Make More Money and Live Your Passion: Become a Cre8tor

Written by Robert Pagliarini - 22 Comments
Categories: creativity, money and finance, self improvement

Image courtesy of Tim Hussin/Meanderings

Your financial life has a certain trajectory — similar to a train on a track. There will be twists and turns, but you can easily determine where you will end up if you stay on the financial track you’re currently on. What if the traditional methods of working hard, cutting expenses, and saving don’t work for you? Brown bagging it every day won’t cause you to jump tracks and end up somewhere completely different. The guy living in the mansion overlooking the ocean didn’t buy that house by clipping coupons, and the woman passing you in a $400,000 Maybach didn’t get that way by eliminating her morning latte. For most of us, the gap between where we are and where want to be is so wide that we’ll never be able to close it by following traditional financial advice.

What’s the solution? If you’re tired of scraping by you’ve got to create. If you want to move out of your apartment or make more than minimum wage, you’ve got to create. If you want a big house overlooking the ocean, to travel first class, to quit your job, or to drive your dream car, guess what? The answer is in the other 8 hours. The answer is to shift from being a full-time consumer to being a part-time Cre8tor.

A what? A Cre8tor is a creative entrepreneur who has a day job but wants more. She isn’t content with the status quo, and is less than thrilled with the thought of working another 40+ years. She knows that the only way to “jump the tracks” to get to a new financial level is to do something different during the other 8 hours. A Cre8tor utilizes his strengths, passions, and/or expertise to create something unique and valuable — maybe he’ll start a blog, work on an invention, write a screenplay, or start a business. If you settle for a paycheck, you’ll only be worth what your employer pays you. But if you create something valuable, there’s virtually no limit to your worth.

A long commute, brainless boss, and an empty bank account can wreak havoc on your outlook, hope, and purpose, but a side project or venture can bring inspiration to your life. When you’re passionate about what you’re creating during the other 8 hours, you can endure even the worst day.

Creating provides purpose and it provides a reason to get out of bed in the morning. It provides the hope that life can improve. When you create, it engages your mind and your soul.

With very few exceptions, anybody who has attained any level of financial success has created something. It might be a book, a CD, an invention, a website, or whatever. Look around you. Everything you see was originally just an idea in someone’s head.

You are living in the most exciting and mind blowing time we have ever experienced. It is rich with opportunities that literally didn’t exist just a few years ago. Unless your last name was Rockefeller or Carnegie, it used to be incredibly difficult to become rich. Becoming a millionaire wasn’t even a dream or an ambition. It was such an impossibility that it wasn’t worth a moment’s thought.

Because of technology, efficiencies, and a global economy, it’s much easier to become wealthy with much less effort than at any other time in history. As a Cre8tor, you’ll add more excitement and purpose into your life. You will live your passion and make more money.

In future columns I will discuss the top Cre8tor Channels you can plug into to start making more money in the other 8 hours.

You can download several free resources (assessment, poster, audio interview, video, and more) at www.other8hours.com and learn more about my new book, The Other 8 Hours: Maximize Your Free Time to Create New Wealth & Purpose.

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  • http://bit.ly/BoostYourConfidence Sebs

    I totally agree! I just visited your website. Awesome stuff!

  • http://www.officearrow.com Lauren – OfficeArrow

    LOVE this! It’s inspiring. The key is finding that motivates you and stirs that passion in your heart. After that, it’s just sticking with it and seeing it through. Anything worth doing is worth working hard for. Starting a business is the opposite of easy, but it can be so fulfilling and rewarding- and not just because of the paycheck.

  • http://piotr.lemiesz.pl Piotr

    Excellence thouhts to think of. I try to do this extra creativity with blog, and other projects, thank for sharing good idea, i like to read it on your blog.

  • http://www.other8hours.com Robert Pagliarini

    Awesome! Glad you like…

  • http://www.other8hours.com Robert Pagliarini

    You totally get it, and that’s inspiring. Thanks for the comments…

  • http://www.other8hours.com Robert Pagliarini

    My pleasure. Thanks for stopping by PTB and having a look around.

  • http://www.OptimisticJourney.com Jarrod@ Optimistic Journey

    This post reminds me that I am without a doubt a cre8tor. I express more interest than simply cutting back on Lattes and clipping out coupons. I want the house on the hill and thankfully I have an avenue in which I am working hard to achieve such.

    I encourage anyone to develop a cre8tive mind and explore ways to beat the 9-5, minimum wage lifestyle.

  • http://sandyxuan.com sandy

    {Look around you. Everything you see was originally just an idea in someone’s head.}

    it’s nice to be reminded :)

    indeed if we expect ourselves to live in a extraordinary life, we gotta behave extraordinarily than most commonly done, create that extra piece of value~

  • http://www.buildmyelectricguitar.com Guitar Builder

    Thanks for the article! I needed a little kick in the pants on this one, as I have a few Cre8tor type things going on, but just needed a but of re-focusing.

    Having a passion for music, and such, I have figured out how to build pickups for electric guitars, which couples well with me electronics degree. So far everyone that has heard my pickups, loves the sound of them,

    I know I just need to keep plugging away at this, and it will pan out for me.

  • fey

    Will there be an ebook or a audiobook version? I really love the concept, but I’d love to read this on my Sony eReader!

  • http://www.ksdm.com xccd

    You should improve your English first.

  • http://supersonicfreedom.net Sonicsuns

    Don’t forget the other *other* eight hours – the hours you spend sleeping. If you can set up passive income (like selling an ebook), you can make money even when you sleep!

  • http://www.worldofselfimprovement.com World of Self Improvement

    Hey Robert,

    You’ve helped me realise that I’m pretty lucky.

    You said that the idea is to work a job to support yourself and be creative in your spare time…I saved up so that I could afford to start my own website full-time.

    However, it’s only that being 20, my parents let me live at home for $30 per week, that I can keep doing this full-time.

    I don’t have an income yet so money’s running out fast. Your article makes me value the amount of time I’ve got to do this, in relation to other people who have to find time to be creative on the weekend. I do get quite a lot of stick for not having ‘a job’ though. :D

    Cheers

    Sam

  • http://www.other8hours.com Robert Pagliarini

    That’s awesome! Love the determination, and even more, that you have a plan you are pursuing. Keep it up!

  • http://www.other8hours.com Robert Pagliarini

    It’s an important lesson we all need to remember. Everybody can create something. Nobody has the market on ideas.

  • http://www.other8hours.com Robert Pagliarini

    Nothing in the works yet, but I really don’t think the ebook format would do the book justice. There are so many forms and tools that are much better in print.

  • http://www.other8hours.com Robert Pagliarini

    Yes, good point. Do you have experience/expertise in this area? Would love to get your insights.

  • http://www.other8hours.com Robert Pagliarini

    You are lucky :-) ! Take advantage of it as much and for as long as possible…

  • Ayla

    Yes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! finally someone who says it like it easy. I am honestly sick of all the blogs that ONLY talk about saving. I already save more than 1/2 my salary and I can see that it is not going to give me the life style I want even if I continue to do so for the rest of my life.

    Waiting toread your next few columns on becoming a creator :)

    Thank you for th einspiration.

  • http://www.richardshelmerdine.com/blog/ Richard | RichardShelmerdine.com

    This speaks directly to me. I’ve quit my job recently to work full time on serving through my blog and am so excited about what is going to happen. Thanks for confirming my beliefs.

  • http://www.graphical.co.cc/ Decal Sticker

    Yes, i totally agree. Good..

  • http://sanjay.strategicsponsoring.com Karen Brandon

    Great work to help people to know the ways to make more money.Information of this kind would be of great help to people.