As it is the start of a new year you should spend a day planning out what it is that you want to achieve this year, and figure out what you need to do to make sure that you are successful.

Spending time figuring out what it is that you want and need to do makes doing it so much easier.

With a good plan there is no sitting around each day trying to figure out what you need to do next.

When you have a plan you already know what you need to do. You just need to do what is listed next on it.

When creating an overall plan, you should do it in multiple parts. Basically, you will need several complimenting plans.

They are:

• A Yearly Plan.
• A Six Month Plan.
• A Three Month Plan.
• A Monthly Plan.
• A Weekly Plan.

I would suggest that you spend at least one day a month working on a changes that may need making to your plan. As time passes and you work on your plan, things may change as your business/work evolves.

I also suggest that you spend at least one hour on a Monday working through your weekly plan and creating a plan for each day.

The idea of a plan is that you know EXACTLY what you need to do and when.

Not only does it remove a lot of confusion and frustration, it saves you a lot of work and allows you to spend less time ‘at work’ because you are working efficiently.

A perfect example of this is when one of our writers spent hours looking out of a window, and pacing up and down trying to think of something to write about. It happened several times over a one week period.

Usually, he plans out his week so that he knows what to write about each day, but for some reason, he hadn’t planned out that week and it left him lost and frustrated.

When Friday landed, he spent time planning out the following week and so when the time came to write he wasn’t wasting time trying to think of ideas.

Bizarrely, he says that it takes less time to plan out his writing a week before, than it takes when he needs to think of something to write about on the day.

He can come up with several article ideas while he sits with a cuppa making notes at the end of the week, but when he needs to think of something to write there and then… he struggles to come up with good ideas.

It might have something to do with a relaxed and calm mind that has all the time to think versus a desperate and frustrated mind that needs an idea fast.

When you work efficiently, you tend to do more in less time meaning that you have more spare time.

People with a plan work efficiently, people without a plan are ‘busy’ and there is a world of difference between ‘working’ and ‘being busy’.

A person can be really busy all year and achieve absolutely nothing.

Spending time working on a plan IS the big difference, a plan is a map that guides you to your chosen destination, it is the fastest route… a plan is the ‘big break’ people desire.

You create your ‘big break’ by creating a plan.

I hope you are spending some time this week creating a plan for the coming year. If you aren’t, maybe you should.

Kind regards

John Harrison

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Because of this trend there is a new movement of product creators who are moving from focusing all of their efforts on creating individual products to supplying ‘parts’ regularly via a subscription and then compiling the parts later to create an individual product for those who prefer to consume them that way.

An example would be of a musician working on a new album…

Instead of creating the album then releasing one or two tracks to warm people up for the album release, the new model would have the musician work on individual tracks which are released as part of a subscription as soon as they are done along with any remixes or reworks and then the album would be created and released later using the tracks the subscribers were able to enjoy early.

The subscribers pay to enjoy specific material earlier than other people along with exclusive extra material.

A lot of authors are doing this too. They are writing books which they release as chapters using platforms like Patreon, Ream, and Substack.

Subscribers get to read the chapters as soon as they are released before other people. They can comment and offer feedback. The author may make changes and share them with their subscribers for more feedback.

The book is finally published as a whole after the paying subscribers have read the last chapter.

For fans of specific content, becoming a subscriber for early and exclusive content gives the purchase more value as it allows them to also engage with the creator and other fans.

They are no longer just fans; they become part of an interactive community built around something they love.

They become part of a community… a collective… a part of the creator’s tribe.

They are loyal fans part of the ‘inner circle’.

There is money to be made by building a community.

The good news is that anyone can build a subscription business today.

It may take time to grow but once the number of paying subscribers swells to 500 or more, you are being paid multiple times to create the same piece of content.

One piece of content will earn £5 or £10 if you have just one paying subscriber… yet that same one piece of content could be worth thousands of pounds if you have more than 500 subscribers.

Publishing one post, one article, one chapter of a book, one video, or one piece of music can earn thousands of pounds if you have a large enough number of subscribers.

