It starts now. Dont wait to live a passionate life the timing is never perfect and if you wait to have everything lined up neatly, you just wont get started. Life is composed of sleeping, working, avoiding work, eating, intercourse, and waiting on lines/searching for a parking spot. Thats about it for most of us. The best days give us that feeling that we can do anything. And maybe you find that in your work or in relaxing, but I have to conclude that most people are not working on something that they are committed to because they believe in it and love it. Well then, are you working on something that will lead toward or prepare you for the work you were meant to be doing? Each of us is limited to 168 hours per week. How we allocate that time determines the kind of life we lead. And if your focus is on the financial part of your existence, those hours can be dedicated to doing what makes money now, putting effort into what makes money in the near-term, and doing what makes money later. Time is the ultimate equalizer; each of us is only allocated 24 hours in a day. Well, plans fail, conditions change, interruptions occur, so the way to survive is to have each of these efforts in place to pay off when the economic situation shifts to less favorable results. I met a guy at a trade fair that didnt seem to have much traffic at his custom printing booth so we had time to talk. He commented that hell keep moving forward, the early 1990s didnt look good as shifts were occurring in his industry but within a few years there was a resurgence so the only thing that mattered in his view was to keep going forward somehow in those rough times, because any business operator that didnt is now out of that business and missed the lucrative buildup. His laid back demeanor is a good lead-in to one last thought; ease up on the path to bliss. We might think about and seek enlightenment as some form of perpetual bliss, but life itself is composed of us, and so, it will never be flawless.