Find What You Love to Do - Then Monitize It
There is no point in doing something you hate for the rest of your life. If you truly want to be happy, you need to do what you LOVE to do.
I actually hadn’t thought too much about it until I was watching Dave Ramsey on the Fox Business channel on Monday night. He said that if you are in a job you hate, make sure you are not working their by the end of 2008.
I like that he gave us time to do it. That means you have a whole year to transition from doing something you don’t like to working with your passion.
Don’t think your passion can make you money? You are wrong. You can make money from any hobby you can think of! You could make a niche website around it, or better yet… make a membership site teaching others how to do what you love to do.
For example, lets say your passion is knitting. You could create a membership site teaching people how to knit and how they can make money by knitting and selling their creations. People would sign up and pay you a monthly fee to teach them that.
You know you have found the perfect path for you when you would do it for free because you enjoy it so much.
Last night I had an idea that sparked in my head for a membership site I am going to set up this month. It got me so excited I wanted to jump up and down. It is something I am REALLY passionate about and to be honest, I would do it for free.
However, I know I could make a small living by offering it as a low cost membership site to others who share the same passion as me. I will be putting a lot of work into monthly content and organizing resources for my members. It is NOT in the making money online or internet marketing niches, it is something far more valuable to me.
The point I am trying to make here is that you don’t have to work at a job you hate and you don’t have to make a bazillion niche websites to make some decent money.
Think about it, if you had a simple membership site with 250 people paying $20 a month you would have $5,000 a month. It just takes the right idea.
If you want help, I have something coming up where I will take on some people to mentor. I don’t have it ready yet, but if you are interested stay tuned. I cannot take too many people because I will be spending a lot of 1 - on - 1 time with you.
I guarantee that you love to do something, now all you need to do is turn it into a business and you got yourself a dream job.
Oh by the way, Monitize = Make Some Income
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Amy,
Great Post. I would be interested in your upcoming project. Please feel to email me if you would consider it. I appreciate your blog not only from your standpoint of debt, but also just your dedication to your family, and building a better tomorrow. Have a great day!
Once I launch my membership site I will post all about it here so anyone who wants to promote it as an affiliate and make monthly residual commissions can do so.
I am interested in the one-on-one project you mentioned. Please email me with more information. thanks!
I wanna play…I wanna play!!! You rock and I would LOVE to learn from you!
Thanks! I would love to be part of the 1 on 1 project as well (well actually one of ten mentorees
) I have to say your optimism has really helped me out on a few occasions.
Take Care!
I am going to see if I can find a way to work with more than 10 people. I am still brainstorming this out, but should have something put together by the weekend.
Let me know if there is any requests, ideas, etc…
Amy,
How is th eother challenge coming along?
Haven’t heard anything about it from you in a long time.
Please let us know.
Chris
Chris, I have been working the other challenge on a daily basis since it started. I am seeing some great results.
Amy,
This is a great post. I agree that you need to find what you love and find a way to make money doing it. If you are doing what you love for a living there won’t be another day of “work” in your life.
~Debby
This post inspired me! I scribbled out some ideas to focus on. Thanks - it was very much from the heart and made me realize that I need to be careful not to accept writing assignments that I don’t believe in and am not passionate about.