Surviving Financially during Difficult Times

By Hanlie Brand

Surviving Financially during Difficult Times is all about survival.

People are always looking for means to make extra cash. The pandemic changed the world so that most of us are looking for new jobs or business ventures.

We need life-line. I am offering this lifeline with fresh ideas about survival in difficult times and how to start new This is an inspirational guide but also a very practical guideline. It tells you how to ride the storm and survive it, how to improve your knowledge and soft skills and how to change course.

I provided more than 100 ideas to be turned into side-hustles or new ventures with 'clickable' links to the relevant websites.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hanlie Brand
• Release date: Sep 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005663629

Hanlie Brand

I am a qualified social worker and life coach.I have always been interested in people, what motivates them and what happens to them. I do believe we are all unique and special.I enjoy coaching and mentoring people and have done that all through my life.

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Surviving Financially during difficult Times

By Hanlie Brand

Surviving Financially during Difficult Times

Copyright@Hanlie Brand 2021

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter1: How to survive the storm in difficult times

Chapter 2: Increase your Knowledge

Chapter 3: Find a new Career

Chapter 4: Make Technology your friend

Chapter 5: Increase your Soft Skills

Chapter 6: Loads of side-hustles than can make money

Chapter 7: Why are we not all successful?

Final thoughts

Sources

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Other Books by the Author

INTRODUCTION

I often see posts on social media from people looking for side-hustles. These posts have increased since the pandemic hit and change our lives. Many people lost their jobs and are struggling to survive. It is heart-breaking to read posts about people asking for help with basic necessities.

It seems as if the majority of people are suffering and need a life-line. I am hoping to write something that will offer hope and inspiration, and a lot of fresh ideas about ways to make money or perhaps change direction.

I made this book very practical with easy links to sites where you can read up more on certain concepts and find new ways to make extra money or perhaps find an idea to pursue and start your own endeavor. I have provided over 100 ‘clickable’ links to pursue and consider and one of these might just be the answer you are looking for or ignite a new idea.

There is certainly more out there and I am not able to capture every single idea to make more money. But I have covered most of what I could find and hope that this opens up the minds of people to move towards better options for their lives and careers.

HOW TO SURVIVE THE STORM IN DIFFICULT TIMES

2020 and 2021 have been monster years. They were like rough-and-tumbles when you surf and a monster-wave hits you and you don’t know if you are up and down. You feel lost at see, eating sand and often get hit by another monster-wave that tosses you into another struggle. You really don’t know to stay afloat and then you get the feeling that you are not done yet.

I often wish that life can be a little easier and kinder, so that we don’t have to experience the gut-wrenching bad stuff. And most of us do at some point. I certainly have been there where I felt that life sucked out the marrow out of my bones. But heck, I am still here and I have possibly replaced all that lost marrow with new fresh matter that smells like lavender or vanilla or perhaps that amazingly fresh early morning ocean-smell that you mostly get at dawn. And I know that I am possibly not done with the big-wave-of-life surfing yet. Like the big waves of Maui, life will send me a killer-wave again and I will perhaps not be ready or wanting it.

I certainly did not see the wave of Corona coming, like most of the world. We don’t know yet where it all came from and many are denying the virus and not helping. It has become more of a human virus in that humanity is losing the fight and people are forced to become different versions of themselves, and not all in a good way.

I believe that we are all surfers of life and we all get the waves we can handle, and some that we hardly survive. When the monster-wave come, you can try to hide or you might try to deny it by closing your eyes and think it will go away. But the wave is a wave and it will ride itself out. Life will give us stinker-waves and we have to choose if we will sink or survive. You can either surf along or go under. And going under a huge monster-wave has many bad things in tow: you are shaken to the core in so much that you don’t know whether you are up or down. If you get sucked in, your head might hit a rock at the bottom in the sand and it could be deadly. It is much better to face the big waves and meet them head-on with all your might. If you can ride with the wave, you might get in at the lowest level of impact. It is better than to resist it. And if you are saved by a passing jet-ski, you are lucky. The fact is life sends us the killer wave but we don’t get the jet-ski. When we don’t know if our head is up or down, we feel like we are drowning – literally. It feels like being sucked into a big hole. And we get disconnected, like a surfer from his surf-board. We are not sure how things will end and if we will make it. Sometimes you can be wading in shallow water and an unexpected wave can wash your feet right out from under you. You can drown in shallow water. The moment you get control, is the moment you can get up and get away. Best to brush the failure off and get to dry land. You will be unsettled. Get your breath back. Take a moment.

Life is not always a beautiful ocean. We don’t just get a magnificent beauty of the sea without the cruelty of the tough challenges that rock our world. I read a quote recently that resonated well with my view of life: You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun. Shaun Hick wrote these words and he must have had a few monster-waves breaking over his head at the time. He must have wondered how he will come out on the other side.

Sometimes we need to be in the dark before we could feel the rays of the sun on our skin. These words are true in life: you have to go through the bad and sad times, in order to appreciate the good ones. Fact is, unless you have been in the shadow, you will not appreciate the light. When you have been stuck in darkness, you truly appreciate life when you are out in the light. After you have been tossed and tumbled by a freak-wave, you truly appreciate being back on the beach and having your toes safely in the sand.

The ocean is not the monster, but the wave is. It is important to keep that distinction. The truth is that life is all about the beauty and then the monsters that rock our world and make us forget which side is up and which side is down. I would prefer just having good times