"Do what you love and the money will follow.
"  This is such crap.
There is SO much more to making money from your passions than just doing what you love.
I love to play videos games & drink cold beer while simultaneously getting a shoulder and foot massage from two different people...
however, there is not much of a market for that.
This is one of the most misguided and overused sayings in our culture.
Of course I believe it's important to be passionate about what you do.
  Of course it's important that what you do brings you joy.
However, this statement leads people to believe that if you just do what you love, the money will somehow just magically appear one day.
There is so much more to it than that.
As we have seen from American Idol...
just because someone loves to sing doesn't mean they will make money as a singer.
  William Hung and the "Pants On The Ground" guy are exceptions to talentless income.
Does it happen sometimes?  Are there examples of people just putting themselves out there passionately, getting that break and making it big? Of course.
But most of us need to use our brains a bit more to have it happen.
Yes, you should LOVE what you do.
  Yes, you should put LOVE into what you do.
  And Yes, you should, whenever possible, build WHAT you do around what you LOVE.
And, if you want to be able to do what you love for a long, long time...
you also better follow a few important LOVE steps:

• WHERE IS THE LOVE? - You must see if there are enough people who love what you love to support a market.
    Generally speaking, if you look hard enough, you can find a market for just about anything.
  
• SPREADING THE LOVE - Create a way to get your love message in front of the people who are most likely to share their love back by giving you some of their money.
    This way, you can have a love fest of sorts.
    If you are just loving on yourself and no one else ever sees it...
  well, that's another post all together.
  
• EMPLOY LOVERAGE - Make sure your message is compelling enough to move them into action.
    Buckminster Fuller said, "Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.
  "  LOVE, applied to the right places, is the most powerful lever in the world...
  bar none.
    (Thank you Franco Gonzales for my new favorite word - loverage).
  
• ME LOVE YOU LONG TIME - Once someone has come into your circle of love...
  shower them with so much love they never want to leave.
    Keep the love fest going and going and going.
    If you create a way for people to feel loved & express their love...
  you will never have to worry about money again.
  

It's never just, "Do what you love...
" We see this everywhere.
Talent alone doesn't win championships.
Love alone doesn't keep relationships together.
But instilling LOVE into all that you do and having it come alive as you execute a well developed plan...
well that just may lead you to the life you were born to live.