Make More Money and Live Your Passion: Become a Cre8tor

Your financial life has a certain trajectory — similar to a train on a track. There will be twists and turns, but you can easily determine where you will end up if you stay on the financial track you’re currently on. What if the traditional methods of working hard, cutting expenses, and saving don’t work for you? Brown bagging it every day won’t cause you to jump tracks and end up somewhere completely different. The guy living in the mansion overlooking the ocean didn’t buy that house by clipping coupons, and the woman passing you in a $400,000 Maybach didn’t get that way by eliminating her morning latte. For most of us, the gap between where we are and where want to be is so wide that we’ll never be able to close it by following traditional financial advice.

What’s the solution? If you’re tired of scraping by you’ve got to create. If you want to move out of your apartment or make more than minimum wage, you’ve got to create. If you want a big house overlooking the ocean, to travel first class, to quit your job, or to drive your dream car, guess what? The answer is in the other 8 hours. The answer is to shift from being a full-time consumer to being a part-time Cre8tor.

A what? A Cre8tor is a creative entrepreneur who has a day job but wants more. She isn’t content with the status quo, and is less than thrilled with the thought of working another 40+ years. She knows that the only way to “jump the tracks” to get to a new financial level is to do something different during the other 8 hours. A Cre8tor utilizes his strengths, passions, and/or expertise to create something unique and valuable — maybe he’ll start a blog, work on an invention, write a screenplay, or start a business. If you settle for a paycheck, you’ll only be worth what your employer pays you. But if you create something valuable, there’s virtually no limit to your worth.

A long commute, brainless boss, and an empty bank account can wreak havoc on your outlook, hope, and purpose, but a side project or venture can bring inspiration to your life. When you’re passionate about what you’re creating during the other 8 hours, you can endure even the worst day.

Creating provides purpose and it provides a reason to get out of bed in the morning. It provides the hope that life can improve. When you create, it engages your mind and your soul.

With very few exceptions, anybody who has attained any level of financial success has created something. It might be a book, a CD, an invention, a website, or whatever. Look around you. Everything you see was originally just an idea in someone’s head.

You are living in the most exciting and mind blowing time we have ever experienced. It is rich with opportunities that literally didn’t exist just a few years ago. Unless your last name was Rockefeller or Carnegie, it used to be incredibly difficult to become rich. Becoming a millionaire wasn’t even a dream or an ambition. It was such an impossibility that it wasn’t worth a moment’s thought.

Because of technology, efficiencies, and a global economy, it’s much easier to become wealthy with much less effort than at any other time in history. As a Cre8tor, you’ll add more excitement and purpose into your life. You will live your passion and make more money.

In future columns I will discuss the top Cre8tor Channels you can plug into to start making more money in the other 8 hours.

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Joan M.

7:54PM PST on Jan 23, 2012

I know it maybe sounds simple, but one usually needs some capital no matter how small and starting your own business takes a lot of time and energy, so if you are already working it means little to no sleep.

send a green star

Suzanne L.

7:25PM PST on Jan 23, 2012

It all sounds good. Afterall, that's J.K. Rowling's story isn't it? But where do those 8 extra hours come from? I've always admired people who can get by on little sleep.

Holly L.

9:35AM PST on Jan 21, 2012

Opportunity has to knock on your door too! We have few chances to create our own opportunities so without a benefactor where does that leave us? I believe fully in initiative but people get dislussioned - and rightfully so - because doors are slammed in their faces. having the desire and putting it into practice are sadly two different things:( Plus we get caught up in life ..and put dreams on the back-burner. Listen to me rattle on sorry ..:)

Rossy O.

9:41PM PST on Jan 20, 2012

I read this article, then every comment... It was really so refreshing to note that the majority of us feel the same. Worded differently, but basicaly we all see our spiratual side of 'giving' rather than 'taking' or 'expecting' to have it all our own way.
My thoughts were caste to the far too many very wealthy celebraties who take their lives! They had money, cars, units and mansions, but very few genuine friends and were not happy.
Just take some time to study/watch people in 'poor' countries, with no material posessions, yet they are happy in what they are doing.
I am also very far from coping at times with the bills and even food becomes short, but I still thank my God, for all that I have, and besides if I am lucky enough to shed a pound or too, that's an added bonus. ha We can still give of ourselves, in many ways that doesn't involve money.
See your pay as a 'gift of reward' for your duties performed, as by working in that spirit, you will become a happy contented worker, that will 'rubs' off on co-workes.
I believe that my work, yes, even mucking out stables, or cleaning bathrooms, done in the above manner to the best of my capabilities, is acceptable to God as prayer.

Rosie L.

2:34PM PST on Jan 20, 2012

thanks for sharing

Siobhan J.

True wealth comes from doing something worthwhile that can aid humanity. The monetary gain is also an incentive.

Sue M.

12:49PM PST on Jan 20, 2012

thanks.

Shalvah L.

9:11AM PST on Jan 20, 2012

I don't want to be rich in money, rather enrich my soul. And would love to find work that interests me, stimulates my brain and pays enough money for food and housing.

Natasha L.

5:56AM PST on Jan 20, 2012

Thanks for the post

Sandi C.

7:51AM PST on Jan 19, 2012

SINCE COUNTERFEITING IS ILLEGAL , THATS LETS ME OUT