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Is making money easy in 2021? (Mindset thread)

In your mind, is it easy to make money these days?

  • Yes

    Votes: 57 71.3%
  • No

    Votes: 23 28.8%

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Yes I know, the question is weird as it stands.

I however wonder how many of you have this mindset that business opportunities are abundant, and it's pretty easy to make money with internet connection or even without it in the XXIst century.

It would be great if you could simply respond with yes/no/it depends and briefly describe your current material/business situation.
As a sociologist, I have been thinking what's the connection there between perceiving something as easy/abundant and actually getting it.

To make this very vague question a bit more precise: I'm not talking about making a BIG fortune (overnight lol) or becoming a billionaire, because that is certainly hard af.

I'm talking about just making enough to make a living on your own terms and with your kind of lifestyle (doesn't have to be super lavish, just comfortable) without being a slave to a shitty soul sucking job, stupid bullying boss, 9-5, traffic, etc.

Clearly, "to make a living" means different things for different people;
I know folks who are happy with just 2k USD, and some aren't with 25k, but for the sake of argument, let's assume the level of 3k-10k usd monthly (that's anegdotal, don't pay too much attention to these numbers, the point is to discuss the mindset and how you see the world around you).

You don't have anything other than a job or an old business that is dying, but live in a 1st or a 2nd world country, there's no war, no famine, you have no big family to provide for, you are not sick, you have roof over your head and maybe some education or wits.

In your head, as you see it, in the year 2021, if you know English, is it easy, or not? Subjectively, for you.

The reason I ask (other than sheer curiosity): In 2014, when I first started my self-publishing business, I used to think that making money is easy, there's tons of opportunities on Amazon itself, and if you speak English, live in a cheaper country and can make money in US or Western Europe, you're set. You always gonna find ways to make money.

Now, years forward, I've noticed that my mindset has changed. I started seeing things in a bit more pessimistic way (you know, inflation, covid, mega corporations like YT, Amazon monopolizing everything, tons of YT gurus selling bullshit, info chaos, crowded markets, oooh long Joooohnsoon, blah blah blah) and I'm seeing way less results and my motivation went to gutter at some point.
Now I'm slowly recovering, but I still lack this teenage optimism.

I've discussed it with @MTF and it kinda seems like our mindsets have changed from "yeah, you can do it, we are going to smash it and be fking rich" to a geriatric "oh my god, it's so hard these days" and I feel that it kinda translates to business results, at least mine, and the ability to start a new project.

I'm seeing tons of negativity on YT channels and sometimes on this forum too (inflation, covid, we are all gonna die lol - this is not a roast, just my perception sometimes).

Also,
If that has ever happened to you (ie you lost your positive and abundant mindset for any reason - a burnout, business failure, mental/physical illness etc), what steps did you take to recover it?
 
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It's easy but only if you understand that in life you take money and not make it (unless you're the federal reserve). Money is like water, it is always flowing in some direction, ideally your bank accounts.

What's essentially happened to most of the people I know is that the bottom of the hustle economy has collapsed and the walls have come down and people are realizing that it's no longer possible to copy write/affiliate market/translate/proofread or dropship/influence/blog etc your way to viable success - and when people try they realize the sheer amount of competition at any one point in time on cyber space for these low barrier to entry jobs is growing exponentially.

This creates a break in the reality because all information about for example "is blogging profitable 2021" will be of course overwhelmingly positive - you just need to try harder, work harder, be better. The cheese is there, you just have to want it enough!

When I closed my translation company because the margins were no longer worth it, people were still coming to me from courses they'd bought offering their services in exchange for the huge wages they'd been promised were on offer, when many good translators on freelance platforms were salivating over 0.01 per word.

And because no one is taught any actual business skills these people end up stuck, barely scraping a living and hoping the $500 they are trading in BTC will give them some viable path to freedom as their soul dies the silent cries of muted desperation.

Eventually they end up in forums like this proclaiming their woes and promising that they have finally spent all of their time thinking and come up with a great idea - and these ideas are always something like 'build the next facebook' with 0 coding experience.

This group of people is an economic disaster unfolding in real time, and they are everywhere.
 

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Is it easy? No. But being equiped with certain personality traits and psychological mechanisms can make it easier.

I'm seeing tons of negativity on YT channels and sometimes on this forum too (inflation, C0VlD, we are all gonna die lol - this is not a roast, just my perception sometimes).