It may take some time growing your subscriber base – the best way to do that is give quality content away for free, but once your subscriber number starts growing… you are sitting on an incredibly profitable business.

To discover more, click the link below:

How To Cash In With A Subscription Based Business

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PS… Once fully established, you could be earning thousands of pounds each month from work which could take less than a day… depending on what you are providing.

A subscription based business is all about the numbers.

Give a large group of people something they want and need at a price they are happy to pay, and you can be paid multiple times for the one piece of work each week or month.

Here’s that link again:

How To Cash In With A Subscription Based Business

Yesterday I read an email from a woman sharing how a student of hers had made over £30,000 ‘flipping’ websites.

Most of that £30,000 will be profit.

The student, a woman from Norway if I remember right, builds simple starter websites and then sells them on platforms such as Flippa.com.

These websites take very little effort to create and they can be sold quite quickly.

A hosting package that allows you to build multiple websites can cost less than £150 for two years.

Domain name purchases can cost as little as £12.

A website can be sold for well over £200 a piece. Some go for several thousands of pounds.

People buy websites as investments.

So if you build one which is earning money each month, even if it is just a few pounds, there are people who are willing to buy it off you.

Often these people have access to a lot of traffic and so if you had a website that was earning £20 a month, which is actually quite easy to achieve, they may buy it from you for around £2,000 and start sending people to that website.

It won’t be long before they have made their money back and are soon in profit.

If you build one website a month and sell it for £2,000 you have a rather decent £24,000 a year side business.

You can work on more than one website at a time.

There are people who make six figures each year selling websites.

If this is something that may interest you but you believe that you don’t have the technical skills to build a website, watch the video here:

How To Build A Profitable Website Fast WITHOUT Knowing Anything About Building Websites!

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PS… This really is an easy way to make money.

The biggest obstacle at the beginning is confidence. You may struggle to believe that you are able to build a website worth selling.

You can.

Start small, build a really simple website and list it for sale for £100 or £200 and start from there.

Here’s that link again:

How To Build A Profitable Website Fast WITHOUT Knowing Anything About Building Websites!

During the late 70s and early 80s the unions were quick to defend anything. They did good in certain areas of employment, but not so good in others.

The debate regarding the unions of that period can go on for hours and I am not wanting to talk much about that in this article, but what I do want to talk about is how different today is from those days.

You see, back in the late 70s and early 80s, wages were paid in cash in envelops and real money was used by virtually everyone almost everywhere.

Plastic cards and cheques might have been available, but for the most part, cash really was king.

Everyone wanted to be paid in cash, and to pay with cash.

Cash money was the currency of the day (funny that) and to be paid in cash, people needed to do something or sell something locally.

For many, fiddling their hours or stealing goods to sell was the only way they could make more money without working a second job… which was not an option for many.

Theft was often the easiest option as it happened during works time and the sale happened later down the pub.

It didn’t require a lot of extra time or effort.

Today, there is no need to steal and there is no need to do or sell anything locally for extra money.

In fact, a time-strapped mother can usually earn more working online for an hour from the comfort and warmth of her home than a heroin addict can shoplifting goods all day to feed a habit.

Well, it’s a lot less risky and the money made isn’t just wasted on crap.

I’ve discussed many times the different ways you can make money online and have also named individuals who are doing fantastically well.

The internet is the ‘port’ of the new world.

It is the ‘gateway’ to opportunity.

It is the new ‘land of milk and honey’.

You can legally access many products, opportunities, customers, and territories through it.  

The internet is a tool for generating money.

Gary Lister has been using the internet to source products cheaply which he then sells for a large profit.

He buys items that he knows he can sell for double the purchase price.

He started small and has now grown to the point he can generate £1,263 per week flipping specific items he finds being sold cheap.

And unlike Fred ‘Spud’ Baker, Gary hasn’t spent any time in prison doing what he does because there is nothing illegal or dodgy.

It is both legal and simple.

Discover more here:

Gary Lister’s Secret Ladder

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PS… There are several reasons as to why people sell off specific items cheaply, Gary has found one item that people are often in a rush to sell off and so they sell it at half the value to get rid of it quickly.

