Side Hustles And Online Income
Starting YouTube at 56 might sound late to some people. I increasingly believe it may be exactly the opposite. At 56, you may not have the energy of an 18-year-old who can stay awake editing videos until four in the morning. You may have a mortgage, bills, children, responsibilities, a demanding job and decades of … Read more
Can you really “brainwash” yourself to become wealthy? It is an attention-grabbing question, and entrepreneur Inayah McMillan used almost exactly that idea in her viral YouTube video How I Brainwashed Myself to Be a Millionaire at 20. McMillan describes growing up in a large family without much money and gradually developing the belief that her … Read more
What if one skill learned almost accidentally could completely change the direction of your life? What if instead of waiting until you felt qualified, experienced or financially secure, you simply started with the knowledge you already had and found someone who needed it? That is one of the most powerful lessons I took from the … Read more
For years, YouTube success has often been presented as something incredibly complicated. You supposedly need an expensive camera. Professional lighting. Cinematic editing. A perfectly written script. A studio. A huge social media following. Thousands of subscribers. Advanced knowledge of the YouTube algorithm. And perhaps most importantly, a seemingly endless amount of time. For someone already … Read more
What if the next 90 days could completely change the direction of your financial future? That may sound dramatic, but I have become increasingly convinced that significant change often begins with a relatively short period of concentrated effort. Ninety days is long enough to learn new skills, create a meaningful body of work, collect real … Read more
What would you do if you had no testimonials, no established freelance reputation, only a few hours each day to build a business, and you were competing against experienced professionals from around the world? Most people would probably start small. They might charge a very low hourly rate, spend months trying to build a social … Read more
Some of the most fascinating success stories do not begin with confidence, privilege, extraordinary intelligence, or a perfectly designed plan. Sometimes they begin with fear. Sometimes they begin with failure. Sometimes they begin with a person who feels as though life is closing in around them and who is desperately searching for a way forward. … Read more
Building an online business from nothing can seem overwhelming. When you look at successful entrepreneurs generating tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of pounds or dollars every month, it is easy to assume that they possess some secret knowledge that ordinary people do not have. They may have large teams, sophisticated advertising campaigns, … Read more
More than a century before smartphones, social media notifications, endless scrolling, email alerts and the modern attention economy, a self-development writer made a remarkably simple argument: Your ability to direct your attention may determine what you are able to achieve with the abilities you already possess. That argument sits at the centre of The Power … Read more
On 3 September 2026, I am starting a completely new online business experiment. I have registered and started building a brand-new website called shoparoundtheclock.co.uk The idea behind the website is straightforward. I will publish useful blog posts featuring products that people in the UK can purchase online, primarily through Amazon UK. Where appropriate, those articles … Read more