I've certaintly found myself falling into this kind of negativity. We live in a world that is sick in some ways. You are basically a stimulus response machine. You have been conditioned to think and perceive in a certain way that is contrary to your true nature. No independent thinking allowed.

If that has ever happened to you (ie you lost your positive and abundant mindset for any reason - a burnout, business failure, mental/physical illness etc), what steps did you take to recover it?

You basically replace the bad emotional state or off-kilter configuration and you replace it with an aspect of yourself that supersedes external influences. For me it involved becoming more spiritual. Removing certain values and replacing them with ones more reflective of reality.
 
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You’re spot on about the negativity and optimism. Optimism is a lot more useful. I’ve been way too fixated on the problems lately (mostly because there are a lot of them).

When all else fails, go back to the basics.

Read some of the gold threads, particularly the one I’m thinking of about “crawling through a tunnel filled with shit.”

Do whatever it takes! You will find success through failure, experience, trials, and relentless, dogged effort.

Once you can say “I have done absolutely everything in my power,” you’re going to be in a position to make money easily.

I think in TMF MJ calls this “Chuma mode.” You’ve gotta spend time there
 
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I've discussed it with @MTF and it kinda seems like our mindsets have changed from "yeah, you can do it, we are going to smash it and be fking rich" to a geriatric "oh my god, it's so hard these days" and I feel that it kinda translates to business results, at least mine, and the ability to start a new project.
I've had a similar experience. In 2018 I was full of optimism and convinced I could achieve anything. Then in 2019 I was BALLS DEEP in conspiracy theories and triggered a 4 month long existential crisis.

I'd say its probably easier now than ever before. I was reading the part of Unscripted today where MJ talks about the death of gatekeepers. Chapter 41 Best Practice #5.
 

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Yes I know, the question is weird as it stands.

I however wonder how many of you have this mindset that business opportunities are abundant, and it's pretty easy to make money with internet connection or even without it in the XXIst century.

It would be great if you could simply respond with yes/no/it depends and briefly describe your current material/business situation.
As a sociologist, I have been thinking what's the connection there between perceiving something as easy/abundant and actually getting it.

To make this very vague question a bit more precise: I'm not talking about making a BIG fortune (overnight lol) or becoming a billionaire, because that is certainly hard af.

I'm talking about just making enough to make a living on your own terms and with your kind of lifestyle (doesn't have to be super lavish, just comfortable) without being a slave to a shitty soul sucking job, stupid bullying boss, 9-5, traffic, etc.

Clearly, "to make a living" means different things for different people;
I know folks who are happy with just 2k USD, and some aren't with 25k, but for the sake of argument, let's assume the level of 3k-10k usd monthly (that's anegdotal, don't pay too much attention to these numbers, the point is to discuss the mindset and how you see the world around you).

You don't have anything other than a job or an old business that is dying, but live in a 1st or a 2nd world country, there's no war, no famine, you have no big family to provide for, you are not sick, you have roof over your head and maybe some education or wits.

In your head, as you see it, in the year 2021, if you know English, is it easy, or not? Subjectively, for you.

The reason I ask (other than sheer curiosity): In 2014, when I first started my self-publishing business, I used to think that making money is easy, there's tons of opportunities on Amazon itself, and if you speak English, live in a cheaper country and can make money in US or Western Europe, you're set. You always gonna find ways to make money.

Now, years forward, I've noticed that my mindset has changed. I started seeing things in a bit more pessimistic way (you know, inflation, C0VlD, mega corporations like YT, Amazon monopolizing everything, tons of YT gurus selling bullshit, info chaos, crowded markets, oooh long Joooohnsoon, blah blah blah) and I'm seeing way less results and my motivation went to gutter at some point.
Now I'm slowly recovering, but I still lack this teenage optimism.

I've discussed it with @MTF and it kinda seems like our mindsets have changed from "yeah, you can do it, we are going to smash it and be fking rich" to a geriatric "oh my god, it's so hard these days" and I feel that it kinda translates to business results, at least mine, and the ability to start a new project.

I'm seeing tons of negativity on YT channels and sometimes on this forum too (inflation, C0VlD, we are all gonna die lol - this is not a roast, just my perception sometimes).