Gary snaps them up quickly, and then sells them at their full value making hundreds of pounds, sometimes thousands of pounds, in profits for a few minutes work.

Here’s that link again:

Gary Lister’s Secret Ladder

Again, the point here is that wealthy and successful people are willing to put their money on the line as a way to make more.

They are also willing to risk their time and energy on a venture they believe will pay off. If they have any doubts that something will be a waste of time, they will simply say no and walk away.

If you want more money then you are going to need to adopt the same attitude as wealthy and successful people and be willing to risk some of the money you have.

Obviously, you cannot risk more than you can afford to lose, which for a lot of people isn’t that much. But without actually risking your money (or time) you will never enjoy the potential rewards that can come from new ventures or investments.

When it comes to making more money you need to:

1. Carefully study what the new venture or investment entails. Learn as much about it as you can before making any decisions.
2. Decide on how much you are willing to lose should the venture or investment not work out.
3. If the venture or investment looks sound enough and you believe that there is a greater chance of success than failure, take positive action.
4. Do all that is required to make the venture or investment a success, and if it fails, accept it and move on.

Successful and wealthy people take risks with their money, it is called leverage.

They use what money they have, they don’t just leave it in the bank to gather dust.

Money is your best tool for further success and wealth.

Kind regards.

John Harrison.

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In her desperation to do just that and be reunited with her children, Orla stole £500 from her new employer as a way to find the deposit for a new family home.

Her employer had caught her on camera numerous times ‘pocketing’ money from the till at the bar she was working in.

Because she was let out of prison early on license, she was soon whisked back to prison, this time for a 12 month period.

While watching the drama, I could feel myself feeling trapped and claustrophobic.

I just hate the idea of being locked up 24/7 for long periods of time with the lowest dregs of society.

What was worse is that Orla was sent to prison for doing nothing more than trying to provide for her children.

She wasn’t your normal kind of criminal; she was just a mother trying to survive.

Yes, she stole electricity, but it was so that she could feed her children warm food, keep them warm, and not have them sitting in the dark staring at walls.

Off all the crimes committed by people, this wasn’t one that was particularly born from selfish greed.

She didn’t steal a television or a laptop from a store during looting just so that she could have it.

She didn’t shoplift items to sell to feed a drug addiction…she just wanted to provide for her family.

I need to watch the rest of the series to see what happens, but I can tell you this, being sent to prison and separated from her children has sent her spiralling downwards.

I can’t see it being a particularly happy ending.

It’s safe to say that this storyline had me thinking.

How many good people are risking a spell in prison just so that they can provide and protect their families?

With the current cost-of-living crises squeezing people to the max, how many people are stealing products and services just to survive?

It is frightening that this could be happening today.

I remember watching another drama a couple years back where another single-mother who was struggling ended up entertaining gentlemen clients as a way to make ends meet.

It wasn’t a lifestyle she chose by choice; circumstances forced her into it… that and a dodgy bloke who ‘kindly’ lent her money when she really needed it, but then insisted he wanted it back knowing that she couldn’t afford it and so suggested an ‘alternative’ way to pay it back!

This is why people need to look for ways to generate a passive or semi-passive income.

In the case of Orla, her three children were young and so they would be in bed before nine or ten at night and so she would have a couple of hours each evening to look online for ways to make money.

Being broke, she didn’t need to spend a lot to get started with several methods. There are many ways to make money online that you can start for free.

Had she started when she began to ‘fiddle the leccy’, she could have been earning enough to pay her electricity bill a few months later.

I appreciate that time is in short supply for most people… but when needs must, working a few extra hours on a project is the better option than being locked away 24/7 for six to twelve months.

Don’t you agree?

There are many different ways to make money online, and far too many people to count who are making hundreds of thousands of pounds each year working online from home.

If you click the link below, you will discover a way to make six figures a year starting today without spending a penny of your own money.

How To Build A Six-Figure-A-Year Income Without Spending A Penny Of Your Own Money!

I’m sure that you are not in Orla’s position, and I hope you and your family never find yourself in a similar position, but know this… there are far better and less riskier ways to provide for your family than ‘fiddling the leccy’.

