by Alison | Your Crochet Biz
by Alison Stapleton
Let’s Look at Types of Income
If you have a day job it means you have an active income like making kids clothes.
Your Money Tree
A passive income is one that brings in income whilst you sleep. It is something you set up and then it continues to generate income by itself.
A passive income will pay in even after you are dead.
Eventually you want your passive income to out strip your active income.
So you can be free from your day job.
Examples of Active Income
- Working for someone else and getting paid.
- Working two or three jobs and getting paid.
- Being paid by the hour for whatever you do.
- Crafting crochet hats, barefoot sandals or sweatpants and getting paid.
Example of Passive Income
My strongest stream of passive income comes from eBooks and writing.
Selling eBooks online or from your site. People can buy an ebook at anytime of the day or night even when you are asleep, thus passive income.
I started with eBooks in 2012.
It took me six months to write the first one for a course I was already teaching so I had the info on the page. I just had to get it into an ebook.
This takes time.
Smashwords
Smashwords is an ebook creator and will take mainly text booked and format them to sell on all the platforms.
The only thing is as its is an American company you get caught with withholding tax at a rate of 48%. This cuts into profits. But you get better exposure.
Enter the PDF ebook and eJunkie
Since 2014 I have been selling PDF eBooks as immediate downloads and these eBooks are full of charts and images.
Don’t kid yourself the income is slow but constant.
In the first year I sold 24 books and in the third year 187. Still small potatoes but at $2.99 each it still counts as income.
In 2015 and 2016 I wrote and published two more eBooks and things have slowly turned around.
Income from my eBooks is now at around $20 per month and that is one of my income streams.
A passive income stream.
by Alison | Your Crochet Biz
by Alison Stapleton
Your Money and Self Worth
We feel good when we have money. But how much money we need to have in order to feel good is relative.
Some people actually feel better when they have less or even not enough.
It depends where you come from and your family, background and upbringing, that determines how you feel about money and self worth.
Sometimes the road to financial bounty needs a little help from within. This has nothing to do with your earning ability but is a deep issue that can be a blockage to building a thriving micro-business.
If you are serious about growing your crochet business or other craft venture then think about whether you have accepted roadblocks to wealth and prosperity.
A Vow of Poverty
Some people have taken a vow of poverty.
A vow of poverty is often an unconscious decision to be poor. You believe that it is your fate to be poor, and that you cannot be otherwise, no matter how hard you work or what you do.
It may not have been a conscious vow of poverty, or even taken in this lifetime, but if you think this may be you then you need to release yourself from any vow of poverty.
Write the following on a piece of paper:
I free myself from any vow of poverty taken in this life or a past life.
I humbly accept my bounty as deemed by God.
I am worthy of a financially good life while on planet Earth.
It is in my spirit to prosper.
Amen
Now revoke your vow of poverty by saying out loud the written vow. If you feel you need more affirmation then read it out loud to yourself every night before bed.
Next you have to live by this freedom.
You will start to believe that you have permission to:
- Earn a fair wage or salary
- Earn a good income
- Accept all offers of financial help
- Consider every wealth improvement idea
- Charge for your goods and services at market value
- Charge above market value for things you are highly skilled in doing
- Honor ever cent you get
- Respect your money as you respect yourself
These simple steps can clear the free flow of abundance towards your life.
Embrace it.