Sometimes the creative procrastination hits when you hit a snag in what you should be doing, so you ‘take a break’ which lasts for anything from 1 to 72 hours.
Anyway, eventually we all get back to doing the thing we’ve been avoiding, even if it’s to avoid something else.
What have you been creatively procrastinating about?
This time of year is cricket to the max in Australia.
We have test matches against international teams, one-day games and 20-20 games against those same teams.
And we have our internal Big Bash 20-20 competition.
Cricket every day on the TV, sometimes local so I can go to the ground and watch there.
I don’t actually do that because it’s so much easier to see what’s happening on the telly.
What this does mean is that my productivity levels drop to almost zero, and my wife gets to watch far more cricket than she would like.
I won’t bore any of you with results or who is playing who because those who do follow cricket will probably know, and those who don’t won’t care.
What I would like to point out is that the players earn extremely well at international level, but they’ve been training for a sporting career since they showed interest at around age 5.
It’s about the same for all international sports people.
It takes them 10 – 20 years to get to the elite level and only a small percentage of those who want it get there.
But they all train as hard and for all those years to give themselves the best chance.
In all sports there is the elite squad, then the secondary squads, tertiary squads, etc.
Every level has a different pay structure, and it drops rapidly through each stage, down to local players who play for the love of it.
There is little difference in business regardless of if it’s online or off.
The biggest difference in online business is that anyone who really wants to be in the elite squad can get there because there is no arbitrary limit to the number of people or an age limit.
Most people won’t want to put in the work to reach that level because they’ll be satisfied with the income at a lower level, and there is nothing wrong with that.
You’ll find people at all levels in this group, https://go.wm-tips.com/skool, and any of them will help you level up should you choose to.
As AI developers and users find more and more ways to innovate and accelerate what they do, the traditional job market will shrink.
That means most of those already in college are unlikely to find work in their chosen career.
It’s already becoming much harder.
What I think will happen is that those who do not want to become tradies will need to become creators.
This will become the new “Traditional Path” over college.
You will not turn 18 and pick a college for 4 years.
You will pick a niche and create content around it.
Think about it…
The bare minimum investment to college is:
*4 years
*40 hours a week
*$40,000 per year
That’s over 8,000 hours in investment and $160,000.
If you put that much time into building your own business, not only will you learn infinitely more from pure experience rather than classroom bullsh*t and indoctrination from Leftist propaganda.
But you’ll have a profitable business, growing email list and leveraged internet attention that is either already paying you more than an entry level job or will be soon.
I’m so bullish on the Creator Economy — not just for 18 year olds — but for everyone…
That I’m betting on it over the entire traditional copywriting industry as well.
Instead of chasing a job or career, you could build your own email list and sell your own stuff.
But…
This is not about becoming an “Influencer”, it’s about becoming a person of influence.
Anyway, as i said, most of those graduates (about 2 million every year) will be looking to supplement their incomes when they don’t get the job they expect.
That’s a seriously good and evergreen target market.
These people are technology aware, they all have computers and mobile phones, and they all have keyboard skills.
What can you offer them?
Where do you find them – Facebook, X, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. – where else would you expect to find them?
None of them are SEO optimised, none of them have any paid traffic going to them, none of them have hundreds of links going to them, and none of them are getting content added regularly.
Honestly, they are all just experimental and a bit rubbish.
My next project, after the Auto-Blogging one, will be to add monetisation to those websites.
That seems to be a project for the Christmas – New year break.
What this proves is that you don’t need to be flashy, or noisy.
You just have to do more than I have, which shouldn’t be hard, and do it consistently.
When your site gets to the level of visitors these have, getting $0.01 per visitor equates to $1,600 every month.
Getting $0.01 per visitor is easy. It’s not much harder to get 100 times more than that.
Isn’t that worth a little of your time and money?
Are you prepared to leave $20,000 on the table every year for doing almost nothing?