Kind regards.

John Harrison

PS… Once you have this up and running correctly, it can reward you with an automated (semi) passive income for many years.

Here’s that link again:

How To Build A Six-Figure-A-Year Income Without Spending A Penny Of Your Own Money!

And so while putting together the book The Inheritance Tax Eliminator, I got thinking about other ways to pass on your wealth without passing on any other tax burdens.

What came to mind was – while you are still young – to either gift a lump sum of money each month to specific people, similar to paying them a wage… or to set up a fully automated passive income system to pay them an additional wage.

Yes, they (or you) will need to pay some tax such as income tax each year, but at least it is a tax that is being paid once.

Don’t forget whatever money or assets your family are set to inherit from you in the future, income tax and other taxes have already been paid on it.

For example: let’s imagine that you created a website which sold numerous information products, similar to our Streetwise website.

The money made from sales either goes directly to your benefactor, or into a bank account that you have set up specifically to send money to the benefactor each month.

Yes, you (or the benefactor) will need to pay tax on any ‘additional’ income earned, but at least it isn’t going into your bank where it will be eroded by taxes each year and then being heavily eroded again once it is passed on to your chosen benefactor many years later when you have died.

Obviously, if you are in a position where you need the extra money yourself, setting up a passive income for others as a gift to avoid inheritance tax is probably not your priority, and with living costs as they are today, I can understand that.

A passive income would then be a gift you should consider giving yourself.

I cannot say how much you can earn as there are so many different factors to consider for each person, but after all my years in the information publishing business; I have seen more examples than I can remember of people earning large amounts of money by creating and publishing books and courses from home.

I am not saying that you create an eBook, publish it online and then sit back and watch as the cash rolls in each month… there is a little more to it than that.

However… once you have set up a fully automated passive income system correctly, they can require little maintenance.

Andi, our techy guy, previously worked as a joiner and he has told us about the people who he had worked with who were missing body parts due to working in the building industry.

I remember there were two guys who were missing several fingers, and one who lost an eye thanks to an incident with a band saw and a lump of wood.

Andi himself had to take time off work due to a couple of injuries that occurred while working on building sites.

One accident left him on crutches after twisting his foot while stepping out of a doorway on to uneven ground resulting in a painful hairline fracture to a bone in his foot.

One workshop he used to work in had a cleaner who was originally a welder in the RAF but a serious accident left him with a permanent brain injury meaning that sweeping up was the only thing he was able to do.

Working online is far easier and safer than many other forms of work… and it can be far more profitable.

So yes, there is more to it than simply creating (have created) and publishing a product online… but no, the work is not hard, nor is it difficult.

Imagine creating a passive income that was to pay between £500 and £1,000 per month for either you or a family member for the next ten or twenty years.

That would be good, wouldn’t it?

If you were to set that up for someone as a way to pass on your wealth in the here and now to avoid any potential inheritance tax in the future, I’m sure they would thank you for it.

Plus, most people need financial help in the here and now. It makes life easier and less stressful when there is more than enough money coming in.

As nice as it is to inherit a large lump sum later in life, I believe most people would find it more useful and enjoyable to have the financial help and support now.

I’m not suggesting that you should if you don’t want to… but gifting your money now to your family today, or setting something up that ‘gifts’ money on your behalf, is far better than allowing them to struggle for several decades and to then be left with a potential tax burden to deal with alongside grieving the loss of a loved one.

It’s just an idea.

And if you like the idea of creating a fully automated passive income system for you or a love one, go to:

The 30 Day To £30K Challenge

Kind regards.

John Harrison.

PS… We are currently putting the final touches to a new product that I believe will sell really well and generate at least £30,000 in profit over time.

It may be more, it may be a little less, but I’m sure it will do well… and it has taken the author less than a week to put together.

Just one week’s work could easily make £30,000 or more. I’m sure you or a close family member would find that useful.

Once a product is created, it can be sold for many years to come. We still sell copies of products that were first promoted over ten years ago.

