10 Ways To Quickly Create Additional Short-Term Profits From Long-Term Decisions

Talk about it. Publicize it. Blog about it. Just get the word out and tell everyone about it. And use it to generate positive press, content, and traffic (and more sales and customers) right now. And keep doing it over and over again.

I've found that one-third of success is what you know, and one-third is who you know. Leverage your long-term decisions as a way to tap into networks of like-minded successful people who've made similar decisions. Or if such groups don't exist, you can be the one to create it.

There's no shortage of people who started exercise and dieting, and turned their journey into a side business and additional stream of income. How did they do that? By blogging about it, making YouTube videos about it, podcasting about it, and simply monetizing the journey.

The longer you've been on your journey towards long-term results, the more experience you have. Use that experience to mentor others who have just started. Of course, you can charge fees for that.

Let's say you made the long-term decision to lead a healthy lifestyle. That means no more processed foods for you. You can identify things that can give you a return on your investment in the short-term by doing so. For example, perhaps you discovered that switching from processed food to eating organically grown local produce from a good local farmer can instantly slash your grocery bill in half. That means you're profiting right now, not just in the long-term.

Most of the time, one of the biggest benefits of long-term decisions is that they eliminate waste that you have right now. And by waste, I mean time wasters and energy wasters. So you can direct your time and energy towards something else that's more profitable, or enjoyable. Identify wastes that can be eliminated right now with your long-term decisions, and redirect the resources from that waste towards more profitable ventures.

Exercise is... boring. Unless you find exercise that's fun and that you genuinely enjoy doing. So find those, and do those types of exercises, instead of slaving it out doing stuff you hate for some long-term end result or goal. Not only will you be happier everyday, you'll get the long-term benefits too. Similarly, try to find a fun angle along every step of your long-term journey.

Learning is one of those things that benefits you in the long-term, but often not so much in the short-term. One way to get short-term benefits though, is to just get a job that pays you to learn how to do what you want to learn to do. Thus, you are getting paid to do it, and your "employer" also benefits from your work at the same time.

I was reading about these bodybuilders who found an interesting way to get paid to lift weights. Want to know what they did? They got jobs as "garbage collectors" and some of them even became "home movers", because those jobs let them lift while also making them cash. Think you can't get paid for your long-term commitments? Think again. It's all about transferring the task across industries.

Look for people who have made the same long-term decisions you've made, but are also simultaneously profiting in the short-term from doing it... and just do what they're doing. The possibilities are infinite. But it helps to have multiple references.