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From “Money is my Friend” by Phil Laut

1.) Take two minutes and write down your ten favorite pleasures.
2.) Review the list and select the very favorite please that you are willing to receive money for.
3.) Take two minutes and make a list of ten ways that you can provide a service for people by performing your favorite pleasure (from step 2).
4.) Review the second list and pick out your favorite way of providing a service for people. What you have before you is your favorite money-making idea.
5.) Take another two minutes to make a list of ten things that you are willing to do to make the idea from step 4 a financial success.
6.) THE ACID TEST – Are you willing to do the idea, to stick with it, until you receive $200 from it? If not, go back to step 1. You can do something else after you get $200 from the idea, but you must be willing to stick with it until the $200 mark.
7.) If your answer to step 6 is yes, get out your calendar, schedule the tasks from step 5, and get started.

Life work is work that I intrinsically enjoy, that I am rejuvenated by while doing it. It brings in enough income that I don’t experience lack. In addition to financial rewards, I get the rewards of recognition and praise.

I started my 3rd Moleskine this week. I only have one other notebook I’ve filled completely, and now I’ve done 2 of these, and actually done them in the same year.

For me, the moleskine is almost the perfect book for filling. I journal, write down story and business ideas, sketch, do mind-maps for figuring things out, and take notes at a couple of weekly lectures I take. I also paste in memorabilia from events I want to remember. This ends up using about 7 pages a week, or a notebook every 4 months.

I’ve discovered that I have some resistance to actually finish books. I’m always worried that I’ll never find this exact book again, or the paper will be different, or whatever. So with moleskines, I keep a wrapped book on the bookshelf. As I’m nearing the end of my current one, I start the search for the book that will replace the one on the bookshelf. (I use the unlined notebooks and they seem to be stocked less in my area.)

The other thing I get stuck with is that there are different kinds of information I want to write down. Most of my book is stream of consciousness, but sometimes I need a list I can find later. So, in my last notebook, I started keeping the lists from the back page forward. I ended up with 10 pages of books to read, to dos around the house, favorite websites, calendar notes (with page number, if they occurred during the span of the book) and things like that.