A Day In the Life…

Hi folks, this is Jazzkat, the multimediaprofessor, and I am about to give you a glimpse into my perfect day. It involves some media that shows you my three favorite hobbies.

Skiing deep powder, playing saxophone and golfing. I have actual clips of me doing 2 of the three and by the end of the winter I will have clips of the skiing part as well. But thanks to YouTube, I can show you what my perfect day of skiing looks like too.

Anybody who is familiar with these forms of fun knows well enough that outside of maybe yachting, I probably couldn’t have chosen any more expensive hobbies.

A day at the premier ski resorts for a lift ticket alone is around $75. By the time you take a family of 4 and rent them some good gear and buy them lunch, a day on the slopes will run you an easy $500.

As for performing music. A recent trip through the Guitar Center to shop for a starter PA. Gave me a little sticker shock. To get me and my bass player some amplification, which means 2 mics, and 2 speaker cabinets and a mixer.

All costs right around $1500. That will get me bare basic amplification to a room of around 50 people. The price goes up to fill a bigger room with sound. I’m not complaining because this is something I really love to do.

Lastly, I recently played 4 rounds of golf over a long weekend in Las Vegas and Mesquite, Nevada and St. George, Utah. There are many great golf courses in those areas and it was the high season. We played in late October and the weather could not have been more perfect.

I highly recommend this time of year in the desert to any avid golfer. But be prepared, you can expect to pay around $150 per round so bring your Visa.

So the point of this discussion is not to brag. It is to take you away from the doom and gloom of CNN and Fox News just for a moment and point our focus on what is really important.

Face it, life’s short and when you are lying on your deathbed and you look back on your life, you aren’t likely to say that you wish you had worked a little more overtime down at the factory.

What we are more likely to wish is that we had spent more time with the ones we love. Or maybe that we had taken that epic ski vacation before our legs gave out.

Or that we had layed down the tracks of music that we love to play so they can be immortalized. What about playing the old course at St. Andrews while we can still hit the ball 200 yards.

Let’s set some goals…a bucket list, so to speak. To accomplish these you have got to have a plan. Because it isn’t getting any easier to make ends meet.

The key to making ends meet and still having money left to blow in Tahoe, is to have multiple streams of income and to especially have streams of passive income.

You might have heard me talk about this in an earlier incarnation of this site ( www.multimediaprofessor.com ) and I will be talking about it again quite often in the future.

What passive income means is that the income flows whether you are working or not. Examples of this are like royalties from a hit record or book. Or it could be positive cash flow from investments like rental properties or stock dividends.

Since most of us don’t really have a hit record or book in us and investing in real estate and the stock market takes deep pockets and a lot of nerve these days. The place I recommend you to get involved in order to create a nice passive income stream, is Network Marketing.

I know what you are thinking. This is just another pitch for Amway of some other pyramid scheme. I don’t blame you for being skeptical. I was too at first.

I have been involved in quite a few before I landed on the perfect fit. There are many good reasons to choose this as a means of devoting your spare time. I will be getting into those in the next series of posts.

For now, lets sit back and enjoy the perfect day.