I think we see this with now with environmental issues. Desperation is fueling our drive (no puns intended) towards alternative fuels and enviro-friendly consumer goods. But we’re nearing a tipping point, I think, where soon these types of things (the latter sooner than the former) will become the mainstream.

If you want it, Steve, I think you could do it. But it would involve changes to your current standard of living.

I think the best way of motivation is burning the bridge. By burning all methods of return, there is only forward. You must proceed into the daunting, haunting forests of whatever your endeavor may be.

Like Napoleon Hill says, one must become full of a burning desire.

Man, that book is so good. I still cannot believe it.

-Greg

Of course, blogging isn’t my only income either, so maybe that’s part of it.

I’ve been a freelance writer, almost always as a side business, for over 15 years. A number of those years I had a six-figure income from my regular job, yet continued an active freelance regimen. I will say, however, that those years when my regular income was in the six figures, I became less interested in collecting payment on my freelance work, because I was less in need of the money. But I still had the hunger for the work.