As you try to figure out what to do to make money, whether you’re specifically interested in finding ways to make money online or you’re open to any ideas for making money that include starting a brick and mortar business, the first question you should ask yourself is, “What things am I passionate about - what do I love to do?”

One of the reasons people are unhappy in their jobs is that they are doing something every day which they hate. Most people who love what they do don’t mind getting up every day to go to work. It’s mainly the people who don’t enjoy what they do you’ll usually hear complaining, whether they have to get up to go to work every day or work from home; whether someone else employs them or they are self-employed.

If you’re thinking about starting a business, you should make a list of things you enjoy doing, things you have knowledge about that you’re skilled at executing and you should focus your search for business ideas around your list so that you narrow your possible choices down to things you will enjoy doing at which you’re capable.

Never get into something you know absolutely nothing about in which you have no real interest strictly because you hear there’s good money in it. Sometimes it’s possible to learn something new and become good enough at it to make a living; but most of the time unless you already have an interest in a field, even if you’re able to learn enough to make a good living doing something you’re not interested in, your lack of interest, which naturally equates with a lack of passion will drain you, and you’ll find yourself feeling frustrated, bored and fighting every day to muster up the energy and work up the desire to do your job.

When you love what you do, you don’t have to dig very deep to find the desire to keep doing it. The benefit of being passionate about your work is that your emotions will usually be positively rooted so you’ll be able to get things done. When you’re not into what you’re doing, your mind will tend to wander. Your emotions will be rooted in frustration, depression, and every negative emotion imaginable. You’ll be feeling bored, restless, drained, sluggish, unmotivated; and it will be impossible for you to achieve much of anything because your mind will be under the heavy weight of your negative emotions.

More people who start businesses fail than those who succeed. George Allen is quoted as saying “people of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit”; but most of us don’t have the patience to keep trying something that isn’t yielding success in a time we consider reasonable. Most of us end up quitting out of sheer frustration. Usually, the ones who stay the course and end up achieving success because they were determined to succeed and didn’t know when to quit are the ones passionate about what they do. Loving what you do can help keep you motivated to do it even after the time has passed by which you expected to achieve success. As long as you remain motivated, your chances of becoming one of the success stories are more favorable, and that is the advantage that loving what you do provides, the ability to keep doing it even when success appears to be eluding you.

“Make Money Online With John Chow Dot Com - How I went from zero to $10,000 + a Month By Blogging and How You Can Too” is an ebook written by John Chow of Johnchow.com that aims to provide you with useful information you can use to make money blogging.

Just last month, September 2007, John Chow made $20,512.17 via his blog according to this post on his web site. In his ebook, he shares with you how he went from making nothing to making over $20,000 in a single month.

Some of the words of wisdom from John Chow’s ebook

Everyone’s heard the saying, “Don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today”. John Chow tells you exactly why you shouldn’t make “someday” the time frame for achieving your goals. The reason: someday never comes. Nike has a short sweet powerful slogan for that: Just do it! Don’t talk about it. Don’t fantasize and dream about it. Just do it.

Talking about what they hope to do versus going out and doing what they want to do is the difference between successful people and unsuccessful people. It doesn’t take someone with Einstein’s brain capacity to be able to figure this out. You can have the most brilliant idea ever conceived, but for as long as it remains in your head and all you ever do is fantasize about acting on it someday, it’s just an idea. Meanwhile you’re still working 9-5 wishing you could one day change your life while sitting on a brilliant idea that could change your life today.

But all of that is philosophical stuff and you just want to know how John Chow is making his money and how you can follow his lead.

Well, in his ebook he does share with you a list of all the ad networks and affiliate programs he uses to make money online. He provides beginners blogging tips, the most important of which would seem to be “Blog about something you’re passionate about”. He tells you the blogging mistakes to avoid, the secrets of highly successful bloggers and other useful information.

If you haven’t already downloaded John Chow’s ebook, we highly recommend you download it. We’ve downloaded it and read it and have already followed some of Chow’s advice. We’ve read other articles and ebooks about blogging and this one has been the most useful. And John Chow hasn’t paid us to say that. He doesn’t know we exist. We also highly recommend John Chow’s blog as an excellent resource for anyone looking to make money online.