Also,
If that has ever happened to you (ie you lost your positive and abundant mindset for any reason - a burnout, business failure, mental/physical illness etc), what steps did you take to recover it?
I am optimistic and think making the money (for a comfortable living) for people on this forum should be easy. I think it is easy.

Making money becomes hard only when the market changes or when your luck takes a turn for the worst.

Bad Luck can be defined as times where even if you put in effort, the results are not met with. This happens because of external factors that are out of your control.

The market changes are due to the global economic scenario. It is very easy to make money when the economy is thriving and it becomes harder as time goes by and recessions hit us again. This makes investors pull back their cash which causes a lot of employees to be laid off, making it difficult for employers to hire new employees who will work with them.

If you are someone who has always worked under others and is not able to start your own company or business, then the only way out is for you to be obligated to work hard for peanuts until the economy picks up again. But if you are already an entrepreneur, now would be a good time to expand.

Now, back to the question of how easy it is to make money.

All you need is a plan, work on it, and be patient with the process. Do not try to control everything that happens because there are times when you cannot even control yourself or your own mental state, let alone anything else. Just do what you know you can do and you will be fine.

Do what you like, not what others like. It is better to fail in your own terms than succeed in another's terms because when you do the latter, you will lose your originality and your passion which are two very important things to keep hold of.

If luck takes a turn for the worst for you, put in more effort than before. Struggling is an important factor of life because it helps you grow. This does not mean that you should always struggle, but there are times when the only way out is to push forward instead of giving up.

When making money gets a little harder, do not be downhearted or sad about it. Money is not everything in life - it is important, but not everything.

You are you, and no one else. You need to live the way you want to live and not the way others want you to live or think you should live. You do not always have to make money every single day of your life because there will be days when you do not and it does not matter.

You can choose to take a break from money, work on other aspects of life, and figure out the next step when you are ready. You control your own destiny so make sure that you live it wisely. The more thoughtfully you live your own destiny, the more opportunities will come your way because you are being proactive about the way you want to live.
 
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I feel business is as simple as helping people and getting paid.

I think it’s only complicated because we don’t keep it simple.

I’m more and more amazed at what comes back to me just from putting stuff out there to help people.
 

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Opportunities come and go, that's kind of how it is. I don't think making money has gotten harder in 2021 at all. It's just the opportunities that are there may not be in your field of vision, and maybe you gotta look elsewhere.

I think that new opportunities that are "easy" always become hard in the future. It's gotten harder to do well advertising DTC products on Facebook because the demographics of that platform have changed, the ads have improved in quality, and the general level of advertising savvy that DTC brands possess has generally gone up. Facebook has gotten stricter, as well. But there are tons of people still making it work.

It was way easier in 2016 though. Things were different. Ad cost was cheaper because there were much fewer advertisers. The big advertisers at the time were easy to beat, because big brands just didn't do DTC well at all & most of the guys with advertising savvy were hawking utter shite. You could get away with a lot more, too.

Today, Reddit ads are a wild west where you can promote pretty much anything you want, clicks are cheap, and there are certain types of ads that users tend to gravitate toward on the platform. TikTok is also extremely cheap and brands are pretty late to making good content on the platform. But people who made money selling crypto services on Reddit or booty leggings on TikTok will talk about how "things were easier then".
 

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I think it’s only complicated because we don’t keep it simple

This for sure. Keep it simple.

It’s just maximization of utility and allocation of scarce resources. Simple.

It’s Kaizen applied to everything.
 
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Yes I know, the question is weird as it stands.

I however wonder how many of you have this mindset that business opportunities are abundant, and it's pretty easy to make money with internet connection or even without it in the XXIst century.

It would be great if you could simply respond with yes/no/it depends and briefly describe your current material/business situation.
As a sociologist, I have been thinking what's the connection there between perceiving something as easy/abundant and actually getting it.

To make this very vague question a bit more precise: I'm not talking about making a BIG fortune (overnight lol) or becoming a billionaire, because that is certainly hard af.

I'm talking about just making enough to make a living on your own terms and with your kind of lifestyle (doesn't have to be super lavish, just comfortable) without being a slave to a shitty soul sucking job, stupid bullying boss, 9-5, traffic, etc.

Clearly, "to make a living" means different things for different people;
I know folks who are happy with just 2k USD, and some aren't with 25k, but for the sake of argument, let's assume the level of 3k-10k usd monthly (that's anegdotal, don't pay too much attention to these numbers, the point is to discuss the mindset and how you see the world around you).

