Tag: starting a business
Middle-Class Investing 101: Investing is Essential for Freedom
There is nothing wrong with being firmly in the middle class. I am happy sitting in the middle because I can fly under the radar. As middle-class people, we get ourselves into trouble by trying to act like we are rich. Keeping up with the Joneses is a losing proposition on all fronts. However, we…
Podcasting vs Blogging: Start Your Creative Career Today
We live in a world where your job simply will not pay you enough. Even if you make $300,000/year, it won’t be enough to live comfortably in your high-income city. You must make additional income, and you can do that either actively or passively. You do the work once as you build a portfolio of…
Create Royalties While Working a Full-Time Job
Don’t you hate waiting for an annual pay raise for a promotion? That’s what happens when you depend on someone else for income. But I am a realist; most people cannot leave the workforce to pursue a start-up business full-time. We all have responsibilities such as a family, living expenses, or medical needs. However, we…
The Biggest Book on Passive Income Ever 3!
What is the point of working hard to build passive income? Couldn’t we achieve the same results by getting a high-paying job? Yes and no. Money is money, no matter how it arrives in your account—this is true. But the magic of passive income is you can do whatever you want as it grows inside…
Don’t Gamble with Retirement 9
It’s always exciting when I add to the “Don’t Gamble with Retirement” series. It is one of my longest-running series, and I love documenting as the world changes. I wrote the first article in a series in February 2021, when we were in a raging bull market. Today, the stock market is in the opposite…
Long-Form Content is the Future
The world wants to cram as much content into our brains as possible. People complained about tv ads, and now they watch 30-second clips on Tik Tok. When traveling one day, I watched someone scroll through Tik Tok for over an hour straight. What kind of value did this person obtain from this hour? Long-form…
YouTubing vs. Your Job: How Do You Like Your Grind?
We live in an exciting time where the average person has more financial choices than ever. You no longer have to work a 9-5 job to succeed in this world. Many kids and young adults dream of being YouTubers; however, it’s an illusion. Becoming a successful YouTuber requires more upfront work than most jobs on…
To Become Rich, You’ll Need Leverage
Getting rich in one lifetime is nearly impossible—yet this is the path our parents taught us as children. Here is the plan in a nutshell: Please tell me if I am missing something. The problem with this typical scenario is that at no point did you exert any leverage. 40-Year Interest-Only Mortgage In fact, when…
Starting a Business with One Hour a Day Available
Time is the most valuable resource on this planet. We spend our lives trying to buy freedom from the workforce; for most people, we call this retirement. One of the cruel ironies of life is that we can buy our freedom much sooner by spending more time earlier. Sounds confusing, right? You need assets to…
Why Are You NOT in the Work Force?
Everywhere I look, it seems people are quitting their jobs. Whether it is quitting in place, also known as quiet quitting, or walking away completely (the Great Resignation), the world is turning upside down. However, this is a social media ploy to slow down the average American. Many reasons contribute to this mass exodus from…
How to Become Financially Independent in Your 20s
Being young grants you the gift of youth. Youth allows you to work as hard as possible and recover easily by the next morning—you are almost invincible. However, with youth comes hormones and pride. Indeed, fighting through your own mindset will be the biggest challenge of all. If you can get it together, you can…
Down-sized? Time to Start an Online Business
As the recession approaches, mass layoffs will become more common. We are already seeing major corporations making significant cutbacks to personnel. Are you at risk of losing your job? Whether you believe your job is safe is not the point. Relying solely on your job for income is risky. Luckily, there are many ways to…
Homeschooling + Online Business: The Stay-At-Home Parent’s Ultimate Dream
Do you dream of being a stay-at-home parent? Are you disappointed with the public (and private) school system? My dream is to homeschool my grandkids. I failed my two boys (ages 16 and 12) by putting them through the public school system—I believed I would get good results. However, the school system is much different…
I’m Obsessed with Money: And You Should be Too
I love money. I love having money, making money, and growing money. Society attempts to tell me I am terrible for caring about my money. The only way to stop caring about money is to become obsessed with it. Once you figure out how to live below your means, save money, and grow your income,…
Welcome to Writing: Start Here If You Love The Grind
So you want to be a writer, huh? Writing is one of the most amazing things you can do in your life. You are expressing your values using words as a medium. According to “The Independent Homeschool,” writing is the toughest of the 3 R’s (reading, writing, and arithmetic). You must make countless decisions just…
Forever Valuable: The Magic of Evergreen Content
So you want to be a content creator, right? Creating content is one of the best ways to push your brain to its limit. But you don’t have to throw things at the wall to see what sticks. You can create content that you can slowly build upon over time. The more content you make,…
Don’t Gamble with Retirement 8
My, how time flies. I can’t believe I opened my website over two years ago. I began publishing books on Amazon in early January 2021. I released the book “Don’t Gamble with Retirement” on February 13, 2021. I say this because it is time to celebrate. My retirement plans (along with my lovely wife’s) are…
Pumpkin Spice & Royalties 2
We live in an amazing time where anyone can make supplemental income from royalties. We can use these royalties for anything we want in life, plus leave them to our children for 70 more years. The fall season is when we need additional royalties because it’s the time we spend the most money. Black Friday…
Retire Rich, Retire Comfortable with a Business 4
The world as we know it is changing. We are transitioning from the industrial revolution 9-to-5 mindset to a creativity & production-based society. Soon, going to work and sitting in your cubicle will no longer net you a paycheck. You’ll have to produce an innovative product for your bosses to review—and it must add value…
The Magic of Remote Work
Commuting to work every day sucks. I should know; I have done it every day in the military for the last 23 years. However, there are some good things about going into the office. You get to make friends and see people’s faces. You also can gather energy and motivation as a team to complete…
