I have a little private group of friends that meets once in a while under the rubric Stirfry Startups. We even have a little Google group where we plot and scheme chat amongst ourselves.
Lately, I’ve been detailing a few of my more spectacular blogging FAILS. You know, the usual: no traffic, no comments, no revenue.
I realized that I had been focusing on just one half the equation. Here’s the other half, what I sent everyone this morning.
Rome wasn’t built in a day.
Lemme tell you about my day.
I went bed a little after midnight (that’s today).
Got up a little before 7, after lazing around in bed for half an hour. Relaxing. No need to get up, just enjoying some quiet, stress-free time in the morning.
Then got up, made some coffee. Black. Out of heavy cream. No worries. Check some email. Sent a couple of notes to my friend Luke who did a bunch of work for me yesterday. Fry a couple of eggs (in butter), and polish off the remains of the sirloin roast Friends Travis, Shai and I shared last night. Scrumptious.
Did some thinking about the coming week, what I want to accomplish. For sure, I’m going to catch up on the books, that’s a given. But I mostly thought about what I already know how to do, and how I can leverage that to learn something I don’t know how to do. The result of a pleasant 90 minutes of reflection is a plan to write 5 articles (~5000 words) on generating passive income using my current work.
Note: I’m not in the “make money on the internet business.” That is, I’m not in business to teach people how to make money on the internet… but… that doesn’t mean I can’t make money myself. And it doesn’t mean I can’t tell people how I did it.
These 5 articles segue very nicely into articles on “money enabling” and “writing to learn” on another website [i.e., here]. Free leverage.
So that problem solved (The writing is easy… time consuming, but easy), it’s time to stroll over to the drug store to replace my reading glasses. And get some cream for the remainder of my coffee. Maybe a nice bar of dark chocolate and some mango/peach orange juice too. Mmm…
It’s beautiful out there. T-shirt weather. No wind. No fog. No clouds. 70 degrees.
So it’s now 9:43. I have some Bass Nectar spinning (look him up on Google). Week’s work is laid out. I’ll do some repotting when I take a break in a couple of hours: the oxalis vulcanicola cuttings from DZ’s terraces have rooted in the vases, time for dirt.
I can do all this – indefinitely – on about 2k/month in 2009 dollars. Freedom to create. In charge of every minute of my own time. No bad stress. And it only gets better from here. Everything past 2k is gravy.
It’s my fervent and true desire to see every one of YOU take whatever steps you need to take to break free of anything holding you back. This doesn’t mean quitting a day job, not at all. It means fitting that day job into a larger plan for personal and professional satisfaction. Whatever. I’m here, living the life. Come join the fun!
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That’s a great post. And I love the name of your blog :) Are you at 2K a month from residual online income? Or combined with other things? If you don’t mind the question, I was curious :)
I’m working on getting up to 2K/month (residual income that is, not total) as my next goal. I wonder how others fare – I mean, I know most people get up to 40 K a month within their first month/week/day/hour working online, as long as they buy X product. But I wonder how the others do.
Currently, I’m making a few ducats from Bluehost sales, Amazon affiliate and Adsense, It’s working out to about 13 cents an hours so far. So I’m a long way from 2k, but that’s my first milestone because it will completely cover my expenses. In the meantime… savings. I’ll probably pick up some consulting work half time to ease me over the hump. Surf season starts in a couple of months though, and I’m good through January, no problem!
My primary goal anyway is building credibility for higher end consulting work, I’m in it for the long haul. Residual income is gravy.
Totally agreed, work is satisfying and stops feeling like work when it has meaning and purpose… and when it brings personal and professional satisfaction, it becomes something to look forward to.
The lines between work and play then blend where there’s no longer a line… or a box!