How To Make Money Doing What You Love

If you want long-term sustainable wealth from following your dreams and doing what you love, then this  6 step process will help guide you along the way. This is the process I’ve used consistently to make money doing what I love and be comfortable doing that.  Hope y’all enjoy this post and check out the more detailed video version of it on my Youtube channel.

STEP 1: IDENTIFY THE DREAM

Think about what your dream would feel like, what it would look like.  Use the technique of “scripting” to write yourself in the first person already living your dream life. Be as specific as possible. Leave blank space for you to fill in other specifics later.

STEP 2: ASSESS WHERE YOU ARE NOW

Ask yourself, where am I now mentally, financially, emotionally, spiritually, etc.? Is it where I want to be? If not, what is standing in my way?

Begin to track your habits with online or self-made resources to check in with each component mentioned above and lean towards well-rounded wellness. 

STEP 3: ASSESS WHERE YOU WANT TO BE

What exactly is it that you want financially? Again, be as specific as possible. Use this same specificity with the other aspects. What’s not specified, is often difficult to attain. 

STEP 4: COMPARE THE TWO

This piece is simple enough now that, at this point, you hopefully have everything written out in front of you. 

STEP 5: WORK TO BRING THE TWO COMPONENTS INTO ALIGNMENT

The money will come with the grind, and there are countless opportunities to increase your financial net-worth like Fiverr, Upwork, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, and more.  If you have a talent, you can get paid to develop and embrace it. You just have to first develop and embrace yourself. 

You have identified what you want, you have written what it would be like to live in it. You have assessed where you are and what that feels like and also where you want to be and what that feels like. You have begun to track.  You are on your way to improvement, and you have already begun the process of growing. Congratulate yourself for this.

STEP 6: BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

The final and almost largest piece of this process is to be gentle, believe in yourself, don’t settle, and don’t self-sabotage.  This process repeats and while you are moving closer to the dream, you have to continue to hold faith in the dream. Other people may hold some of that faith for you, but they can never do the work or fully understand the details as you do.  Your dream will look different than everyone else’s and that is okay. Obstacles will arise that will try to deter you from your endgame. You are responsible for your reality, whether current or future. If you truly believe in yourself and hold onto the firm determination to accomplish your goals, you will be able to make the things you once found to be dreams into realities. 

I hope these steps have been helpful for you guys to explore as you consider ways you can make money doing what you love and following your dreams.  Whether it’s 1990, 2020, or 2035, with resilience, following these steps, being honest with and believing in yourself, this is a proven way to get to exactly where you want to be. Money is an unlimited resource and a tool to give you access.  And no one controls how much of it you can make when you have the determination and follow-through to want more for yourself. If you’ve fallen into the trap of believing that all you currently have is all you can ever have, it’s okay. You don’t have to stay there.  Always remember with anything in life, you don’t have to settle for anything less than what you want. That choice is fully in your power. 

Sending love,

- Ashley Mae

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