Developing Your Gameplan | Working from Home

Today I’m officially starting my new gameplan for making money online. My first target is to earn 26,000 in passive income–26,000 is our monthly expenses for my family. I am aiming to achieve this in 3 months. Right now, the bulk of my income is from my work-from-home job, so I’d really like to shift it to residual income.

This new gameplan includes:

Having daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly goals and sticking to those goals. In a study of Harvard students, 10% of the students had goals in their minds and they were the ones who earn at least thrice as much as everyone else. Yet 3% of these students have CLEAR WRITTEN GOALS, and it is these same 3% that earn at least ten times as much as everyone else. Keeping a list of your goals is a very powerful time management tool. You’ll be surprised to find how much you can do in a day, plus it really feels good to see all that you have accomplished for the day. It makes you feel good about yourself and keeps you motivated.

Waking up 2 hours early. I intend to wake up two hours earlier just to have time for exercise as well as to work on my most important goals. Big goals means you will be encountering big challenges, and big challenges=STRESS. You’ll really need your health up at its peak to be able to face these challenges.

Learn, learn, learn. Although I’ve stopped college, I never stopped learning. I intend to continue doing so through audio learning and seminars. I’m particularly focusing on success training, leadership, organizational behavior, and business training audios. You can find these on the internet, by the way, like on YouTube. Try a search for Robert Kiyosaki and watch his videos. Buy his book on your local bookstore or borrow one from a businessman.

Have time to relax. This year has been very busy for me. Sometimes I work 7 days a week for two months straight. If I wasn’t keeping myself in top shape through regular 30 minute to an hour exercise then I would probably be sick in bed right now. And no, I’m not a workaholic. I do love to work, but I enjoy my relaxation time as well. I do continue working hard because I’m aiming to retire at 30. Go someplace close to nature, do martial arts training or something, and write the fantasy novel I wanted so much to write.

Tithe more. Everytime I receive money from my job, I go out to buy groceries then hand them out to people sleeping on the streets. When I feel down and really stressed and there are really times when I’m broke because of the bills to pay with my business and due to the past few months of recession, I go out to do the same thing and I feel like ready to work again for the next week.

By next year, I’m aiming to be able to help support a foundation I’ve been working with for differently abled persons. These people are trained in IT, and yet they couldn’t apply their skills yet due to lack of experience and because they have a very slow internet connection right now that takes 20 seconds to load a page and only one PC is connected to the internet. I was thinking of at least sponsoring their internet connection so they could apply their skills and could avail of work through the internet.

Top 10 Ways to Make Money Online | Nov. 2009

Here are my top 10 ways of earning money online as of Nov. 2009. My name is Lee Lopez, 23 years old, from the Philippines, I am an undergraduate of a Computer course in Davao City. I’ve been working from home as a freelancer and blogger for almost three years and these are how I generate money online.

1. Freelance Work: I receive as high as $1,500 every month on my PayPal account (see proof of payment section) for doing freelance work. I work 5 days, 8-10 hours a day as a Search Engine Optimization consultant and project manager and as an outsourcer for web projects, data entry, lead generation, etc.  On low earning months the least I would earn is around $500 working comfortably. For getting local freelance work (if you have a good resume it’s very easy to get a work-from-home job)  I use these sites in the Local Work from Home Jobs section of this site–if you want to find work-at-home jobs from these sites then go to the National or Nationwide category. If you’re willing to aim for a higher pay every month then you can try the International Work from Home Jobs.

2. Academia-Research: I’ve received over $400 from Work from Home Academia sites before I stopped working. The most I earned in a month from working part-time is around $200 for only a week’s worth of work. It’s been a while though since I worked on such sites since I’ve been busy on my freelance work and my blog.

3. Blog and Passive Income: This is probably my most favorite means of earning money online because I know that even if I stop working I will still continue to earn. To me, passive or “residual” income is the best income that you can generate. Imagine if you can set up a blog that earns 25,000 pesos a month consistently even if you sleep or take a vacation or stop working.

My target is to earn $600 a  month from my blogs and websites but I still have a long way to go. Here are my current earnings from my blogs and passive income:

  • This site (3 months old): $15-$20 a month from Adsense
  • Another work from home website: $50 a month
  • AWSurveys referrals from blogs:  $30 a month
  • Project Wonderful: $10-$15 a month
  • Revresponse: $5-$10 a month

This puts me at $125 passive income every month in addition to my freelance work. I’m looking at hiring some people part-time to help me to help maintain my sites since I’m very busy with my freelance work for now. I will be updating you every month on my progress to this journey to $600 passive income a month.

4. -10. Other opportunities. The ones I mentioned above are my only focus for now. But I’ve also earned from other opportunities. You can find more about these opportunities for free here. I’ve heard of Chitika, Widgetbucks, MyLot, etc etc and I’ve tried them. Yes, I did earn from them but for the amount of time I spent and for the amount I earned I’m not so excited about the other programs.

If you’re interested in starting to make money online I’m releasing a free 50 page ebook on how to earn money online by the end of December. If you want to get the link to download the ebook when I release it you can subscribe using the upper right form on this site.

What to expect from my free ebook this December: The Work from Home Guide

  • Learn how to earn money while working from home through your own clients from overseas. Discover the best sites to find legitimate work from home careers
  • Learn how to set-up your blog, how to get your own website set up for free (or if you want your own domain name www.yourname.com then I’ll tell you the best places to get these at the lowest cost with the best possible service)
  • Learn how to generate income from the blog or website that you will set up
  • Learn how to turn these into an automated cash generating machine that will be able to make you financially free just by investing 6months to 1 year of your time working part-time from home