Extra income ideas
This page on extra income ideas will help you get back on your feet and/or realize your untapped potential.
Remember the old saying from Norman Vincent Peal: "Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."
It is very typical for bipolar people to undermine their financial health through manic spending sprees or poor decision-making during an episode.
Research has identified what is called "downward drift" amongst people with bipolar disorder (Goodwin and Jamison, 2007). This is where, compared to non-bipolar family members, bipolar people eventually end up with lower levels of wealth and income.
PLEASE - don't let this be you! Use these extra income ideas to live the life you were truly destined for.
Top 10 extra income ideas
When I was 15 years old both my parents (bipolar, undiagnosed and untreated) went to prison, and my sisters and I had to fend for ourselves. I soon learned the value of a dollar and to take pride in any form of honest work. To me there is a list of extra income ideas I have come to think of as "the basics". These are things anyone can do, with no capital outlay and few basic skills beyond a work ethic and pleasant manner.
Over the years I have done of all of these, and would turn to them again if the situation demanded it.
My list of the 10 cannot miss extra income ideas for anyone are:
1. Create a website like mine and sell Google advertising.
2. Babysitting.
3. Pet sitting.
4. Pet walking.
5. Cleaning.
6. Car washing.
7. Rubbish removal (You do need a truck or trailer but rubbish removal is one of those simple services that is always in demand and absurdly expensive.)
8. Catering (This can be as simple as offering to deliver frozen, home-cooked meals to colleagues or neighbours. One of my successful twists has been to offer something aligned with whatever the latest trend is, for example, recipes out of The South Beach Diet or The Zone Diet.)
9. Have a garage sale, rent a market stall, or in this day and age, go on an all-out e-Bay binge. (Thanks to my manic spending sprees, I always had stuff to sell that I did NOT need.)
10. Get a food concession at your local market. I have done everything from hamburgers to baking to curry. Where I live now in the Florida panhandle, the gas stations often have people doing homemade BBQ at the edge of the gas station forecourts. The BBQ is usually delicious, and wow do those folk rake in the cash.
Sell your brain
Yes, that is right. One of the best ways of making extra income is by selling your brain - on the Net!
This is exactly how I solved the financial problems my manic episodes caused me. It is all about creating your own website on something you are passionate about - and then turning that passion and knowledge into revenue. Read all about my true Internet story here in
My secret to making extra income.
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This my personal favourite! It changed my life. Please study it carefully, and may it bring you all the abundance and prosperity it has brought me.
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