I want to make money online, so can you help me?

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Making decisions on ones future sometimes is quite challenging.

For quite some time, I’ve wanted to explore if I could make money online. As I’m not producing any products, and not selling any services at the moment, I’ve told myself it would not be possible. Lately though, I’ve come to understand that it IS possible and not very difficult to achieve. Of course Henry Ford was right when he stated that “If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right”. So in me not believing this would be possible I made things harder for myself. After I started investigating what to do and how to get started, I got quite intimidated by all the information out there.
The problem is not that there is not enough information out there. My challenge is more what to read and whom to believe. There are literally thousands of people on the internet claiming to have the best answers to both social marketing and how to get rich in 10 seconds doing nothing. Well, yes this is exaggerating, but you get my point, don’t you? So who am I to follow and what should I do? It might turn out to be a waste of my time and energy to just pick someone randomly and follow their recipe, but then again sitting around doing nothing about it might be the biggest waste. Being a fulltime student, working on my final project and getting my bachelors degree this summer, and a single mom with 3 kids, I feel my time is precious and I hate wasting it on bullshit. (Excuse the language, but that’s what pisses me off more than anything when people waste my time).

So here is my pledge to you that is really good in this field: If I can use 2-3 hours every day, what should I do to start making money quickly? I want to make real dollars, not just “paypal” money. Is this possible and how?

Please contact me on my e-mail or on twitter.

Changing World

Lately I’ve noticed several signs that the world is changing. Now it is widely known, that once you set your focus on a certain theme or case, you start noticing relevant stories, products or information on just that. That might just be the case here, but since I find it fascinating it is worth writing about.
It’s probably 20 years since I first heard about how the generation that’s just starting their careers and how they would change the patterns of working and thinking in the world. After I became a mother, I noticed that more and more children were born with challenges that were not known and definitely not understood when I was a kid. ADHD and related diagnoses have flourished; every other kid has some sort of allergy or intolerance that no one had heard of 20 years back. These children need their parents, and generally their whole environment, to adapt to them, instead of vice versa.
Being Icelandic, I’ve followed the financial and political crises there closely. Now, several months into the “crises” more and more people seem to be realizing that all of this might be an opportunity to create something new and better for our societies. Maybe racing challenging children has helped us to learn how to adapt to new and surprising situations?
I think it is a pleasure to be able to follow in on new philosophies in marketing, in religious systems, changes in the way we work, read, listen to music, appreciate our families, communicate and look at the world. I do believe that we are still to see big changes in our consumption, and it seems to me that we’re finally realizing that it gives more pleasure to produce things, and to work with things that are rewarding on a personal plane.
With all of this said, it’s probably in its place to add, that I’ve not noticed the financial crises personally, and neither do I know anyone that has felt it hard in their life’s here in Norway.
I’m excited to see what the years to come will bring us! What do you think life will be like in 5 – 10 - 20 years?

Why be bored?

I remember from my own childhood feeling that time went really slowly, and it seemed like an eternity between Christmases and between summer holidays. I remember many occasions when I had no idea what do with my time, and how to deal with being bored. It could be days at a time, that I’d have to figure out what to do. Having had parents that were fairly busy with other things I usually made myself some sort of a project and those were my own, and I learned a lot from them. And still the days were an eternity, and the years were so long they didn’t seem to have any end to them (and of course everyone over 20 was OLD).
I suppose that when we grow up, and get jobs and families, maybe several friends and hobbies, having money to spend and a home to tend to, most people don’t have the time to be bored. Maybe that is just a part of being a grown up? Perhaps we just find ways to avoid being bored all together, I mean… after all it is boring, so why bother?
However, over the last few months I’ve made an interesting observation. Being the mother of 3 children, I’d expect them to be bored once in a while.
I’m sure you’ve guessed that I rarely observe this with them. So I decided to discuss this with them, and not only have they informed me that they feel they’re almost never bored, but what was more strange to me, my 10 year old has commented on several different occasions that she feels the weeks go by so fast, and that a year really seems like a short time.
Why on earth is this? I wonder. I discussed this with a friend of mine the other day, and he told me he remembers his father telling him “you have to learn to be bored”. I remember hearing several grownups say it’s healthy to be bored, because that’s when you get creative. If this is true, are we running out of new ideas, or are they coming from somewhere else than the grate wasteland of Boredom? Maybe they now grow in the Bore domain?
So what do you figure? Why aren’t we bored anymore? Or are you bored, and what do you do about it then? Are we missing out on anything, or have we developed out of it, sort of like what happened with the appendix? I’d love to know.