business and with single
mimes today i’d like to share with you
how i turned my passions
into a successful career growing up
i remember loving animals i really loved
animals i had stuffed animals all over
my bed
and my family we were pet people we had
hamsters guinea pigs gerbils
rabbits cats dogs and birds
one of my favorite pets was our bird
named tweedy
now tweety was special to me because
tweety could talk and
although tweedy could only say tweety
she was special to me because tweety was
a house pet
she remained in her cage for long hours
and this
used to bother me so one morning
i woke up and i wanted to give tweety an
equal opportunity as the other birds and
allow her to stretch her wings
so i opened the door and i allowed
tweety to fly away
thinking that she would return at the
end of the night but we all know how the
story ends
tweety never returns and i’m the villain
in the house
i know you’ll be at you know you may be
asking where am i going with this
but just hold on i’m going somewhere
i also remember traveling down the
highway with my dad and we would go from
delaware to philadelphia often
and i would see animals left on the side
of the road
that got mixed into traffic seeing this
would really
break my heart i would cry and cry and
cry this is how much
i felt for animals i love them they were
people to me
i even thought that i could talk to
animals that i could look at animal
right in his face and know exactly what
it wanted
this was my super power i decided to
share my super power with the world and
was met with
great criticism i was called weird
people said normal people don’t go
around talking to animals
and because their opinions meant so much
to me
i decided to let my animal dreams go
has this happened to you have you had a
passion
a dream a business plan or idea that you
share with family and friends
and was met with discouragement so
because of that you decided to give it
up
well i’m sure we all have fell victim to
this and for me that was my animal story
today in social media there are hundreds
of people that get paid to talk to
animals
and when i found this out i was so upset
not only i could have continued my
passion but i could have got paid for it
one of my favorite comedians tony baker
is
a animal voice over and i love him for
his
take on cat skippity pat when i was
looking through his page i stumbled upon
some comments
of people giving him gratitude for his
content
one of the comments read you know what i
was having a really bad day
and reading and watching one of your
funny animal posts gave me the joy and
laughter that i needed
i also could relate tony baker’s content
makes me happy every day then i thought
further
not only could i follow my passions
and then got compensated for it but i
could have impacted others in a powerful
way
it dawned on me that not only are
passions for us
they’re for others as well see i look at
it like this
the human body the human body is full of
trillions of cells and depending on
where they’re located in
the body they have different jobs and
different functions some of the obvious
ones that sticks out to me
are the red blood cells that brings our
body oxygen the white blood cells
that fights off and kills bacteria and
the nerve cells that allows us to think
and move
now although these cells have different
roles
they share one common goal to add to the
overall health of the body and make sure
we’re
functioning properly this reminds me of
the human race mankind
i look at it like we’re a big giant body
and inside the body there are billions
of people
from different backgrounds different
races different cultures we have
different beliefs in different religions
depending on where we’re located
we have different gifts and talents and
skills and career paths but we too
share a common goal that is to add to
the overall health
of mankind but some of us
get distracted chasing power and money
and status
see the way that i was able to create a
successful career was by changing my
perspective from
what i could get to what i could give
so you may be asking well how do we do
that how do i
build a successful career and how do i
impact mankind
well i’m going to share three ways that
i was able to do that
number one identify your passions
like the story that i mentioned earlier
about me loving animal
can you relate is there something that
you used to love to do as a child as a
teenager as a young adult that
you decided to put away maybe you can
start there
see passions are the things that we love
we enjoy
doing these things but for some of us
identifying our passions may not be so
easy and that was my story
for 10 years i jumped from job to job
and career to career trying to find the
perfect fit
i couldn’t find it typically i would
accept
a job based on this pay and because of
that i often
was never satisfied because of the
instabilities and jobs and
or remaining at a position that i did
not like i experienced depression and
anxiety and sadness see sometimes the
society will pressure us to get it right
early in life
they tell us to go to school and pick a
major and that’s what we’re supposed to
do
at the age of 18 but that may not always
be
the case and that sure enough was not my
process
see the way that i was able to identify
my passions
was first identifying the things that i
did not like first
and when i was able to identify the
things that i did not like first i was
able to
to gain a clearer picture of the things
that i did like which leads me to my
next point
align your passions with your career
i was able to realize that i enjoyed
writing
writing for me is like an artist with a
blank canvas
and once the artist starts to paint by
the time that they’re finished it’s this
beautiful mural this beautiful painting
well that’s
how i look at a blank document whether
i’m writing a article
or a biography or a blog once i’m
finished it’s this beautiful piece of
writing
not only i loved writing i realized i
was good at it so i was able to start
searching for jobs
with that same description
now this is not easy at that time
i just had my child i became a single
mother and i was struggling
financially and if you’ve ever been in a
financial bond
you know that this is not the fun part
of life life actually
sucks when you have to wake up in the
morning and think about how you’re just
going to pay the bills
so i was torn between passion and
paycheck
i came to a crossroad where i was
offered two job positions
one was a six figure job paying more
with a laundry list of tasks that i did
not like
the other job was a entry level position
paying less
but the descriptions matched my passions
so you guessed it
i chose my passion job now people called
me crazy they didn’t understand why i
didn’t choose the higher paying job
but i knew that if i would have chose
that management position
that i would have gone right back on the
rat waist the rat race
that ended me up in unhappiness in the
first place
so i chose my passion job and because of
that
i was able to allow my passions to grow
i started working for a global ceo
branding firm and i worked alongside the
ceo for many
years and i learned so much about
business and leadership
i quickly excelled to director of
operations overseeing
the day-to-day tasks pr social media
and book publishing i was able to
utilize my passions and write for
fortune 500 companies and
forbes level ceos i was able to
interview
these ceos and gain how they became so
successful
it was my own think and grow rich
project
i oversaw a 55 business growth at this
company while creating
scalable brands all because i decided to
follow my passions
because i was able to identify my
passion
make the sacrifice to align it with my
career
and then allow it to grow i was able to
accomplish my lifelong dream
to become an entrepreneur a
businesswoman
today i’m a real estate investor with
four properties
serving low-income communities i have a
brand management and writing company
for small businesses and i am a mentor
for single moms who have experienced a
single pregnancy
or going through single motherhood see
what i learned is that
not only i was able to create a
successful career but i was able to
create a fulfilling life by helping
others along the way
see your passions are important
they are your inner guiders to how you
should live your life
they are not just hobbies and things
that you do on your pastime
but they are the big flashing lights on
how you can create a successful career
and also a fulfilling one
recently i lost my father to covet 19.
he died at the age of 60.
if i could compare my life to his for a
moment i’m 33
so that means my life is halfway over
what i learned from this tragic loss is
that life truly is
short if you’re spending any amount of
time
doing anything that brings the worst out
of you
that causes you depression or anxiety or
sadness
you’re not fulfilled
it’s not worth it before i close
i would like to recite a poem that i
wrote
see not everyone understands my dreams i
call myself the manifestation queen
because everything that i think i write
and i speak
i see and because of that i’ll continue
to believe
see we all have that same power within
i’m talking about
mankind to do what we love and create
fulfilling lives
so make the decision today to follow
your passions
follow your dreams because one day
you’ll
impact the world and your community and
this
is my wish for you all mankind again my
name is david p jones
thank you