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What work appeals to you?

48 Days to Creative Income, Day 13
Day #12: Which of the 10 models of work appeals to you?
Blech!  Sickness has sidelined Desk Coder and CubeWarrior for most of the last week.  True sickness, not job sickness.  That is always present.
48 Days lays out 10 categories of work.  Funny because they call them “new work models”, [...]

25% Done

After completing 12 days of the 48 Days to Creative Income I am:

Fatter, haven’t lost any weight.  I think I’ve gained it!!!!  Damn waistline.
Poorer, since my investment account statements have come in.
More depressed than ever.

So far the first 48 Days have not been profitable in a monetary sense at all.  No money is coming in.  [...]

Income Options

48 Days to Creative Income, Day 12
Day #12: Which income option have you been using?
Not much of a discussion point but 48 Days basically lists out the 3 models of income generation and asks in which have you been using?
Option #1:  Traditional Job, Guaranteed Income, Guaranteed Benefits, etc.
This options should be painfully familiar.  It’s the [...]

Time and Effort vs. Results Based Economy

48 Days to Creative Income, Day 11
Day #11: DiscussTime and Effort vs. Results Based Economy with someone you trust.

First off, I took a bit of time off!  I had intended to try to complete the 48 days within..well..48 days.  My practical goal, knowing that this time of year lends itself to a lot of other [...]

Personal Inventory

48 Days to Creative Income, Day 10
Day #10: Personal Inventory
WHAT A DAY!  I could barely make it to an early quitting time!  The clock felt like it stopped @ 2p.m. and never went forward.
Taking Personal inventory to help determine strengths, weaknesses and interests.
Strongest Abilities

While not a perfectionist, I want things done as correctly as possible.
I [...]

Predictors of Success

48 Days to Creative Income, Day 9
Day #9: Predictors of Success
Three quick points

I think I got outta whack in the day number scheme, whatever, I’m on day 9
I took the weekend off.  My head was hurting and quite frankly you need time off.
I think I gained weight!  I feel awful!

There are 5 predictors of success [...]

Do you have what it takes?

48 Days to Creative Income, Day7
Day #7: Do you have what it takes?
We know we want to leave the day job and triple digit losses on the Dow make it harder to leave!  But even if we could leave, do we have what it takes?  Can we stomach the change?  Can we give up [...]

Work through your projects

48 Days to Creative Income, Day 6
Day #6: Work through your projects
I’m not sure what “projects” I’m suppose to work through, but I look at this as items that I should view as creative income potentials.  “I want to..”, “I’d like to…”, “I’m qualified to…”
Let me look at the “dream” jobs:
I like to read, so [...]

Quick Reading of 48 Days To Creative Income Part 2

48 Days To Creative Income, Day 5
Day #5: Do quick reading of 48 DAYS TO CREATIVE INCOME
Turns out I got through this faster than I thought, for several reasons.
First, the book material is, in many  places, just a hard copy of audio CDs.
Secondly, there are numerous “quizes” that I know take up full days [...]

Quick Reading of 48 Days To Creative Income

48 Days To Creative Income, Day 4 & Day 5
Day #4: Do quick reading of 48 Days to Creative Income
I don’t read anything quickly, but that isn’t my real problem.  My problem is finding the time to read.
Over the last 2 days, I’ve only been able to find about 1/2 and hour each day and [...]