3 years ago at this time, I also had questions like — “How to make money online writing” and “passive income streams.”
Now that I get these Qs in my DMs, I don’t respond to most of them.
I have a reason — hear (or maybe read) me out…
Because most of these generic questions are easily Google-able. If you’re asking a Q to a specific person, it might help to navigate to their content and see if they’ve already spoken about it.
Because most online creators build in public.
I also learnt from people like Ali Abdaal on YouTube and Tim Denning on Medium about how can I quit my job.
I now consume a lot of content from Justin Welsh and Matt Gray on how to scale my solopreneur business.
So if you feel how I used to feel back then, which is:
- A misfit in the corporate sector
- Don’t see the point of 8h workdays
- You know you don’t belong here but don’t know where you do
Here’s the drill:
- Read books (Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins changed my life)
- Look at people you want to be like and binge on their work
- Find people who’ve done what you want to, and emulate their process
I do the third one a lot because I’m lazy. Why reinvent the wheel?
So that’s how I realised how I could write online, create Upwork proposals, apply for gigs, and earn online.
The universe helps those who help themselves.
This is part 2 of my 5-part series on why I quit my job to design my lifestyle, and how I did it.
The reason I’m writing this is because this month I complete 3 years of the time my brain started thinking this way and I acted upon that instinct. This is in the hope of helping somebody out there who’s feeling the same agitation and doesn’t know what to do.