Do you need financing?

If so, then you're not going to get it.

 

If hearing that sounds needlessly exclusive, believe me when I tell you that I empathize.  At the same time, no amount of anger or gumption will change the basic rules of economics.

 

Instead of focusing on how you need money to accomplish your goals, why not focus on practical ways that your goals can generate money?  Build a plan for how that process works, test it, gather evidence that it's viable, and then put the plan into effect.  If it works, money will come to you.

 

For just a moment, consider what purpose money was invented to fulfill.  At it's most basic, money is a measure of how much you've contributed to the community, and of how much the community owes you in terms of resources.

 

If you consistently use those resources wisely and efficiently, people will ask you to help them with their money.  If folks see you as someone with less expertise in managing community resources then they have themselves, why invest in you?  Why create waste?

 

Right now, you might be asking how in the world anyone expects you to gain that expertise, if nobody gives you the money to practice with.  Simply put, nobody does.  If people expected you to become a financial superstar, you're right - they'd be lining up to give you what you need.

 

Then again, why should they expect that of you?  In other words, how are you using your resources right now?

 

Focus on using your actions in an efficient way, and find the balance between keeping your short-term goals both ambitious and achievable.  Practice putting the resources you have to work, instead of spending all your time looking for more resources than you have.

 

Enjoy what you do, and do it expertly.  Learn to give to the community, and learn how to harvest what you've earned.

 

Eventually you'll find ways to make the money you need.  When you do, people will start lining up - asking you to please use their money instead.

 

There are no shortcuts. If I had realized this earlier myself, I'd have done a lot more by now.  At the same time, that's the process we all go through.

 

Hopefully, I've made that process a little more transparent for someone.