121 Ways To Make Money Online For Anyone And Everyone

What’s interesting is that, there are plenty of ways to make money online — from selling ads, e-books, affiliate marketing, freelance writing, podcasting, consulting, designing, coding, etc.

The idea of this blog post is to highlight some of those online income streams. Please don’t expect overnight success. The thing is, creating an income stream online requires a lot of work, patience, and some money too.

If you are a beginner and is absolutely clueless about where to start then this blog post should help you to kick-start (and that’s the idea too). If you have any trouble with any of these options, leave a comment below or you can email me, and I will do my best to find the best resource to help you.

Make Money Online With Your Website

Do you have a website or a blog? If yes, then selling advertisements is the easiest way to make money online. Since there are tons of ad networks on the Internet, make sure that you choose the best ad network to maximize the revenue.

If you can create your own products then it’s the best way to make money because that way you’re actually building a passive income stream online. You can use your own blog or website to market your products so that people will buy it when they’re convinced.

Advertising networks can be Cost Per Click (CPC), Cost Per Mille (CPM), or Cost Per Action (CPA). A Cost Per Click network pays you each time a user clicks on your ad and the actual amount you’ll get is determined by the advertiser. Now a Cost Per Mille network or simply a Cost Per Impression network pays for every 1,000 page views that you generate. If they pay $1 for every 1,000 page views, then you’ll get $30 if the number of page views a month is 30,000.

Cost Per Click (CPC) Ad Networks

1. Google AdSense
2. Yahoo! Bing Network (powered by Media.net)
3. Chitika
4. Clicksor
5. Infolinks

Cost Per Mille (CPM) Ad Networks

6. Advertising.com (by AOL.com)
7. Burst Media
8. Casale Media
9. OpenX
10. PulsePoint
11. Technorati Media
12. Tribal Fusion
13. ValueClick Media
14. YesAdvertising

In-Image Ad Networks

15. GumGum
16. Luminate

Pop Under Ad Networks

17. InfinityAds

Cost Per Action (CPA) Affiliate Networks

18. Commission Junction (CJ)
19. LinkShare
20. Neverblue
21. PeerFly
22. ShareASale

Cost Per Sale (CPS) Affiliate Networks

23. Amazon Associates
24. ClickBank

Sell Ads Directly To Advertisers

You can always sell ads directly when someone wants to buy a banner ad, or text links, or even a sponsored post on your blog. But if you’re not lucky enough then you have to become a part of a bigger network where you can showcase your ad inventory.

25. BuySellAds
26. DoubleClick

Automated Affiliate Marketing

You have a website or a blog which is getting good targeted traffic but don’t know how to monetize it? Then you can try the following automated affiliate marketing networks. It converts all the normal links in your website to affiliate links and you make money when clicks result in sales or leads.

So by joining these networks you’ll get access to thousands of affiliate programs without applying individually and you don’t have to manage any affiliate programs or links or anything as they offer a centralized reporting as well.

27. Skimlinks
28. VigLink
29. Cloudswave Affiliate Network — is a white label affiliate program by Cloudswave that lets you promote over 150 business software deals — with a single affiliate account. Here’s a sample store.

In-house Affiliate Programs

If you like a product then obviously you write about it, tweet about it, and tell your friends, right? Now how about getting paid for that? That’s right! If you check the websites of most Internet companies (others too) then you can find their affiliate program.

So, you can use the affiliate links while promoting their products and they’ll pay you for referring new customers to them. They may have their own in-house affiliate program, or one that is managed by an affiliate network, or both.

30. eBay Partner Network
31. iTunes Affiliate Program

…and much more.

Bloggers: Sell Text Links & Sponsored Posts

If you have a good quality website then advertisers will try their best to buy a text link or a sponsored post from you. But wait, selling text links is against Google’s Webmaster Guidelines and they may ban your website from its search results unless the links are rel=”nofollow”.

