Create a Passive Income with Your Passion
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i used to work
as a computer consultant and
i was driving into work one day and i
saw this billboard
and the billboard said if you love
what you do you’ll never work a day
in your life and i thought
that’s an interesting concept and then i
asked myself that question
do i love what i do
no i mean i like what i do but
i dread mondays and i’m really excited
on friday
i thought well the billboard’s there for
a reason and i wondered
if my co-workers loved
what they did and i thought
no they’re just like me we
dreaded mondays and we were oh so happy
for friday well if that billboard’s
there
that billboard has to be there for a
reason so i thought
well who out there loves what they do
i quickly came with the answer it’s
athletes and
actors and singers and musicians
they love what they do and we
love watching them because
they love what they do
and then i
realized that i couldn’t be an actress
i couldn’t be a singer or a musician but
i thought
i like what i do so
on my days off i did what i loved
and i had one great stream of income
and you know what my life was on cruise
control and you guessed it life happens
and then welcome to the roller coaster
the first thing that happened was
divorce
i survived that the second thing that
happened
was the market crash
i survived that the next thing that
happened
was 9 11. where were you
on 9 11. i know you remember that day
you remember that day because that day
impacted so many
of us i was in new york
the city that never sleeps came to a
screeching
halt it didn’t make a difference
how much you wanted to work how skilled
you were
how smart you were you weren’t working
the city was shut down
and at that point i realized that one
great stream of income
it was really challenged and then i
asked myself this empowering question
like
what could i do to make
money you know what i came up with
nothing
because i designed this life for this
one great stream of income
well thank god the world came back
and i went back to work
i realized though that one great stream
of income was really challenged
and i needed to do something about that
my huge challenge was that i was a
single parent
so when i got home from work i had more
work i had errands to run and laundry to
do and dinner to cook and picking up the
child from
whatever activities but i knew i had to
find something
well you know what i did
i started investing in real estate
and buying multi-family homes
i’m going to call that the untraditional
stream of income you want to know why
i’m calling it the untraditional stream
of income
because most people live in real estate
but
most people don’t make money off of real
estate
took me years to walk away from my job
but once i walked away from my job
i was able to do what i
loved and that was be a full
time parent i mean i would too all my
daughter’s competitions
i participated in school activities we
had season pass to our
favorite amusement park we were living
the life and because i was open to that
untraditional stream of income i found
others
i have six streams of income
you see adversity will come
but in adversity is an opportunity
and you have to be open for that
opportunity
my world changed so everything
in my world changed recently
everything changed for us the whole
world was hit with covid
early 2020. and you know what
it didn’t make a difference how skilled
you are
how smart you were if you wanted to work
if you had the ability work
the whole world was shut down
and i know that at that time you asked
yourself that empowering
question what could you do to make
money well you know what
i got you you see it’s right under your
nose well actually
it’s at your fingertips you could use
social media you see social media
isn’t just for play it’s for pay
have you ever noticed that when you’re
on social media
you like to follow certain people
why do you like to follow certain people
on social media
because they love what they do and we
love watching people who love what they
do
those people are called social media
influencers fun fact
business insider will pay
the sa business insider says that brands
will pay
the social media industry up to
15 billion dollars
in 2022.
well guess what this
isn’t like real estate you already have
everything you need
to get started you only need three
things a phone
a social media platform and a passion
yes you see
most people have these things
but most people don’t make money from
this
you see nothing happens
overnight let’s say
you have a seed you go to your backyard
and you go and you plant that
and then the next day you wake up and
you rush to your backyard
and then you see this amazing tree with
all these delicious apples
yes no
it takes time for that tree to go
it takes nurturing it takes weeding
it takes time to produce that phenomenal
harvest just like it does
with your social media business
so i’d like to focus on one platform
does everybody know youtube awesome
well youtube is one of the social media
platforms
but youtube is similar and different
than the social media platforms we’re
gonna focus on youtube prayer is that
okay everybody
awesome so if you’ve never noticed when
you want to watch a youtube
video that there’s an
ad that precedes the video that you want
to watch have you ever noticed that yes
did you know that that social media
influencer
is making 10 cents to 30 cents for
giving you
their two cents
yes and they’re suggesting anything
and everything
and they’re getting paid a commission
think more eyes more money
and that is what i call the
untraditional
stream of income with a dash
of passion so
here’s something that i know about each
one of you
am i 100 sure about
all of you with this
you follow ted
because people follow people right
guess what ted is doing it
yep ted started
their first talk in 1984
and you could watch ted talks and tedx
talks
on youtube
and ted realized
the world changed so ted had
to change
don’t you want to be like ted
so here’s what we need to do we need to
go
plant that seed from our passion
why do i say from your passion
because i remember what it looked like
to come home from work
and not want to do any more work but
when you’re doing something in your
passion
you’re excited you lose your time in
that passion you’re like yes and you’re
like oh my gosh it’s that time already
that’s why you want to build this from
your passion
and just imagine if you were
able to build a stream of
income from your passion
what would your life look like
all you need is three things
first thing find your passion
second a social media platform
and third take consistent
action
and you know what you can produce
a bountiful harvest from your passion
just imagine that and then
that concept of
if you love what you do you would never
work a day in your life
is actually true
thank you