It's cool to be content - but don't allow that to keep you from continually reaching for your long term goals. Complacency means you've just given up and are accepting this is as good as it gets. Be content while also staying in the driver's seat to move toward the life of your dreams - the life being lived by the people I tell about in this episode.Episode #838 July 08, 2022Questions:1. Dan, what's wrong with me?2. Are you living your life too small?3. Why are people continuing to leave their jobs?4. What’s the quickest way to being rich?Get direct links to the resources mentioned on this podcast, including my 7-page workbook, Who Are You and Why Are You Here (a free download), in the podcast show notes at https://www.48days.com/too-content-for-success-to-find-youSubmit your Questions to: https://www.48days.com/askdan/ If I use your question we’ll send you an autographed copy of 48 Days to the Work You Love

Questions:1. Why are people continuing to quit their jobs?2. What is Beyonce doing to cause even more women to quit?3. How can you take any skill you have and make a list of 20 ways to make money.4. What are the Ten Characteristics of People who end up Rich?Get direct links to the resources mentioned on this podcast, including 50 Legal Ways to Make Extra Month This Month, Ghost Writers School and How To Drive Your Dream Car For Free in the podcast show notes at https://www.48days.com/never-be-vulnerable-to-the-economy/

In a conversation this week I was explaining to a gentleman how I make money. He paused and then asked me this question. The implication was clear. If people are paying me money while I sleep, I must be conning or manipulating them. Unfortunately, he does not understand the difference between 'linear' and 'residual' income. That's not hidden information but if you understand it, you may have people asking you - "How do you sleep at night?”Questions:1. What is the difference between “linear” and “residual” income?2. Is it possible to do something once and get paid 1000 times?3. Why some people think I’m a con artist.4. Is it wrong to make money from just giving people a place to talk with each other?Get direct links to the resources mentioned on this podcast, including an example of my Venn Diagram, in the podcast show notes at https://www.48days.com/residual-income

You might be surprised how many people are in this great position right now. What do you do when you have more customers than you can handle? For this listener, I make a recommendation that she teach others to do what she's doing now. In moving from the doing to the teaching, she can also move from linear to residual income - work less and make more!Questions:1. I invested $48 to start my landscaping business and am now making $1000 a day.2. One of my consulting clients wants me to become their employee. Should I do it?3. I’m an RN midwife doing over 100 births a year. I’ve already turned down 67 this year. How can I leverage my position?4. Now I’m 90-years old and on top of the world!5. I’m 80 years old. How can I best help the temporarily sheltered teenagers in my town?6. How should I use the questions at the end of each chapter of 48 Days to the Work You Love to maximize my value?Get direct links to the resources mentioned in this podcast, including 48 Low or No Cost Business Ideas as well as several sites to help you find work from home opportunities, in the podcast show notes at https://www.48days.com/move-from-linear-to-residual-income

If success is an equal opportunity employer - why are you not wealthy? Is it not a goal of yours or does something seem to be holding you back? Let's look at 28 Ways to Stay Poor and identify the specific "oppressors" that may be blocking you. Be prepared to identify the 2 or 3 that you disagree with - or the 2 or 3 that irritate you most. But then I’m really going to encourage you to be ready to take action on every one of these as you break your own patterns for staying poor.Questions:1. Is it your thinking or your circumstances that are keeping you poor?2. Are your friends pulling you toward success or are they pulling you down to their level?3. Is the current economy holding you back - or giving you new opportunities?4. How many other people could do the work you’re doing now?Get direct links to the resources mentioned in this podcast, including the free download of Acres of Diamonds in the podcast show notes at https://www.48days.com/why-are-you-still-poor/

Maybe that struggle made you stronger, opened the door to a bigger opportunity, or helped you discover your "other self". Listen in to these riveting stories of struggle and challenge that led to new opportunities and more fulfilling ways to thrive.Questions:1. Have you survived a past struggle that has made you stronger?2. Has there been an event in your life that caused you to discover your “other self”?3. What is the transformation you are expecting from your current challenge?Get direct links to the resources mentioned on this podcast, including my 11-page workbook Who Are You and Why Are You Here, in the podcast show notes at https://www.48days.com/obstacle-into-opportunity/

Maybe you've missed your window of opportunity, majored in the wrong thing in college, are too old, or are stuck in a JOB that's draining your soul. Then again, maybe you needed that experience to help you clarify the dream you now have. Listen in to some of the stories of people who have found their passion and are prospering more as they serve more.Questions:1. How has what appeared to be an obstacle opened the door to a bigger opportunity?2. Summer Training Opportunities3. The tragedy of student loan debt.4. Eagles Closing to door to new membersGet direct links to the resources mentioned on this podcast, including how to join the Eagles Community before it closes and how to take part in the June Dean Intensive Programs in the podcast show notes at https://www.48days.com/overcoming-obstacles

Focusing on one thing doesn’t mean the others would have been wrong choices. But you’ll never be outstanding or experience extraordinary success unless you choose one direction for the next five years. And as Alice in Wonderland was told: "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.”Questions:1. How can I combine and leverage my paid courses, newsletter, subscription service, membership, mastermind group & teaching?2. Right now I have many things tugging at my time, talent and money. I would like to do all of the but find it difficult to decide and focus on one thing.3. Is the current life style of the author one of your criteria for choosing a book to read and recommend?Get direct links to the resources mentioned on this podcast, including my Venn diagram and program to help you leverage your area of expertise in the podcast show notes at https://www.48days.com/you-can-recalculate-but-choose-a-specific-directionHow did an obstacle launch you into a better place - $100 prize from a listener - we’ll do this for a couple of weeks - submit your story by May 30th - Memorial Day Submit your story of overcoming an obstacle or Questions to: https://www.48days.com/askdan/ If I use your question we’ll send you an autographed copy of 48 Days to the Work You Love

Every day I hear from people who have been given all the advantages – prestigious university degrees, fine homes, cars and positions. And they suspect the easy life they’ve been given is keeping them from the challenge of adventure that would release the best version of themselves. Are you taking the “safe” route in life to avoid the stresses and challenges that are trying to release your biggest success?Questions:1. I hate to quit a job after only 4 months, but the company has changed what we agreed to.2. How can we advise our 22-year old granddaughter who just had her car stolen and already owes us $7000?3. How hard could that be to put together a profitable public event?4. What are the books you recommend that will get me out of the doldrums, that are as life-changing and impactful as any you’ve ever read?Get direct links to the resources mentioned on this podcast, including the 12 books I recommend to change your life, in the podcast show notes at https://www.48days.com/maybe-your-life-is-too-easy/ 

There are many times when quitting is the smartest thing to do. If you’re hitting your thumb with a hammer, don’t try to do it better or more efficiently - stop hitting your thumb. Quit - look for a better alternative. Don’t focus on the humiliation of quitting. See this as a go-up opportunity. Quitting the thing where you’re just mediocre or that is making you miserable is not a humiliation - it’s a brilliant decision to move to something better. It can free you up to move into your Zone of Genius.Questions:1. I’m Dean of Students but was just arrested and am now on administrative leave. I think my career in education is over.2. My question is about when to 'cut the cord' on a business idea you've started working on.3. Dan, what are your thoughts on doing business together with friends at church as a group?4. Dan - I’m in the late 3rd Quarter of life. Is there a time for a comeback?Get direct links to the resources mentioned on this podcast, including my Masterclass: How To Build a Side Business With 15 Hours a Week, in the podcast show notes at https://www.48days.com/does-quitting-your-job-mean-youre-giving-up/