The Passive Income Lie

I'll be honest, I've never been crazy successful with business. I'm not a millionaire, barely a hundredaire, and the idea of passive income has permeated my thoughts for years. While I may not be the shining example of business savvy, I do feel an image responsibility to share my realizations and help whomever I can whenever I can.

You know, passive income, sit around and make money. You see people talk about this all the time. Most of us think "side hustles" work like this. But they wouldn't call it a hustle if it didn't require work. This has been my realization today as I'm driving to meet a potential partner. Passive income isn't real.

Hear me out, I've had jobs, owned businesses, a rental property, and investments and literally the most passive form of income I've ever had was showing up to my 9-5. Basically you show up, half mindlessly do what you're supposed to, leave it at the business door when you clock out, then go home and prepare to do it again the next day, all while begging for the weekend to get there faster. While that doesn't sound passive, I've had to do less work doing this then in any of my other endeavors.

Simply put, not working on yourself, growing intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, not pushing yourself out of your comfort zones is the most passive thing you could possibly do. Sure it's safe, but safe is where dreams and real growth go to die.

This is my realization today. I've been passive with my business, investments, education, spirituality, and I'm not accepting passive income any longer. The saying is "anything worth doing ia worth doing well." So let's stop throwing mediocre attempts at the wall and seeing what sticks. Let's relentlessly put everything we have into not just doing well, but doing it so well that it makes other nauseous.

Set goals so high for yourself that even if you miss you'll be higher than your mediocre goals. Level up your actions by 10 times and see where you get.

Passiveness gets you nowhere. Put the work in with more effort and faith than you thought possible.

Here's a red wall because why not.