Match your interests and your skills

THE PRINCIPLE

Randomly matching your interests with your skills can give you new ideas for how to make money

This method is great when you want to come up with new ways to make money doing something you enjoy. It was first proposed by Fredric Lehrman in his Prosperity Consciousness audio programme (Nightingale-Conant). He calls it ‘Prosperity Scrabble’. Here’s how to play.

Cut up sheets of paper into squares about an inch wide, so you have 100 of them.

On one set of 50, write things that you really enjoy doing. These could be activities like gardening, drawing, listening to music, swimming, watching television, making your own wine, reading thrillers – anything and everything you can think of that gives ...

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