Generally, I am not one to watch, listen to, or read what internet gurus have to say. But last week I ran into one on Youtube that captured my interest. I then wrote the post “In Search of Finding True Happiness.” I’ve now decided to write a series of articles about alternative ways to making money.
Can You Really Make Money Online
It seems like everyone wants to make money online these days. In fact, there are millions of searches each month on the topic. There are also a gazillion “experts” who claim they can teach you everything you need to know to make a great income online.
Why do so many people want to make an income online? Is this the golden key to wealth?
People are striving to find different ways to make money and internet “experts” are getting richer by the minute. If they are getting rich because people are purchasing their products, why is everyone who purchases these products not rich?
Why do people keep paying these gurus money? Is the concept simply that one could make money while doing nothing? Do people want a way to make money while being lazy?
I doubt it.
How Do People Want/Not Want to Make Their Income?
If you read news magazines, newspapers, or read studies, and polls, you will notice a trend: People are looking for alternative ways to make a living so they can leave their dead-end jobs and work for themselves. People want to do what they want to do, the way they want to do it, when they want to do it, and make money to boot.
Let me translate that into English: people feel they could make a better living by using their own creative brains.
If you look at history, we had the industrial age and then the information age. In the information age, creativity was taken away from people. Conformity was the new norm. A lot of people made a lot of money.
Then greed came into the picture.
People began making less money and doing more for their employers. They could only stand by and watch as their employers were purchasing larger second and third homes, taking European vacations, and purchasing new luxury vehicles.
Because people are tired of watching their employers spend cash foolishly while they live paycheck to paycheck, they are leaving their jobs and entering into creative money making endeavors. It is these people who are setting a new trend. This trend is taking us out of the information age and into the age of creativity.
The Age of Creativity
In the age of creativity, people are doing more with their life. They are taking charge and are now demanding to do things “their way.” They know they have brains and they want to use their brains to make a better living.
Research has proven over and over again that to be happy, you must be focused. You must also be productive. When you are at a dead-end job making someone else rich and conforming to a 500 page policy and procedure manual, it is only natural that you would want to look for other ways to make a living.
You know you are capable of doing something else, but you have no idea what you can do. So you go online and Google “how to make money online.” This is when you find the gazillion guru’s telling you how to do it—for a price.
If it were that easy, wouldn’t everyone be doing it and wouldn’t everyone be rich?
I am not putting down internet gurus, I am simply stating that people are unhappy and looking for new ways to make a decent income and that the internet is not for everyone.
As we enter the age of creativity, people are realizing that they no longer have the security in their job that they once had. They are realizing that being creatively unique and different is a way of adapting to a changing world.
As Charles Darwin once said, “It’s not the most intelligent of the species that survives the longest; it’s the most adaptable.”
Finding Your Meaning and Purpose
All of us were born with special talents and abilities. The problem we have is finding those special talents and abilities. As we begin life in the age of creativity, people are finding creative ways to discover purpose and meaning to their life utilizing their talents and abilities.
Because we spend an enormous amount of our time at our job, people are finding their meaning and purpose through how they make their living. They are determining their self-worth by their productivity.
If you want to see someone who appears to have found meaning and purpose to their life through their creative endeavors, turn off the volume on your computer and watch a Brendon Bouchard video.
You don’t even have to listen to what he is saying, just look at his emotions and the way he carries himself. Look at how excited he is. This guy looks and acts like a happy person.
I have never met Brendon Bouchard. He may be an unhappy person, or a scam artist, or who knows what else, but I highly doubt it. If you compare his videos, with the sound off, to other guru videos, you will see the difference that I am talking about. You will see a guy who appears to truly love what he is doing.
So, do the people who pay for his program make money?
I’ll let you know my thoughts on that in the next post.
