Maybe I am just lazy, but I have always hated working for money. It started when I got a job at the age of 16 at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. It was my first day of work.
My very first day!
And I said to myself
“There has got to be a better way than this.”
That was a huge reality check for me. I thought that work would be easy, or that I could just sort of tune it out and then get to the part where you get paid. I had no idea how long 8 hours really was.
It was a cruel wake up call for me. I was 16 years old, and I thought to myself:
“I can’t keep doing this for 50 more years. No way. I’d rather kill myself!”
So that was how I felt, right off the bat, about hourly work.
Over the next 15 years or so I kept doing it though, and basically stayed employed full time through the whole thing.
But then I got wind of an idea on the internet. The idea was this:
I could set up a system that made money for me.
That was my bright idea. And I became infatuated with the idea of earning money without having to work for it every single day.
So I started to try and build such a system.
I failed. I failed miserably my first few tries, and I could not seem to generate any passive income at all.
But I did not mind these failures much, and I did not let them discourage me.
I said to myself:
“I might fail, but I am going to keep trying until I nail it. What have I got to lose? My friends come home from work and they watch television. I come home from work and I try to build businesses. I might not succeed at first, but I have the next 50 years to keep working at it, and hopefully master it one day, and thus I will be free of my day job.”
That was my attitude. Why not keep trying? Building passive income became my new hobby. It was what I did for fun rather than waste my life on television and video games. I sold my Xbox 360 and got busy building a website.
I would say that it took almost 2 full years of sort of half hearted effort on the website before I saw the potential in it. Before I saw that it really could liberate me from my day job. So when it crossed a certain earnings threshold, I finally got excited, finally got serious, and I said
“OK, now I am going to pour some serious energy into this project so that I can buy my freedom from my day job.”
So I took a month off work at one point and I doubled the size of my website from about 500 articles to almost a thousand. Then over the next year I added another 500 articles or so. All the while I focused hard on maintaining quality.
Eventually I added a forum to the site and a real community started to form around my ideas. It was earning a full time income and I was able to quit my day job.
So that is my advice to you if you want liberation from your day job:
Use your spare time to build a lean business. I used a website, but you could use anything really. Stop wasting your time consuming media and use that time to build a business. Invest your time rather than risk a bunch of money on a new business. The internet is perfectly suited for this.
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