Keep Fit, Lose Weight AND Make Money

A friend of mine at the gym has always been a fitness fanatic. She spent hours at the gym exercising, doing aerobics classes, swimming and consequently kept herself in good shape. She is very particular what and how much she eats and made a point of finding out all about nutrition and healthy diets.

She studied a number of books on fitness, exercise, pilates, yoga, dietary health, etc, and became very knowledgeable about many aspects of keeping fit.

She got a job at a gym helping in the café because she got free use of the gym facilities and could use them at any time she was not on duty. This meant she met a lot more of the members socially and found people started asking her how she kept so fit and what they themselves could do to lose more weight, get fitter, etc.

At first she was happy to help all she could and devised a number of fitness programmes for people. Someone said she should charge a fee for doing this and set herself up as a professional lifestyle coach.

She made enquiries about becoming a personal trainer and enrolled on some courses for specialist disciplines. She soon became qualified and began taking on private clients. Her clients pay her £30/£35 per session and she now has more work than she can cope with.

So, she is now earning a living doing something she always loved doing, her fitness hobby, and is happier than ever.

Sing a Song for Sixpence? - Not likely!

I've got a friend who was a choirboy at school and has loved singing ever since. He can do church music, classical, opera, popular ... you name it.

He sings just for the heck of it, any time, any place. I suppose you could call it one of his hobbies ... and one he makes money from!

He gets asked to sing at weddings, funerals and various other public functions. He doesn't advertise directly but has made himself known to all the local conference and function venues, wedding planners and funeral directors, and of course the service he offers is spread by word of mouth.

I know he gets quite well paid as a singer ... but he just WON'T tell me how much!!

More later ...