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Gary Vaynerchuk: Do What You Love

Inspirational speaker Gary Vaynerchuk gave a speech for the TED.com initiative back in 2008 that should motivate many entrepreneurs to action.  He simply states, “Do what you love”.  I

In his speech he is very adamant about having a passion about what you are doing.   Most of us end up in jobs that we hate and are not passionate about.  It is just a paycheck for us.  This is not a great way to live our lives.  We spend too much time just striving to get by, and not living our dreams. “Please stop that!” states Gary Vaynerchuk. In his speech, he references how he took over his family business.  At the height of his success of turning the family wine business around, he came to a realization. Even though he was good at this job, it wasn’t what he loved.  He only became 1% unhappy with what he was doing. So he changed courses and created wine library TV. 

His family business was increased from a couple billion dollars a year to $50 Billion a year company before he turned 30 and decided he didn’t want to do it anymore.  So he devoted the next 17 months 5 days a week building wine library TV to the success it is today. “You need to care about everything!” Gary Vaynerchuk states in his speech.  “Giving a crap” about everything is very important to our success.  Don’t just listen care.  Figure out what we love and want to do for the rest of our lives and do that. 

This speech really hit me at the core.  What I would love to do professionally is something that doesn’t feel like work to me.  It will come so natural because I love it.  We all need to take heed to his words and STOP DOING WHAT WE DON’T ABSOLUTLY LOVE.