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Is What You’re Doing for a Living Not Your Passion?

Sell Now and Re-Discover Your Life

The most successful entrepreneurs in history are passionate about what they do. From Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates to Richard Branson, these great entrepreneurs followed their passion. It was this drive that pushed them ahead of other businesses and made them industry leaders. 

If you are a business owner, you appreciate this enthusiasm that helped you build your enterprise. With time, however, this drive might fizzle out, and you start running the venture routinely. After investing so much time and money, many entrepreneurs hang on even when there’s no passion. It is a risky way to run a business, and you might end up losing everything. 

Is it Time to Sell?

If you’re no longer living out your passion for running your business, it’s time to consider selling it. It might be the most empowering decision you could ever make. When you are no longer motivated to risk and make scarf ices to stand out in your niche, selling makes a lot of sense. 

Many entrepreneurs drive their businesses down by sticking around far too long. It’s understandable for anyone to suffer burnout with time. While you started the company with a lot of enthusiasm, it might reach a point when the venture no longer inspires you. 

Many great businesses collapse when the owners outrun their motivation. It is the risk you also face if you don’t know when to quit. If you’re not living your passion, there’s a risk of poor decision making. In today’s highly competitive and fast-paced business landscape, you have to make timely decisions.  

The contemporary business environment demands a lot more from business owners. You have to learn on go and make decisions on the fly. Any delay in the adoption of new technology or embracing new trends can work against your company.

Without passion for whatever you’re doing, your enterprise can quickly sink into oblivion.  When living your passion, you can read the market trends and predict new trends. This is how some of the most successful businesses today such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, HP and others have continued to survive. 

At the helm of these successful enterprises are passionate leaders who are ready to take risks. Passion is contagious, and these business leaders attract the best personnel to drive their vision. This commitment to a dream pushes them forward in a volatile business environment. When you’re in love with what you do, the idea of quitting never crosses your mind. 

However, if this drive is no longer there, you won’t have the motivation to move forward and fight for your dream. At this point, selling your enterprise is a good idea. 

Designing a Business Exit Plan

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