How to Make Money right now (without crying to sleep every day)
If tomorrow you woke up without your business or job, what would you do?
I’ve had financial anxiety since I was in high school. Since then my main concern has been building a sustainable way of making money.
How to not starve to death?
How do I make money without killing my soul?
These are the 2 questions that rip my being apart.
The problem: Money is like oxygen.
You need a constant flow. You cannot hold your breath for years while building a business. You have to find a way of supplying oxygen now (even if it’s just a little bit).
Don’t kill your soul
In an ideal world, you will like what you do short-term, but at the very least you will not hate doing it.
You won’t feel little pieces of your soul dying every day.
If you exchange your soul for food you are still dying anyway. Sometimes there is no other way, but let’s try to avoid that at all possible costs.
As long as your soul is fine let’s get down to business.
How to make money right now
Exchange a product or service for money.
What type of products or services can you offer people right now?
You offer ghostwriting if you know how to write. You go to Fiverr if you draw. You offer candy at your school. You offer to tutor your classmates if you're good at school. Go work in your Uncle’s business.
It’s all about using your current skills.
Ghostwriting on Twitter, for example. You cold DM 10 people a day for 10 days offering your services. Someone will say yes. You just need a 1% conversion rate. That is money right there! You need to be decent at writing to offer this.
You have to rely on volume when you are just starting because you don’t have a compelling offer.
With enough volume someone will say yes! I cannot emphasize this enough. Volume is the only thing you have at the start. Message tons of people, apply for hundreds of jobs!
I hate this grind just so we can exist and not starve. HATE it. I think there are better economic models, but we’ll talk about that another day.
Doors exist right now
We always think in the future. We don’t see the doors we can go through right now. It happens to me constantly. Doors = opportunities to make money (or just opportunities in general).
When it’s usually like this:
Some stuff in this article might seem obvious.
But I think those are the best ideas, the ones that didn’t seem obvious a second before you read them. Of course there are right now doors! Of course there are ways to make money right now! Duh!
But it’s hard to see if you don’t know they exist. You can only go through a door if you can see it.
The 2 ways of making money
With infrastructure or without.
Normally you don’t start with infrastructure. That’s why you need to find ways to make money without infrastructure. When I say ‘make money right now’ I mean how to make money when you don’t have an infrastructure in place. That’s what this article is about.
But I would encourage you to not stop there. Build an infrastructure. It gives you more money, flexibility, and resilience. An infrastructure can be a business or a cash flow asset or a super well-paying job, etc.
Hopefully this article was useful in helping you see right now doors that will give you enough oxygen to allow you to build an infrastructure.
We will talk about infrastructure in the next article.
Have a wondrous day!
Links/Concepts
Fiverr (you can do freelance stuff here)
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