Being Passionate About Things Is Not The Same As Being Passionate Writing Hundreds of Articles
Published on January 1, 2020
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Do you have something you are truly passionate about that you want to build a website about?
This is one of my greatest struggles with online income and building niche authority sites.
I have interests, of course. I have skills. But translating that into build a website on it just isn't a natural thing for me at all.
What is very strange is I can see it easily with other people. Talking to a cousin "You could build a website on that... write what you know and make some money from it down the road". Talk to a friend "you could build a website about that".
But for me... it is very difficult to do it for myself.

I love helping people. I like making simple computer games. I love personal development & mindset big time. I like fitness and exercising. I like computer programming. I like walking. I like photography. I love online business and marketing and online income generation. I enjoy pizza. I like my two dogs. I love the Philippines.

I enjoy helping others. I like to provide real value. And to lift them up. To see what they cannot see in themselves. To spend my time to help them. To share things I have learned to try to help their path be easier. There are many others who are this way. And many have done far more than I ever will be able to.
Although I have made many tiny computer games, there are many people more skilled than I am at making games especially as far as making graphics because I am not an artist.
There are people who have wrote books on mindset and personal development whereas I have only learned from reading countless books and applying what I learned. I am a huge believer in mindset limiting us or empowering us having experienced the power of shifting my own mindset over time.
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I like fitness and exercising and especially bodyweight exercises (used to be into weights) but there are many people far more fit than I am.
I enjoy computer programming but so do millions of others and many are into exploring much more advanced stuff than I am interested in.
I enjoy walking and have walked well over 40 miles per week many times but there are others who do the same and more and countless websites on it.
I like photography but I am just a novice and know nothing about different lens, etc.
I love online business and marketing and building online income and have studied and experimented countless times but there are a huge number of people making $5k, $10k even $50k per month or more who are obviously far more qualified to be building websites on it than I am.
I enjoy pizza. And broccoli. And many other foods. I love coffee. So do millions of other people.
I like my two dogs but am not a dog expert by any means at all.
I love the Philippines having got a passport for the first time in my life near beginning of the year and taking two trips over there since. But there are others who live there as expats and have for decades.

Meaning & purpose is most important to me.
In all things I am into, even the things I am most interested in, there are always many other people who are much further into it, much more successful, more skills, more experiences than I have.
So I do not have any one thing that I am so passionate about that I feel like I should spend my time writing about it all to provide value to others because there are many other people who can do the same and already are.
But what is crazy is that if someone here wrote all of this or someone "in real life" told me this stuff I would tell them they do not need to be the very best they only need to focus on helping all of the people they can. All of the people who are not as far along, not as experienced in those areas as they are.
So that is a piece of my struggle but it goes beyond that.
I don't know if anyone else wrestles with this stuff. But this, for me, is my greatest challenge. Even when I realize that "yes, I know a good amount about certain things, I do have a lot of experience in certain things, that I am sure can bring some value to other people... but that doesn't mean I have passion to write hundreds of 1,500+ word articles on it.
Being passionate about subjects, having an interest in certain things is not the same as having a passion in writing a quarter of million words limited to seo based topics.
Am I the only one who wrestles with this? I keep thinking there has to be another way to take our experiences and skills and provide real value to other people other than sitting and writing countless articles of 1,500 words, 2000 words, etc.
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