Sell Text Links

32. AdBeans
33. Digital Point
34. LinkWorth
35. TextLinkBrokers
36. TNX.net
37. WarriorForum

Sell Sponsored Posts

38. Blogsvertise
39. PayPerPost
40. ReviewMe
41. SponsoredReviews

Join Ad Networks For Bloggers

42. Blogads
43. BlogHer (for Women bloggers)
44. Content.ad
45. Foodie Blogroll (for food blogs)
46. PostJoint
47. Taboola
48. Written — license your content and make money.

Start A Newsletter

If you have loyal traffic, it’s a good idea to start a newsletter so that you can engage with your readers in a more friendly way. And it’s also one of the best way to market your products since people usually don’t buy your product when they first visit your website/blog for the first time.

49. MailChimp — design and send email marketing campaigns.
    

    Are You A Freelance Writer?

    Content is King on websites. Content is often outsourced so if you have got good writing skills, you can make a living writing online. Here are some content marketplaces where you can sell your content.
50. Constant-Content
51. ContentBLVD
52. Digital Point
53. ProBlogger Job Board
54. BloggingPro Job Board
55. Textbroker
56. WriterAccess
57. Zerys
58. Scripted
59. Copify
60. CopyPress

Read: The Freelance Writer’s Handbook — 61+ Tips, Resources & Guides

Are You A Professional Writer?

If you are a professional writer, you can contribute content to some of the top content provides like Yahoo, AOL, About.com, etc. and get upfront payment.

61. About.com
62. Break Studios
63. Demand Studios

    Are You A Graphic/Web Designer?

64. 99designs
65. crowdSPRING
66. Design Contest
67. Freelancer Contests
68. Freelancer Marketplace
69. Microlancer
70. Visual.ly

Make Money Sharing & Creating Videos

71. YouTube Partner Program — Upload videos on YouTube and make money from ads.
72. Break — You can earn up to $600 if your Video is featured on Break.com homepage.
73. Dailymotion Publisher — Share Dailymotion videos on your website, blog and social profiles and get a share of their advertising revenue.
74. Dailymotion Official — Upload videos on Dailymotion to earn advertising revenue. And you earn extra revenue when those videos are shared on your own websites, blogs, social profiles, or any third-party websites.
75. Vimeo — Make money sharing videos on Vimeo.

Click Photos? Sell Your Photos & Graphics!

76. 123RF
77. Fotolia
78. Getty Images
79. iStock Photo
80. Shutterstock

Like To Do Micro-jobs?

Now you can offer your micro service online and get paid for it. You post what you’re willing to do for $5 or even $50 and get paid when you deliver the work. It’s that simple!

Micro-jobs Marketplace

81. Fiverr
82. PeoplePerHour
83. Amazon Mechanical Turk
84. Digital Point Services

    Have A Skill?

    Try any of the following freelance marketplaces to find freelance jobs or to sell your service. You can become a virtual assistant, manage the social media profiles of a company/person, design a website, design a logo, offer writing or translation service, develop a software, design a website, develop a web application, etc.

    Freelance Marketplace

85. Elance
86. Freelancer
87. Guru
88. oDesk

Offer Expert Advice

89. Clarity.fm — If you’re an expert in some field and can give expert advice, you can charge advice seeking users by the minute.

Be A Tutor

90. Udemy
91. Lynda
92. Skillshare
93. InstaEDU
94. TutorVista
95. Tutor
96. Google Helpouts (invite only)

Be A Tester

97. UserTesting.com — UserTesting.com pays you up to $15 per test to evaluate websites’ usability and clarity.
98. uTest — uTest compensates testers for approved reports they submit.

Sell, Sell, Sell

Today, online marketplaces are extremely popular and you can sell almost anything online.

Sell E-books

99. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing
100. iBooks
101. Blurb
102. ClickBank
103. E-junkie
104. Lulu
105. Scribd

     Sell Your Domain Names

106. BrandBucket — Sell your brandable domain names.
107. GoDaddy Auctions
108. Sedo

Sell Your Websites

109. Flippa
110. WebsiteBroker

Sell Everything Else

111. Amazon
112. Craigslist
113. eBay
114. Bonanza
115. Etsy — Sell all things handmade, vintage, and supplies.
116. Quirky — Got an innovative idea? You can sell it on Quirky and make money.

