Inspiration: Quitting My Day Job and Pursuing my Passions? I Can, Perhaps!


Follow your dreams

Since my grandfather's health deteriorated, i have not been feeling really great from within. I have always been stressed out financially and emotionally and juggling between three jobs, keeping up with grad school requirements, and having a rather dysfunctional family around have all been keeping me busy (and pressured!) more often than not. Right now, I am actually entertaining thoughts of leaving my day job and just focusing on the things I find more meaningful and important.

For more than two years, I have actually survived and thrived without a day job. I had my online writing gigs as my sole source of income and I was doing well in fact. I was able to focus on my master’s degree at the same time and I bet I was feeling less pressured then than I am right now.

My decisions whether or not to quit from work is like in a tug-of-war right now. I need to set priorities. I need to decide which is really which. While I enjoy the company of people here at work, what takes my energy is the pressure associated with running an academic library.

Add to this, I have my master’s degree thesis to finish. I hope I could do this before this summer ends. Perhaps, eventually, I could really decide what path to thread. I might as well leave the library and just teach part time? Or accept consultancies, maybe? With more time left at hand, I could only look forward to spending it building my blogs. I have long yearned to make them a successful enterprise. I would like to give a lease of life to my declining online business and if everything goes well with my blog, perhaps, it becomes self-sustaining enough to generate substantial income, I could cease writing for clients and simply focus on my blog. Hopefully, I could write an ebook… or ebooks perhaps, travel to places I want and enjoy a simple, bountiful and fulfilling life? Quitting my day job and pursuing the plans of my heart are just wishful thoughts for now. But I don’t lose hope that someday, these plans will all become true realizations. AMEN. 

Online Money-Making: 5 Ways to Make Money with Your Blog


Blogging is a popular past-time for many. But for some, it’s a source of income. If you have the knack for writing, why not set up your own blog and start reaping the rewards of making cash out of it? There are actually so many ways of income-generating opportunities that your blog has to offer. Here are five of the most popular ways that you might want to take advantage of.

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Google AdSense

Affiliating your website through Google AdSense is one way of generating passive income through your blogs. How do you earn money from this? When you enroll your blog through the Google AdSense program, you will be allowed to display three banner or text-only advertisements in your blog page. Whenever someone clicks that ad, you get to earn money! If your blog has thousands of pages and it has thousands of visitors every day, you have better chances of earning big bucks! When your account has accumulated $100 and up, you’ll be eligible to get your payment already.

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Paid Ads

Another way of earning money through your blog is by getting sponsors who will pay in exchange for letting them display ads on your blogs. If your blog is so popular already and people are asking you if you could allow them post ads on your blog pages, now is the right time to come up with a plan. You can offer different advertising programs with corresponding price tag. The price could range depending on the size of the banner ad or the length that your client wants the ad displayed on your pages.

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Reviews

Writing reviews about books, products, or establishments gets you paid either in cash or in kind. If you have established your credibility as a guru or expert in your niche field, expect people to contact you, asking you to write good things about them. Because you have gained a considerable influence among the consumers, your words are too precious that they can’t afford not to have you to say something about their products or services. Before your write a review, your clients would send you their products that you could try out. You don’t have to say all the good things about the product. You don’t also have to write a really scathing review. A balanced one would be good enough. Just lay the facts and let the consumers judge whether or not they’d want to get the product that you’re writing about.

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eBooks

If you have been writing about your niche market for so long that your blogs have accumulate a lot of information already, why not collate what you’ve written, tweak the information a little, then publish and e-book? You can then sell them through Amazon! Don’t forget to advertise it through your blog, of course. You can never tell, you might be the next best-seller!

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Backlinks building

With your credibility as a blogger and with the thousands of followers you have, it’s not just the businesses that would want to have a slice of your blog. SEOs and webmasters would also want to have your blog’s authority to pull up their rankings and increase their ratings. That’s called backlinks building. Say, your blog already enjoys a PR 5 or 6, a website with a PR or 3 or 4 that wants to improve his PR rank would ask you to include his link in one of your posts. However, you should be careful about this. It’s important to make sure that the website that you’re sharing does not have a bad reputation, or else, it could have an adverse effect on your blog’s rating, as well. 

Inspiration: Life's Silver Lining

There'll always be a silver lining amidst life's trials.
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Certain situations in our lives could hurt us and really break us. There’s the thought of bankruptcy looming around or the thought of all your friends turning their back on you. The situation may take its course and we are helpless about it. But what comes after is for us to act upon. Situations may be bitter and seemingly hopeless, but how we react to it could mean our saving grace or breaking point.

How do we react? Do we drown ourselves in alcohol? Smoke ourselves to death? Dig ourselves deeper into depression? Or eat our lives away with drugs? We cannot control events in our lives.

We cannot stop a person from dying. We cannot help our loved ones from breaking our hearts. We cannot prevent financial breakdowns. But what we can do is always hope for the better. It’s how we react to things that make all the difference.

So, how do we do that? Do we react with a positive mind that looks into all the goodness in life despite the trials that afflict us? Or do we react with negative feelings and sink into it? The choice is yours. But remember, there’s so many beautiful, blissful things in life that dwelling into the dark, negative side would mean robbing yourself the right to all the wonders that God’s hands have to offer. AMEN.  

Inspiration: I’m Doing OK

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More than one month… Yes, it’s been so long since I’ve been here. I don’t feel good with the many misses I’ve had in blogging, but it’s just that the two months of absence have been turning points in my life… but yes, I’m alive and think I’m doing OK.

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