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Not everyone wants to quit their job
Not everyone wants to quit their job, start an online business, and travel the world while living out of a backpack.
Some people, maybe you’re one, really like what they do at their day job. It’s enjoyable, they like their coworkers, and they don’t like the idea of leaving their benefit package for the unknown landscape of self-employment. You simply want to provide more for your family than your job allows.
This economy isn’t helping
Both digital entrepreneurs and working professionals are trapped by a stagnant economy. Both need to make more money. Most are in the ’99%’ category we hear so much about these days.
But most of the programs and opportunities we read in the blogosphere aren’t for working folks.
Until now, working professionals have been left out
I’ve been working on a program especially for both working professionals who don’t want to leave their job and those who do.
I’m talking about a simple straightforward way to earn extra money using the expertise you already possess. There would be no blog ads or affiliate programs required to learn to install and track.
Writers needed
If you’re reading this, chances are good that you’re a writer of some kind. You probably also have some expertise that others would like to have. And chances are excellent that if you packaged your expertise with your talent for writing, you could earn a significant amount of income each month without much technical know how.
$1,000 per Month in 90 Days. Sounds like a bold claim, right? But think about it, what if:
- You could add an extra $1,000 to your monthly income?
- You could slowly grow that to over $4,000 per month with staying up all night or divorcing yourself from your family to do it?
- You could be in a position in 6 months to either quit your job or stay on and just enjoy the extra income?
What if you could achieve this without a complex niche website, high pressure sales, or a blog? It’s possible (although having a blog makes it easier).
It all comes down to 40 subscribers
I’m not ready to announce this program just yet, but I can tell you this:
If you can get 40 people to say yes to your offer, you can collect $1,000 each month for as long as you provide them value.
If you’re interested in hearing more, stay tuned to this blog. I’ll be announcing details in the next 8 days. Don’t want to miss the announcement? Click here subscribe and I’ll send you the announcement in your email inbox when it appears on the blog. 
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Question: What could these 3 terms have to do with one another?
Your Answer: I don’t know…uh, are you about to…
- Buy a Corvette?
- Start flirting with a blond twenty-something?
- Start wearing capes and rings and talk with a lip curl like Elvis?
My Answers: No, no, and only on Halloween.
So what gives? It’s the only way I could think of to tell you about another post I wrote over on Deeper Living.
It’s called How Warriorship Leads to a More Meaningful Life. It doesn’t quite fit here on BarryMorris.net but I though I’d mention it jut in case you’re interested.
So click on over if:
- You’re feeling like buying a Corvette
- You’ve already started flirting with blond any-somethings
- Your most frequent way to express gratitude is, “Thank you, thank you very much, Mama.”
Please click here to read the post!
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“Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they aren’t capable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre.” –Timothy Ferriss
Benjamin Spall, in his post Do Not Overestimate the Competition and Underestimate Yourself, reminded me of this quote in The 4-Hour Workweek. And it got me thinking.
The absurdity of mediocrity
I’m convinced many of us, myself included, default to mediocre. I’d even go out on a limb and say that 90% of our activity is aimed at just being acceptable.
I find this unbelievably sad.
And I know it’s true. It’s true because we’re humans living in an age where every minute we are presented an image, an essay, a book, poster, website, or newsletter … to which we compare ourselves or our own creation. And 90% of the time -my non-scientific estimate- we come up short in such a comparison.
Our conscience will automatically respond that we shouldn’t compare ourselves to anyone, but that’s idiotic in my opinion. It’s because we are human beings with a highly evolved brain that we can make a comparison at all.
Telling us not to compare ourselves to another is like trying to reverse evolution.
The ease of mediocrity
So, why are we defaulting to mediocrity? Because it’s easy. Because it requires less work, less brain power, less creativity. A lot of what passes for just showing up falls into this category of creation in my opinion.
- Crafting a blog post that’s mediocre isn’t that hard
- Writing a mediocre eBook is very manageable
- Creating a video that sucks, a piece of cake
The cure for mediocrity
Being remarkable is the cure for mediocrity. Yeah sure, let’s just all be remarkable why don’t we! I agree that it’s easier to say than do, but it’s possible.
I think being remarkable is linked to living mindfully; making moment by moment decisions; choosing to be, to create, to offer something remarkable instead of something that’s merely acceptable.
Curing mediocrity begins with its rejection. And it’s a huge undertaking. But unless we make this choice to reject the mediocre and strive to always go beyond acceptability, we’ll always be trapped within it.
The personal application
As I review what I’m doing here on BarryMorris.net, I’m not seeing a lot that’s remarkable. And that makes me very uncomfortable. In fact, prior to publishing this post, I deleted 15 posts that, in my opinion, were only acceptable.
I’m convinced unless I focus on being remarkable, writing remarkable posts, offering remarkable experiences, then what I am left with is a mediocre blog that’s acceptable. I don’t know about you, but that makes me sick.
When I show up, I want it to mean something
There are those who write and publish each day. I tried that for 30 days overlapping November and December. It was a good exercise but it left me with a lot of mediocre posts. I think Corbett Barr is right when he says we need to write epic shit. Not many can write epic posts each day. Even Seth Godin’s writing has peaks and valleys.
I think it’s important to strive for epic. Even if you fall short, it’s a worthy target.
Choosing to be epic, to be remarkable, to not show up unless you have something meaningful to contribute is the cure for mediocrity. Do you agree? Is showing up enough? Please leave a comment if you have an opinion.
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