The only ways to earn more money

Here’s a quick overview of the only four ways to increase your income:

1) Employee – Trade 8 hours of time to the highest bidder

2) Self-employed – Trade your time for (possibly more) money with better control over who you work for/with

3) Business Owner – Own and manage a system

4) Investor – Your money works to earn more money

It’s difficult to build real wealth in the first two categories alone.  How fortunate we are in America to be able to dabble in multiple categories simultaneously.

Bad day?

Are you really having a bad day? The whole day?  Perhaps a couple bad things happened among the hundreds of good things (or bad things that didn’t) for which you surely owe gratitude.

Every day is the first day of the rest of your life, but don’t wait for a new day.  The same applies to each hour and minute.  The day was never in charge anyways, you are.

Move forward.  You’re creating the next 24 hour-day right now.  Take back control.  You got this.

Focus on quality

Social media “likes” are not business outcomes.  Hours at the gym is not a useful metric.  Number of friends and acquaintances doesn’t say anything meaningful about you.

Are you getting quality sleep?  How fulfilling are your connections?  How do you feel about your career?  How do you look and feel to yourself?  How quickly can you release anger?  Answers to these questions reflect the quality of your health, wealth and relationships.  Focus on quality metrics.

The brilliant Naval Ravikant says this of people who obsess over social media likes and other meaningless metrics: “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”