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Adam · 12-19-2006, 05:47 PM

My life purpose is to bring peace to everybody. Yes, short and simple, and rather grandiose. I have the maturity to realize that it would be a very great statistical anomaly (read that as "practically impossible") for me to bring peace to each and every individual in the world, especially considering that peace is a personal choice and an act of love, not simply the lack of conflict.

The problem that I'm having, is I can't think of ways to monetize my pursuit of peace. I'm a starving college student with plenty of skills, as well as plenty of bills that add up to about 105% of my income. I feel trapped by my finances, which definitely does not lend well to a feeling of peace.

I can write computer programs, and I thoroughly enjoy PHP scripts as well as working with databases. I don't, however, have the artistic ability to make web pages or even rough templates. (This is why I'm still using the default WordPress template on my blog, despite having gone behind the scenes and tinkered a bit with the code to reduce spam.)

I do have a blog that I have begun to monetize, which is my first direct application of living my purpose, but I can't live off of $20 every 3 months. I refuse to let my blog go, because it is the best method that I have so far of spreading peace, so no matter how much money I make off of it, it will stay up. I would love advice on how to optimize it, (if it is artistic advice, please be *very* specific) without compromising the integrity of the information. I'm willing to shorten or lengthen my future posts (I'm planning on shortening them a little bit in the near future) but I refuse to post reviews of products that I haven't been able to fully test out and I completely approve of, or even stray too far off the overall topic of peace.

I'm also willing to do things around town. It is a big college town with a relatively small population, so all of the supermarket and low-entry jobs are over-saturated, but it does seem like a good place to start building a business, if I could just find a niche to build from. I don't want to stay here, though, and I will be moving a bit further south, probably to Phoenix, AZ, when I graduate.

I just feel a need to pursue my purpose, yet I don't feel like I'm making enough impact unless I can have peace within my own life, which includes meeting my basic needs. Does anybody have any suggestions?

12-19-2006, 05:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
Adam Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Logan, UT Posts: 357	Meeting Needs while Living Peace My life purpose is to bring peace to everybody. Yes, short and simple, and rather grandiose. I have the maturity to realize that it would be a very great statistical anomaly (read that as "practically impossible") for me to bring peace to each and every individual in the world, especially considering that peace is a personal choice and an act of love, not simply the lack of conflict. The problem that I'm having, is I can't think of ways to monetize my pursuit of peace. I'm a starving college student with plenty of skills, as well as plenty of bills that add up to about 105% of my income. I feel trapped by my finances, which definitely does not lend well to a feeling of peace. I can write computer programs, and I thoroughly enjoy PHP scripts as well as working with databases. I don't, however, have the artistic ability to make web pages or even rough templates. (This is why I'm still using the default WordPress template on my blog, despite having gone behind the scenes and tinkered a bit with the code to reduce spam.) I do have a blog that I have begun to monetize, which is my first direct application of living my purpose, but I can't live off of $20 every 3 months. I refuse to let my blog go, because it is the best method that I have so far of spreading peace, so no matter how much money I make off of it, it will stay up. I would love advice on how to optimize it, (if it is artistic advice, please be very specific) without compromising the integrity of the information. I'm willing to shorten or lengthen my future posts (I'm planning on shortening them a little bit in the near future) but I refuse to post reviews of products that I haven't been able to fully test out and I completely approve of, or even stray too far off the overall topic of peace. I'm also willing to do things around town. It is a big college town with a relatively small population, so all of the supermarket and low-entry jobs are over-saturated, but it does seem like a good place to start building a business, if I could just find a niche to build from. I don't want to stay here, though, and I will be moving a bit further south, probably to Phoenix, AZ, when I graduate. I just feel a need to pursue my purpose, yet I don't feel like I'm making enough impact unless I can have peace within my own life, which includes meeting my basic needs. Does anybody have any suggestions?