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As I work from home and have a boisterous four year old to deal with, I jumped at the chance to review this book for Trashionista hoping for lots of ideas and advice. I’m happy to say that I wasn’t let down.

The title and by-line ‘Inspiring Ideas for making money when you have kids’ is tackled from all angles in a practical and realistic manner. The 10 Chapters cover a wide range [Read more]

If you spend all day in a job waiting to get home so you can crack on with your hobby, then chances are, you could probably make some money at it.

Because not all hobbies are going to be money makers, the first thing to do is to take a good look at your past time and view it from a different angle.
Think about what you are doing and how it might be profitable.  Are you creating something?  Providing a service?  Doing an action that could offer valuable information?  Does your hobby give you insider knowledge?

For the purpose of this article,  I phoned up my sister and asked her what her hobby was.
My sister is four months pregnant, so much of her activities have changed in the past weeks, but one constant passion she has is ‘reading.’    Taking my sisters hobby as an example, I decided to look at if you could make money from reading. [Read more]

This has to be one of the best books I’ve read.

I’ve just finished reading and already I’m looking forward to starting it again. The thing is with Jack Canfield, is that he’s just such a nice, positive guy, you can’t help but smile when you’re reading his work and you always feel better.

The stuff in this book is really sound, solid advice delivered in a easy to read format. A few things in this book have really made me act - I’ve set clear goals that I can work towards, I’ve been a lot more focused with my time and energy, I’ve got a lot of motivation from reading and I’ve a clear plan of what I should from day to day.

I bought a few copies of the book for Christmas presents, that’s how good it is, after reading you just want to share.

I don’t want to spoil it and tell you all the best bits, but there is a chapter called ‘Reject Rejection’ which is brilliant. For me, working as a writer with my share of rejections, that chapter was brilliant! For anyone who has been told, ‘no thanks’ this book is a must.