How to earn your first online dollar
Get started with making money online, advice for teenagers in 2022, learning to learn, and more productivity tips for creators.
✨ Highlights
Notion continues to delight us all with its latest updates. This week, pay attention to these three new features:
Edit cards in a board view directly: You can now edit a card within the board view directly, without needing first to open it as a separate page.
Drag a cell to fill other cells (à la Google sheets): Click and drag a cell to automatically copy and paste its value in the below cells, just like in Excel or Google Sheets!
View relation items on top of a database page as a section: Within a database page, you would usually see a Rollup column with the rest of the properties. But now you have an option to display the items from a roll-up column as a page section on the top.
🤑 Earn Money Online
How do you get started with earning money online? Passive income, asset creation, creator economy, and other buzzwords might overwhelm beginners. This week, I want to show you how to get started with earning your first online dollar in 6 ways. I also included free tools and resources, along with success stories for your inspiration. If you want to start earning money online, start with this post.
💡 Advice for Teenagers
I mentor several young people, and many of them are teenagers or still in college. I see more and more teenagers embrace Twitter and Youtube to find opportunities to upskill themselves and build a stream of passive income, and I couldn’t be more delighted to welcome them all. I was a student entrepreneur myself when I was in college, and I also did a bunch of other things for income, skills, and experience. If I had to distill the advice I give my mentees, it is a 2 step formula to guarantee success as a teenager.
✍🏼 Write a Future Letter
On a sunny August afternoon, you are alerted to a new email in your inbox. You are surprised when you see the sender’s name: the email is from you. Momentarily confused, you open the mail to realize that you wrote this letter to yourself all those months ago. It finally landed in your inbox after all this time because you set it to be sent for today.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be greeted by your past self, and to remember your goals and dreams for the future? A future letter is your own time capsule that reminds you of what was important to you, and gives you a reason to celebrate the journey that led you to today. I have a free tool for you to write a letter to your future self that you can use to schedule an email that will arrive in your inbox at a future date.
🎓 Learning to Learn
If there is one skill that will give you an unbeatable edge over your peers, it is being a great learner. And if you want to be a great learner, there are several skills you need to master. How does being an effective learner help you both in traditional careers, and as an online creator? What are the six learning skills you need to work on?
📢 Shoutout
This week, I want to recognize the outstanding work of my friend, August Bradley. August is a Notion expert, productivity guru, and Youtube star. He is also a successful edupreneur who is an inspiration to everyone who wants to launch a successful online business. Do check out his Youtube channel if you’re interested in productivity, life design, or Notion.
These were my top insights from this week in my newsletter. Thanks for continuing to follow my journey. Stay tuned for more content on no-code, entrepreneurship, and productivity. If you liked this edition, do let me know on Twitter 🌱