Tag: starting a business
Love, Passion, & Freedom: Welcome to Passive Income
How do some people get to live the life of their dreams while they are stuck working a 9-5 job? Is it because they were born into wealth? Are they risk-takers, entrepreneurs, or gamblers? They may be lucky. Sure, some of these things may be true, but the truth is they discovered that money is…
Five Ways to Make Rental Income Without Owning Rental Properties
The real estate market is tougher than ever. It is difficult for the average person to buy a primary residence, let alone own rental properties. I own two rental properties, and it’s safe to say that they are a pain in the rear end. Being a landlord is not for most people. However, everyone’s goal…
Happy Cash Flow Retirement 10
Another day, another dollar; better yet, another passive income dollar. In two weeks, I am retiring from the Marine Corps after 24 years of service. I have never been more excited in my life because this is the result of hard work and planning. I have wanted this outcome since I began writing about passive…
This is Why I Became a Writer and Changed My Life Forever
My wife and I traveled to Turkey in 2019 and immediately fell in love with this fantastic country. We decided we wanted to move to Turkey one day in retirement. We knew we would have a military pension to support us; however, I wanted also to earn more income and stay productive. Working locally wouldn’t…
Passive Income: How Do You Spend Your Free Time?
The main difference between the rich and the poor is how they spend their time. How do you spend your free time? Feel free to answer honestly to yourself. Once I learned this golden rule, my income, and net worth doubled, tripled, and even quadrupled in a couple of years. If you want to create…
Turn Your Articles into eBooks: Create Even More Passive Income
I started my writing career as a blogger in June 2020. I thought my content would draw the masses within six months of starting my online presence. If you ever started anything online, you’ll know this was wishful thinking. It takes a good while to carve out a nice piece of real estate on the…
Create an eBook Series for Passive Income 2
There has never been a better time to become a writer. You can write, edit, publish, and market your words all by yourself. But what is the best way to reach your target audience? Today, I want to explore a few ways you can build a loyal audience while creating passive income for your future.…
My Five Year Plan for My Book Business: I’m Creating a Passive Income Machine
I have 930 books on Amazon. Yes, they are high-content books with words and pictures. I published my first book in January 2021 (today is June 19, 2023). When I first started, I aimed to create 1,000 books on Amazon. Well, now I don’t have an end goal because I plan to write until the…
The Metaverse 117: Return to the Metaverse
With one announcement, Apple restored all the hopes and dreams of a Metaverse-rich future. Their $3,500 headset will increase the general public’s awareness of spatial computing—and the metaverse. It’s been over a year since I wrote about the metaverse. Much of the hype irradiating from the metaverse came from the gold rush into cryptocurrencies. The…
Rents Go Up: Which Side of the Equation Are You On?
Rent prices across the United States and the world will continue to rise. There is little we can do as the average consumer. Once institutional investors, foreign interests, and the Airbnb crowd entered the real estate game, it changed the landscape forever. So how do we become homeowners in today’s environment? Even better, how do…
Become Middle-Class PLUS: Insert Growth Multipliers into Your Life
Most people fear becoming rich. Somewhere along the lines, they adopted a belief that rich people are bad; therefore, they avoid the path to wealth. However, it’s still not wrong to make a little more money. The problem is that most people cannot fathom earning income outside of a 9-5 job. Most times, people’s jobs…
Create Money, Spend Money, Grow Money: How to Break Your Scarcity Mindset
Growing up, I always associated money with fear. There was a fear of using money and becoming rich. When poor people hate the rich, they limit themselves from becoming rich. How can you become something you loathe? I was taught to dream small. For example, paying your bills each month was a significant accomplishment. Start…
Inflation Ate My Paycheck 112: Inflation for Longer
Now is a great time to be alive, although it may not seem this way. America and most countries are experiencing high inflationary pressures from all sources. However, you have all the tools at your disposal to combat inflation and continue to grow your net worth. Welcome back to the Inflation Ate My Paycheck Series…
Leaving the Workforce in 10 Years: For Families
How can you possibly exit the workforce with an entire family in tow? Well, it’s more than possible if you put your mind to it and commit as a family. I should know because my family is leaving the workforce this year. My wife (39) has already stopped working, and I will retire (42) in…
Start Your Season of Saving: Let’s Save $100,000
Do you believe that $100,000 is a lot of money? Can you envision you would ever have this amount of money in your high-yield savings account? If you think this is a lot of money, that is your first limiting belief. If you do not believe you can save $100,000, that is your second limiting…
Leaving the Workforce in 10 Years: For Couples
In a fantasy world, two people working together should quickly free themselves from the workforce. In reality, we all have major money issues and traumas that prevent us from seeing clearly. Thus, freeing ourselves is extremely challenging, and doing it as a couple is almost impossible. There is hope. However, there is hope. As long…
How to Channel the Velocity of Money and Take Control of Your Financial Outlook
How do rich people get rich and stay rich? They always keep their money moving in new and unique directions. When we lack financial education, we think that saving money (even in a high-yield savings account) is the terminal location of our monetary needs. However, we need to use our money to create money continually.…
Leaving the Workforce in 10 Years: For Singles
The great part about being single is that you single-handedly control your destiny. The bad part is that you are all alone. However, you can easily free yourself from the workforce when you are single. All you have to do is start from the end. Dreaming up your retirement. Most people dream of retiring in…
Life is a Math Game: Learn It or Struggle Forever
How did you do in high school math? You’ll need to revisit your old math books if you didn’t do so well. Life is a math game with emotions running on top. If you can solve your unique math puzzle, you have a much better chance of having successful relationships. Math comes into many aspects…
Your Income Should Increase Every Year 2
Life is expensive. This is a difficult concept for most people to understand. To stay ahead in the world, you must keep increasing your income annually. The good part is that your assets can do most of the work for you. The bad part is you’ll need to acquire your assets first. I wrote part…
