Back when I was a professional IT Consultant, I always thought I had everything figured out why I would never be as successful in the job compared to my peers. The domain was of little interest to me and my reasoning was I no longer had the mental capacity to absorb technical areas such as programming and technological application in different niches. To me, it was just a job and regular paycheck.

I see and hear people saying that there is no way they can produce any content in any particular niche because they don’t know anything about it nor have a special affinity. This is despite being told that these niches are gold due to one reason or another (e.g. associated with higher paying keywords, better paying affiliate programs).

It was over a week ago when I bore the same mentality. Hey, (insert something like credit cards, loans, mortgages etc) wasn’t something that could keep me awake, so writing about it was out of the question. So what if it could make me money?

Until one fine day, I decided to give it a shot. Not credit cards mind you, but some other niche which I thought was beyond my intellect or interest. 1 day, a new site, and some traffic later, Adsense put more money into my account in a couple of hours than this site managed to pull off in half a month.

That’s about $5 per day for 1 site. Ok, so I’m not exactly pulling in the big cents, but it does show you that it can be done (for those that are still trying like me). And this doesn’t include other monetisation methods I included.

Going through this experience, I learnt more about myself and how possibly wasted my life might have been. Taking action was all well and good, but the truth was that I had gotten lazy in life. I was not willing to push the envelope just a little bit more. Reading up on something wasn’t difficult (especially if there’s money to be made from it). Come to think about it, putting it into realisable tangibles was a breeze. That basic new site took me less than an hour to set up. Content came naturally after reading about the subject and some from personal experience - it still served readers’ interest. At the end of the whole event, I had developed some interest in the niche. The whole preconception had been shattered.

Of course, there are other little adjustments that goes into the result, like knowing where the demand is and getting the traffic. But if I had allowed myself to continue believing that having no interest in something was an obstacle in achieving an optimum result, than I was seriously deluding myself. It was plain laziness to try!

The old cliche of “If you set your mind to it, you can achieve wonders” rings true. Could you also be avoiding a little hard work? And in the process, be your own obstacle to making money online successfully?

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