I know, I know .. right! Got to stop hanging out online in the evening with my American pals!
Last night I revealed my “Debt Free Number” to my pal in Las Vegas. Its high enough to make me go ouch!! .. but surprisingly enough not high enough that I didn’t sleep last night.
I feel I can tackle this although its on a different order of magnitude than before . .becasue I also know that I have lots of existing skills I can draw on to start to chip away at this.
BTW – Big Number reveal and breakdown is coming I am just waiting for the last few pieces of data!
Frankly .. and I know this sounds utterly potty .. but the number is big enough that I will never, ever be able to quickly pay this off working a job for someone else.
So I guess – just over two weeks since I left my last position I am now plunging into the whole “self-employed and bricking it” phase of my life again!
I need more control over my income – in that I need to be able to toss in a few 100 hour weeks here and there and get rewarded for it directly .. rather than promises that are never kept!
To set off and tackle a massive goal also means switching up my mindset a lot.
The skills that got me here .. are not the skills that will necessarily get me out the other end and back on a financial even keel.
It would be very comforting to think that I “know everything I need” but I am too long in the tooth to think I that this is the case.
I have already identified a whole heap of things that I need to be able to do to run my new business .. and that means I really need to “Get some skillz girlfriend”
BUT … and I am tossing in a great big ugly “But” in here .. I know what I am like .. I can completely lose myself in heading off in the “let’s learn how to do this stuff” phase and at the moment this number is big enough that I need to focusing on the “create great value, generate great revenue phase”
So it’s not a case of “Learn OR Earn” .. its case that both have to happen simultaneously!
I know I need to learn how to get better at building my email list; setting up webpages; creating affiliate programmes;; building online courses; creating sales funnels …… all of which is like taking a wander in a foreign land where the confident inhabitants speak a language I do not yet understand.
So … first things first …. an immediate mini-cash flow project has to get set up. Not a fortune project – more a keep the fridge full project whilst I figure out the rest.
Cos – -although I need to get me some skillz! I also need to feed the kids. Right?
So its 7am Thursday morning .. I am giving myself until 7am Saturday morning to create and launch something that will earn me the £700 it will take to keep our heads above the waterline next month.
Time for a Mind Map I think to get my head straight and work our the quickest route map I can.
Keep you all posted XX
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I would subscribe to the forum again, if it got back up and running. How about a payment sliding scale for using it? Our Quaker guest house in Glenthorne does that for it’s guests depending on their means. I know a forum isn’t the same as a guesthouse but…
We got spammed to heck and back with the forum – and I really got sucked into spending so much time blocking and removing posts that it stopped me from doing so much.
Maybe I will put my thinking cap on and come up with “come and play” ideas through XX
Good luck with the brain storming.
I’m about the same number per month for paying the bills, need to find another £200 per month to stay the same, 3 more clients a month should do it but people are weary of having a massage after all the government advice on keeping your distance from each other, not good for a hands on treatment.
That’s a difficult one – here is to hoping that we all continue with the social distancing so that we can all be confident doing our normal routines again really soon XX
Yes I really don’t want to go back to being a cleaner in a nursing home, did that for 24 1/2 years, I like working my own hours. Looking at a couple of ideas.
I think we can all reach that point of “no more!” .. would love to hear what you decide .. when you decide it XX
Will let you know when I sort out what I’m doing. xx
Would you consider doing aYoutube channel Elaine? I would subscribe and I’m sure many others would too!