Hi, I’m Natalie!
This is how most people live their lives: they go to school, get the best grade they can get, they graduate, get their “dream” job only to find out it’s not exactly what they imagined it to be, they’re stuck at a 9-5 for 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year, they get to take 2 weeks off for vacation, they repeat the same thing for 40 years before they retire at the age of 67, by which point, their bodies are too frail to enjoy life and they find out their retirement funds aren’t nearly enough. They have to spend the rest of their lives requiring financial and physical assistance from family and friends. Does that picture scare you? Mind you, this is reality. This isn’t made-belief.
Humans aren’t made to sit at a desk all day every day for the majority of their lives. If you got one of those standing desks, that still counts, I’m sorry.
Most are us are only taught one path in life, and that is exactly what I described above. Get good grades, graduate, get a job, climb the corporate ladder. Doesn’t matter how high you climb, you may find yourself feeling unfulfilled in life because you aren’t really doing exactly what you want in life. The American dream (or replace the word, “American” with whatever nationality you are and it’ll still make sense) is a made-up bullsh*t that isn’t really what most of us want out of life. It’s like selling a useless stone to people (some person actually made it into a profitable business ironically), it doesn’t have any value and the only value it has is based on the fact that everyone believes it’s what every other kid wants (at the time).
Chasing this American dream is making you miserable and I hope you don’t take the rest of your life to figure that out.
So if it’s not the American dream, what else is? Well, you have to ask yourself that. What do you want in life? If it is a 9-5, I believe you should have a way out should you feel like it at any time. Whatever your answer may be for what your dream is, I’m sure for the majority of you, your dream isn’t to work 8 hours a day, 50 weeks a year building up someone else’s company.
I think your dream involves freedom. The freedom to do whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want, with whoever you want. That simply isn't possible with a 9-5.
What you need to do is to create other sources of income. Don’t depend on just one source of income from your day job. What if you get fired? Having other sources of income can mean an extra layer of financial security or, it could also mean an eventual escape from the 9-5 lifestyle all of us subscribed to without a second thought because it’s what we’ve been taught.
I created HelloMoneyTree to inform people of the various possibilities to create multiple streams of income on the internet in the comfort of your home. I also teach people what they should’ve been taught at school.
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I’ll leave you with one more thing to think about: all those people making a living on the internet are no smarter or luckier than you. We live in an unprecedented time. Anyone can become rich. You don’t have to come from generational wealth.
Everything you need to grow wealthy and become your own boss is within a few clicks of the mouse away.
All it takes is for you to figure out what niche you want to be in, which platform(s) you want to grow your brand(s) on, then, create high-quality content consistently for at least 1-2+ years. If you do that, you’ve done what 90-95% of people haven’t been able to do.
It’s pretty hard to fail if you’re producing high-quality content in a proven niche that people are searching for and you allow some time for your brand to grow.
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