Here’s that link again:

The 30 Day To £30K Challenge

The profit margins for those sales can be huge.

It’s been reported that for physical retail items, the average profit margins are between 0.5% and 3.5%.

If it costs a £1 to make and deliver an eBook that you sell for £8, you are making a whopping 700% profit!

Now imagine how much you are making when you are selling a product at £29 or more.

I know that it’s possible for anyone to create a digital product, upload it to a website, add a simple ‘Buy Now’ button, and start promoting it online for free. I’ve seen it being done time and time again.

The actual cost to selling eBooks can be incredibly low when you do a lot of the ‘easy’ work yourself.

The thing about eBooks and digital products is that they can be bought at any time of the day and night giving you a passive income.

You can easily create and publish your own digital product within 30 days and have a passive income asset online for many years.

There is no limit to how many digital products you can publish.

Sometimes you only need to publish one to make a decent amount of money.

Discover more here:

The 30 Day To £30K Challenge

Kind regards.

John Harrison.

PS… We are currently putting the final touches to a new product that I believe will sell really well and generate at least £30,000 in profit over time.

It may be more, it may be a little less, but I’m sure it will do well… and it has taken the author less than a week to put together.

Just one week’s work could easily make £30,000 or more.

If you would like some of that, go to:

The 30 Day To £30K Challenge

When he films himself feeding the dogs, all of the attention is on the dogs but you can clearly hear Niall talking with passion and enthusiasm as he calls them by their nicknames and gives them plenty of fuss.

He has a giggle and a cheeriness that screams happy little leprechaun – seriously, no offence intended to anyone who is Irish, go and have a listen for yourself. It is simply joyous!

He has 754,000 followers on Instagram alone. Many of them tune in daily to see his morning food rounds and to see how the dogs are doing. Even celebrities tune in to watch Niall.

The singer, Liam Gallagher, adopted a dog from Niall recently and did a video for Niall to share to his account.

Niall has also recently released a book resulting in him doing a quick book tour of the UK, Ireland and USA.

The book tour was something he did to raise awareness and donations for the dogs because as an introvert and recovering addict who suffers from bouts of depression, he would rather stay away from public appearances.

His purpose and passion is for his dogs and it shows in his videos.

It’s not just the good work that he and his team do that has won him so many fans, numerous people around the world do what he does; it’s his enthusiasm, passion and upbeat talking that has attracted such a large following.

That large following has meant that his rescue shelter in Thailand is receiving plenty of donations and book sales.

Enthusiasm and passion is heard in the voice and seen in the actions of those who are in front of the camera or recording a podcast.

Spend some time watching different videos and listening to podcasts and listen to how different some people sound. You will find yourself being drawn to those who speak with enthusiasm and passion.

Their upbeat manner will help grow their following to the point that they can virtually click their fingers and money will come in.

Enthusiasm is another success trait that simply opens doors without the person even having to try.

Enthusiasm is attractive, it pulls people in.

It’s also something that can be faked.

The best method to fake enthusiasm is to watch videos and listen to podcasts of the enthusiastic and passionate people you like, and mimic them.

Con artists and actors do it well.

They simply play the part of a happy and enthusiastic person.

They speak in the way a happy and enthusiastic person speaks.

They move in the way a happy and enthusiastic person moves.

The smile and laugh in the way a happy and enthusiastic person smiles and laughs.

You don’t have to feel particularly happy and enthusiastic about something to act it… but this is where the magic happens, when you pretend to be enthusiastic not only do people become enthusiastic about you, you become more enthusiastic too.

Have you ever pretended to laugh when you are not in a laughing mood?

When a person purposely does a false laugh or a silly laugh for a minute or two, they usually end up laughing for real. It’s a great way to make yourself feel happier if you are feeling low.

Pretending to be enthusiastic helps you to actually become enthusiastic, which really helps to attract followers and customers when you are doing videos, interviews, live broadcasts, or podcasts.

Naturally enthusiastic people find themselves being offered opportunities for no apparent reason, but the truth is, their enthusiasm and passion is the reason that opportunities present themselves.

