Money and passion .................

Money and passion rarely go together.

• If you are seeking money, you can’t follow your passion.
• If you are seeking your passion, you can’t make much money.

Passion is an emotion, which seeks gratification in following your heart and doing what you love to do.

However, when you do what you love, it can hardly earn you good money.
 

For example, over a million book are published in a year globally and hardly a few hundred books are sold enough to provide enough royalty to the author to live a dignified life.
  

Most authors earn negative royalty since they can’t even recover their cost of promotion from the royalties.
  

Even the most bestselling authors earn income that is not more than the income of an average professional in any field.

Only one in a million author earn income that makes news and inspires millions to follow them.
   

It is common for most writers to work in an alternate job where they can get an assured income till they become so popular that they can survive on their royalties.
 

And unfortunately 99.9% of the authors never reach to that stage.
  

The same hold good for almost all passions like painting, singing, playing etc.
   

Only in exceptional cases, people make good money by following their passion when they reach on the top of the chosen profession.
 

It reminds me a picture posted recently by Neha Kakkad, who has become now perhaps the top singer in the HIndi movies. She shared her inspiring journey of living in a one-bedroom house to buying a lavish bungalow. (see pics below)
  

  She may thus inspire millions of males and females who sings well to follow their passion in the hope of becoming as rich and successful.
 

However, let them not forget that unless you reach in the top one dozen singers in India, you may perhaps be singing in a party or in hotel earning a meager income just to survive.
 

It is not to say that passion should not be followed.

However, you must not follow your passion for the sake of money inspired by one-in-a-million success story.
 

You must follow the passion because it gives your soul a deep satisfaction and gives you a purpose of life.
 

If you get money too while following your passion, treat it as a gift of God or a bonus for pleasing the world.
 
-Awdhesh Singh