Money is a virtual fuel that the modern world uses to facilitate most processes in The Game of Life. It’s supported by nothing other than our mutual agreement and trust that it holds value.
You should understand money – it is a tool and it’s most effective when used rationally rather than emotionally. Money can’t buy happiness or love, but is connected to freedom that gives space for everything beautiful in life to exist. Money is a trap word. It is a concept of quantity and our brains can’t really deal with this intuitively. Maths and Game of Life knowledge alone won’t do it. You need to know what’s possible in your relationship with money and understand your Game of Self barriers.
The golden question is: Do you want to be structurally dependent for your own security or choose your own way and having freedom? The day job is structured like a dictatorship. To work for yourself is like living in a democracy. Everything is a mess. You have freedom to try a lot of things. You get to learn and improve. Progress comes with change, not stability. No job can give you the same diverse experience at the same time.
Most people who work at day jobs consistently refuse to make leaps to better jobs or leave the labor market altogether so they can have the freedom of working for themselves. People are held back by inertia, resist change, underestimate themselves and overestimate potential trouble. And all of this is fantastic for you. There are billions of completely economically sound business ideas (ones that have more demand than supply) for new products and services.
Choosing an idea seems hard but think about it as testing with minimal resources while getting experience as added value, learning by doing.
When you focus on easy to try activities, you can try a lot of them and this is the actual way you can find a profitable niche. And it’s profitable because it’s hard to understand for the others and you’ll already in it, trying. Now you have all the time in the world to understand it and improve and scale while earning.
A good hint is to do something that uses an underlying foundation that not all people understand. Just test every possible variation of the easy-to-try and hard-to-understand niche you’ve found, so you can also have the most fun.
The economy changes and constantly opens and shuts doors. So when you find a good niche, don’t hesitate. When you’re profitable but scaling options are no longer visible, search for another niche to add to your activities. It will likely be on the same foundation, so half your work is already done.
Earn as many big chunks of easy and fun money as possible. Aim to have enough money so you don’t have to care about expenses like rent and food. Invest in yourself and your life and work.
You can find your way to fun and meaning when you already earn money and have found freedom. We can fight rising inequality together by attracting wealth and then sharing.
