I hate the word niche because ever since I started looking to make money on the internet, this little word has followed me wherever I look. According to Dictionary.com niche means:

1. an ornamental recess in a wall or the like, usually semicircular in plan and arched, as for a statue or other decorative object.
2. a place or position suitable or appropriate for a person or thing: to find one’s niche in the business world.
3. a distinct segment of a market.
4. Ecology. the position or function of an organism in a community of plants and animals.
Adjective
5. pertaining to or intended for a market niche; having specific appeal: niche advertising.
Verb (used with object)
6. to place (something) in a niche.

Obviously in the case of business and making money 2, 3, and 5 are the ones that make sense but you are always given the impression that a “niche” is something very small and very defined. I have come to realize that a “niche” is just fancy speak for what area of the market you work in. This does not have to mean something that says that you only sell the minute hands for watches, what people mean by “find your niche” is just that you have to pursue something. You can’t go after everything, so choose something (doesn’t matter what) and go after it.

If I were to start writing on this site about begonias and the new gardening gloves I just bought, that wouldn’t make sense, but it would if this were a gardening blog.

This isn’t to say that you can’t be in more than one niche, but you have to separate them or you tend to look a little dodgey. Most people who make money on the internet do business in more than one niche but they separate them to get the most out of each one.

If you want to have a large amount of money you need to do one very important thing: STOP WORKING FOR MONEY!! Now I know many of you are thinking, “He is going to tell me that I need to make my money work for me” but if you thought that you would be wrong. However, that is great advice and also one of the most important principals to acquiring unfathomable amounts of wealth, that is not the message I want to convey right now.

If you work for a set amount of money every hour, day, month, or even year there is a huge probability that you are missing out on ridiculous amounts of potential income. Why? you might ask. Well, it just happens to be your lucky day because I am about to tell you. If you work for, lets say an hourly wage, you will only ever make that amount of money for your time that you work. You may get a raise but you will still be limited to that amount of money per hour you work. There are some exceptions to this, as there always are, such as big CEOs like Steve Jobs or Ray R. Irani (respectively top 1 and 2 top paid CEOs) but, hey, if YOU can set how much you make at the beginning of the year in the hundreds of millions, you aren’t the one read a website about how to make money anyway.

This is where you brain comes in and you think about what you can do to create streams of passive income. There are the common types of passive income, such as stocks or mutual funds, but how many people can live off of what they make from their mutual funds? Not too many. I don’t even know how, yet, I will come up with $15/hour every hour of every day but I know that putting my thoughts out there for other people to read could be part of that process of not working for money.

(PS. If you have any ideas (good ideas!!) on how a person could achieve a goal of $15/hour every hour of every day please comment or send me an email so I can try it and tell everyone how, exactly, to do it for themselves.)

Recently I had some time to think and I have decided to take advantage of life more so than I have even realized life could be taken advantage of. I haven’t just realized this so much as made the decision that I HAVE to take advantage of life to it’s full potential. This may not be a big deal to some people and i know that if someone said this to me I would agree with the cliche but give it some thought. Seriously. You have to find ways to do the things you want to do because if you don’t, you will always be doing something that you don’t want to do. For example I want to do whatever, I want whenever and the only way to do that is to make a lot of money. The only way I can make that kind of money is to work for myself or own a business. Case and point, this site making money off of just the documentation of how I am making money.

Taking advantage of life also means being efficient with your time and resources. How many people that truly take advantage of life are wasteful? My guess is none. I hate waste more than pretty much anything. It’s is the most useless thing you can do.

In a matter of months I have gone from being a layabout, bum of a human to a person that doesn’t really spend any time doing nothing or things that don’t matter, because I absolutely NEED to take advantage of life. For goodness sake (did I just say that!?) you only get one!!