Why did you start on the journey to financial freedom?

A lot of people get into passive income for lots of different reasons, desperation 9they need the money), laziness (want the money but don’t want to work for it) and a whole load of other reasons, the majority of these sum up to the desire to earn more money while doing less work. I can understand this side of thinking because it’s a ridiculously attractive prospect, I mean who doesn’t wanna make a fortune for only working a few hours each day?

I know when I first heard of internet marketing I was completely seduced by the thought of it. I wanted to make a couple of thousand each month while working on my own time frame.

Anyways, my reasons for getting into this differ from most other peoples, yet in the end I still want to make more than an average living from sitting in front of my computer and writing about something I’m interested in.

My reasons are as follow, get the tissues ready because it is a harrowing tale of despair (not really, just trying to build the drama haha).  When I was 8 years old I was diagnosed with a disability (or 2), although these disabilities are not immediately visible when looking at me they are apparent if you spend any decent amount of time with me and are degenerative, so I know they will get the best of me sooner or later. I have spent years getting my 2 degrees and upon leaving university last July I got my first “real” job.

Before I got the job I was making a living as a freelance writer, I wrote for several high profile mens magazines as well as a relationship column in Australia, but in the end I wanted a steady income, I was tired of living month to month, so I went out into the world and got myself a job in marketing.

I was already involved in some internet marketing and was aware of some basic SEO tactics (on page) because of the blogs I was writing for. I took the job and sat in front of my computer for 8 hours of a day and it occurred to me that I could be doing this from home and working those 8 hours for myself. And furthermore I could be making a better living from it.

Of course I wasn’t ready to give up my steady income so I started busting my ass before and after work as well as on my lunch hour (sometimes I built a few cheeky links while at work, but don’t tell my boss haha).

Anyways, for the same reason as I got started in the industry, I figured the freedom of making a living online would allow me to obey my only rule in life (to have as much fun as possible while I still can). The reason for my no holds barred motivation is that I have 2 diseases that compete against each other in such a ridiculous way that eventually one of them will get me and really mess up my quality of life, so for now, while I can, I just do whatever I feel like doing, think of consequences later and have a no fear approach to life.

Mix this with the fact that I feel like I was born to live in New York and BOOM! You have this level of motivation that will not allow me to fail at anything. I basically put 111% effort into everything that I do, meaning that for the most part whatever I want to happen, seems to happen. I also don’t really care about money, so if I have some, spending it trying to further my success (you have to speculate to accumulate) is not even an issue, the only reason I want money is because it will allow me to have more fun. Less work + More cash = more time and cash to do fun stuff with.

When I first started this journey I decided that once I hit £5k for 3 months straight I would be able to quit work and have the life I wanted, I have no desire to earn more money than this (which is why you will never see me taking up any JV offers or getting involved in really complex projects). I want to concentrate on my 2 authority blogs, this one and my other (secret) one because I enjoy writing about these 2 subjects and feel like giving back to the communities that have helped me, after all it was people sharing success and advice that got me to the level that I am currently at. This month was the first month I made £5k (October) so if I make it to January still earning £5k I’m gonna quit the job and start my jet setting world tour.

This is the reason for passive income, to live a free life, this means having as much free time as I want and having enough income to do whatever I want in that time, wherever that may be.

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Why did you get into internet business? and what are your aims and motivations?