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If you want to do what matters and make it pay, you must first decide what matters<\/strong>. Although most “find your passion” books begin with a straight line premise that your “thing that matters” will directly be the thing that pays, it’s not always so. I think for many micro-business entrepreneurs, the “what matters and what makes it pay” diagram would be a polygon of some sort.<\/p>\n For example, I have many things that matter and most or all of them could be made to pay in some way. However, certain things work better than others. For example, here is a short list of things that matter to me:<\/p>\n I would describe these as core values that usually don’t provide a monetary return in and of themselves. So if you’re trying to figure this out for yourself, make another list of the things you can do that bring you joy<\/strong>. My list would include:<\/p>\n Each of these activities is consistent with my core values, but still– where’s the income? There’s one more factor to consider: things you do well<\/strong>. The diagram at the top of the post illustrates how it all fits together. Add together the things that bring you joy<\/strong> plus the things you do well<\/strong>, and filter them through your core values<\/strong> to find the Task that will allow you to live in the center of your<\/em> “things that matter,” earning what you need, doing what you love, wherever you are.<\/p>\n In the next post, I’ll try to show what this looks like in a more concrete way. But for now, I have a manuscript to work on–all part of my journey in making something that matters, pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you want to do what matters and make it pay, you must first decide what matters. Although most “find your passion” books begin with a straight line premise that your “thing that matters” will directly be the thing that...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57,3],"tags":[158,157,156],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microbusiness","category-how-to","tag-core-values","tag-diagram","tag-do-what-matters"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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