I love this post and your honestly and transparency with everything you are juggling right now. This is a reality for a lot of people I think... multiple projects bringing a few hundreds dollars instead of 1 big thing.
It think it's how you start, then you can narrow it down and focus as you understand what you are good at, what you like, and what makes money!
That is a lot though (even for me who likes to do a lot haha). Must be hard to be able to focus on so many things.
Have you considered removing some $0 projects to spend more time on the ones bringing cash and/or you are more passionate about?
You’re welcome Jeremie!! Thank you, always, for the interesting and always helpful conversations we’ve had and continue to have. Please send Rosie a squeeze from me! I feel like I know her now 😊
Re: the focus and removing the $0 income streams — I could remove them yes of course. I’ve considered it, yes but… 😅 I’m getting a lot of enjoyment from them. If I hate doing something, I can’t do it. But if I love doing something and it lights me up, I’d rather not stop. I will be removing the teaching for sure. I’ve stopped producing more podcasts for now. As soon as I finish the damn class, I can take that off my plate.
I do know, from a lot of past experience that when I push really hard toward a new venture, it often (not always) comes to fruition and I think that’s where I am now with most of these. I’m also very aware of “sunk cost bias” and keep that in the back of my head.
Interesting. It seems like you are doing this with a very high sense of self-awareness… which is super important because otherwise it can lead to burnout and a lot of frustration!
I feel you! When people ask me how I make money online, I say, "various things". I read this book once that said to think of income as a spiderweb, if one strand breaks, the others will hold the web in place. I've got a lot of the same strands going as you do. Also same as you, some of them currently make me $0 😂, but they have potential! And that's why I moved somewhere cheap to live, because now I have the time I need to develop those.
Hi Jess! Thank you so much for your comment! I subscribed to you 🤗 I’m looking forward to reading about Paraguay. And happy to hear you’re also finding your way with this remote learning thing. I love the spider web analogy!!
Thank you for sharing this Jess! It's a great metaphor for sure. I was "victim" of that. For 3 years I worked and focused on 1 business... it was 99% of my income. For various reasons I had to close this business, income went down to $0 and had to start from scratch again, not fun!
I deeply respect your discipline to manage those 9 jobs Kimberley! As a fellow expat figuring out how to make a living abroad I for sure can understand it’s a juggling act. Maybe you’re in the market for a virtual assistant at some point!
I've had VA's in the past and hope to again in the future for sure!!! Right now I can't afford one. That said, I have the best "when VA's go wrong" story that hopefully I can write about at some point!! 😳 😅
Thank you so much Kimberly for the shoutout 🥰
I love this post and your honestly and transparency with everything you are juggling right now. This is a reality for a lot of people I think... multiple projects bringing a few hundreds dollars instead of 1 big thing.
It think it's how you start, then you can narrow it down and focus as you understand what you are good at, what you like, and what makes money!
That is a lot though (even for me who likes to do a lot haha). Must be hard to be able to focus on so many things.
Have you considered removing some $0 projects to spend more time on the ones bringing cash and/or you are more passionate about?
You’re welcome Jeremie!! Thank you, always, for the interesting and always helpful conversations we’ve had and continue to have. Please send Rosie a squeeze from me! I feel like I know her now 😊
Re: the focus and removing the $0 income streams — I could remove them yes of course. I’ve considered it, yes but… 😅 I’m getting a lot of enjoyment from them. If I hate doing something, I can’t do it. But if I love doing something and it lights me up, I’d rather not stop. I will be removing the teaching for sure. I’ve stopped producing more podcasts for now. As soon as I finish the damn class, I can take that off my plate.
I do know, from a lot of past experience that when I push really hard toward a new venture, it often (not always) comes to fruition and I think that’s where I am now with most of these. I’m also very aware of “sunk cost bias” and keep that in the back of my head.
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Interesting. It seems like you are doing this with a very high sense of self-awareness… which is super important because otherwise it can lead to burnout and a lot of frustration!
I feel you! When people ask me how I make money online, I say, "various things". I read this book once that said to think of income as a spiderweb, if one strand breaks, the others will hold the web in place. I've got a lot of the same strands going as you do. Also same as you, some of them currently make me $0 😂, but they have potential! And that's why I moved somewhere cheap to live, because now I have the time I need to develop those.
Hi Jess! Thank you so much for your comment! I subscribed to you 🤗 I’m looking forward to reading about Paraguay. And happy to hear you’re also finding your way with this remote learning thing. I love the spider web analogy!!
Thank you for sharing this Jess! It's a great metaphor for sure. I was "victim" of that. For 3 years I worked and focused on 1 business... it was 99% of my income. For various reasons I had to close this business, income went down to $0 and had to start from scratch again, not fun!
Thank you for talking about this Jeremie, it’s challenging to start from scratch for sure.
Yep, especially without an audience. The grind is real 🤓
Thanks for sharing this—it’s helpful. I’ve got to start thinking about remote jobs which will be a new territory for me.
YAY, you're welcome Lani!!!! It's possible :)
I deeply respect your discipline to manage those 9 jobs Kimberley! As a fellow expat figuring out how to make a living abroad I for sure can understand it’s a juggling act. Maybe you’re in the market for a virtual assistant at some point!
Thank you for your comment Daniel!!!
I've had VA's in the past and hope to again in the future for sure!!! Right now I can't afford one. That said, I have the best "when VA's go wrong" story that hopefully I can write about at some point!! 😳 😅
If you have any pointers, I'm all ears!
Love this!!! We should catch up soon and maybe add another 3hrs onto your already busy day 😂
LMAO!!!! YES!!! Let’s DO IT!