Not too long ago I introduced Gary Vaynerchuk to my Brother-In-Law. After watching and reading up on Gary he was fired up. We had a few emails go back and forth and then he hit me with a question that has been stuck in my head. He asked…”How Do I Know What I’m Passionate About?”

I honestly didn’t know what to say. I had two answers that immediately came to mind.
The first was… “Wrong Question, you are screwed if you have to ask that question!”
The second was… “It doesn’t feel like work. You can work 16 hours straight on it and the time just flies by.”
For some reason I always have a nice guy reply and asshole reply that comes to mind. Luckily I usually pick the nice guy reply (unless I’m having a bad day). I gave him the second reply but I didn’t like it. It bothered me because I felt my reply did nothing to help him. It left me wondering how can I be such a passionate person and not be able to answer his simple question.

I wanted to help him but didn’t know how. I started to ask others how they’d answer the question. Nobody was able to answer the question any better than I was.

I then decided to identify my own passion. What was I passionate about? Surprisingly it was a very tough question to answer. I looked up the dictionary definition and one of them was “boundless enthusiasm”. Doesn’t that sound motivating and powerful? What did I have boundless enthusiasm about? The Answer: Making Money. I didn’t come up with that right away but after thinking about my life that’s what I came up with. I always loved sports cars (always wanted a Porsche) and loved the power money gave people. As a teenager I wanted that power. I wanted to be in control of my life. Wanted to be able to buy whatever I wanted, do whatever I wanted and not have anyone have any power over me. I always felt money was the way to get that and I was determined to do whatever it took to get it. I didn’t have to go to extremes. It turned out devoting all my time and energy to business was all I had to do to attain my financial dreams.

What are you passionate about?

How would you have answered the question, “How Do I Know What I’m Passionate About?”