The Snowball Effect

I wanted to cover in brief a common misconception that I keep seeing time and time again both here and elsewhere in these forums.

Your focus should be on stacking your time, efforts, and energy towards future rewards, rather than trading time for money.

I see a huge number of people saying that they'd be "satisfied if I could just make $1 a day", or if they could just "make $100 a week", etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.., and asking how they can get to there, with as little work possible, and then just sit back and get by.

In my opinion: this is the wrong mindset.

That's the "trading time for money" mindset. Wanting to get to a consistent, and measly $1 a day, or $10 a day. That's wanting the level of consistency of a job, and being willing to put in roughly the same effort.

Working in a job is straight forward. It's long and difficult in that sense, but it requires very little long term planning and thinking for your future. If you're looking for an online job to make $10-$30 a day, write cheap articles, and trade your time for money. That's your choice.

But if you are sick of trading time and effort for money, then stop thinking like that. You should be thinking of your earnings as an upwards curve.

They should start at 0, and then stay, really, really low, but slowly, overtime, they build upon themselves. This should exist, regardless of whether or not you're using an increasing list, an increasing number of articles on article sites, an increasing number of niche sites. Your efforts should be building upon themselves and steadily increasing.

This is the difference between buying a house and renting. It's the difference between staying at a static level and increasing. Rather than focusing on the small, right in front of you, details, you should be looking towards the big picture, and stacking all of your efforts towards it.

When you rent, you pay a flat fee, and you get to live in a location. When you buy a house, you pay a flat (larger and more complex) fee, but your efforts are stacking towards owning that house. All of your efforts are going towards future rewards.

A large number of WSOs keep you in this homeostasis point. Buy a WSO, make a little money on some of them, buy more WSOs, rather than stacking towards the future.

Numerous, unbiased studies have, and continue to show that those who are successful in any field, get that way by putting their efforts towards future success, while taking a cut in the immediate present.

So don't be afraid to sacrifice some ease of implementation, don't be afraid to be creative and take risks outside of the boxes that are so carefully designed to keep your earnings on a flat, even, never increasing line, and try to stack ALL of your efforts toward future, larger pay offs rather than scraping for a couple of bucks now.