Create An Online Store

Create an online story by yourself and start selling your own products.

117. Shopify
118. Square
119. 3DCart
120. Goodsie
121. Gumroad

     Conclusion

     Of course, there are hundreds of other ways to make money online. But like I have already mentioned, the idea of this blog post is to explore different opportunities so that you can decide where to focus on.
     I haven’t included the not so easy ways to make money online like selling your apps or music or movies on iTunes, Google Play Store, Windows Store, Amazon etc.
     Let me know if I missed your favorite website (or an online income stream) and I will be happy to feature it here

24 IMPORTANT REASONS YOU SHOULD BLOG

Key Benefits of Blogging

Well, when you ask the majority of bloggers out there for the benefits of blogging opportunities, they could probably give you a long list of benefits blogging has brought them. Let us have a look at the twenty-four most important benefits blogging can bring you – personally, business-wise and academically.


#1. It Refines Your Writing Skills

First and foremost, blogging and blogger outreach offers you the biggest benefit of fine-tuning your writing skills. Once you start blogging, you want to write stuff that people will really want to read. In the process, you develop your own unique style of writing. With more and more practice, you can master the art of writing effectively, attractively and interestingly. So, blogging makes you an accomplished writer, as you can see. And who knows, you could soon plan to publish your first novel!

#2. It Increases Your Knowledge Base

One of the biggest benefits of blogging is that it broadens your knowledge base. If you focus on a niche industry, you continue increasing your knowledge about the industry, how things work in that field of work. Blogging gives you the excellent benefit of establishing yourself as an expert in your chosen niche or area of work.

#3. It Makes You a Better Researcher

Research is the backbone of all blogging. Many people may not like researching initially. But once they start a blog to write for, they find it unavoidable to do some research for writing informative posts that will be liked and shared by a large number of people. In an effort to provide readers with super quality blog posts, you tend to research more and more. Soon, researching becomes a habit for you. And the benefit is that you become a better researcher.

4. You’ll develop an eye for meaningful things.

By necessity, blogging requires a filter. It’s simply not possible to write about every event, every thought, and every happening in your life. Instead, blogging is a never-ending process of choosing to articulate the most meaningful events and the most important thoughts. This process of choice helps you develop an eye for meaningful things. And remember that sometimes the most meaningful things appear in the most mundane—but you’ll see what I mean once you get started.

5. It’ll lead to healthier life habits.

Blogging requires time, devotion, commitment, and discipline. And just to be clear, those are all good things to embrace – they will help you get the most out of your days and life. Blogging will provide opportunity for new life habits to emerge in yours.

6. You’ll meet new people.

Whether it be through comments, e-mails, or social media, you may be surprised at how quickly you meet people on-line. And by meet people, I mean legitimately form relationships that seek to serve one another. The blogging community is friendly, encouraging, and genuinely cheering for you to succeed—the only thing missing is you.

#7. It Earns You Name

As you continue to provide excellent quality posts to your readers, they get to know your better. They start to know about your passions, your likes and dislikes. By writing on topics of your interest, you establish yourself as a master of the subject. Ultimately, expertise brings you name and fame, as the number of your followers (or subscribers) keeps on swelling.

#8. It Connects You with Potential Bloggers

Believe me, blogging has a huge wonderful world of its own. Though you may not be aware of it initially, you soon get to know how blogging connects you with potential bloggers in your niche industry. When you keep on blogging, you get to know about other successful bloggers, get to read their ideas, thoughts and viewpoints.

#9. It Motivates You

Every one of us has times when we feel down in spirits. But as soon as you start to think that there are some passionate readers who really like you and care for you, it gives you a high. Even looking at the good stuff that you have given people to read motivates you. This is really one of the key benefits bloggers can get through blogging.

#10. It Earns You Income

Undoubtedly, blogging is one of those skills that you can turn into a full fledged profession. There are many who are earning a full time income out of it. Some of them have their own industry related blogs while others write for other established bloggers. However, you should be advised that there’s no shortcut to achieve blogging success. A lot of research, time, energy and effort go into making blogging earn you a decent income.

