The 3 priceless gifts a passive income side business gives you (start today)

James Julian
Publish Every Day
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5 min readJul 28, 2023

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Recently, a new manager came into the company I work for and made a bunch of unilateral changes to people’s jobs.

That came hot on the heels of a return-to-office mandate that had everyone fuming.

Not too long ago, I would have been downright infuriated.

“How dare they?” I would have shouted into the void, knowing I was completely powerless to do anything about it.

But now? I kind of just shrugged.

The difference between my current mental state and the one I was in just 11 or so months ago is that, after slaying my biggest demon (alcohol addiction), I set about achieving my life-long dream of starting my own business.

And I’ve since found that having an online side business gives you 3 priceless gifts.

Allow me to elaborate.

The myth of needing millions

Recently, I wrote a piece and recorded a video talking about how my online earnings were already approaching a full-time salary after just 8 months.

In it, I made the argument that, for the most part, people would do well to recalibrate their definition of what “life-changing money” is.

Life-changing money isn’t about being able to collect Rolexes and Birkin bags like Pokemon cards (and as I wrote in my piece earlier this week entitled “One super insightful money

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