How To Succeed In The Year Ahead With Inspiration From Those Who Have

For your final Weekend Takeaways of 2018 I wanted to inspire and uplift you with success stories that you can absolutely emulate…

After all, what’s the point of a success story if you can’t also make it your own?

Let’s start with this podcast from Entrepreneur on Fire and how Colton Bollinger went from zero to 6M in annual recurring revenue helping others tell their stories via Instagram:

https://www.eofire.com/podcast/coltonbollinger/

Not sure how you’d like to succeed but just know that you would? Take a look at these 12 different ways others have and which will all carry on being successful through 2019:

https://www.nichepursuits.com/best-online-businesses-to-start/

One mistake many people make is thinking they need to start big…so they never start at all.

Here are 46 ways you can get started just like the people here did – some of these will surprise you:

https://www.oberlo.co.uk/blog/online-business-ideas

Blogging is more popular than ever but that doesn’t mean you can’t find your own corner of the internet in which to succeed.

Here are some of the best blogging success stories of 2018 with plenty to learn from a diverse group of people:

https://tweakyourbiz.com/marketing/blogging/success-stories

If you’d like some direct advice on how to monetise your blog in 2019, take a look at this:

https://www.shoutmeloud.com/earn-money-from-blog.html

This:

https://createandgo.co/how-to-make-money-blogging/

And this (from a blogger who has more than 1M readers a month):

https://www.positivityblog.com/start-successful-blog-today/

Ecommerce more your thing? Here are 101 ideas on how to succeed with that in 2019:

https://blog.sagipl.com/ecommerce-business-ideas/

With 15 proven niche ecom ideas here:

https://www.ecommerceceo.com/ecommerce-business-ideas/

See yourself more as a self-publishing success?

There’s no-one better to learn from than Joanna Penn, here with Orna Ross on how to smash it in 2019:

https://www.thecreativepenn.com/2018/10/26/self-publishing-3-0-and-how-to-build-success-as-an-indie-author-with-orna-ross/

Or creating your own online courses might appeal to you more – in which case, take a look at this:

https://www.learnworlds.com/create-online-course/

As you look to the year ahead, you might also be looking back at years past and your TED talk this week is a moving and illuminating sharing of wisdom from great writers on every age of life:

 

However you spend this New Year, I hope it is peaceful, happy and, above all, hopeful. Have a wonderful one!