The hardest part about doing something like what I’m trying to do is to keep motivated. I’ve come up with a time-management tool like nothing I’ve ever seen or heard of before that is truly amazing… Maybe I’ll release it someday - or put it into a book or some such. But I’ve also found that this really helps my motivation. At least now I’m actually getting more done. It’s hard to motivate myself, even still.

I always want to spend more time with my kids, more time for myself (I basically have none - no love life, barely speaking with my friends, and can barely get enough time just to shop for groceries). I keep up with my martial arts, since I have committed to that so much, as well as the work I do. But it’s hard to motivate myself beyond that at times. I think part of that is that seeing the end is so ephemeral. It’s like there’s nothing certain and I can’t be sure that it’s there. But this is really the only business I can afford to do. If I expand on being an accountant, then I will have to sell my time, 1 hour for X dollars. Repeat. Repeat.. With this business there is another level.

As with any writing, it can be done once, then sold many times. You can keep getting paid for the work, even months after you’ve done it. The latest product I have, which I’m supposed to have up by Wednesday if my time line goes out as I wish it to, is actually an eBook and spreadsheet. The book is somewhat simple, but the spreadsheet is very complex (although it may not seem it on the surface - all the programming, etc. is hidden from the user).  I spent a lot of time on it and researched the competition and the niche fairly well, I think. The biggest direct competitor I could find has had over $4 million in sales in 12 years from his spreadsheet alone. Now that’s pretty amazing I think. That’s well over $300,000 per year. And if he only keeps half of that, then he’s making a lot more than I am now! And he could be doing several other projects besides this one (he is doing at least two others). And my spreadsheet is better than his.

So can I sell it? I hope so. I believe I can. It’s whether I can sell enough. I’ll put a post and link up to the product once it’s up… Look for it on Wednesday. Hopefully I’ll be motivated and be able to manage my time well enough to complete it by then. Then comes the hard part - all the advertising to get the product seen by enough of the public to make it sell! I know that if I did this program as a one off for an employer, I would probably earn about $1000 in wages for the time I spent on it. I want to make at least 1,000 times that off of this product before it’s obsolete. Wouldn’t it be nice to earn $25,000 an hour?

Of course, that’s not really how much I’d earn from it, because that only accounts for the time spent working on the product, not all the time spent advertising, promoting, and processing the sales, and so forth. But it’s still a nice figure to think about! Even $1000 per hour of product creation would be really nice, don’t you think? If I could earn that in the next six months, then I know I’d really be on my way!

And I would have my dream career started!