You don't have anything other than a job or an old business that is dying, but live in a 1st or a 2nd world country, there's no war, no famine, you have no big family to provide for, you are not sick, you have roof over your head and maybe some education or wits.

In your head, as you see it, in the year 2021, if you know English, is it easy, or not? Subjectively, for you.

The reason I ask (other than sheer curiosity): In 2014, when I first started my self-publishing business, I used to think that making money is easy, there's tons of opportunities on Amazon itself, and if you speak English, live in a cheaper country and can make money in US or Western Europe, you're set. You always gonna find ways to make money.

Now, years forward, I've noticed that my mindset has changed. I started seeing things in a bit more pessimistic way (you know, inflation, C0VlD, mega corporations like YT, Amazon monopolizing everything, tons of YT gurus selling bullshit, info chaos, crowded markets, oooh long Joooohnsoon, blah blah blah) and I'm seeing way less results and my motivation went to gutter at some point.
Now I'm slowly recovering, but I still lack this teenage optimism.

I've discussed it with @MTF and it kinda seems like our mindsets have changed from "yeah, you can do it, we are going to smash it and be fking rich" to a geriatric "oh my god, it's so hard these days" and I feel that it kinda translates to business results, at least mine, and the ability to start a new project.

I'm seeing tons of negativity on YT channels and sometimes on this forum too (inflation, C0VlD, we are all gonna die lol - this is not a roast, just my perception sometimes).

Also,
If that has ever happened to you (ie you lost your positive and abundant mindset for any reason - a burnout, business failure, mental/physical illness etc), what steps did you take to recover it?
Long Term Optimism that we gonna make it, but maintain short term healthy pessimism that whatever you think it takes to achieve anything, it is in reality likely to take much longer time and effort.
 

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I feel business is as simple as helping people and getting paid.

I think it’s only complicated because we don’t keep it simple.

I’m more and more amazed at what comes back to me just from putting stuff out there to help people.
Do you have a course on this?
 

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Yes I know, the question is weird as it stands.

I however wonder how many of you have this mindset that business opportunities are abundant, and it's pretty easy to make money with internet connection or even without it in the XXIst century.

It would be great if you could simply respond with yes/no/it depends and briefly describe your current material/business situation.
As a sociologist, I have been thinking what's the connection there between perceiving something as easy/abundant and actually getting it.

To make this very vague question a bit more precise: I'm not talking about making a BIG fortune (overnight lol) or becoming a billionaire, because that is certainly hard af.

I'm talking about just making enough to make a living on your own terms and with your kind of lifestyle (doesn't have to be super lavish, just comfortable) without being a slave to a shitty soul sucking job, stupid bullying boss, 9-5, traffic, etc.

Clearly, "to make a living" means different things for different people;
I know folks who are happy with just 2k USD, and some aren't with 25k, but for the sake of argument, let's assume the level of 3k-10k usd monthly (that's anegdotal, don't pay too much attention to these numbers, the point is to discuss the mindset and how you see the world around you).

You don't have anything other than a job or an old business that is dying, but live in a 1st or a 2nd world country, there's no war, no famine, you have no big family to provide for, you are not sick, you have roof over your head and maybe some education or wits.

In your head, as you see it, in the year 2021, if you know English, is it easy, or not? Subjectively, for you.

The reason I ask (other than sheer curiosity): In 2014, when I first started my self-publishing business, I used to think that making money is easy, there's tons of opportunities on Amazon itself, and if you speak English, live in a cheaper country and can make money in US or Western Europe, you're set. You always gonna find ways to make money.

Now, years forward, I've noticed that my mindset has changed. I started seeing things in a bit more pessimistic way (you know, inflation, C0VlD, mega corporations like YT, Amazon monopolizing everything, tons of YT gurus selling bullshit, info chaos, crowded markets, oooh long Joooohnsoon, blah blah blah) and I'm seeing way less results and my motivation went to gutter at some point.
Now I'm slowly recovering, but I still lack this teenage optimism.

I've discussed it with @MTF and it kinda seems like our mindsets have changed from "yeah, you can do it, we are going to smash it and be fking rich" to a geriatric "oh my god, it's so hard these days" and I feel that it kinda translates to business results, at least mine, and the ability to start a new project.

