subject: How to use your Passion to Create a Service [print this page] How to use your Passion to Create a Service
My wife loves to de-cluter, and organize. She loves it so much that she has often said she would love to help other people organize their house.
Last year a friend paid her to help organize her basement. She got a week's work out of the deal, and she loved it. It was one of those scenarios wehre it didn't feel like work because she gets so much pleasure from doing it.
There's an individual on our block who loves cold weather. He loves bundling himself up, heading out in the cold, and moving snow around can you even imagine someone who sings when running their snow blower? This guy has realized that most people don't want to do this and thus he'll go around and blow off other people's driveways and sidewalks for $20 (or whatever) in cash. After a nice snowstorm, he can easily make $100 in profit just by handling the houses near him it takes him a couple of hours and he really enjoys it.
Are there any tasks that you really enjoy that others find mundane, like mowing or fixing computers? You probably have an opportunity right there to provide a service to them, one that will put cash in your pocket for doing something you naturally enjoy. With some basic equipment and some reliability, you can easily transform a task you enjoy doing into some cash just by asking around and seeing what's available.
I couldn't help but think of my oldest nephew when I was writing this. He's one of those kids who just can't sit still, so when he comes to visit, he's always jumping around like a jackrabbit. I told him that he should channel that into doing something useful and convinced him to mow my lawn, which I paid him for. This opened up a whole new can of worms for him and now he seems to be building a small mowing business.
Perhaps your skills are computer related. Is there a way you could market your services and create newsletters for companies, or design websites. Maybe it's something as simple as spy ware, or speeding up people's computers.
How do you begin using your passion to create a service?
First. Right down a list of all the things you like to do. There are no rules forthis list. If you like to do it right it down.
Second. Pick the ones that you think other people may not like to do, or know how to do them.
Begin advertising your services or like the snowblowing guy, wait for the next opportunity and to it.
