Flexible Working Life

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I love the start of a new year.  All those possibilities, all that potential.  I love getting a new diary and filling up the first few pages with plans, ideas and dreams.

So what’s in store this year?

My plans are to build my passive and online income.  I’m totally in awe of those who are making over $1000 a month from previous online projects and I plan to investigate as much as possible into making that amount as well.
So far, I’ve set up another blog, started to submit articles to a content paying site and, well, that’s as far as I got.  I have made some money, but the truth is, I’m finding it hard to keep up the motivation for these kinds of things when the initial return is so little.

I only started with Bukisa in December, hoping to be part of the great eHow Experiment, but the second week into the month, I got a large project to complete and….. didn’t get chance to submit any more articles.
In my last update I had written 8 articles and earned $0.40.
Since then, I submitted one more article, and having just checked, my earnings are now at $2.00.
My articles are earning money for me.  So it’s passive income, even though it is in tiny, tiny, tiny amounts.  I’ll submit some more articles, and keep with it as much as possible keeping those wonderful few who earn $100 a month from content paying sites firmly in my mind.

My new blog has only been live a month, and just has a few posts on, but has earned $1.00 already from Adsense, and I love working on that, so I plan to continue with it, build up traffic, and perhaps launch some other niche blogs as well.

I’m told that the lack of initial return is the biggest stumbling block in trying to gain passive income and it’s where most people give up.  From my research, it seems that any kind of income made online seems to be a slow burner.  So, this year, I intend to embrace that concept and commit to it as best as I can.

If you are looking for ways to build up passive income, (and in this kind of financial climate, who isn’t?)  then here are a few sites to inspire and show that it can be done on a large scale.
I admire each one of these brave bloggers for showing their earnings online and if they are to believed then…    wow.

Caroline Middlebrook
Brilliant blog and made $1498 in December from various projects online

Work at Home Mom
Made $2654.18in November.  I can fully understand why she’s no longer posting monthly earnings reports, but had to point her out because she’s doing so well.

Tyler Cruz
$6,663.94 from his one blog in December.  I don’t know if it’s true, but it is very inspiring.

And Passive Family Income who is wonderful for giving and sharing ideas.