It’s been about 10 months since i started this blog.

By my own admission, i was a novice, and still am, in this business.

I knew it would be tough.. there’s no easy way to make a living. People who tell you making money is easy have either:

(a) inherited a fortune

(b) work like trojans and deny so

(c) have just gotten lucky

(a) is basically the same as (c), luck. As you can’t control luck or rely on it, (b) is the only option available to most people. Most people can’t create work, so they rely on the creators of work for jobs… the guys that create work are the smart workers…

The thought of work is obviously the opposite to easy money – sitting on a beach somewhere sipping a cocktail. Most of us would love that ‘im rich and can do what i want’ lifestyle, but the reality is 99% of us don’t have it and will never have it.

Why? Because people don’t like pushing themselves to their limits or beyond, they don’t like being out of their comfort zone. 9-5, five days a week is work enough for most people. You can come home everyday, relax and not think about work as someone else is employing you – they have to deal with the worries.

So let’s say that 9-5 guy spends all of his life (working life) – maybe 40 years working 9-5. Taking a months holidays and weekends into account, that’s 1920 hours a year, 76800 over 40 years. At $400 week, that adds up to $768,000 in a lifetime.

They’re rough figures.. but lets say you work 70,000 hours in your life.

Ok, those 70,000 hours are spent mostly doing what your told, doing what you know what to do.. that’s the average joe’s life.

Now take, for example Alex Tew (first guy that sprang to mind, there’s many more). He spent 30 minutes one night thinking long and hard – how can i make a million? How many of you have spent 30 minutes REALLY thinking about making a million? Not many i’d guess. Most people would consider that fantasy stuff or a waste of their time..

Those 30 minutes ironically, made Alex $1m. Why? Because he used his brain. He sat down, thought long and hard, didn’t worry about anyone else and believed he could do it.

So in 30 minutes of hard work, Alex earned more than what a lot of people earn in 40 years. Just like that.

This is the way i’ve began to think for the past year or so and it is the correct ‘method’ of thinking for entrepreneurs. Believe in your ideas, start bringing them to life, and an idea that took maybe 5 minutes to create, could end up netting you millions.

Ironically, if you work all your life, 9-5, you don’t have time to think of things and become too mature to take risks and gamble.

Take a step or two back and go after dreams, fail or not, it’s worth the gamble. If could save you 40 years of work and worries

Me – i’m practicing what i’m preaching. Take a look at my 18 ideas post – i didn’t just pull that out of a book, or they didn’t all pop into my head one after the other… that’s my brain at work. That probably took a few hours of thinking time.. i’ll probably not persue any of those ideas as i believe i have better ones in development and others which i won’t discuss for fear of being replicated.

But that’s the sort of mindset i have. Work now (when i’m young and most creative), play later (when i’m older, more wiser and less of a gambler). This is the train of thought that forced me to quit my day job. It’s also the train of thought that created this blog and pushed me into the web business, to gain added knowledge/contacts by going to college.. It’s taken over my life to an extent.

At worst, i lose a few years of earnings and carry on with a ‘normal’ life. At best, we all know what can happen. If i’ve got nothing to lose in terms of family/houses/loan repayment etc.. i believe it’s a no brainer really.