What are you doing?
What are you doing? Seems like a simple enough question? Think about it for a minute though. Get a bit deeper. How are you spending your time? Where are your priorities in general? Its not a trick question nor is there any one right answer.
Looking around the Internet and eBay, you will find lots of ads and systems for getting rich quick or making a zillion dollars selling stuff online. Of course most of these are scams or common sense information repackaged as the newest greatest plan for the low price of a couple hundred bucks. Lets assume though for a moment, you strike lighting in a bottle and stumble on a way of making lots of money. Then what would you do?
Would you spend more time volunteering helping at a soup kitchen or have more family time with your kids? The possiblities are endless but your time isn’t so you would probably lean towards things that are a priority to you and have lots of meaning. Why are you not doing more of that now though?
I can hear you saying “I don’t have enough time now…” or “If I just had a little more money and a little less debt…”, then things would just be perfect and I could do whatever. The problem is things are never perfect, there will always be a distraction for you. Go back to the original question, what are you doing right now? I am willing to bet if you took a real critical look at how you spent your time, you could start slashing and burning unimportant things from your life and free up a bunch of time. How much time do you spend watching tv or goofing around on the computer? Maybe your life is tied up with little projects that weigh you down but you cannot seem to say no to them because of a sense of guilt or obligation.
Take a good look at things, are you really spending your time like you should be? Is your life’s priority to play Xbox all day? I’m not saying whichever way you chose is right or wrong, but is it one of your choosing or one of default?