Five to six weeks ago the media was filled with ghoulish warnings about the massive spike in deaths that was bound to come Japan's way for not fully obeying the lockdown regime.
What a surprise: it never happened.
Foreign Policy even ran this headline:
"Japan's Halfhearted Coronavirus Measures Are Working Anyway"
Best they can come up with: Japanese people wash their hands and wear masks.
Nice try, genius. We knew those things five to six weeks ago when you were predicting piles of corpses. You can't trot that out now and pretend it's the answer.
The virus isn't as cartoonish as the media thought. Japan survived! It's a miracle!
For my message to you today, I have rather a more mundane miracle to share, but a miracle all the same.
Here's how a lot of online workshops run:
Hey, everyone, here's five percent of what you need to know. For the rest, that'll be $4997.
I'm personally fine with that in most cases. But I get that it can be frustrating.
Not yesterday. Yesterday a miracle occurred.
We got step-by-step training, including the exact free tools to use, and where to find ideas, to create products (primarily coffee mugs) to list for sale on sites like Etsy and Amazon.
And yes, although that sounds technical and kind of awesome, you also learned it's not brain surgery.
Not to mention: it's fun.
Now it's true: Rachel is not a registered charity, and she does have an offer for you at the end. I think folks on this list are OK with that.
But before getting there, she walked us through a whole lot of immediately actionable stuff. When you watch the replay, you'll see what I mean: she left nothing out.
What she's describing is newbie-friendly, and something you can spend as much or as little time on as you like.
Lots of people already do this: with zero artistic ability, they use online platforms to create print-on-demand products. No outlay of cash, no inventory to hold, and definitely not difficult to learn.
Newbie-friendly, in other words.
Don't let this inhuman lockdown go to waste. Come out the other side with this skill under your belt. Take the time to watch before it's taken down for the year:
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