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either, especially for something you can do while watching TV. By the way, you could actually give your opinions about what you're watching. You could become a television or movie reviewer. Even if growth stops because you can't seem to get faster or better, you could still be at $26,494 in year six and $39,742 in year nine. With Helium, you keep getting paid a portion of what the site makes and if your TOTAL work contribution keeps growing, your income should follow.

What else haven't I mentioned. Oh, the articles and getting better with practice. If you write five days a week, you will have written 250 articles after one year if you take two weeks off. After three years, you will have written 750 articles. Somewhere beyond 100 articles [which would be less than six months at the rate above], that could be enough of a body of work that you could impress some magazines or other sources that would also pay you. I'm really only scratching the surface of how good Helium can be for you and me. I haven't even talked about you getting the courage up to speak publicly about what you write. I've written articles about public speaking and I know from experience that it's much easier when you speak about something from your own experience. Writing can be a big part of that experience and the confidence that goes with it. What if you only got $200 to speak for 20 minutes? When you look into it, that is really on the low end of what you can earn. What if you spoke 20 minutes twice a week? Or 60 minutes once a week?

So, what does it take? I believe you must "lose" the employee mentality when it comes to writing. Look it as a skill you practice just as you would bowling or basketball or baking. Again, the difference is that we get paid a little to "practice". You should think of it as your own business and you are selling your skills to the Helium business just like the donut shop or restaurant or optometrist in your neighborhood. Plus, you don't have the start-up costs of those kinds of businesses which can run into the high tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars that those business owners must spend before they start to derive income from their business. There are some really good books about changing your mentality around work like Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Cash Flow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki or We Are All Self-Employed by Cliff Hakim.

Again, I highly recommend The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron for changing your attitude about much more than work and opening up your creativity that can explode your writing skills. The rest is doing it. Use spellcheck! Keep going. The race is not always to the swift and the strong. Consider the ant and while you're at it, consider the tortoise. [The tortoise beat the hare, right?] Hey, you could do research on both and write articles and get paid!

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