Kind Regards

John Harrison

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They most certainly don’t allow other people’s thoughts and opinions to stop them doing what they want to do.

They have a strong ‘couldn’t care less’ attitude when it comes to other people.

That’s not to say that they are not nice people and don’t care about others, they simply don’t care what other people think about them or what they do, especially not strangers.

Allowing yourself to be prevented from doing what you want to do by the ‘possible’ negative thoughts and opinions from other people, is simply madness.

This is what people call ‘projection’.

Fearing that other people may think a certain way about you when you have no idea what those people will actually think, is nothing more than projecting your fears onto the behaviour of others.

Firstly, most people don’t care what other people do unless it interferes with their own plans or enjoyment.

Secondly, most people are too wrapped up in their own worlds to really care about yours.

Thirdly, being judged negatively by other people has no actual physical or emotional affect on your life, unless you let it.

And finally… you can ignore those fears and thoughts and push through them.

It’s your life, what has it got to do with anyone else?

Some successful people may be born where they don’t feel any anxiety or fear of judgement, but other successful people do, they just don’t allow it to stop them.

Courage and bravery is not about the absence of fear, it is the doing something despite the fear.

You can learn to accept that you feel fear and anxiety and you can simply choose to ignore it and push through it.

Many successful and brave people do because their desire for success and money is greater than the fear itself. They don’t want it to stop them from achieving their goals.

Susan Jeffers built a successful career as an author selling a series of books titled ‘Fear The Fear, And Do It Anyway!’

She suggests that people should simply understand that they will always feel fear when they do something new and that it is in fact nothing to fear.

As the saying goes…

‘There is nothing to fear but fear itself.’

OK, that isn’t always true, there are dangerous people, places, and situations which are best avoided should you ever be faced with them, but on the whole, most fears people have which hold them back are generally unfounded and not real.

They are nothing more than thoughts in their own heads.

The feeling of fear may be uncomfortable, but it doesn’t feel as bad as regret.

It certainly is a lot shorter lasting than the feeling of regret which can haunt a person for a lifetime.

Another favourite saying of mine is…

‘Know Thyself!’

For me this is all about understanding who you are as a person, and as a human being.

You must know how you ‘tick’ and how your body works.

Knowing that fear is an ancient biological mechanism designed to protect a person and is often triggered when you do something new, you know that most situations in life today are not as dangerous as coming face-to-face with a sabre toothed tiger or a huge woolly mammoth.

Yes, you will fear scared, and yes, it may feel uncomfortable (the intensity of the feeling can vary between people) but it won’t kill you.

And once you have done the ‘scary’ thing for a few minutes or for a few times, your perception and feelings of that situation will change and you will feel more comfortable doing it.

It is no longer something new and potentially dangerous, it is something that you know and have done before.

Fear is often triggered when we do something that we don’t know much about. We don’t know what the outcome will be.

Once we know what that outcome is, it is no longer something to fear… for most people that is.

There are some people who really do suffer with social anxieties and they can really struggle. There may be a biological reason at fault here. Their bodies may produce too much or too little of specific hormones or neurotransmitters.

For those people, ignoring these feelings and faking a ‘couldn’t care less’ attitude may be harder… but that’s not to say they can’t do it.

For those who want financial success that doesn’t require being in the public light and shouldn’t create too much fear and anxiety in them, they should consider borrowing confidence from James Bond and try their hand at online Baccarat.

Dan Crozier decided to see if there was a way to make money online playing Baccarat after watching the James Bond classic ‘Dr No’.

He discovered that there was.

Baccarat is a very simple game with very clear and simple rules. It’s actually way easier to understand and play than Blackjack and Roulette. But you don’t have to actually understand it at all to make money from it!

Discover more here:

Unleash Your Inner James Bond From The Comfort Of Your Sofa!

Kind regards

John Harrison.

PS… There is a reason online casinos don’t push this game like Slots or Roulette, and that is because players have a greater chance of winning against the house when they play Baccarat.

Online casinos cannot make much money with Baccarat… players can.

Here’s that link again.

Unleash Your Inner James Bond From The Comfort Of Your Sofa!