How to Make Money That MATTERS | Mindset Shift

How to make more money. So I got a great question a while ago. I did a video of somebody who wanted to try to make tons of money on eBay and he asked me, "Hey, how do I buy cheap products so I can sell them for more on eBay?" And I said, "Listen, that's not the answer because if you don't love what you're doing, if you're just trying to make money, that's your only goal, then you're not going to make it. eBay is not the solution. You have to find something that you love and pour yourself into to That's the answer. So I got a response from one of my YouTube viewers, loyal YouTube viewers, Chef's TV, who wrote in to say, I would like to make some money so I can invest into my business idea eventually. I don't believe I can be an eBay millionaire like this person, but what do you think about doing this sort of stuff short term so you can create enough to pump into an idea? So this is a really, really important question, and it comes down to your mindset, okay? I don't know why we're trained this way, but here, so look at Chef's problem, okay? He wants to build this. This is what he wants to build, this is his big idea, this is his vision, and he thinks he's got to do all these little things on the side to be able to fund the big project. Okay, there's a couple challenges here. The first are these little things, if he doesn't love it, if he's not pouring himself into it, if he's not really enjoying and adding value and really feeling it, then it's not going to work out. The businesses that you get into just trying to make money They don't work. They don't work. Think about how many times you've seen somebody, you know, you read somebody, they made a million dollars on eBay, or they're buying these foreclosed homes and fixing them up and selling them for a profit, and you think, yeah, I want to do that, I can do that, I can see that guy on TV trading up and making all these deals, I could do that too. There's so much work, guys, that goes into making these things happen. You can't just pick up an ebook that cost you $97 of somebody's business idea and make it work for you. Because you have to love it. You're gonna keep running around in circles. You're gonna be that hamster on the wheel, running, running, running, running, running, and never get anywhere. Never make any progress. That's where most people get stuck. That's where they live, in just constant desperation, constant struggle to try to break free, and you just You look for any money-making idea, but you never make it happen. Those people never make it happen. And the answer is simple, it's because you don't love it. You look at any famous entrepreneur story, look at how they got started, and they started with nothing, a lot of times in poverty, and they made it because they loved their business and they believed in themselves. And you might be saying, "Hey Evan, that's easy for you, you made your money, you don't have to worry about it." Hey, I'm the guy who was making $300 a month, okay? Below the poverty line, turning down $100,000 a year jobs to focus on my business where I didn't even know if that was the right thing to do and I constantly doubted myself. But I was so glad that I did it. If you focus— this is where 99% of the world is— you focus on this thing, just trying to make money and come up with any scheme to do it, somebody promised you to get rich off some quick stock, you just focus on that stuff, it's never gonna happen for you. I mean Meanwhile, we all have these dreams, right? You have this dream for what you want to accomplish. You look at Chefs, he has his dream. This is what he wants to build. And for some reason he's stuck on all this crappy little tiny stuff that never works. If you have a dream, then you have to start going after that dream. Now I don't know what it is for Chefs. His name is Chefs TV, maybe something to do with TV, maybe he wants to be a TV star, TV producer, I don't know. But if you have a dream, that's what you need to go after and start right now. And I get that you may be struggling, you know, you have bills to pay, you have a mortgage, you have kids to look after, you know, maybe you're a single mom and your husband isn't paying his child support because he's popping up on pills, whatever it is, I get that. And you may be in that survival mode and you may have to take on crappy jobs. But if all you do is stay in survival mode and never do something greater, then you're always going to be on that hamster wheel and you're never going to build this thing up. If you don't have any money right now, honestly, the best thing to do is go get a job that leads you towards this. And yeah, I'm saying go get— I'm the entrepreneur guy telling you to go get a job, you know, because you look at Chef's TV, if he wants to be a TV producer, have his own TV show, If he doesn't have any experience now, doesn't have any money now, the best thing that he can do is go work for a TV production company. Somebody who he looks up to, can learn from, because it's going to give him money, help him survive, it's going to give him contacts, he's going to make mistakes while getting paid to do it, he's going to learn the business, and everything he's doing is gearing him towards making this big project of his happen. Where if all he does is get stuck trying to sell eBay stuff and doing whatever somebody else says will make them money, you're just constantly stuck in this pattern that never leads anywhere. So it's okay to go get a job to learn. It's okay to do your thing part-time. And every big idea, there are ways that you can start for free, for nothing, cheap, just your time. You can break it down. You have this big vision, what you want to accomplish, break that down into steps. And get started and do something every day, even if it's 20 minutes a day, something every day to make this happen and stop worrying about this crap here. That's the difference. The people who just sit here never make any money and get stuck on life's treadmill, and I don't want that for you. And I don't know how to change the mindset of people because we're so money-focused a lot, and maybe it's because you're, you're, you deep in debt or whatever it is. But if you stay here, if this is all you think about, you're never going to break free of this. Never. You need to find your path to get to that big dream and focus on it every single day. I don't care if it's full-time, but every day you're taking action to move forward on that dream, even if it means getting a job to help support your path. Believe. For those of you watching, like the video, give it a thumbs up below. 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