I'm seeing tons of negativity on YT channels and sometimes on this forum too (inflation, C0VlD, we are all gonna die lol - this is not a roast, just my perception sometimes).

Also,
If that has ever happened to you (ie you lost your positive and abundant mindset for any reason - a burnout, business failure, mental/physical illness etc), what steps did you take to recover it?
Yes, making money is easy for me these days. And it's been like that for a long time.
It's no longer about make money -- it's about finding meaning and defining the next step.
And thanks for asking. Here's my biggest question: What do you do with the rest of your life after you've scaled Mount Olympus?

(What happens to the kid who gets the gold metal? What life can a professional athlete build after they are at the top in their sports? What do you do when you cash out or can cash out?)

All highly successful people must continue and find a new purpose after the party is over. What is your answer to my question?
 
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Do you have a course on this?
A lot of my posts and threads are about focusing on helping people, and then helping people and getting paid.

Check out the first few links in my signature in particular, and the two podcasts.

Other thread that springs to mind are:
I’m aware that’s a lot of threads to consume. Just check out enough till you “get it”. Let me know what your takeaways are. I’ll see if I can draw it all together into a single “course”.
 

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Opportunities come and go, that's kind of how it is.
“Opportunity knocks so often it’s a drumroll on your door.”

- People tuned to hearing it
 

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Opportunities come and go, that's kind of how it is. I don't think making money has gotten harder in 2021 at all. It's just the opportunities that are there may not be in your field of vision, and maybe you gotta look elsewhere.

I think that new opportunities that are "easy" always become hard in the future. It's gotten harder to do well advertising DTC products on Facebook because the demographics of that platform have changed, the ads have improved in quality, and the general level of advertising savvy that DTC brands possess has generally gone up. Facebook has gotten stricter, as well. But there are tons of people still making it work.

It was way easier in 2016 though. Things were different. Ad cost was cheaper because there were much fewer advertisers. The big advertisers at the time were easy to beat, because big brands just didn't do DTC well at all & most of the guys with advertising savvy were hawking utter shite. You could get away with a lot more, too.

Today, Reddit ads are a wild west where you can promote pretty much anything you want, clicks are cheap, and there are certain types of ads that users tend to gravitate toward on the platform. TikTok is also extremely cheap and brands are pretty late to making good content on the platform. But people who made money selling crypto services on Reddit or booty leggings on TikTok will talk about how "things were easier then".
Change creates folds in the landscape. Within those folds are opportunity.

Every time an algorithm changes the masses gnash their teeth while the opportunity seekers rub their hands in glee.

Similarly (and from my limited understanding of trading) don’t pros make money when the market changes, either up or down?
 
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Yes, making money is easy for me these days. And it's been like that for a long time.
It's no longer about make money -- it's about finding meaning and defining the next step.
And thanks for asking. Here's my biggest question: What do you do with the rest of your life after you've scaled Mount Olympus?

(What happens to the kid who gets the gold metal? What life can a professional athlete build after they are at the top in their sports? What do you do when you cash out or can cash out?)

All highly successful people must continue and find a new purpose after the party is over. What is your answer to my question?
Hopefully “you” (as a general person, not you personally) did not define your success with a single purpose. This could be tragic if the said athlete identified herself with just one thing and couldn’t see that there is a “mount Olympus” in every aspect of our lives. To be a better parent, partner, have better health, mental health and meaning, athletics, business, friend, family, kindness to strangers etc. The list is as long as life itself.





And on a lighter note, there is more to it than just money…

there are stocks, bonds, real estate… :)
 

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Well, in my opinion, it is.

But if you asked me in 2020, I would have said it's extremely hard because I was struggling so much.

Especially from May 'till January. The only thing that kept me going during those 7 months was a combination of willpower and desperation.

I was barely making any money. Then I did a full 180 and reached that "comfort" level you speak of, OP.

$1500-2000 in a second-world country. It's like earning $5000/m in the US by working for just an hour per day.

And like I said, that's just one hour per day.

If I worked 4 hours a day, I'd be making (or taking as @TheKingOfMadrid said) $5000-8000 per month in a country where everything is (in comparison to the west) cheap as hell. And if I double my hourly rate or negotiate a commission, I could probably get into the 6 figure range even by working at 1-2h per day.

