Warning this article may cause you to become depressed, I cannot be held responsible in any way for this, I am simply writing the truth, and for some of you this might actually inspire you, and change your outlook on life forever.
Life used to be so much simpler it wasn't always about money. Once upon a time money was not a big issue, mothers were able to stay home and bring up their kids themselves. You didn't need a ton of money to enjoy yourself, the best things in life were free. It's incredible how much things have changed in the last 50 years. Used to be that we used work to live. Now live to work, it's not a life, it's slavery in disguise.
There are 168 hours in 1 week. The average North American spends fifty five hours at work (this includes travel time) fifty six hours sleeping, and sixteen hours eating.. That leaves forty one hours to cook, clean, spend time with your family and relax. That's not much. The worst part is that most of us dislike our jobs and people we work with/at Does this seem fair to you and your family?
Let's turn it into an even bigger picture.
The average day.
7:00 -Wake up, take shower
7:30 - Eat
8:00 leave for work
8:45 get to work
9:00 start work go to lunch etc
5:30 Finish work go home
6:15: Get home prepare food eat spend a little time with family
8:30-9:00 Put kids to sleep
9:00 - 12:00 do a bit of cleaning and relax
12:00 Sleep
Rinse repeat
That was my schedule form Monday to Friday. I am fairly sure that this schedule applies to most of you with maybe a few differences here and there.
Now we do this for over 30 years right up until the day we retire, and then we can enjoy our lives.
Wait a second.....enjoy our lives??? Before we get to enjoy our lives we actually have to make it there, it's sad to say but many of us won't make it there, and if we do we'll be anywhere from the age of 60-65. Half the stuff we would like to do, we have missed our opportunities to do, and the other half of the stuff we want to do, we can't do because we can't afford to do it. So here we are at 60 years old living off our pension with not much to do except lounge around the house visit the occasional friend an take up hobbies, and maybe go on vacation if your pension allows. Not to mention the elevated risk of sickness due to your age. You know I speak the truth simply because all you have to do is look at your own parents, uncles, aunts, and any other retired folk you may know
Is this how you pictured your life? Or did you never look that far ahead?
I can tell you who's to blame but that's another article all together foranother time
So what can you do about it?
Well you have 2 choices,
1) Accept your fate and follow the path of Predictability
2) Grab the bull by the horns, and take Control
Does money grow on trees?
Not literally but, yes it can be cultivated. But you have to plant your seeds and take care of your tree properly. You have probably searched high and low for business opportunities that really work, and 90% of the ones that you have come across look extremely fraudulent. But there are some opportunities out there that you can truly make money with. I was like you, and I browsed searched and scoured the net for ways to make money. I invested close to 3000$ in buying books, and joining selling programs, including Amway, Herbalife, and a whole other slew of programs that required you to invest more and more money. Believe it or not you can make money with these, I personally made my money back and gave up on these projects simply because they weren't my cup of tea. I don't regret a single penny that I invested. Each and every program, and book I bought and joined taught me something, and brought me here, to the point I am today.
What Have I learned?
Where there is a will there is a way there are literally millions of websites out there that offer free information, and give you a few staring points. Inestments are must. Unless you are a genius and know something I don't, you do need some money to make money, there are a ton of good books out there that teach you the tricks of the internet trade. I am not saying to run out and spend thousand of dollars. Once you have mastered the general concept of how the online market works, you will find this type of business the cheapest and lowest maintenace type of business to run/own. It will free up a lot of your time so you can go and do what all humans were meant to truly do.... ENJOY LIFE.
One of the cheapest ways to make a little extra money is through surveys. Many Surveys are totally free to join, and you can find them for free. On the other hand there quite a few companies out there that sell complete lists with links and locations of survey websites. These are worth buying if you intent to get into filling out surveys and are also very inexpensive you'll get your invesment back fairly quick since they only go for 40-50$. There are also many tools you can use to make filling out surveys easier and faster; like roboform, which automatically fills out fields for you, like name, address, etc etc.
Surveys are just the tip of the iceberg, there are many other more lucrative oppurtunities that involve a little more work to get off the ground, and are dirt cheap to start and maintain.
Lastly, no matter what you choose to do, ambition is needed. You truly want to enjoy your life job and family you must be passionate in pursuing it. If you want it you gotta take it. Don't wait for someone to give it to you, or for it to fall in your lap, it's just not gonna happen.
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