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Welcome back to Creating Coins where we talk
about money and mindset for entrepreneurs.
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Today we're talking about the real reason
you feel unfulfilled at work.
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There was a reason that I was in college for
10 plus years.
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So let me take you back just a little bit.
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When I started college, I was undeclared for
the first year or so.
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I didn't know what I wanted my major to be.
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And after the first year, my counselor said
you've got to choose a major otherwise you
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can't continue on in college.
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So I chose a major by default.
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I thought, well, I really enjoy Spanish.
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I feel like I'm good at it, so I'm just going
to be a Spanish major.
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So I chose to be a Spanish major.
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How many of you have liberal arts degrees?
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Do you have an English degree?
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Do you have a Spanish degree?
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Do you have a degree in literature or something
like that?
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A history major?
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If you do, then you can probably relate.
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I didn't realize it at the time but liberal
arts degrees are not super highly valued in
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the workforce.
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Typically you want to have a more specific
degree and a business degree is, usually the
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most valuable degree that you can get unless
you're taking your history degree and then
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going for additional education and getting
a law degree.
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But I'm talking about an undergraduate degree.
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So after graduating with the Spanish degree,
I realized that I didn't want to teach Spanish
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and even if I did I would have had to go and
get an additional certification.
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I also didn't want to move overseas in order
to translate and I didn't want to do any court
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reporting translation.
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Of the jobs that were available to me, I realized
that that's not actually what I wanted to
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do.
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I just wanted to walk around and speak Spanish
all day.
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So after I realized that my Spanish degree
wasn't going to be very profitable for me,
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I was working as a cashier at a restaurant
and I decided to go back to college.
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I went back to college to get a an additional
degree, one that would be more highly valued.
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I told myself, you're only allowed to get
an accounting degree, a finance degree, or
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an engineering degree.
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Engineering was way over my head.
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Accounting was just really, really boring.
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But finance was pretty interesting.
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After I got that finance degree, I realized
that I needed to get a cubicle job.
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I needed to get a job that would allow me
to pay off all of the loans that I had taken
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out in order to get these degrees.
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And at that point I felt really crushed because
I never really wanted a cubicle job.
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I always felt like I would be an entrepreneur.
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I felt like I would be the CEO of a business.
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I felt like I was the person to direct the
movement of something.
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I knew I was a creator.
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I knew I was meant for more, but I thought,
if this is what I have to do, then I'm going
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to do it.
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So I decided to get a cubicle job.
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Little did I know that I was going to graduate
during the greatest recession since the Great
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Depression, and I had a really hard time finding
a job.
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It took me a 11 months to find a job.
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In those first couple of months, I thought,
"If I can't find a job, then I'm just going
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to create one myself.
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Maybe this will be my road to entrepreneurship."
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I decided to create a little blog.
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It was a personal finance blog and I just
started talking about my own struggles.
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I started teaching what I had learned in college
and I continued to write after I got a full
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time job, I thought, "OK, this is it.
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I'm going to hang out in this full time job.
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This is going to be it for me and I'll just
take my paycheck, I'll go home, I'll work
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on my blog, on the side and I'll bring in
a healthy side income."
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But the problem was, I felt really unfulfilled
at work.
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Now, if you're feeling unfulfilled at work,
it might be because of the same issues that
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I was having problems with.
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The reason that I felt really unfulfilled
is because I felt like I didn't have that
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creative energy that I could get out.
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I couldn't take the ideas that were in my
head and turn them into reality and I found
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that I am a creator and my inherent need is
to take ideas out of my head and bring them
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to life and see them to vision.
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So if you're feeling unfulfilled at work,
it's probably because you don't have enough
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room to breathe.
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You don't have a creative space.
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Now, if you can work in an entrepreneurial
organization where you're given room to breathe
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and you're given the ability to work on your
own projects along with doing the work that
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you do every day, you might feel really fulfilled
at work, but if you don't and you're just
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required to do those rote tasks over and over
again, every single day, you're probably feeling
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really frustrated right now.
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So what was the solution?
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What did I do?
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I continued to work on my blog, on the side,
and I started looking for ways to earn enough
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to replace my full-time income.
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What I discovered was that I could take my
skills and turn it into an online business
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and I started doing some freelance writing,
freelance social media management.
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I booked my first client at about $800 a month,
and then I booked the next client at around
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$2,500 a month and I continue to book clients
and I replaced my full-time income by doing
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done for you services.
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I truly believe that you have a unique skill
that you're probably not using and you can
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take that and turn it into an online business.
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I've helped hundreds of clients take their
own unique skills and turn them into an online
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business and I'd love to show you exactly
the process, how we've done it and how you
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can do it as well.
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I'm hosting a training called 30 Days to Client
Praise.
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I will leave all the details in the description
box.
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You can just click the link below.
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There are few times that you can choose in
order to sign up for and watch the training.
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During the training, I'm going to show you
exactly how to figure out what your unique
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skill is, how to package it up and offer it
to clients.
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I'll even show you how to get your first client
and then how to set up a system that continues
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to bring clients to you.
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Now, I had a young lady that was on the training
and she said, "I just got a client while I
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was on the training!"
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So I know that it works and I'd love to have
you join us as well.
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All the details that you need are in the description
box.
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Remember, all it takes is action to turn your
ideas into income and that's Creating Coins.
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Thanks so much for joining me and I'll see
you in the next one.
