I love passive income. You hear me talk about it all the time. Passive income allowed me to retire from the practice of law. Passive income allows me to do what I want with my time because the income comes in whether I work or not.
I enjoy consulting but don’t do much anymore because there’s nothing passive about it. Instead of spending hours each week speaking with lawyers and getting paid once, I’d rather invest my time in creating more passive income.
I built a business years ago that provides me with passive income. It still pays me, month after month, year after year. I also get passive income from my books and courses.
Why earn $500 from consulting when I could spend that time creating a new book or course that pays me $500 per month, every month?
Do it once, get paid over and over again.
Set it and forget it.
Okay, so hurray for me. What about you?
Well, you could create passive income by building a side business like I did (contact me if you want me to show you how), and you could create books and courses or other products that sell over and over again. Or you could invest in income-producing assets.
But maybe none of that is right for you.
Can you use your law practice to build assets that provide you with passive income?
In a way, yes.
Instead of creating intellectual property, you can create relationships.
Find clients who have lots of legal work you can do, instead of one time clients. Find referral sources who can send you new business every month.
You have to spend time nurturing those relationships, and you still have to do the legal work (or supervise the people who do), but once you have a new referral source or client with ongoing work, the work will come to you without you having to do much more.
Not quite true passive income, but close. The next best thing.
Each relationship is an asset that provides cash flow. Each relationship gives you access to everyone in that person’s network.
Robert Kiyosaki said, “The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.”
This week, how will you build your network?
How to get more referrals from lawyers
