The Passionate Work Framework: 3 Fundamental Pillars to Doing Work You Love

1. Become a Self Expert: Know Yourself & Self-Experimentation You must know who you are, what youre good at, what values you hold highest, what you enjoy doing and what you absolutely hate. I call this The Compass, hence our logo. This comes from massive introspection (journaling, reading, self-guided education, asking the right questions) and constant experimentation. This is not something you learn in a book. You extract it from your life experiences. The more experiences, the better. WHEN IT DOUBT, KEEP LEARNING AND EXPERIMENTING.

2. Do Your Impossible Most people dont believe its possible to do work they love and get paid good money for doing things theyre good at and enjoy. In fact, society trains us that a lot of unbelievably fulfilling things cant be done. So we have to brainwash ourselves otherwise. Because when we do things we didnt think we could do, it puts our thinking on a whole new level. This goes for every walk of life, and the best place Ive found to start is with your physical body with exercise and nutrition.

One, because its totally in your control. No matter what happens in a day, you can always decide to get out on that workout or choose that salad over the fries no one can take that from you. And two, because overcoming our own perceived physical impossibilities gives us confidence that is directly transferable to the rest of our life be it business, relationships or whatever. If you got yourself to lose 50 pounds in six months, then whos to say you couldnt double your businesss sales next year? SHOWING YOURSELF YOU CAN DO THINGS YOU USED TO WRITE OFF AS IMPOSSIBLE HAS A CONFIDENCE COMPOUNDING EFFECT ON OUR LIFE LIKE NO OTHER. Thats why I do things like swim from Alcatraz with a group of 12-year-olds, sign up for events like The Goruck Challenge and attempt to run a 50-mile ultra marathon in 2013 (without still ever having run a sanctioned marathon). Okay, by run 50 miles, I mean hobble. I got 12th to last place and came in at 13hrs 48 minutes, barely making it under the 14-hour cutoff. But I did it! And that completely changed my belief of what I was capable of.

3. Surround Yourself with Passionate People The fastest way to do the things you dont think can be done is to start hanging around people already doing it. Simple as that. The people around you change everything. There is no bigger life hack. That is why creating genuine connections is such a huge part of our foundation here. The best thing about this is that, just like doing seemingly impossible physical and mental challenges, whom you surround yourself with is 100% in your control. I swear if there were only one single piece of advice I could give to someone looking to find and do work they love, or to do anything meaningful for that matter, it would be to find new friends or to find the right friends. The fastest way to change your results is to change your environment. Thats it. THE PEOPLE NEXT TO YOU HAVE A MUCH BIGGER IMPACT THAN MOST PEOPLE REALIZE. THEY WILL EITHER KILL YOUR DREAMS OR MAKE THEM ALL BUT GUARANTEED. If youre not inspired by them, then do something about it.