Ben Franklin said in his The Art of
Making Money, "First, let honesty and hard work be thy constant
companions; second, spend one cent less every day than thy clearly gains."
I don't seem to have problems with the first part, although working
smarter may be in order.
And I have fewer problems with the second
part... sort of. I do get caught up in investing in myself and the book.
For instance, I recently spent $225 to get my own ISBN numbers so I can
change the way Powerfully Recovered! is published. The change will result
in a much better profit margin for me. But it meant spending less than I'd
planned on my youngest son's wedding gift. I've also started a part-time sales
job working with fund raising projects for schools. It's turning out to be
sort of fun and probably fairly lucrative, although it's early days yet.
I have, for the most part, lost the fear
of financial insecurity as the promises in the Big Book says--the goal now
is to increase my income. Which is why you're seeing more ads on this site
and even a donation basket.
As many of you know, Powerfully
Recovered! is self-published. I published after 13 or so positive
rejections from trade publishers, which happened about the time
Print-on-Demand got started making the initial investment low enough for
me to enter the fray. The key to book profits is marketing, and marketing
costs money. I'm getting better and better at low-budget marketing,
particularly tricky to a group that, by definition, is anonymous.
Every week I get emails of appreciation,
which keep me going, and I've made some money on the book, but not nearly
enough to support myself. So I continue to experiment, here and elsewhere.
Love, peace and
abundance,
