{"id":512,"date":"2008-10-08T16:39:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T16:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/are-you-passionate-about-your-product-or-service\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T16:39:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T16:39:47","slug":"are-you-passionate-about-your-product-or-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/are-you-passionate-about-your-product-or-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Passionate About Your Product or Service?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giving a speech next week about the death of sales.&#0160; I&#39;m looking forward to illustrating the importance of connection and community, over selling.&#0160; No more going through the motions, but saying with subtle&#0160;force &quot;this what I was born to do.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>One of the key ways to measure your level of connection and community is your passion level.&#0160; Specifically, are you passionate about what you offer the world?&#0160; Are you someone who sees the dollars as a byproduct of what makes you come alive?&#0160;&#0160;I find it sad that many organizations start with profit or create a product\/service and then think passion is a given.<\/p>\n<p>By the way crises are refiners and purifiers.&#0160; The question is whether you are willing to let it play out.<\/p>\n<p>Here some clues to measure your passion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are you willing to do for free?\n<li>What are you willing to die (you&#39;re not ready to live, until you&#39;re ready to die) for?\n<li>What has shaped your perspective, pain or pleasure?\n<li>Who follows your lead?\n<li>Is what your doing worth reproducing? <\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take a look at this video to see someone who is very passionate&#0160;about their craft.<\/p>\n<p><embed base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashvars=\"videoId=1447240658&amp;playerId=271539445&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https:\/\/console.brightcove.com\/services\/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services&amp;cdnURL=http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;\" height=\"412\" name=\"flashObj\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f8\/271539445\" swliveconnect=\"true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"486\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving a speech next week about the death of sales.&#0160; I&#39;m looking forward to illustrating the importance of connection and community, over selling.&#0160; No more going through the motions, but saying with subtle&#0160;force &quot;this what I was born to do.&quot; One of the key ways to measure your level of connection and community is your&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}