Comments on: There's a Long Road Ahead (So Choose a Beautiful One)

By: chelsea

chelsea — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:35:18 +0000

okay, i get it now. so thats how you did it pretty much? sounds pretty awesome to me! i used to think to myself the most awesome lifestyle i could dream up for myself would be to travel to one place in the world, stay there for awhile, take tons of beautiful photography, then find people to sell those photographs to, and the money i make from that would buy me my next plane ticket to redo it all over again, that sounds amazing to me! does that sound like something similar to a “lifestyle design”? or is it even a reasonable dream?
thanks for replying earlier by the way!

By: Corbett

Corbett — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:51:39 +0000

Hi Chelsea, I’m glad you find the blog enlightening. Great complement.

Anyway, as far as earning a living from blogging goes, it’s all about selling products or services. Some of the biggest blogs actually make money from advertising, but those are the exception. It’s much easier to create a product (a book or a course works well), or to sell other people’s products (through affiliate marketing). Consulting services is another way. Does that help? Cheers.

By: chelsea

chelsea — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:43:33 +0000

hey corbett, i’ve just stumbled upon your blog and find it extremely enlightening and interesting. lately, i’ve been thinking about living unconventionally and all that too but i never knew there was a name for it, “lifestyle Design”. i got really excited when i found this blog because now it makes me feel like anything is possible. ive got dreams, but i think the hardest thing for me now is the “work”, im not good at getting stuff done or working hard sometimes haha thanks for being so inspiring!
oh and i was wondering how exactly do people make $2000 a month from blogging? i dont get it hahh

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By: Kat Eden

Kat Eden — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:55:36 +0000

I think it’s about choosing goals that are aligned with your desired outcome (i.e. making money passively), but with your value system, your natural strengths, and yes, your passions as well.

Blogging for riches seems to be such a sought-after path because we all know of someone who is doing it successfully and (apparently) easily. But there’s two main problems with the masses trying to follow in their footsteps -

1. Most successful bloggers put least a solid part-time, if not a full-time workload into their blogs

2. The have a natural gift, if not for writing, then certainly for connecting with people.

If you can’t write in such a way that people relate to you, there’s no point trying to make 2G a month from blogging, no matter what your research says. The best investment any of us can make is to take time to think about what’s really important to us, to consider the options we have for getting there, and then to choose those that fit in with our natural talents and strengths.