How Valuable Is Your Time, Can You Increase It

How valuable is your time. The more I work the more I feel I am not placing the correct value on my time and knowledge. Judging from all the work from home ads that are online now, I am not the only one who feels this way. I know you can’t just stop working and instantly make your own money and enough to support yourself. However, you have to start to make that shift, start the transition. I am changing my mindset to think more about how I can use my time and mind to start to create my own income and increase the value of my time. This is the first and hardest step. If you can find a system or skill you have and start to make money from it, then you should be able to find a way to grow that money.

The more I sit at work I realize that I really am wasting my time. So I am motivated to change. My work day in the short term will be much longer because now as well as having to do the rat race thing, I must use all my spare time to find a system to transition to. I have started a few things. One of the easier things to do is write articles. There are more than a few websites that will let you post articles and shares the ad revenue these article s create. You can also earn money from the page views. The good thing about these sites are they already have huge traffic. The articles you create are seen by more than just visitors to the site. For example articles you write and post on Xomba.com, hubpages.com and ehow.com are picked up by all the search engines. If you write an original article on a highly searched topic and use good keywords, the better the chance that that article will earn money. There are also “how to” sites where if you can turn that article into a how to article you can post it and earn money there as well. I would recommend that if you are going to write articles to also stat a blog. Post your articles to your blog and build content.

The tough thing about blogs is getting traffic. So you can have great blog on a nice topic but no traffic. The key to getting that traffic is content. Content takes time to build. Blogging has been around for years. Bloggers that have been at it for years have blogs that rank high in search engines. People searching for information that you might have on your blog will see it and read. When posting articles on other sites, always include a link back to your blog to get readership and build page rank.

You can sign up with affiliate programs like Commission Junction, Google’s affiliate program, and Amazon to name a few. Along with writing articles on topics that you’re interested in, you can review products from these affiliate houses. Posting these reviews can lead to sales and a commission for you. You can set up websites or blogs around a particular product to try and create sales.

I don’t want to get into actual things you can do to make money on line. I want to get you to think about another way to earn a living and really increase the value of your time. Time is money and if your spending a majority of it being paid less than what you believe its worth, then it’s time to change your thinking.

Think about what knowledge and skills you have. Look around you will always find someone who is taking that knowledge and maximizing the dollar they are getting for that knowledge. Do you know how to fix cars, even if its just brakes be a brake job expert. Can you do a brake job in 45mins and get paid $60.00 for it. Are you currently making more than $60/hr if not there is a transition. I use this example as a way to show you how you need to start thinking. Your transition can be anything that you feel you can monetize to eventually earn more that you are currently making.

How to find your transition.

You may not find your transition in one day; it may take a week a month or more. The more time you spend at it the quicker you will find one. Make a list. Think of things you feel you have superior knowledge in. What do people always come to you for? What do you really like to do? Think of something you would and are doing for free that others are paid to do. Once you have a list of these things start to find real life examples of someone that is doing it and making a living from it. Research what it would take to do the same thing. Make an action plan to set the wheels in motion.

I feel that you have to be really motivated to make a real transition. I say this because unless you get really lucky it will take time to make a full transition. It may take years. The first 6 months or so will be hard work. It might be easier to just stick to what you’re doing. You may not see any fruits of your labor at first. You cannot get discouraged. Find ways to stay motivated. That could be reading stories of others who have made it rags to riches stories, write meditate, something to get you going again. Making your first dollar will keep you going regardless of how small. Knowing you just created this money from nothing but some work on your part is a great feeling.