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Originally Posted by MattUK  My passion in life is becomming a professional athlete in mixed martial arts. [...] to support this goal i have a great interest in fitness so i may start my own freelance business (i think) or just continue with the affiliate marketting (although i'm a newbie at it) so i can earn passively and train full-time. |
You should follow your passion.
To make money now, today, you will need to invest time. To think that you can make money passively with affiliate marketing without investing time first is a myth.
You can be successful in affiliate marketing if you are passionate about it, work at it full time every day, think about affiliate marking all the time, and work to build up your affiliate marketing program. Eventually you will be generating passive income.
The same is true with your fitness business. If you live, eat, breath fitness, you will build your fitness business, and eventually it too will be generating passive income.
But you can't do both. If you try to do both, you will lose focus. And not do either very well.
At 20 you can hold two full time jobs. 20 year olds do it all the time. So train eight hours a day. And spend eight hours a day doing something to make enough money so that you can train. And spend the remaining eight hours of the day grabbing something to eat and sleeping.
After all, what else do you have to do?
Focus yourself 100% on your goal of training. You need food to eat so that you can train. OK, do something, anything, it doesn't matter what, to make money to buy food to eat. You can make good money cleaning houses. Mowing lawns. Shoveling snow. Go out, yourself, not working for someone else, grab a shovel or a lawn mower, go out and find a house that needs snow shoveled or a lawn mowed, knock on the door, and say, "I offer to shovel your walk and driveway (or mow your lawn) for X euros".
Get on craigslist. Post a services offered ad that you want to be a professional athlete and are in training. Tell the truth: say in the ad that you need work so that you can train. The truth is very powerful. List everything that you can do and are willing to do, whether that be to help someone move, to clean out their garage, to haul brush off their lawn, to mow, to shovel, whatever you are willing to do.
You can't train effectively if you are tired. So sleep, so you aren't tired, so you can train. You can't sleep if you don't have a place to sleep, so do something, anything, it doesn't matter what, to make money to pay rent so you have a place to sleep, so you can train.
You can't train at full effectiveness if you never have fun, if you never take a break and relax. So take a break, have some fun, so that you are refreshed, so that you can train at full effectiveness.
Is something not working right now to help you train? Is affiliate marketing, for example, not making you money now, today, to help you train? Then drop it. Do something else. Don't believe anyone who says, "you have to do this or that or some other thing to make good money". So what? You don't need "good money" now, today, to train. You just need enough money. Tomorrow your fitness business will be making you good money. (And if you need someone with a college degree to help you run that business, you can hire them). But for today, you don't need to worry about that. You fitness business success is coming, traveling towards you, and will arrive if you don't block its arrival by not training. Today all you need to do is train, to do whatever is necessary and sufficient so that you can train, and you need not do anything more today.
I hope this was helpful,
Cat