Hey what's up? So tonight was kind of a rough night doing Uber. I worked for roughly about four and half hours. I think I made, clocked in about $63 in fares but after Uber takes their money and all that I'm looking at something around $10 an hour. But that not that big of deal, because here the thing. That $40, maybe $45, I just did a cost analysis in my journal and I'm thinking going forward, now I have a couple of sources for writers but I'm thinking It's going to cost between $50 - $70 to have a book created, cover created, marketed, promoted, everything done and everything done by someone else.
Let's say it's fifty bucks so basically tonight I spent 4.5 hours and I wrote a book. That's a good way of looking at it. The time I spent was having good conversations with people, I did a few videos. All in all I think my effort is worth the reward and that's really big for me right now. Uber is also releasing a new program that's going to start tomorrow, so I'm pretty excited about that. It's going to give me the opportunity to earn up to 380% more money or so they claim. The program is called Uber Select and the Uber Select program is only for high-line cars. So BMW, Mercedes, Audi, so on and so forth, certain Hyundai's, Genesis and Equis, Lexus. So me having a 5 series Bimmer, I guess it's a good thing. We will see how it all pans out, I'll let you know. It starts tomorrow morning at 9 am. I don't work during the day doing Uber because it doesn't seem like it's worth my time, but this weekend should be crazy and I'm looking forward to seeing how the new service works out. So until next time, Late!
Hey what's up? So I just had this young kid, college kid, he was 19 and a student at Duke. Every year they do this tenting event and during this tenting event the students have to be there for certain check ins and stuff. It takes place over a month or weeks or whatever it is but they have to camp. The prize they get at the end is the ability, well a ticket. They get a ticket to the Duke and UNC basketball game. Which is a big deal, rival schools, yada yada yada. One of the things that came up during conversation is a new idea or principle that I base my life upon and it's a question. The question is "Is the effort worth the reward or is the reward worth the effort?" However you want to word it but the long and short is that in everything you do, if you just apply that principle and ask yourself that question you will start doing more meaningful things.
So I asked that guy, at the end of the day do you feel like the effort, however many hours you spent camping, wether it was cold rainy, you know whatever you had to endure, was all of that worth getting that ticket. He said he doesn't know yet because he's never been to the game. I know that and it brings me to my second point and that's reflection. So anytime you're doing something that you think in the beginning was the best idea, you were super excited, it's very easy to get distracted once you get started and hit a few roadblocks, and you start to see that the results may not be what you thought it would be, it's real easy to stop. Reflection, reflection upon the situation, yourself, whatever it will be, that self reflection can offer you the insight and get you over the hump and let you decided wether or not the reward really is worth the effort.
So this brings me to another point, which my third point would be, persistence. Anytime that we set out to do something, things happen, you know. I'm starting this new Youtube Channel, my Kindle Direct Publishing and I still have a life. I have a kid, I have a daughter who's getting big, but you know a lot of my time is spent with her. When I spend time with her, I spend TIME with her. I put everything else on hold and me and her just do whatever it is she wants to do within reason. So it's real easy to get distracted from the big picture. I know stuff comes up so that's why this factor of not giving up. I have a friend who recently was studying real hard for a test and he took the test today. It didn't go so well, he didn't see the results he was hoping to see. So he has to go back to studying and while he didn't think he was going to fail this test, stuff happens. He could easily just give up and be like... This is only his third test he's had to do or maybe his fourth but he still has more afterwords. So it would be real easy to just say, "You know what, I don't know if I can do this. I think I'm going to quit." But this individual I know for a fact will persevere and good props to you brother. Persistence is key! You know in the end once this person has put in the 100's of hours of time into studying and all of the effort into getting the certifications that he's trying get, eventually the reward will be worth the effort but you have to know where you want to know. That comes back to goal setting.
Million different key factors could go into this concept and that is why I wrote a book called Getting Results. You can check that book out on Amazon. You can just type in my name, Drew Eubanks and that'll pull up my author page. I've got about 10 different books on there as of right now. Which I wrote one and one doesn't cut it in this kind of business. One book is not going to get you a lot of money and then I wrote my second and then a third one and I wasn't seeing the results I thought I was going to get. In the end I realized it doesn't take 1 or 2 or 3 or even 4 E-books to make a ton of money. It takes multiples 20, 30, 40, 50, I know people who have 200 books and they are making the type of income that I'm hoping to make, but right now I've put in a lot of hours, like a LOT of hours trying to get these first few books, written then formatted and so on and so forth.
