Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.

It (Twitter) closes the six degrees of separation to one degree of separation

Live your passion. What does that mean, anyway? It means that when you get up for work every morning, every single morning, you are pumped because you get to talk about or work with or do the thing that interests you the most in the world. You don’t live for vacations because you don’t need a break from what you’re doing—working, playing, and relaxing are one and the same. You don’t even pay attention to how many hours you’re working because to you, it’s not really work. You’re making money, but you’d do whatever it is you’re doing for free.

There no longer has to be a difference between who you are and what you do.

Even if your ambitions are huge, start slow, start small, build gradually, build smart.

Developing your personal brand is key to monetizing your passion online.

Developing your personal brand is the same thing as living and breathing your résumé

Before you invest in yourself, you have to invest in your long-term future.

Building and sustaining community is a never-ending part of doing business.

skills are cheap, passion is priceless.

true success—financial, personal, and professional—lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story.

You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen.

as long as you’re working for someone else you will never be living entirely true to yourself and your passion.

Even the dullest introvert has pizzazz when talking about something he is passionate about,

Know yourself. Choose the right medium, choose the right topic, create awesome content, and you can make a lot of money being happy. the

Being reactionary means that you’re always thinking about the meaning behind cultural change.

We’re all in the public eye now, swimming around in a clear glass fish bowl of our own making.

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With every e-mail and video and blog post and tweet and status update, we add to the real-time documentary of our lives.

The word-of-mouth power in one interested person has unbelievable reach.

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The Internet is as powerful as oxygen, but we have not seen its full capabilities. It’s got a long way to go, and it’s going to morph and change and reveal all kinds of surprises. You’ve got to be prepared to evolve and adapt along with it. Whatever

Quality is a tremendous filter. Cream always rises, my friends, no matter how many cups of coffee you pour.

true success—financial, personal, and professional—lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story. In authenticity, hustle, and patience. In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff. In valuing legacy over currency.

Being authentic, and being perceived as such by your audience, relies on your ability to ensure that every decision you make when it comes to your business is rooted in being true to yourself.

If you really want to dominate the competition and make big bucks, you’ve got to be the best. Do that, be that, and no one will be able to touch you. With one exception. Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they’re willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.

your profits should funnel right back into your research, your content, and your staff should you have any. The sooner you start cashing in, the shorter window you have in which to cement your success.