Do You Love Your Business, Or Do You Love Making Money?

We question whether loving our business is the drive needed to achieve success. What if you have a great, money-making idea, but it’s not really your cup of tea, your passion? Does that prevent you from taking the leap to create your own startup?

When you’re making money, it’s always great… But when you’re not making money, it’s sometimes very tough. And to get through those tough times, you really need to focus on something you enjoy. Colin C. Campbell

Michael learnt from an early age that passion and love for a subject or idea is the best way to ensure achieving success.

Do you really have a love and passion for your company? The business you built and created and the products you’ve developed? Or is it the paycheck you’re receiving every month? Let’s reframe the question, is the reason you get out of bed every morning and open your laptop driven by the cash flow or your passion?

There’s no right or wrong answer, but it may have an impact on the future of your business. Why? Because if the cash flow dips and you receive a ‘dry’ month, your interest in the business will fall too.

If you have the love and passion for your company, your efforts and enthusiasm will remain unmatched and a dip in the cash flow will only push you to work harder and hit those goals.

You may even realize that you don’t necessarily love your company, but you may love the purpose and moral successes your company is contributing to.

Colin gets a ‘kick’ out of the mission statement held by his company. His drive and motivation are led by his purpose to help others scale their company, and in turn, that achievement is passed forward and contributes to the success of his business.

I feel like it’s more about changing the world, making a difference, and we get a kick out of that. Colin C. Campbell

You can have multiple startups and love them all for different reasons and in different ways. Colin compares his businesses and says that although he may love his one company for its purpose and the success of helping others, he has a love and passion for the subjects and topics of his other companies, a type of hobby, rather than a business.

I actually think there’s a difference between loving something, having a purpose, and then having fun with it because I actually do have businesses that I really enjoy like my vacation rental business. I have fun with that business. Colin C. Campbell

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