Time

I often see busy and broke people.
To be honest, almost everyone is "busy" and broke.

Why? Simple.
They don't value their time.

The secret to becoming rich is very simple: how much do you value your time?
If you are willing to trade it for $10/$15 an hour, you will always be busy and broke.

I realize we don't live in a world where we can find easy ways to print money, but I share with you my honest observation after years of entrepreneurship.

When I first started, I was accepting custom orders that didn't pay me well.
I thought, "It's okay, at least I'm paying the bills".

Big mistake and so for years I was busy...and broke.
That only changed when I said to myself, "No more. This is the price of my time, if they can't pay, I won't."

Again, I understand that it's not that simple and you can't just wake up one morning and say, "My hour is now worth at least $100."

But, if you are trading your time for a low rate, you should hate it.
Take that rage to think about how you could use your time more efficiently and figure it out.

If you just accept that your time is between 10 and 20 and settle for that, chances are you will stay busy and broke.

In the end, it's a mindset thing.

If you think you deserve 10k/month, you need a plan, a good plan where you design how you are going to use your time effectively to reach your goal.

If you think you deserve 1k+ / month: you won't achieve more.

Think of a number, make it your priority, make a plan to reach it, don't settle for less and every day you don't reach the goal: hate it.