Happy Thursday Folks!
It is time to celebrate. I talk a lot of talk about a side hustle and starting businesses but truth be told it is not an easy path.
I have tried at most of the side hustle that I share in this newsletter at one level or another but at the end of the day I don’t usually stick with them… a few bucks on eBay… a couple of cat hair brushes sold on a Shopify store… a half-built affiliate marketing website… and the list goes on.
Maybe you can relate? Or maybe you can’t. Maybe you have also tried lots of side hustles or maybe you have not.
Either way, this one is for you.
For the sake of making the newsletter sustainable for myself and hopefully more interesting to you, I try to be as transparent as possible and pass on to you guys anything that is relevant and valuable for our journey together.
And this brings me to today’s good news. I landed my very first writing client! Yay.
I know I am always talking the talk but I am really trying to also walk the walk.
It’s important to share the wins and the losses so I try to do both but today it is definitely a win.
Screenshots are fun so I’ll drop it right here:
Wooh!
Turns out you can make money online and after failing at many things I have managed to get some legitimate traction.
So yea I am giving myself a pat on the back but more importantly, I am breaking a barrier for us all. Maybe you need some extra money or are getting let go from your job, maybe you want to change careers but don’t know where to start, well over the past year I have been all of those things so I know what it’s like. And if I can do this then so can you!
With all that is going on right now in our world, it has never been more important to diversify your assets. Some of my best friends and family are literally being fired these very weeks from what society has always deemed the “safe” and “secure” jobs. I won’t get started on how wrong that is but I will get started on relying solely on a “boss” a “union”, a “company” or God forbid a “government”.
Fuck that.
Now is the time for the independents, the entrepreneurs, and the warriors. Don’t outsource your power and don’t outsource your income. The sooner you can opt-out of the broken and corrupt systems that our society operates under the better.
So don’t start tomorrow start today.
It took me a long time to finally get some traction so I will never promise you can just make this shift overnight. But you can start! You can do something small each day to start building your own thing, creating your own assets, offering your own services.
If you want to do this but don’t know how then just keep reading this newsletter or shoot me an email. I don’t have all the answers and I have failed far more than I have succeeded but I am learning like a MF and sharing it all, and that is worth something.
I hope you don’t mind the constantly evolving nature of this newsletter but hey, I figure you will enjoy reading it when I enjoy writing it, so I am gonna keep things playful.
With that being said my number one tip for you this week is to just get started!
Maybe it’s not financial maybe you’re depressed. Maybe you're overweight or chronically ill. Maybe you are lonely and don’t know how to meet people. Whatever it is this is the day to start, to take a step, to move forward. Just one step.
I love you all and I’m rootin’ for you each and every day.
P.S. If you want to learn more about my journey with online copywriting and how I am making money with it then come follow me on Twitter. I am literally documenting the whole process as it unfolds. Find me @reallife_ed and let’s learn together.
Yours in the righteous revolution,
Ben