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Make. Money. Online.
Chieftess
Published on January 21, 2013
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So you want to make money online.
Did you ever ask yourself why?
I will tell you why I want to.
I want to be free. I don't want to be tied to a job or to a desk. I want -- well, actually what I really want is to be able to travel where I want to go. I can't because I have to go to work in the morning; I have to be *at that place* to *make my money*.
I don't really want to *travel*, travel. I want to see the beautiful places in the world of course but what I want is the freedom to be where I want to be. My son lives all the way across the country from me -- I would love to go visit him, whenever I wanted to, instead of counting not just money but the time off of work, leveraging that against how much time I might need if I get sick, or to do something else.
I don't really like my job. I don't hate it either. It's a good job, it's actually nonconstricting as far as jobs go. The problem is I don't care about it too much. I am the last person in the world who would stay at a job because of the health insurance but this is basically what I am doing -- huge urgings in my heart balance against that every day and i think...eh. What am I doing here. I wanna go...somewhere else.
So creating an online business is not, for me, about working from home or getting a second income to pay the mortgage, and certainly NOT about getting rich. To me it's about freedom, plain and simple. I want to be where *I* want to be.
So that's why I want an online business. Not so I can live in Bali and put up pictures of myself on top of a mountain on my website; but so I can be absolutely free.
But I always had this problem -- this question: If I am doing a job -- work -- online that means nothing to me, it is then a chore; an enslavement. It's for the same reason -- to get the money to pay the bills. I would still be doing exactly what I didn't want to do all day, just in another format, possibly a different town or apartment. But it's the same thing as being tied to a desk, doing something *all day long* that does not feed your spirit.
Now I look at these people...online marketers who we run into a lot of the time out here -- and I realize I am not like them. I don't want *money*. I want a meaningful life. I want my work to mean something; as much as my life means something. A massive bank account with commissions pouring in is a good thing, don't get me wrong, I'd love that to happen, but not...in a meaningless way, not because I tricked people into clicking on a link or made them sign up for somethingorother that sucks 9.95 out of their bank accounts every month for no reason they can remember.
It's not that I think these things are cheating, or dishonest. They just have no value. Why would I want to spend any part of my life, all day long, making something *of no value*? What fun is that?
I am unable to get myself moving to MAKE MONEY ONLINE because it's just not in my value set to think that way. I don't think *getting money from people* is the ultimate goal or even success. I think about what I want to express. I think about what I would like to think about and work on all day -- for the benefit of others. I think about how I want to help, what I want to *say*.
That -- more than freedom, more than money, more than anything, is the opportunity I see when I think about making a living online,.To develop my honest and authentic contribution to the world, that is *not* a miserably meaningless thing to do all day long. My chance to be myself, all day long.
This is why I have trouble getting going on something like endlessly promoting products for Amazon on Squidoo pages. It's why for years I couldn't get really excited about this proposition of making money online because all I ever heard about was how to trick the search engines. I don't want to make a living tricking search engines. I don't *want* to get money for nothing -- well okay sure I do, but I am not motivated in the least to put any effort into it. I want to offer service and value to others and profit thereby.
So for me...when I think about this endeavor it is really nothing at all about making money online. It is about having a life that is more meaningful, freer and more authentic. And that, to me, is a better life.
That's why I'm here.
What about you?
Did you ever ask yourself why?
I will tell you why I want to.
I want to be free. I don't want to be tied to a job or to a desk. I want -- well, actually what I really want is to be able to travel where I want to go. I can't because I have to go to work in the morning; I have to be *at that place* to *make my money*.
I don't really want to *travel*, travel. I want to see the beautiful places in the world of course but what I want is the freedom to be where I want to be. My son lives all the way across the country from me -- I would love to go visit him, whenever I wanted to, instead of counting not just money but the time off of work, leveraging that against how much time I might need if I get sick, or to do something else.
I don't really like my job. I don't hate it either. It's a good job, it's actually nonconstricting as far as jobs go. The problem is I don't care about it too much. I am the last person in the world who would stay at a job because of the health insurance but this is basically what I am doing -- huge urgings in my heart balance against that every day and i think...eh. What am I doing here. I wanna go...somewhere else.
So creating an online business is not, for me, about working from home or getting a second income to pay the mortgage, and certainly NOT about getting rich. To me it's about freedom, plain and simple. I want to be where *I* want to be.
So that's why I want an online business. Not so I can live in Bali and put up pictures of myself on top of a mountain on my website; but so I can be absolutely free.
But I always had this problem -- this question: If I am doing a job -- work -- online that means nothing to me, it is then a chore; an enslavement. It's for the same reason -- to get the money to pay the bills. I would still be doing exactly what I didn't want to do all day, just in another format, possibly a different town or apartment. But it's the same thing as being tied to a desk, doing something *all day long* that does not feed your spirit.
Now I look at these people...online marketers who we run into a lot of the time out here -- and I realize I am not like them. I don't want *money*. I want a meaningful life. I want my work to mean something; as much as my life means something. A massive bank account with commissions pouring in is a good thing, don't get me wrong, I'd love that to happen, but not...in a meaningless way, not because I tricked people into clicking on a link or made them sign up for somethingorother that sucks 9.95 out of their bank accounts every month for no reason they can remember.
It's not that I think these things are cheating, or dishonest. They just have no value. Why would I want to spend any part of my life, all day long, making something *of no value*? What fun is that?
I am unable to get myself moving to MAKE MONEY ONLINE because it's just not in my value set to think that way. I don't think *getting money from people* is the ultimate goal or even success. I think about what I want to express. I think about what I would like to think about and work on all day -- for the benefit of others. I think about how I want to help, what I want to *say*.
That -- more than freedom, more than money, more than anything, is the opportunity I see when I think about making a living online,.To develop my honest and authentic contribution to the world, that is *not* a miserably meaningless thing to do all day long. My chance to be myself, all day long.
This is why I have trouble getting going on something like endlessly promoting products for Amazon on Squidoo pages. It's why for years I couldn't get really excited about this proposition of making money online because all I ever heard about was how to trick the search engines. I don't want to make a living tricking search engines. I don't *want* to get money for nothing -- well okay sure I do, but I am not motivated in the least to put any effort into it. I want to offer service and value to others and profit thereby.
So for me...when I think about this endeavor it is really nothing at all about making money online. It is about having a life that is more meaningful, freer and more authentic. And that, to me, is a better life.
That's why I'm here.
What about you?
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