#11. You’ll inspire others.

Blogging not only changes your life, it also changes the life of the reader. And because blogs are free for the audience and open to the public, on many levels, it is an act of giving. It is a selfless act of service to invest your time, energy, and worldview into a piece of writing and then offer it free to anybody who wants to read it. Others will find inspiration in your writing… and that’s a wonderful feeling.

#12. You’ll become more well-rounded in your mindset.

 After all, blogging is an exercise in give-and-take. One of the greatest differences between blogging and traditional publishing is the opportunity for readers to offer input. As the blog’s writer, you introduce a topic that you feel is significant and meaningful. You take time to lay out a subject in the minds of your readers and offer your thoughts on the topic. Then, the readers get to respond. And often times, their responses in the comment section challenge us to take a new, fresh look at the very topic we thought was so important in the first place.

#13. It’s free.

Your blog can begin today without spending a single penny now (or ever).
I use WordPress and highly recommend it. With an initial investment of $0, why not give it a shot? Or for just a few dollars/month, you can use your very own domain name.

#14. You’ll become more comfortable being known.

Blogging introduces yourself to the world. It causes you to articulate the life you live and the worldview behind the decisions that you make. Whether you have 1 reader or 10,000, the blogging process opens up your life to those on the outside. It is a good exercise in human-existence to be known by others. Over time, you’ll reveal more and more of yourself to the outside world… and you’ll be excited to find a world that relates to you and enjoys hearing your story.

#15. It’ll serve as a personal journal.

 Blogging serves many of the same roles as a personal journey. It trains us to be observant and gives weight to the personal growth that we are experiencing. It trains our minds to track life and articulate the changes we are experiencing. Your blog becomes a digital record of your life that is saved “in the cloud.” As a result, it can never be lost, stolen, or destroyed in a fire.

#16. You’ll become more confident.

Blogging will help you discover more confidence in your life. You will quickly realize that you do live an important life with a unique view and have something to offer others.

#17. You’ll find a platform to recommend.

We all love to recommend something we have found enjoyable or beneficial—whether it be a nice restaurant, a good book, or a new outlook on life. The fullness of joy is not experienced until we have shared that joy with others. A blog provides an opportunity to do that very thing. It provides a platform to share the joy we have experienced and recommend good things we have discovered to others.

#18. It’s quite a rush with every positive comment.

There’s a certain little rush that accompanies the immediate positive feedback that you receive every time a reader posts a comment, shares your writing on Facebook, or tweets it out to their Twitter followers. While walking the fine line between finding encouragement in that feedback and obsessing over it may take some time to get used to, it’s far better to find that line than to never seek it out in the first place.

#19. It is a Low Cost Marketing Device

A well maintained and regularly updated blog happens to be a cheap marketing device. With a quality blog, you can instantly inform your consumers of the recently launched products and services much before you think to promote them through other media channels.

#20 It offers Ease of Web Publishing

Thanks to the availability of easy-to-use blogging software. With an automated blog software, you don’t need a web designer managing the technical aspects. With an easy-to-use blogging software like WordPress (one of the most preferred), you can easily publish posts all by yourself.

#21. It Helps You Manage Your Online Reputation

Today, brands have become worried about managing their reputation online. If you are facing any kind of negative press, you can counter it with the help of a blog.

#22. It Keeps You Ahead of Your Competition

Blogging is a great way to stay ahead of your competitors. In today’s competitive industry, a blog helps you inform your consumers of the way you work, how you differ from others and how your services are way above from your competitors.

#23. It is a Great Tool for Relational Marketing

A blog can prove to be a powerful too for building long-term relationships with your consumers. By posting unbiased and heartfelt articles to your blog, you can earn the much-needed trust from your potential customers to drive business growth.

#24. It is an Excellent Social Media Marketing Device

Popular social media websites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace and social bookmarking websites like StumbleUpon and Digg can give you amazing results with you blog. If a single blog article goes viral on these sites, you can a surge of new site visitors. In addition, the viral content can result in a number of quality inbound links.

