In order to start living your dream through this pandemic, you need to seize opportunities to solve the problems it presents. Below are some ideas on how to do that.

Previously, I have written about:

• The need for pandemic-proofing your life if you are non-essential, quarantined at home or working from home.
• On how pandemic-proofing your income will require working hard but the good news is you can get there by multiplying your effort.
• On why the COVID-19 pandemic is painful but it is also a rare opportunity for large-scale impact and meaningful work.

It really boils down to whether you are going to let this pandemic ruin you or give you the strength to thrive here on after. You can do all of the above by solving problems created by this pandemic.

New Problems = New Ways Of Income = Start living your dream through this pandemic

Think about the problems, or new situations, that people are dealing with. Even if you can help with something mundane, anything at all, that is still something. Whatever you can do for people, to social distance and fight the disease, to help this economy, is all a good thing.

Some new situations are:

People have to telework now which means adapting to new technologies and ways to do work.

Can you think of anything that would make that process easier? Like helping people figure out ways to navigate telework and to remain productive.

People are spending more time with their kids and having to figure out homeschooling.

A good number of them are complaining about being stuck with childcare during the day when they would usually be at work. It’s getting to be a lot and parents are overwhelmed. Can you help with that?

Helping in any way to solve the homeschooling problem

I am very interested in helping with the homeschooling problem because I already have an interest in helping people with life-things focused on education, school, and career. Although I haven’t done it too much for younger kids, I am very excited to try! I already have so many book ideas for helping kids learn different topics. If only I could write everything down as fast as I think about them!

People are bored.

This makes them great consumers of content! People know it’s bad to binge Netflix all day. So, if you can feed them with useful information, something valuable, they are likely to be interested.

Do you already have an audience?

You most likely do. For example, are you on social media at all? Like Twitter or Facebook or Instagram? Your friends and followers are your audiences. Think about what you can do for your audience right now. What do you bring to the table that would be appreciated by your friends and followers? Maybe you like dancing and you could start a dance club with your friends on Instagram Live. 

I love dancing but I have been sick, so I posted a cat video instead, recently…

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These are just a few examples…

You can think about more ways to help people and also gain inspiration by consuming content yourself that will help you to both help yourself and help others.

The main thing to realize is that there is an opportunity to have an impact on a large scale right now and to start living your dream through this pandemic by recognizing that.

So this is what you have to do to start living your dream through this pandemic:

1. Focus on solving problems for a lot of people
2. Monetize to turn it into an income 

In that order. To make money, you first have to think about people. 

• Who are you going to help?
• What problem are you interested in helping with and what solution are you providing?
• Who is the audience? Who will benefit? 

Before you benefit, you have to think about benefiting others. Benefit people first. 

It’s a simple business. Before charging someone for Aloo Methi, you have to cook the Aloo Methi and feed a hungry person some much-appreciated food. 

Income is not going to happen without putting in the work first and without thinking about how you are going to serve people. The best thing right now, though, is that many problems are staring us in the face. 

People with problems are all over the world. We all have a common enemy, so there is no problem with being able to relate with a large audience. In other words, there is no time better than NOW to address your people, and their problems, which will lead to an income that you previously could not achieve. 

Number of people you help

Step 1: identify pain, then come up with a plan to address it. You can read some articles online about “how to make a million dollars” or something along those lines. Many of them discuss how it’s about the number of people you are serving that scales to the amount of money you make. 

Alright, have fun with that! As always, please do leave your thoughts and comments below. It greatly helps to keep me motivated 🙏🙏 thank you!!!