All in Creating Extra Streams Of income
Familiar situations give us information to work with. We've been there before. We know what to expect. We know how to respond. Even if the familiar situation is uncomfortable it can still feel more predictable than stepping into something we've never experienced before.
When I was paying off my debt, I started thinking about my money differently. Instead of expecting one stream of income to do everything, I gave my income different jobs. One stream of income was for my life and the other stream was for my debt.
One of the biggest lessons I've learned about building a sustainable business: consistency and simplicity matter, especially when things get difficult.
Children don't need to understand the details to absorb the emotional climate they're raised in.
My mind didn't know what was happening but my body did.
Long before I earned my own income, my nervous system had already learned that money was unpredictable, it could disappear and it wasn't something you could truly relax around….
I need the industry to stop pushing this idea of working 16 hour days building businesses, because “if you truly wanted it, you would work even harder.”
I bought into this belief and my nervous system went bezerk because it didn't feel safe. My depression worsened and all I wanted was to take my life 80% of the time.
I went to vipassana when I was on the brink of taking my life. The only reason I didn't was because I went to an elderly tarot card reader, by the name of Raymond, at the Tremont Tea Room (in Boston, MA), who told me to hold on because in March (of 2011) I would go to a retreat that would change my life.
