Your Gift is Your Wealth

(Photograph Copyright 2018 Dea Gunning)

Your gift is your wealth is a four part writing series on discovering, creating, and developing your own streams of income within the financially unstable environment which we find ourselves in today. Over the next four posts we will explore how we can develop our own streams of income. You'll find what you love to do and how you can get paid for doing it. It is possible. I have done it and am still doing it. You can also become more financially independent.

What Started it All?

I can honestly say that I don't actually like money. Sure, we all need it, but I find it to be more of a nuisance than anything. Why? Because we are constantly having to fill out reams of paperwork that go with it, and because there's always some government department wanting a slice of it - even though it wasn't them that worked hard to get it. I was tired of bosses demanding more and more from me and paying me a pittance to do it. I worked hard for our local library service for over twelve years. During that time I was bullied almost constantly. I did the right thing and I went to my immediate superior, but they placed it in the 'too hard' basket. I went to the CEO and he said he would look into it - but nothing was done. I decided it was time I worked for myself.

Too many people are stuck in jobs they despise. They drag themselves to work because there's no motivation, joy, or enthusiasm for what they do. I've been there and I hated it! A trusted friend said, 'Your gift is your wealth.' I didn't understand it at the time, but I smiled and nodded so he wouldn't think I was dumb, yet his statement stayed with me. I thought about what my 'gifts' actually are. Once I discovered that, the rest was easy. I utilized my gifts - the things I am good at and the things that I love to do to develop my own streams of income. Not just one way, but in several different ways and directions. I resigned from my job at the library and started to develop and build a business of my own doing what I love to do. Doing what we love makes it easy because we have joy and satisfaction in what we do, we are motivated and energetic - we don't have to force anything. This is WHY we need to develop our own streams of income, and in the next post we will look at the HOW.