How did you discover an activity that you liked and can monetize?

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#13

Thank you for asking this question and opening up this topic.

It’s really important, and current, to me too.

@Fire ‘s responses are extremely helpful.

Really, really helpful.

He gets to the heart of the issue and clarifies what I, at least, struggle with.

We take what is an emotional, motivational, and confidence question, and we disguise it as a ‘knowledge’ question. Like someone who is actually afraid to jump in the water, requesting increasingly complicated ‘swimming techniques’.

Every time you give the person another swimming technique, they imagine a situation where ‘it won’t work’ and then request another technique for that imagined situation; and they continue to postpone getting in the water.

That’s similar to my situation.

As for subliminals, I’m using Genesis to work with this. Check out the program copy and see what you think. But if you do, be sure to read the whole thing.

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#14

Go where your heart feels so good.

People enter into business because they saw it is trending but they are emotionally disconnected, so sooner they loss that connection and the interest is gone.

When you have a passion your always attracted to it and when you mix it with business, guess what will happen next.

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#15

I disagree.
Go where the money is. Your heart can very well be into something that hardly monetizable.
Find out where money is already being made. Find out how it is being made and who is making it. Then do what they do. You don’t have to love something you make money at it. Just make sure you don’t hate. Emotional neutrality is one of the best qualities anyone can develop in business.

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#16

the thing is, I start hating what I do once it turns into work

Like sure, I’ll be enthusiastic for a while but then it just gets progressively more boring until I just can’t do it anymore

#17

I just brainstorm with ChatGPT nowadays, it’s quite good.

Some days I use Perplexity ai.

Just ask ur question and also describe any hobbies or things that you do and also add : you can ask me any questions if necessary to the prompt.

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#18

Money could be fake, that is the reason why so many people are hook on investment scams (just like what you said ‘where money is already being made’) where people ‘thinks’ they are actually ‘earning’ money from the investment.

The heart never fails, it knows a lot of things where the mind only knows something.

Take for example I involved myself with community service where I collect waste plastics, I end up recycling them for money.

I don’t like investing in crypto because my knowledge in cyber security holds me back, instead I did so much more, because I choose to follow my heart into the deeps where only few take the risks.

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#19

and fire’s right anything can be a business, like I read about a guy who sells potatoes with a message written on them, he makes good money with it.

Just imagine, selling a freakin potato with a message written with a marker. It sounds crazy but its true

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#20

Anything can be sold.

Do both. Be passionate about it and make it make money. Easy? No. It requires a lot of thinking through, planning and deep introspection. But once you do, you’re good to go for a long while.

If you cannot do that yet, do something to keep you going. No point in being a starving artist.

There are 18 year olds making more money than 99% of people out there - there is endless untapped potential just waiting for the one with enough ingenuity and discipline to make it happen.

I’ll give you another example of how you can monetize. There is a forum individual who has to take care of his elderly parents and yet is unable to make money with his IT business for years now - solution?

In my opinion, complete pivot, let go of what doesn’t work (IT business) and do something else. There’s actually a very clear opportunity here for him that he can tap into with years of experience.

Let’s see if anyone can guess what it is. Hint, you can come up with it by just reading this post.

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#21

What about elder care consulting or caregiver coaching?

Additionally, they could create a digital product, like an online course, ebook, or support community, focusing on topics like managing elderly care, handling stress, and balancing personal life. This pivot would capitalize on their unique experience and meet the growing demand for resources on this topic.

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#22

you mean he can go into the elderly care business or something similar?

edit:@tempest we both got it at the same time :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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#23

Those subliminals are probably pushing you to figure this out, it’s a good sign.

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#24

Exactly.

He has years of experience in this because of taking care of his two elderly parents - that is not an easy task.

Make a nice looking website, share his story with a warm picture and positive spin on it, maybe even show him taking care of his parents, make an easy pop-up offer for free, quick 2-3 e-mail lead-in into a course and then the course talking about all the details of how to best take care of the people in your care. The course must be high quality. Do some certifications with the starting influx of money and start pumping it into ads while writing articles that actually develop your own style of caregiving, based upon those years of experience.

Boom. Whole new promising and growing business in an extremely lucrative and heart-fulfilling niche. All it takes is a bit of thinking outside the box and action. Then simply tackle any challenges that appear and grow.

This can be done for plenty of niches you are interested in. At the end of the day, if there is a problem where people are struggling, and you know you can help in some way, you can make good money and be a positive impact on the world.

Business is solving people’s problems and providing value.

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Hard Gainer.. thoughts
#25

yes, they certainly do but I’m looking to assist it and not just wait until/if it hits me

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#26

Yes of course, lol. I’m sure you’ll figure it out.

Isn’t that amazing though, how the subliminals are working? If they’re helping you work through these early stages of your wealth journey… can you just imagine where you’ll be at in say 2 - 3 years? Crazy, lol. Yeah, sorry… kind of irrelevant I’m just rambling.

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#27

lol, it’s good that you mentioned it since it’s just an additional affirmation of this result. It’s one thing when I notice my own results and the other thing when people are mentioning my changes to me, so I appreciate it

Still, is there anything that you would recommend, aside from the other advice here?

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#29

Hmm, that’s an interesting take, thank you. I had something like this on the back of the mind but wasn’t putting it to words, so to speak

Yeah I agree it’s easier to go through desert when you have a bite of food and a sip of water every 15 minutes, instead of having 100kg of food and 100l of water just at the end of the desert lol

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#30

Shout-out to Limitless: Mind’s Eye.

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#31

We take what is an emotional, motivational, and confidence question, and we disguise it as a ‘knowledge’ question.

Exactly!

What an Excellent picture. It really related with me, too.

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#32

I did it the other way round.

I knew that you can make money in the stock market.

So I dedicated time to learn about the market, learn about handling my money (saving money, being mindful when buying things, everything gets an attached maintenance bill), going all in my job to make more and more money to save for investing.

It wasn’t an easy journey from beginning but now I really enjoy knowing things about the stock market, having an understanding about the 6-12 month outlook upon the economy, getting earning call updates and making money consistently in the stock market.

I didn’t focus on what I love to make money, I focused on something that I know can make money and is scalable - and I started to love learning more about it and got rid of my ego which kept me from making real money.

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#33

Oh and the journey was not a month but took me more than a decade of learning, being frugal with money, making mistakes and paying for them (probably not that frugal).

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