What else can i do to make money from my site

Okay, I took a quick look at both of your sites, and here's what I see.

I totally get what the other folks who have chimed in are saying about needing a plan...the websites have some really good information, but they're not "focused," for lack of a better word.

What I mean by that is this: The TOPIC of the websites in question are easy enough to discern, but if you want to make money with it, then the topic and your offer need to have something to do with one another.

Think about your own web surfing experiences. How many times have YOU gone to a website about investing and bought web hosting or text books? (two of the offers on that site). Odds are, if you're on a site about investing, you're inclined (or may be inclined) to buy something that has to do with investing. Now, maybe that's an e-book, or a video course, or an enrollment in a stock trading company, or the Financial Times or something...the point is, each of THOSE offers directly relates to what you're talking about on your page, and that synergy will take you quite far in making some sales (and btw, your articles are quite good on the investing site...the title "Income Recycling Heals Generational Poverty" both caught my eye and proved to be an excellent read, so the raw materials are certainly in place!

The second site is on motivation, and it suffers from that same basic lack of focus that the first one does. Again, in your own surfing, have you EVER gone to a motivational type website to buy web hosting or Amazon gift cards? What sorts of things WOULD you be inclined to purchase from such a site? Answer that question (or better yet, start a squidoo lens ASKING that question in a poll and collect the results from a wider audience), and you'll be more than halfway there.

In both cases, the adsense is fine on the site, because Adsense is a bit of an odd bird in the IM universe. The whole IDEA behind adsense being that you want your visitors to leave (ie - click an ad), so what you're really doing is providing yourself a vehicle to profit from the folks who visit you but didn't find quite what they were looking for on your site.

Bear in mind that none of your ads/offers are optimally place for viewer response (golden triangle), but that's a tweak, not a fundamental flaw.

All told...you've got good material, and with some tweaks (better placement and more focus and synergy between your content and your offers), you can start making money.

Once those things are in place, it's just a matter of marketing to the keywords you're zeroed in on (and I'm assuming here that proper research has already taken place before you started building).

-=Vel=-