These days...

I closed my e-commerce webpage this past February and since then I've had no "constant" income. It's not like my incomes were constant before, but I at least knew they were coming in on a regular basis. Since then I've only had bits and bobs coming in from here and there.

I did my travel coordinator thing, where I would take people traveling with me. That was extremly fun and rewarding, but it was not much pay. Certainly not enough to last me, save or invest.

I also did a report for a friend of a guy a met traveling. He paid me quite well and it took me around 2h30 to do it. But still nothing sustainable.

The "thing" is (and I use the undescriptive word thing so that I don't have to use the negative word "problem") after working for yourself for almost 4 years, doing whatever the f*ck you want, and making big bucks... there's no way I can now go back to get a "real" "formal" "safe" "guaranteed paycheck at the end of the month" job. I've seen the light at the end of the tunnel and walked into it,and it is beautiful. Just because I am not in the light now, I won't stop until I see it again.

I'm currently working on 3 projects.:

One is quite a boring one, but it is a good investment. The money has already been put upfront, and the only thing left to do now is to develop it. Not so interesting, but it can be potentially a lot of money in quite a passive way.

The second one, I am working with my mother, trying to help her retire. It is at her office, and she's making me do all the grunt work so that I "learn every angle of the trade". This one is defenetly not my thing, but I owe it to her. She's given me everything, how can I not help her retire if it is in my power...

Some would argue that if I'd just focus on making money on my own, I could retire her by just giving her money. That is a nice idea, but I don't want to give her handouts. I want to learn everything and then find a manager who will take her place. I'd only be in there for overseeing and consulting on big things. That's "the plan" for this year (orr 2 -)

Holy shit this part scares me. I've done some thinking and one year won't be enough, and my gypsy traveler spirit is already killing me from within for planning to stay here a whole year. Two years seems like a lifetime. But my business brain knows one year probably won't be enough. But hey, we will see....

Finally, the third project I'm working on, is the personal finance course I've been "working on" for years and year. This is the only project that actually excited me... Until yesterday.

A friend of mine who is a life coach and does hiking retreats asked if we could meet up and for me to explain to him a bit more about google ads and facebook ads.

Yesterday he came round and we had this meeting. His ads were quite good. In fact, his click through rate was better than some of mine. What was wrong was his sales page. In just a little over an hour, I had spotted many things he could improve on. We went through them bit by bit as he took notes. There was one major issue with his site that I adviced him strongly to change. I even told him which tools to use and what is the easy way and the correct way to implement this.

He thanked me and left happy with many things to work on. And as he left, I too felt happy and fulfilled. I had really helped out. I had taken for granted how much I knew and how much I can help.

I always had in the back of my mind the idea of doing digital consulting sessions. Of course I didn't charge my friend, but I am sure I could help many others and make some money from it.

Sooo I've decided im going to add that to my projects. I already know the tools I need to set it all up and for it to look quite pro.

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And speaking of projects. The project that excites me the most... It is so big and so beautiful that I am even scared to utter about it. But hey... this blog is still quite personal so why not share it...

It's called "Pirate Travel"

To go along with the whole Modern Pirates Club. Anddd that's all I'll say about that for the moment.

Here I am in Siem Reap loving life almost at the end of my last trip. Yes, it has nothing to do with the post, but I like this pic... I mean check out those funky trousers.

Sooo very soon, you'll be able to get your digital consultation session from me.