Steve D Valentine uses a bar-tap/drip analogy to advise incremental diversification of income streams: start with active income, then add "share works" (contributions/ownership), and later passive/attraction-based streams. Emphasizes gradual ‘pulling of levers’ — making small, regular allocations (savings, reserves, investments) rather than waiting for a single large account to appear.
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If you go to a bar and you look at the draft, right, and there's all these taps up there and you get to walk up and you go, cool. I'm going to put one cup onto this top and I'm going to let it drip and I'm going to go do something else and I'm going to come back and put another cup. I'm going to let it drip. Right. So now you continue in your career. So your first one is your active income. Your second one is going to be your share works, right. What you're being contributed to, your third one, you might have some attraction. You start pulling these levers a little bit at a time. You don't come in and pull them all. No. So it's getting your active business operational. So it is functioning. It's giving you some investment, it's giving some of these things. And then when you're comfortable, you start looking at what are the levers that can be pulled even a little bit? Right. Now, if I can just get them to drip. Right, right. Am I putting a little bit in savings? Am I putting a little bit in reserves? Because most people, they want to wait for their stock account to get here until they arrive.
