What got you here won't get you to the next stop
jasonleow • 2 Apr 2025 •
At the start of this year, I did a financial audit with my wife, and these are the levels of abundance we came to at the end of the day:
$8k → “We survived! *gasp” (survival waterline)
$10k → “We’re okay”
$15k → “We’re comfortable”
$20k → “We’re thriving”
>$20k → “We’re grinning”
So I just unlocked level 2 of the game.
We’re okay now.
O.K.
But here’s the tricky situation. What got me here won’t get me to the next $10k. I’d sold all my time of the day. There’s no more bandwidth to squeeze in more gigs, or sell more time with even my existing gigs. It’s difficult to ask for higher rates when the work is the same. Switching to a higher paying gig is risky. The only way seems to be to create a product that replaces one or all of my gigs. But catch-22… there’s no time left in the day for that.
So this is going to need some creative backflip to get over.
I don’t know what yet, but just writing it out to myself “What got me here won’t get me to the next $10k” is already enlightening enough.
I know what I shouldn’t do, cannot do.
I just don’t know what I can do… yet.
Only the immediate baby steps are clear:
- Get fast and efficient with gigs.
- Carve out pockets of time in the day for product work.
- And then build a new product. Launch.
Good.
Comments
@haideralmosawi Oh yes, that’s a great idea! Thanks Haider! Yes I think need more of these super quick launches of micro products, or something that I can spend 1h a day on and compound over long term. Either way have to bank on only having short pockets of time to work on!
Product money is definitely a good way to go. But can you do this in a very quick and easy way, without complicating it? Maybe record 1hr of educational content you can sell for cheap for an underserved market? (i.e. a vid about using AI for people with a language barrier).