How do you get there from here?

I have found my passion in life 
and it is painting.

Many people do not find a deep obsessive overwhelming passion in their lifetime, so I feel very very fortunate. 

 Because, ya know what? 

 It feels good. 

 Really really really good.  
 
"So, now helvismith, whatcha gonna do with that passion?"

Well, I have to make a sort of soup for my future using that passion as the stock or base for that soup/future.
What other ingredients are needed?

• hard work
• more hard work
• those 10,000 hours that Malcom Gladwell writes about in his book, "The Outliers"
• marketing
• networking
• and the most elusive ingredient of all - luck.

Yum.   I can taste it now.