Remember, you don’t need to blog as a means to get rich or as a means to gather a huge following. You don’t even need to blog as a means to change the Internet… the change that a blog will cause in your life is reason enough.

Different people blog for different reasons. For some, blogging is an excellent means of satisfying their personal ego. Many people blog because they earn a full-time income out of it. There are others who blog for academic benefits. Once you have stepped into the world of blogging, you’ll know how beneficial it can be in a number of ways. I came across a college student who blogged only to prove that he was making the best use of the internet connection his father got him. Funny, isn’t it?

106 Famous Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneur

Are you an Entrepreneur? If so I’ve mined the Internet for Best Quotes on Entrepreneurship to inspire and motivate you. I’m sharing 106 of them which I liked the most. Please feel free to leave your valuable comments below and let me know what do you feel about the same!


Famous Quotes on Entrepreneurship

1.     I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
2.     The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
3.     Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
4.     Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn
5.     An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash
6.     The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect. – Adam Osborne
7.     A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. – John C. Maxwell
8.     Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. - E. Joseph Cossman
9.     Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein
10.     You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. – Steve Jobs
11.     Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. – Fortune Cookie
12.     Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
13.     The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. – Peter F. Drucker
14.     If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti
15.     If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. – Brian Tracy
16.     The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. – Michael Gerber
17.     As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump
18.     Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson
19.     The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. – Silvio Berlusconi
20.     Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
21.     A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
22.     If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill
23.     I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
24.     In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby
25.     Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. – W. Clement Stone
26.     Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennet
27.     Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution. – Jeffrey Gitomer
28.     Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. – Henry Ford
29.     Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. –  Napoleon Hill
30.     Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. – W. Clement Stone
31.     Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. – Jim Rohn
32.     Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
33.     The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker
34.     You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. – Robert Collier
35.     A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell
36.     For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. – Bo Bennett
37.     Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. – Natalie Clifford Barney
38.     Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
39.     I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. – Henry Ford
40.     You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar
41.     Every choice you make has an end result. – Zig Ziglar
42.     Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn
43.     Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain
44.     Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me? – Brian Tracy
45.     A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill
46.     Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker
47.     Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. – Napoleon Hill
48.     The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader
49.     Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. – Jim Rohn
50.     Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. – Dale Carnegie
51.     All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. – Napoleon Hill
52.     Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napoleon Hill
53.     The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius
54.     One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide
55.     Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. - Jim Rohn
56.     If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got! – Alan Scott
57.     Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. – Anon
58.     Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie
59.     Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin
60.     If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. – Zig Ziglar
61.     The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. – Jim Rohn
62.     An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
63.     There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley
64.     The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
65.     I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life.. it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. – Walt Disney
66.     Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. – W. Clement Stone
67.     Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill
68.     Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. – Jim Rohn
69.     Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
70.     If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos
71.     Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. – Tim Blixseth
72.     I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got. - Alan Bond
73.     Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. – Mark Cuban
74.     Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle
75.     You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. – John Lennon
76.     Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. – Jim Rohn
77.     If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti
78.     If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone
79.     Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success – Henry Ford
80.     Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have – Zig Ziglar
81.     The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis
82.     Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. – General George Patton
83.     If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. – Bo Bennett
84.     In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. – David Ogilvy
85.     Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar
86.     In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
87.     Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero
88.     Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill
89.     The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli
90.     Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty
91.     I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. – Jack Welch
92.     You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. – Les Brown
93.     I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan
94.     Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. – Jack Welch
95.     If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. – Jack Welch
96.     As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. – James Cash Penney
97.     Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves. – Zig Ziglar
98.     It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. – James Cash Penney
99.     If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
100.     Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t. – Unknown
101.     You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired. – Unknown
102.     The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. – Albert Einstein
103.     Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer
104.     Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford
105.     What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
106.     Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration. – Thomas Edison

How to Discover Your Life Passion

How to Discover Your Life Passion

If you could do one thing to transform your life, I would highly recommend it be to find something you’re passionate about, and do it for a living.