Learning how to promote and learning how to get reviews. And also too while I'm doing that I'm learning different systems, different groups, learning Amazon, keyword niches. There's a lot that goes into it and it would be real easy for me to be like, You know what, I gave it a try, I've been doing it for a month and I've made like, I don't even know perhaps $60-$70 so far. I haven't really spent much and you know what, I'm not giving up. I just started a new promotion for all of my books. I have seven books on promotion, I'm seeing great results. 385 free downloads yesterday, so far today 384, I just checked it and I'm pretty sure I'll get over the 400 mark and you know that's a new benchmark for me. I hadn't broke the 400 in a day, I hadn't broke the 300 in a day plateau till yesterday. So you know two back to back 300 days. Today will be 400 and I hope tomorrow is another 400 day.
You know the key is don't give up. Ask yourself is the reward worth the effort. If the reward is worth the effort then proceed. If for some reason things get tough and you feel like the reward isn't worth the effort then take a few minutes, maybe even a day depending on the decision and just give yourself some reflection and thing about what you really want in life and decide wether or not the path you've chosen is for you and you may decide that it's not. It's okay to move on and move toward different things. Learn from it, grow, and you will be a stronger person. If you decide that it is for you then persevere and you will succeed. I've seen a million of those pictures where the miners are chipping away at the rock and then he leaves. The next miner comes and he hits it one time and there's gold. You never know where you're going to find gold, so don't give up. A little bit of keys to success from an Uber car. You guys have a good night.
Hey what's up guys? I just wanted to take a minute and talk to you about something a lot of people know they should do but tend not to do, and thats keeping a journal. I, um, I recently just kinda got into where I always use my phone or my ipad or computer to right down any kind of notes. But what's happened is I'll have these great thoughts but won't feel like grabbing my phone and typing it in. So I found that having a pen and paper next to me makes that so much easier. We will call it a key to success.
Get yourself a journal and write yourself some notes in it. What I found was just having it on my desk kinda motivates me to want to do the things I should do. Wether it's checking out your goals. I've got my 2015 goals down here and I'll be going over them in a later video. But for now I just wanted to drop that piece of advice, get a notebook and anytime you have a great idea write it down. Because the littlest spark could lead into something BIG.
I ended up in my Kindle Publishing Business totally by mistake. I thought I wanted to start a consulting business for car dealerships. Ended up wanting to change that into a consulting business for people wanting to buy a car and that turned into a series of books. Which lead into more. Right now currently I have 10 books published. Launching some promo's right now and trying to build my passive income. So that's the majority of what this channel is about. Kind of motivation, self help, inspiration and I kinda wanna build a team to help everyone. Not just me but to help other people achieve the things they want to achieve and to have the passive income that allows for people to do what you want, when you want, with who you want where ever in the world you want to do it. So until next time, have a good one!
Hey what's up? So tonight was kind of a rough night doing Uber. I worked for roughly about four and half hours. I think I made, clocked in about $63 in fares but after Uber takes their money and all that I'm looking at something around $10 an hour. But that not that big of deal, because here the thing. That $40, maybe $45, I just did a cost analysis in my journal and I'm thinking going forward, now I have a couple of sources for writers but I'm thinking It's going to cost between $50 - $70 to have a book created, cover created, marketed, promoted, everything done and everything done by someone else. Let's say it's fifty bucks so basically tonight I spent 4.5 hours and I wrote a book. That's a good way of looking at it. The time I spent was having good conversations with people, I did a few videos. All in all I think my effort is worth the reward and that's really big for me right now. Uber is also releasing a new program that's going to start tomorrow, so I'm pretty excited about that. It's going to give me the opportunity to earn up to 380% more money or so they claim. The program is called Uber Select and the Uber Select program is only for high-line cars. So BMW, Mercedes, Audi, so on and so forth, certain Hyundai's, Genesis and Equis, Lexus. So me having a 5 series Bimmer, I guess it's a good thing. We will see how it all pans out, I'll let you know. It starts tomorrow morning at 9 am. I don't work during the day doing Uber because it doesn't seem like it's worth my time, but this weekend should be crazy and I'm looking forward to seeing how the new service works out. So until next time, Late!
