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One of my favorite things of going on book tour, which I have not been able to do for a while, and still don't have any immediate plans to do, but hopefully again at some point.

One of my favorite things is talking with listeners and readers, come out to an event, and helping them find their idea.

This is probably the greatest problem people have, what is my idea? How do I make it happen?

Which is technically two problems, but let's focus on the first one.

So, just helping people understand that there is something that everyone can do, and often it's not even myself that's helping them figure out the idea.

It's the rest of the group, or somebody else in their life, and we're just imparting some tools that they can use on their own.

So, today's listener, there is a segue here, today's listener is feeling stuck because they have tried everything, or at least they've tried a lot of things, and they still aren't sure how to go from idea to income.

So, what is the best way to get on stuck? How can we move forward here? Very common problem. People have tried different stuff, it hasn't worked.

They have gone through the common exercises, and they still can't just figure it out.

So, I'm going to try to be as actionable as I can with my answer, so that if you two are feeling discouraged in any way, you will go away with at least one thing, maybe even more, so that you can take real action and get closer to an actionable idea.

You notice the action theme there. That's what it's all about.

Okay, the question, I've tried everything. I still can't think of a good idea, and my answer is coming up in just 30 seconds after this quick shout out to our sponsor.

Hi there, Chris. This is Nina, and I've been listening for a while now, but I feel like you're a worst student. I've listened to 600 episodes and read three of your books, but I still don't know what I do to get paid without just trading time for money, which is what I do for my day job.

The whole point is to earn passive income, but I don't have much money to invest and just end up feeling tired at the end of the day. Do you think I'm a lost cause? I feel like I need a way to reframe this whole situation, but I'm not sure what it would be.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

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