The ability to MAKE MONEY for yourself is NOT just a very fun daydream.
It is an absolute necessity.
Your “job” could be taken away in an instant.
If you do NOT have the ability to go out and MAKE MONEY for yourself… you can find yourself in VERY disastrous circumstances… if you are ever unable to get ANOTHER “job”.
The game has 100% definitely changed.
The players have definitely 100% changed.
Used to be a man could work with the EXACT same company for his whole ENTIRE life, make a GOOD enough salary to “support” his family…
and he did NOT have to “worry” much about his job going to China…
or India coming to him and taking his “job”…
or having to work underneath incompetent affirmative action hires…
or being discriminated against in favor of “equal” opportunity hires…
Today, you can lose your “job” at the drop of a hat with absolutely NO guarantee of getting ANOTHER “job” any time soon, OR with quality “pay” and “benefits”.
The GOOD news is that there is an ENTIRE world of possibilities available to absolutely EVERYONE.
Every single person has SOMETHING that they are REALLY good at.
It is YOUR #1 duty to yourself, as a man, to exploit your qualities… and cultivate the ability to MAKE MONEY on your own… WITHOUT an HR representative deciding whether or not… you are absolutely worthy of employment.
What about my degree? Doesn’t that guarantee me a good job?
Unless you studied medicine, engineering, law, computer science or something very similar… you probably have a VERY useless and very STUPID degree.
Don’t feel too bad, there are MILLIONS of dumb, poor, very “unlucky” folks EXACTLY just like you.
Think of it as a VERY expensive life learning lesson; You can rely on yourself and only on yourself.
A degree is a very simple guarantee of absolutely NOTHING.
7 Reasons Why YOU Need to Start Your Own Business
1) Your job isn’t “safe” and in your control unless you are the HMFIC (Head Mother-fucker in charge).
2) Hard work DOESN’T pay off unless the actual results of your hard work and dedication go directly into YOUR pocket.
In the corporate world the only thing that pays off… is YOUR ability to play the game and somehow woo… ALL of the damn psychopaths in charge.
3) Even if you continue to work a “job” you will have MULTIPLE streams of income, one of the MOST important aspects of wealth building.
4) When you are working for yourself you are MORE freer… than you ever would be… working for ANY damn company.
Take “vacation time” OR “sick time” whenever you please… with absolutely NO consideration for the amount of “sick days” or “vacation days” which HR has very graciously given to you.
5) Working forty hours per week, 5 days a week (BEFORE all of that damn over-time) in a VERY crappy and STUPID drab office… is complete and total overkill.
It’s absolutely way TOO MUCH.
One could work 20 hours per week, 2-3 days per week in the office and produce the EXACT SAME results… and enjoy a MUCH better… quality of life.
Working for yourself… allows you to pick and choose your VERY own hours and modify them as MUCH as necessary.
6) Your job is absolutely NO guarantee of a future.
The economy has absolutely NO guarantee of recovery.
There is absolutely NO guarantee that 3rd world immigrants are ever going to STOP entering your country to work for MUCH less than you.
There is absolutely NO guarantee that there will be MORE “jobs” actually created.
The only true REAL actual guarantee that YOU have… is the specific skill-set that YOU possess and your true inner unique actual determination.
7) Working at a “job” in a corporate office is absolutely soul-killing.
It’s dull, drab and 100% BORING!
There is absolutely NO better cure… for the blues… than to stare at a check… with YOUR name on it… and a whole bunch of very FAT zeroes.
The Four Different Ways… How YOU… Can MAKE MONEY… Completely On Your Own
Selling Goods – Can you make SOMETHING that will sell?
This can include art, furniture, mechanical devices, computer programs or ANYTHING that YOU can build.
Selling Services – Not EVERYONE has the ability to MAKE MONEY using simply JUST their mind.
If you are GOOD with your hands… and have a certain technical specific skill-set (plumbing, carpentry, auto-mechanic)… then you will ALWAYS have the VERY excellent ability… to MAKE MONEY… because people will always need certain types of specific technical work done.
Selling Information – This can range from becoming a consultant… to selling information via books, seminars OR selling information online.
In what specific area… do YOU possess… VERY valuable actual knowledge?
That knowledge can be immediately packaged & sold.
Side note: I met a woman in the Seattle airport who was a Corporate Change Consultant.
If she can make a very GOOD living doing SOMETHING so absolutely ridiculous… then ANYONE can MAKE MONEY… by providing value… or at the very least… the mere illusion of value.
Be a Middle Man – Buy from person A at $10 apiece, sell to person B for $11 apiece.
This can include importing and exporting goods, buying and selling cars, houses, guns, jewelry OR perhaps, even baseball cards.
Anything where there is a market for… can be VERY easily exploited… by a “smart” and VERY socially “savvy” individual person.
You may have noticed it’s all about SALESMANSHIP.
To venture out on your complete own… you are required to sell yourself… and to sell yourself well.
You must have the confidence of a GREAT actual salesman.
You must present yourself as the #1 “expert” in your field.
You will have to ask, or market, for BUSINESS.
You will have to negotiate payment and ask (or sometimes even demand) payment.
If you DON’T have the cojones (aka balls) to do THIS… then you will NEVER make it far on your own… as a solo entrepreneur.
More than ANY skill, it takes gumption (and fearless bravery!) to go out completely on your own.
If you CAN’T make a phone call to a stranger… and speak very highly of your business… then you CAN’T ever MAKE any MONEY on your own.
What’s the rule?
BE FEARLESS. BE BRAVE. BE BOLD.
It takes TONS of brass balls.
How YOU Can Finally Get Started (MAKING MONEY ONLINE!)
The way to get started… is to concentrate on making your FIRST tiny little bit of money.
Putting all your extra time and energy into your side business with the intent of making it BIG.
Even if you have no “plans” of ever leaving your job… you will STILL have the extra income stream and the ability to MAKE MONEY… completely on your own if the TIME should ever come.
If it is your goal to leave your 9-5 job FOREVER… then another step… that YOU must take… is reducing YOUR expenses.
You will likely have a tough go of it at FIRST… and NOT have much “extra money” at all.
It is imperative that you have only necessary and NOT frivolous expenses and bills.
Visualize your SUCCESS.
If you constantly think “this isn’t going to work. I’m never going to make any money” then you are 100% right.
You must think You must know it is going to WORK… beyond a shadow of any doubt.
Make it your HABIT to work on your BUSINESS… every single day.
If you CANNOT develop and maintain… GREAT consistent winning habits… then a business venture will NEVER, ever work for YOU.
Grab BREAK THE CYCLE and follow those steps.
You’ve got to be an actor.
Even if you are just starting out in your VERY new venture… you must NEVER come across as inept or totally clueless.
You will learn as you go, but at FIRST, depending on what field it is, you must “fake it” until you “make it”.
You’ve got to be an economic survivalist, you have to prepare for the future.
Anything can happen at any time.
A man relies only on himself.
Preparation… Visualization… Execution.
Until next time.
Your man,
-Elijah “The Realist”