In fact, the only reason I haven't done that yet is because I'm pretty happy with the way things are currently and I'm enjoying all the experience I'm getting this year working with 6, 7, and 8 figure businesses.

And even though I'm a copywriter by trade, I'm much more than that for my clients. I become FULLY engrained in their business and push their marketing to the very limit.

In the end, it all boils down to this:
  1. Help people
  2. Actually give a shit about their business
  3. Become a drug they can't get enough of
  4. Overdeliver
  5. Get paid an amount that feels like a steal to your client
  6. Leverage your shared success to attract bigger and better clients
  7. Repeat

P.S. I'm voting no. It seems easy once you know the process but it looked so hard and demoralizing along the way.
 
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Hi everyone,
Personally, I think that there are a million interpretations of the word "easy".
There are a million interpretations of the word "easy", in this context I think of it as "everything is possible".
I have the perception that the new generations have come into the world in a situation of ease and well-being, unlike the previous generations who had to fight to get everything. This consequently determines a greater number of people that are not interested in fight to have more and consequently a greater probability of success for those who are willing to get involved. If a person has an idea that works, and knows how to make it work, making money is easy.
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Money-making is not easy in this pandemic situation. But if you have knowledge about any field like in IT industry then you can make money by doing a freelancing job.
 

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When you make/do things that people want, money is easy. When you start businesses without regard to demand or peoples' actual wants/needs then you will think it's nearly impossible.

Maybe the world doesn't need another apparel company or dropshippers selling iphone cases with facebook ads.
 
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I voted yes, I think making money is easy enough in 2021.

Depending on your morals/character it can be quite easy if you are willing to enter the "guru" space, but you will be hawking bullshit for the most part. Yes, it has become more crowded and everyone and their brother are out there selling courses but I still see as the most "easy" money I could make, depending on your skills it could be "hard".

I think money in 2021 is in abundance but it does come with strings attached for the most part. I'm ok with some of those strings but not others. It's still a great time to do business , there is much change at the moment in the culture/country/society , with change there is much opportunity.
 

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I think we are dealing with a rapidly changing economy. Within that, there will ALWAYS be opportunity (by definition) but I think that a lot of the traditional thought processes have rapidly changed. I think the economy, especially in the United States, is very fluid. I think things were easier 10 years ago for traditional marketers. Is there money to be made? Always. However, I think more and more you're going to struggle if you are looking for a roadmap. The roadmap doesn't exist, but the mindset of an entrepreneur is what manufactures money.
 

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I feel bad for the 33% of the people that vote NO...
The difference lies within the term "easy." If it was "easy" your money would be relatively unlimited. Is it? Opportunity is unlimited, but if money was "easy" to create you'd be responding from your yacht. I am not sure it has EVER been easy, and the shifting economy is adding new variables.
 
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I think more and more you're going to struggle if you are looking for a roadmap.
This is a really good point.

Have things ever been this unpredictable and fluid in our lifetimes?

Now more than ever I think people need to take charge of their own destiny, and be able to respond quickly to the changes afoot.
 

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Anyone that votes no…

You should sign up for Discovery Plus and watch the two seasons of “undercover billionaire.” It shows how effort alone can make things happen.

The camera crew is a factor, it can’t not be, but you almost certainly are starting from a better position than $100, a phone, and a crappy old truck.

On the second season, ignore the juice girl, she got an unfair evaluation somehow. Her business was worthless IMO.
 

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Anyone that votes no…

You should sign up for Discovery Plus and watch the two seasons of “undercover billionaire.” It shows how effort alone can make things happen.

The camera crew is a factor, it can’t not be, but you almost certainly are starting from a better position than $100, a phone, and a crappy old truck.

On the second season, ignore the juice girl, she got an unfair evaluation somehow. Her business was worthless IMO.
Are they making another season
 
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Are they making another season
Not sure. I honestly wish I could be the undercover billionaire. I know I am not a billionaire yet, but, it would force me massively out of my comfort zone and to perform or starve. Maybe one day I can take the challenge on.
 

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Not sure. I honestly wish I could be the undercover billionaire. I know I am not a billionaire yet, but, it would force me massively out of my comfort zone and to perform or starve. Maybe one day I can take the challenge on.

Here’s what we will do. A couple years down the road you and I and a few others will do a challenge. We will do some type of immersive experience like this. Today is obviously not the day for a number of reasons but I would be willing to do this in a few years max.
 

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