My Kingdom for a Muse!

[bemyself]

As a newcomer I've been reading about everyone's muses and requests for muse assistance. I just want to put myself out there and see what you think of my situation.

I feel like a jack of all trades, master of none and I don't think I would like to be a master of any one trade anyway. I have what has been termed a Renaissance Personality. I have enough interest in something to check it out a bit but become bored very quickly. I have $50,000 in student loan debt after persuing a career that I thought would be a great creative outlet and instead has me trapped at a computer in an office. I tend to leap before I look and didn't really know what I was buying into. So the frustration level builds daily in leaps and bounds and I will not be able to remote work at this profession.

So I want to have the "New Rich" life that Tim has but fear my impatience and quick boredom will undermine me before I get there. I do not have any business background or experience and all of the technical aspects of Tim's business and the postings on here leave me feeling overwhealmed and frankly bored with the idea of learning enough to understand a fraction of it (especially the website setup, getting traffic, etc.).

I am also without a solid muse, just a dozen half muses that seem out of reach with my half knowledge and no business/internet skills. And I don't have the money to buy someone else's successful business either.

Is there a path for the dreamer who has no desire to get involved in the technical know-how and will probably need to change direction frequently? I seem to be all set in the what to do when I make the New Rich but feel very lost on how to get there.

P.S. I'm a terrible speller - is there a spell check on here?

[bemyself]

Just wanted to apologize for being a downer on an upbeat, get motivated site. I was having a bad day when I posted.

My dreams are big but I feel so overwhelmed by all the information I have to absorb and things I have to learn to be successful.

So again, sorry for the less than optimistic post.

[kamakiri]

Tim posted a great blog about filling the void today. Here is a quote:

In both cases, there will be a serious depression in your future if you create time abundance without the skill and practice needed to fill that void, not to mention regret for having followed the “deferred-life plan” of slave-save-retire (if you choose that versus lifestyle design and its present-tense options).

You really sound like you need to look at the skills he mentions here. With only money and time, you will degrade to a flabby useless blob. Inpatients and boredom are not things that do well with an abundance of time or money.

I have no idea what you mean by 'Renaissance personality', but it looks like laziness, and lack of ambition to me. Tim's advice is not a silver bullet to happiness, or a ticket to being able to watch endless reruns of the Simpsons all day long.

Examine your life, and find something worth living for. Here is something I have posted on my wall that I read every day:

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
-Mark Twain

[jhero]

I want to say to you "be positive" and turn the whole text what you write upside down and go look in
what you can
what your doing now
I can not concetrate long/ i understand everything fast

But the most important thing is be positive!!
You can read Succes trough a positive mind from napoleon hill

[skorpi0wn]

I would recommend reading the short book titled "The Magic Lamp: Goal Setting for People Who Hate Setting Goals" by Keith Ellis.

I was in the same position as you; always getting bored a month into pursuing something and feeling like I wasn't an expert in anything. This book actually helped me figure out wants and needs. Then it helped me set goals to achieve said wants and needs.

And don't worry - it's a quick read. You won't get bored in the time it takes you to finish it.

[squeegee]

bemyself
I can relate. I also have a grasshopper mind (jumps randomly from one place to the next) and I have diverse interests.

I would suggest you try to finish one of your muses, even if it only makes pennies a month.

Why not outsource the aspects you don't understand?

[webgal]

Are you ADD? It might make a difference in what you choose to do.

[shanerbock]

bemyself
I can relate. I also have a grasshopper mind (jumps randomly from one place to the next) and I have diverse interests.

I would suggest you try to finish one of your muses, even if it only makes pennies a month.

Why not outsource the aspects you don't understand?

I agree with Squeegee... one of the great things about the web, and creating muses (I still can't stand that term), is that you can just build small muses quickly... over and over and over... Just figure out how to keep involved long enough to get one of them going, and move on. It really shouldn't take that long to get one up and running... you aren't trying to build an empire, or a business that will last forever.

Just keep moving. Start small, build something simple, and outsource what you dont want to do.

Best of luck!