Assorted Thoughts on Website Buying, Selling and Monetizing

Myth: You need to work hard to make money online - Part II

In Part I I explained that what I wanted to do was make a decent living without working too hard.

But what's wrong with the good ol' fashioned Protestant Work Ethic?

Nothing!

It can get you to where you want to go.

But...

If there's a better route you'd be stupid to insist on working hard for the sake of working hard.

And I needed to find that better way.

My son was coming up to two and his baby sister had arrived. A couple of years later they were destined to be joined by another baby. Three kids. And they were all destined to see dad once a year at Christmas if he could get a couple of hours off. That's so not what I wanted.

My goal was to be there for every event in their little lives - to attend every parents' evening at their schools, join in the dad's race every sports day, cheer them at their swimming and football practice, take them blackberry picking in autumn, teach them to cycle without stabilisers in spring, push a dinghy out with them in summer, build snowmen in winter ...read stories to them every night. I wanted a life free from having to work for a living.

Doesn't everyone?

One small snag: I had a decent B&M business making a comfortable six figure sum (in pounds sterling) every year. Giving it up would free me, but I'd be on the dole queue. Not exactly what I wanted.

So I started looking around at people I mentioned in the previous post who had a lot of money. I didn't get to socialise with them but I could read about them in books, I could investigate them on the internet, I could find out how they got rich. Exclude the inheritance route. I had no rich uncle waiting to die. I also mentioned coming up with a good idea, having the right contacts and making the clever bets.

But I had neither idea nor contacts. And I had a bad history with bets.

Were there other ways? Could I make it without contacts, ideas, special skills, right bets, big investments or rich uncles. Oh, and no marketing. I hate marketing!

Then I discovered a simple truth that blew my mind.

Part III when I can be bothered to do a bit of work. Apologies in advance for the delay to both this part and the next one. Remember, I'm not selling you anything at the end of this. No ebook. No course. I don't have any incentive to do this... so you need to bear with me till the next time I'm bored