35 years old, earning 100W through amateur interest: you must stick to a hobby that can be realized

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This is a real case that happened to my colleague's husband, and it is also an inspirational example. Most of my efforts to write are motivated by his behavior.

My colleague's husband, surnamed Zhang, has been working in a state-owned enterprise. He said he was busy or not, and his income was not high.

Five years ago, when he was 30 years old, like many people working in state-owned enterprises, he commuted to get off work on time, went home to watch TV, or played mobile games on the sofa with Ge You, living a life of seeing his head at a glance. If he goes on like this, it can't be an inspirational story.

The turning point of the matter happened at the end of 2014. There was a vacant position for the deputy of a department in their unit. He had a good chance to take the position, but he was cut off by another "official second generation" and the seat was gone.

He was sad for a long time when he lost the competition. During that time, he read a lot of chicken soup books and listened to a lot of chicken soup lectures. Suddenly one day he was enlightened, and he fell in love with writing after barely passing the college entrance examination composition.

His wife said that since then, he has completely changed, and he spends almost all of his time writing after get off work every day except for playing with the children for a while.

In recent years, he has been writing frantically, and he has almost given up all social interaction. He has not gone out to dinner with friends more than 10 times, and the mobile game has been uninstalled long ago. Now there is almost nothing on the mobile phone except for a few writing software. It used to be good. He slept late, but also changed his old style and got up early every day to study writing skills.

Of course, his progress is also rapid. From being ignorant about writing at the beginning to the first 100,000+ articles, from magazine submissions to self-media Vs, last year, his life achieved another leap. He sorted out the relatively excellent manuscripts written in recent years, Published his first book. In the same year, he also earned his first 1 million in writing.

35 years old, earning 100W through amateur interest: you must stick to a hobby that can be realized

Of course, he still insists on writing diligently, writing 3,000 words a day in his spare time. However, writing now is different from before. In the past, writing was a hobby. Now, in his words, he is now "writing full-time and working part-time", because his income from writing has long exceeded the salary of full-time work.

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Just look at the people who are kidnapped by mobile phones and the bodies that are hollowed out by tobacco and alcohol, and you can have a profound understanding of how important a hobby is that can be realized.

The more empty people are in their hearts, the more people who have nothing to do in their spare time, the more they can't do without their mobile phones, even if they read some boring news, they can be happy for a long time;

The more people who have no hobbies, the more they like so-called social networking, because social networking can fill the emptiness in their hearts and pass their boring time;

The more people who do not realize their hobbies, the stronger their reliance on work, because they have no other ability to realize other than work!

People say that where you put your time, what kind of person you can become, what I want to tell you here, where you spend your spare time, determines the height of your life.

Going to work is just to make a living, and going to get off work is for life.

If you like to gamble in your spare time, you are a gambler; if you like to drink in your spare time, you are an alcoholic; if you write in your spare time, you are a writer; if you like calligraphy in your spare time, you are a calligrapher…

35 years old, earning 100W through amateur interest: you must stick to a hobby that can be realized

Why stress that your hobby must be monetizable? I've summed up the 3 major benefits of a monetizable hobby.

① Overcome bad habits

"The best way to weed is to grow crops." The best way for us to overcome bad hobbies such as smoking and alcoholism is to develop a positive hobby, so that you can completely immerse yourself in the pleasure of elegant taste, so that your body and mind can be effectively relaxed, and tensions can be eliminated. For example, if you like to collect, you will spend a lot of time researching the characteristics of cultural relics in various periods. Your excitement may be where you find a rare treasure, not the low-end pleasures such as smoking, drinking, and playing games.

②Enhance the realm of life

Good interests and hobbies can effectively improve cultural literacy, cultivate temperament, broaden our horizons, and improve our thinking level. As long as hobbies are healthy and beneficial, people will be influenced by culture and skills and cultivate a good personality. For example, if you like calligraphy, you can immerse yourself in traditional Chinese culture and travel to your heart's content. You can not only feel the spirit of Wei and Jin Dynasties, but also experience the pride of Tang and Song Dynasties. People with hobbies and hobbies have a rich life in their spare time, and they are more optimistic when they encounter difficulties, so they are more open-minded.

③ Continue to increase your wealth

As long as it is a healthy and upward interest, after you do in-depth research, it can bring considerable benefits: for example, writing, like Mr. Zhang above, persist in writing for 5 years and achieve an annual income of one million; for example, travel, you can write about travel I feel like I can shoot travel videos. I have seen many Toutiao authors who make money by shooting videos during travel. Slowly, you will find that your work will become smoother, and you don't need to be so angry with your boss, because you have the confidence to fire him at any time!

35 years old, earning 100W through amateur interest: you must stick to a hobby that can be realized

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Writing here, readers will definitely ask, how can we develop a hobby that can be realized, and even achieve financial freedom by hobbies?

Anything that can make money is not easy, and it is very difficult to make money from hobbies. It requires you to invest a lot of time and energy. However, as long as you have an optimistic attitude, strong self-discipline and long-term persistence, then relying on hobbies Realization is definitely possible.

35 years old, earning 100W through amateur interest: you must stick to a hobby that can be realized

Here, I give you a few comments:

①Have a long-term plan

First of all, there is a choice of hobbies. Maybe you will say, there is no choice. Isn't hobbies innate? Wrong, did you forget there is a word called "cultivation"? Hobbies can be cultivated!

Otherwise, children born in scholarly families are more likely to love literature?

When we choose to develop our hobbies, we must combine them with the realization of cash, and choose those hobbies that can be effective as long as we use the persistence and hard work of compound interest thinking, rather than just focusing on immediate interests.

Then we have to have our own learning and training plan, or hobby development plan. For example, if your hobby is writing, it can be said that you will write XX articles this year, XX ten thousand words, etc.; your hobby is programming, you can decide how long you can Make up your own small program... Of course, there is also your monetization plan at the end. The time period when you can realize the monetization is also a must on the plan, because this is our goal.

②Maximize time

Be sure to invest enough time into your hobby. Time is the most critical factor in realizing compound interest. No matter what hobby, only enough time can be invested to achieve the desired effect. The 10,000-hour rule is also applicable in the process of realizing our interest.

So I generally suggest that if you don't have a "super brain", it's best to keep only one hobby, because if you have more hobbies, you won't have enough time to manage it, and in the end, you can only cultivate your sentiments, which cannot be realized at all.

You may say, I don't have much time, how can I cultivate it? Taking care of the kids and cooking...

I think you can list your free time on paper now, and then unconditionally allocate the time you spend on Douyin or playing games to your hobbies! You will find that time is much more crowded than water in a sponge!

③ Treat it as work

Since our final purpose is to realize realization, then we must treat our hobbies like work!

First, we must be willing to invest. Regardless of any hobby, on the basis of time investment, a certain amount of financial support is necessary. For example, when we write, we must buy books to read. Of course, a handy notebook is also indispensable. Others also have corresponding investment. At this time, be a miser, because as much as you put in, you will have as much output!

Second, we must have product thinking. We always have to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is to realize, to make money, we must understand the psychology of the part that pays for us, and then improve our products and provide them with related services. For example, if your hobby is writing, you need to know what kind of articles your customers like!

Third, we must master the corresponding marketing tools. Since it is necessary to know how to operate, we must be good at asking those experts in cash for relevant skills, and we must learn relevant methods from the Internet. In short, we must understand and use all the means of realization.