How to get rich and be happy working and doing what you like

Are you feeling trapped in a dead end job? Maybe it's getting harder and harder to make ends meet and you feel as if there isn't any light at the end of the tunnel and the job you are in is the job you will always be in, possibly die in and it's killing you and leaving you feeling empty inside. Do not despair! Take a look at some of my tips and just maybe, if you're willing to see things from a different angle, we can get you on the fast track to doing something you love and having fun and making a profit at the same time!

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

• Graph paper
• A purple/blue/black ink pen
• some time alone
• a free mind
• brainstorming sessions
• imagination
• a positive spirit
• perseverance
• patience
• enthusiasm

1. Quiet Time Alone. This is the very first thing you need. Don't start to attempt this if you've still got to put the kids to bed, or have hampers of ironing to do, or have im's popping up while you set to plan. You need some quiet time to devise your plan. So the very first thing is to find some time alone where you can think. Take a pad of graph paper and a pen with you. Hide in the closet under the stairs if you have to, but this is essential, get yourself alone.
2. CLEAR THE CANVAS. This is another all important step. You need to close your eyes and take a few deep breaths and get all the day's events out of your head. You need to clear your mind. Use what ever method you can employ. Some people will think of a fog and have it fill their mind until all the troubles of the day vanish in its smokiness. Others will employ the thoughts of thinking of the sound of one hand clapping, or if a tree makes a sound when it falls in a forrest and there is no one there to hear it-does it make a sound? Whatever method you can use, clear the clutter of the day from your brain.
3. START WRITING. Begin by writing down what it is that you absolutely love to do. No one is there to judge you. If you like collecting butterflies, write that down. If you like skipping rope, write that down. If you make the best darn cookies in the world, write that down. Write write write. Maybe it's golf you love, or baseball, or miniature golf. Let yourself go. Fill up the entire pad if you have to, but get all your wildest imaginings down. Careful not to include your spouse or partner.Remember this exercise is all about you. Write down things you enjoy in the solitary. If you can sell your spouse/partner/significant other on it later, than so be it. But in the planning stages, start out alone.
4. HOMEWORK. Okay, this then is the next step...define how what you love can be something translated into something that can make you a profit. If you like butterfly collecting for example, you can catch one, photograph it, create a t-shirt with the image on a site like cafepress.com (which lets you create and earn money) and a slogan such as, "All butterflies are NOT free, unleash your mind" and then you've started the beginning of your empire.
5. SATURATE. Once you discover what it is that makes you happy..like golf, or maybe knitting your next step is to go about learning all you can about this thing. Make sure it's something you love. As the passion grows, so will your abilities to get yourself where you need to be to create a business, a company and a life out of what you love. Maybe you like to bake cookies...(like Famous Amos) well start cooking and then study up on how to market your product (maybe at a local deli?) and how to mass produce...let your passion drive you. Keep the day job, but let every waking moment outside the mill or the factory or the corporate job or receptionist job, or whereever your dead end work-a-day self lives be focused on achieving this dream. Let your passion drive you. Remember that the sitcoms, nights at the bar, bowling or chat rooms will not advance your future. Use your spare time towards your dream.
6. EMPLOY the "What's the worst that could happen?" mentality. In this I mean..so you have the penchant passion for making these really awful and ugly sweatshirts with little kittens (Hello Kitty?) on them. And you learn how to silk screen the product and you make a few of them and you put them out there and they don't sell. So you were passionate about it. If you truly allow your passion to go further, you will find out why they didn't sell-do your own market research, go online, investigate, how to make it better, how to make if faster? Did you do all the research? Did you study the market? Did you find out why this kitten didn't sell? Whatever it is, discover it and let it fly. Let your passion fuel you.
7. Let others in the past who did what you are doing motivate you. Let's say that you've designed a new line of makeup and want to leave your nursing job...well enter in Canadian Nurse, Elizabeth Arden. That was her idea...and just look at empire now. The same goes for HJ Heinz who built his empire out of poverty. You can do this. They didn't have then all of the technology that we have now. You can achieve your goals! Or how about Estee Lauder who marketed her makeup from door to door. She was un-relentless. Nothing could stop her. Why? Passion and maybe a little poverty. She had mouths to feed and she had a dream, a goal, a sense of purpose and a verve and drive like no other. Be that person. Be that dream. She had a dream and she followed it. Maybe you have an idea for a website based on your stamp collection, find a need and fill it, but let it be your passion and your love for something that fuels your enterprise. This is the true secret of success. Work hard, work smart, and fuel your ideas from a source deep within your soul.
8. REMEMBER that we are remarkable creatures and we are capable of anything. It is the stale thinking in the universe that surrounds us,this man-made universe, that pull us down and keep us there in dead end self created cages. "The Sedentary Life and the Idol Mind" should be the motto inscribe on whatever marble statue we attribute to their greatness. People WAKE UP! We must think outside whatever that man-made corrugated box is in our lives and make a life for ourselves-one that is productive and creative, the nourishes us and fulfills our needs as human beings. Let's get out of the factory. Let us stop being cogs in a machine made by someone we've never even met. Get going. And don't ever look back, don't you ever look back. Most of the people who make it in this world with an idea or a dream will tell you that they do so because they never stop to think that they will fail. How were the pyramids built? They didn't know it could not be done - so they went ahead and built them, some dying while they built them taking as long as ten years! You can do it! And don't listen to naysayers and pointers of gloom and doom. They are everywhere and we all have them in our lives. Pay them no mind. Pursue your dream on your own and you will find a zeal in your life that you've never experienced before. You'll find happiness in just getting up in the morning, knowing that when the work day is done, that's when you go to work - for yourself. And if at some point you fall off the horse and feel discouraged, get up and keep going. And if this dream doesn't quite work out, go back to that drawing board, that closet under the stairs, that hallway, or parking lot where you get your head together and try again. Invent a new dream. If people didn't dream, if people didn't think beyond what we all know to be true, then, well we wouldn't have the internet, and we wouldn't have scanners, and we certainly wouldn't have all of the wonderful new foods, and faces and sounds that enable us to live in one of the greatest time periods that this world has ever known. This is your chance to do something. Never before have there been such opportunities for anyone anywhere to get ahead with a dream. What is your dream? After awhile, once you're thing hits, you won't even realize that you've arrived, because getting there will have been so much fun that you've forgotten that it was actually real hard work, because it's like they say, it isn't work if you love it.

Tips & Warnings

• Be realistic. You aren't going to be an astronaut, but maybe you can design a toy that flies to the moon in a child's imagination.
• Think upside down. What I mean is this, think about a thing in one way and then turn it around in the mirror of your mind, twist it around and about until it sings.
• Do the homework. Find out everything you can about what it is you hope to do. And then do it. Find the ways. Have faith in God and set forth for that journey. Remember, there'd be no America, if the explorers weren't willing to take a chance. Find your own America. BE THAT EXPLORER!
• Stay away from negative people, thoughts and things
• Keep the day job. Give it up when you know that what you are doing is bringing in enough to support you. I'd say work at that thing until you have a year's salary in the bank, then tell the folks at the dead end job where you're working that you want some time off to pursue a personal goal. If it fails, and you don't burn your bridges at the job you may be able to go back. But I warn you, Once that helium balloon dream of yours sets sail and takes off, I don't think that there's any going back to mediocrity.
• Don't mortgage the house to pursue your dream. Let your dream carry itself. Find the way. Devise a business plan if you must and if you believe in it, you can get others to and to invest, and by others I mean corporations. Unleash that mind of yours and go wild. No one is watching and we only get one chance around on this planet. So do it!