Now, this isn’t as easy as it sounds, but it’s well worth the effort. If you dread going to your job, or find yourself constantly lacking motivation, or find what you’re doing dull and repetitive, you need to start looking for a new job. Staying in your current job will not only continue to make you unhappy, but you are not realizing your full potential in life.

Imagine this instead: you get up early, jumping out of bed, excited to go to work. You might put in more hours than the average person, but it doesn’t seem difficult to you, because your work hours just zoom right by. You are often in that state of mind often referred to as “flow,” where you can lose track of the world and time, losing yourself in the task at hand. Work is not work as many people refer to it, but something that is fun and interesting and exciting. It’s not a “job” but a passion.

If you’ve got a job you dislike, or even hate, this will sound like a pipe dream to you. And if you never put in the effort to find what you’re passionate about, you’re right: such a thing will never be possible. But dare to dream, dare to imagine the possibilities, and dare to actually search for what you love, and it is not only a possibility, but a probability.

How can you find what you’re passionate about? Here are some suggestions:

    Is there something you already love doing? Do you have a hobby, or something you loved doing as a child, but never considered it as a possibility? Whether it’s reading comic books, collecting something, making something, creating or building, there is probably a way you could do it for a living. Open a comic book shop, or create a comic book site online. If there’s already something you love doing, you’re ahead of the game. Now you just need to research the possibilities of making money from it.
    What do you spend hours reading about? For myself, when I get passionate about something, I’ll read about it for hours on end. I’ll buy books and magazines. I’ll spend days on the Internet finding out more. There may be a few possibilities here for you … and all of them are possible career paths. Don’t close your mind to these topics. Look into them.
    Brainstorm. Nothing comes to mind right away? Well, get out a sheet of paper, and start writing down ideas. Anything that comes to mind, write it down. Look around your house, on your computer, on your bookshelf, for inspirations, and just write them down. There are no bad ideas at this stage. Write everything down, and evaluate them later.
    Ask around, and surf for possibilities. Ask other people for ideas. See what others have discovered as their passions. Look all over the Internet for ideas. The more possibilities you find, the more likely your chances of finding your true passion.
    Don’t quit your job just yet. If you find your calling, your passion, don’t just turn in your resignation tomorrow. It’s best to stay in your job while you’re researching the possibilities. If you can do your passion as a side job, and build up the income for a few months or a year, that’s even better. It gives you a chance to build up some savings (and if you’re going into business for yourself, you’ll need that cash reserve), while practicing the skills you need. See below for more.
    Give it a try first. It’s best to actually test your new idea before jumping into it as a career. Do it as a hobby or side job at first, so that you can see if it’s really your true calling. You may be passionate about it for a few days, but where the rubber meets the road is whether you’re passionate about it for at least a few months. If you pass this test, you have probably found it.
    Do as much research as possible. Know as much about your passion as possible. If this has been a passion for awhile, you may have already been doing this. At any rate, do even more research. Read every website possible on the topic, and buy the best books available. Find other people, either in your area or on the Internet, who do what you want to do for a living, and quiz them about the profession. How much do they make? What training and education did they need? What skills are necessary? How did they get their start? What recommendations do they have. Often you’ll find that people are more than willing to give advice.
    Practice, and practice, and practice some more. Don’t go into it with amateur skill level. If you want to make money — to be a professional — you need to have professional skills. Get very good at your future career and you will make money at it. Practice for hours on end. If it’s something you love, the practice should be something you want to do.
    Never quit trying. Can’t find your passion at first? Give up after a few days and you’re sure to fail. Keep trying, for months on end if necessary, and you’ll find it eventually. Thought you found your passion but you got tired of it? No problem! Start over again and find a new passion. There may be more than one passion in your lifetime, so explore all the possibilities. Found your passion but haven’t been successful making a living at it? Don’t give up. Keep trying, and try again, until you succeed. Success doesn’t come easy, so giving up early is a sure way to fail. Keep trying, and you’ll get there.

What I’ve outlined here is a lot of work … but it will be the best investment you’ve ever made. Follow your passion, and you will be truly happy and incredibly fulfilled. I wish you the wildest successes of your wildest dreams!