As Steve Jobs said at Stanford in 2005; “Sometimes life hits you like a brick, don’t lose faith”.
Well the last few years have been testament to that for me. In this age of austerity we could all be grateful for an extra income. An extra income could be very much needed, and could in time become your main income.
I would like to help you learn to earn. There are a number of ways of doing it, and it starts by believing in you. As Richard McCann says the two most important words in the English language are “I Can”.
Be grateful for the skills that you have and be proud of them. That starts the compounding of your confidence. Don’t be scared to follow your curiosity because if Steve Jobs hadn’t done so I would not be writing this blog in the way I am right now. It could prove to be priceless.
The next step is sorting out the wheat from the chaff, and this can vary from person to person. To do this you need to understand what the motivation behind your desire for an extra income is. As Darren Hardy says you need to understand your Why factor.
So as a starting point for working out your Why factor, look at what you have, where you are, the friends you have got and be grateful for everything. The importance of this is that you want to build on what you have and you need to see yourself as lucky. To do this you need to fully appreciate your environment.
You need to realise at this point that an extra income is not a quick fix. It is not a lottery win, or a one off windfall. It is what it says on the tin an income for as long as you want it, and it can become greater than your main income.
As Jim Rohn says it can be that you end up working full time on your job and part time on your fortune. You need to be prepared for hard work, and be prepared to do the tedious details that make others quit.
Once you know the Why factors, and have started to sort out the wheat from the chaff get advice and speak to those around you for advice. Be grateful for synics, they prove very useful in tempering expectation and can add motivation to your why factors.
There are a number of really good books that can point you in the right direction. I have drawn from a few of them already; namely Darren Hardy’s’ The Compound Effect, and Making the Shift, as well as lots by Jim Rohn.
So what skills do you have? You need to start looking at what you are good at what you appreciate other people doing that you could do. One skill that we all have is the power to listen and have conversations. We are always grateful when people are interested in us, help us, and enquire after those close to us. Just we don’t often let them know that we are grateful, but by really listening to them we can let them know almost subconsciously that we are grateful.
Doing this gives us an enormous sense of well-being, and can also actually help us make some money, possibly even a second income. It might be hard to see how, but in time the dots of conversations you have had with others will join together and in hindsight be pointing you in a direction you never thought of, but which proved to be fruitful.
All good selling begins with true listening, and whether we know it or not we are all selling when we have a conversation with anyone. It is possible if you want to, to us this skill to earn you an extra income.
This brings me on to how, well there are a number of ways which each person can go about succeeding to earn an extra income, but for now suffice it to say you will be amazed by the power the gratitude you have shown in others and the things around you can have.
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