Making a Living Writing — How I Designed This Life (Part 2 of 5)

<p>3 years ago at this time, I also had questions like &mdash; &ldquo;How to make money online writing&rdquo; and &ldquo;passive income streams.&rdquo;</p> <p>Now that I get these Qs in my DMs, I don&rsquo;t respond to most of them.</p> <p>I have a reason &mdash; hear (or maybe read) me out&hellip;</p> <p>Because most of these generic questions are easily Google-able. If you&rsquo;re asking a Q to a specific person, it might help to navigate to their content and see if they&rsquo;ve already spoken about it.</p> <p>Because most online creators build in public.</p> <p>I also learnt from people like Ali Abdaal on YouTube and Tim Denning on Medium about how can I quit my job.</p> <p>I now consume a lot of content from Justin Welsh and Matt Gray on how to scale my solopreneur business.</p> <p>So if you feel how I used to feel back then, which is:</p> <ul> <li>A misfit in the corporate sector</li> <li>Don&rsquo;t see the point of 8h workdays</li> <li>You know you don&rsquo;t belong here but don&rsquo;t know where you do</li> </ul> <p>Here&rsquo;s the drill:</p> <ol> <li>Read books (<em>Unlimited Power&nbsp;</em>by Tony Robbins changed my life)</li> <li>Look at people you want to be like and binge on their work</li> <li>Find people who&rsquo;ve done what you want to, and emulate their process</li> </ol> <p>I do the third one a lot because I&rsquo;m lazy. Why reinvent the wheel?</p> <p>So that&rsquo;s how I realised how I could write online, create Upwork proposals, apply for gigs, and earn online.</p> <p>The universe helps those who help themselves.</p> <p><strong>This is part 2 of my 5-part series on why I quit my job to design my lifestyle, and how I did it.</strong></p> <p>The reason I&rsquo;m writing this is because this month I complete 3 years of the time my brain started thinking this way and I acted upon that instinct. This is in the hope of helping somebody out there who&rsquo;s feeling the same agitation and doesn&rsquo;t know what to do.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/side-hustle-club/making-a-living-writing-how-i-designed-this-life-part-2-of-5-5e559015871c"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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