Tonight was, well, is funny. Not haha funny, but "hmm, interesting" funny.
Eight days ago, I began writing a book. 24 hours ago, it was published online. That night - my girlfriend and I celebrated. Tonight, we stopped back by my parents house to spend some time with them. After a bit of a rough patch, the past few days have been marvelous in my relationship. My family is proud of me. I'm regaining contact with friends I thought I'd lost. By all means - I should be smiling from ear to ear.
However, this evening, I found myself experiencing something - stress.
My book was not written with the intent of becoming a millionaire - rather with the intent of having something of quality available online. Grant Cardone says, and I paraphrase, that "you can't make money - only the Federal Reserve can make money. Your money, your millions, it's already made - it's just out there in someone else's hands." Every day, millions of dollars change hands online. If you don't have one thing available for purchase - there is a big, fat 0% chance any of it will come to you. I wrote my ebook because I believe that it can help those who choose to read it - and it earns me a >0% chance of earning money on a daily basis, independent from my time.
I feel myself feeling stress. In order for me to live comfortably, providing for myself and my girlfriend as we pursue success in other time independent areas of life, I would have to net $2,000 per month. $24,000 per year. $500 per week. When my ebook has, within the past 24 hours, generated $3 in sales (I haven't begun much outreach yet) this seems like a daunting figure.
Then - I asked myself a question. I looked around my old room and I thought - is there food in the pantry? If I am certain that that pantry contains food, why would I worry about possibly having to skip breakfast tomorrow? // If your car has a full tank of gas, worrying about having to push your car home from work that evening seems nonsensical!
That's when I realized - stress is not a result of your current situation. Stress doesn't happen because things are bad. Stress happens because we believe our situation to be bad and ourselves incapable of escaping it. I am not stressed because I can't earn $2k every month - absolutely I can! For the mildly-experienced online entrepreneur, 2 grand per month is child's play! Rather - I am stressed because, for whatever reason, the idea of my having achieved that goal seems too outlandish, too impossible, and too difficult for me to appreciate.
In spite of this - I am setting a goal that I earn, regularly, $10,000 per month. A goal five times as daunting as what currently troubles me. I am going to base that goal off of those who have made money selling information products online (who specifically, I'll discover after I get some rest.) I'll set the goal to be at that point of $10k in the next seven months (So September 16th of this year,) and I'm going to set my efforts to match my expectations - never lower the goal.
Defeat stress with proper planning and by remaining firm to your goals.
Best of luck everyone,
Adurite
Dillon
Eight days ago, I began writing a book. 24 hours ago, it was published online. That night - my girlfriend and I celebrated. Tonight, we stopped back by my parents house to spend some time with them. After a bit of a rough patch, the past few days have been marvelous in my relationship. My family is proud of me. I'm regaining contact with friends I thought I'd lost. By all means - I should be smiling from ear to ear.
However, this evening, I found myself experiencing something - stress.
My book was not written with the intent of becoming a millionaire - rather with the intent of having something of quality available online. Grant Cardone says, and I paraphrase, that "you can't make money - only the Federal Reserve can make money. Your money, your millions, it's already made - it's just out there in someone else's hands." Every day, millions of dollars change hands online. If you don't have one thing available for purchase - there is a big, fat 0% chance any of it will come to you. I wrote my ebook because I believe that it can help those who choose to read it - and it earns me a >0% chance of earning money on a daily basis, independent from my time.
I feel myself feeling stress. In order for me to live comfortably, providing for myself and my girlfriend as we pursue success in other time independent areas of life, I would have to net $2,000 per month. $24,000 per year. $500 per week. When my ebook has, within the past 24 hours, generated $3 in sales (I haven't begun much outreach yet) this seems like a daunting figure.
Then - I asked myself a question. I looked around my old room and I thought - is there food in the pantry? If I am certain that that pantry contains food, why would I worry about possibly having to skip breakfast tomorrow? // If your car has a full tank of gas, worrying about having to push your car home from work that evening seems nonsensical!
That's when I realized - stress is not a result of your current situation. Stress doesn't happen because things are bad. Stress happens because we believe our situation to be bad and ourselves incapable of escaping it. I am not stressed because I can't earn $2k every month - absolutely I can! For the mildly-experienced online entrepreneur, 2 grand per month is child's play! Rather - I am stressed because, for whatever reason, the idea of my having achieved that goal seems too outlandish, too impossible, and too difficult for me to appreciate.
In spite of this - I am setting a goal that I earn, regularly, $10,000 per month. A goal five times as daunting as what currently troubles me. I am going to base that goal off of those who have made money selling information products online (who specifically, I'll discover after I get some rest.) I'll set the goal to be at that point of $10k in the next seven months (So September 16th of this year,) and I'm going to set my efforts to match my expectations - never lower the goal.
Defeat stress with proper planning and by remaining firm to your goals.
Best of luck everyone,
Adurite
Dillon
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