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How To Monetise The Skills You Already Have
Fundamentally, every skill that anyone has ever had is worthless, as the value of a skill is only what someone is willing to pay for it, and that very sentence will completely determine how much money you make in your lifetime. Skills and the quality of them are what make up a person; they make a career, a passion, a hobby, or a gift, and therefore, it is crucially important that you nail how to develop the right skills and sell them at market value because every skill holds a different value in a different sector.
Use Leverage To Propel You Forward
Leverage is the idea of using something that already exists to your advantage to further your own cause. A common case of leverage in business is with a marketing agency. Someone may have the skills of social media marketing but no product or service to sell in order to utilise their skills, which means they have two options. Either they build their own product or service, or they find an already existing one and use their skills to market it.
The Path To Your First $10k
You will end up making $10k a month quicker if you stop trying to make $10k a month so quickly. I know what you’re thinking; get me off this email as quickly as possible. But wait, the reason is because you don’t have the skills to make $10k a month when starting off, how would you? However, you probably have the ones needed to make your first $100 a month, so start by focusing on how you can make your first $100, and from there, you can creep your way up the ranks.
Get Rid Of Your Plan B
We are all told the same thing along the lines of, Don’t put all your eggs in one basket; make sure you have options and backup plans on backup plans. INCASE things go wrong! But what if you were told that having all of your eggs in different baskets, having multiple backup plans, and having options A,B,C,D,E,F... was actually a negative thing that was holding you back from achieving your original option A?
Do This For The Next 107 Days
2024 is now a matter of 107 days away, which equates to 3 and a half months, and if you feel like you’ve wasted the time so far, you probably have, but that doesn’t mean you should give up. You can do a lot in the next 107 days that could change the trajectory of your life. Here are a few things that will help you make a start on that.
3 Mindset Shifts To Unlock 2.0 You
The first one is the unwavering belief in your own success. You need to believe in yourself and your potential so much that it almost becomes like a mental illness because that’s what being an ambitious person is all about: having such a belief in your own abilities when no one else does and with no real proof to back up your thoughts. No outside noise or comment should faze you, because if it does and you’re easily tilted by the thoughts of others, then you’re not in control of your decisions; someone else is, and at the end of the day, it should only be you vs. you.
How To Stay Disciplined
Why do you need discipline? You need discipline in your life simply because your sheer will and motivation won’t do it alone. We all rely on motivation to do the things that we promise ourselves we will do. I'm going to start going to the gym four days a week", I'm going to start waking up earlier", I'm going...
Do This When You Feel Like Giving Up
We all have those days when nothing is going to plan, you don’t feel like doing the things you know you have to, and you just want to start again. Those days when you feel like giving up The thing is that research has shown that grit is the characteristic most closely linked to success.
You Have To Out-fail The Competition
When it comes to overall success in business or life, the way you get ahead of your competition is by out-failing them—by running more experiments and taking more risks than they do. The reason is that it's experiments that give us feedback; when trying something new, we are going to learn two things from it:
5 Pillars Of Your Future Success
You fundamentally have five different buckets to fill in your life—five buckets that will dictate your success, happiness, pursuit, and meaning—and the more full these buckets become, the higher the chance you’ll have of achieving great things. People such as Elon Musk and Bill Gates (just to name a few of the cliche billionaires) have these buckets brimming, which some could say is the reason they achieved what they have.
A Life Changing Speech In 3 Minutes
A teacher asked Warren Buffett, one of the wealthiest men on the planet how to advise students on preparing for retirement. Buffett says the students should treat their minds and bodies like “the only car you’re going to have for the rest of your life.” This is what he said: