{"id":36157,"date":"2014-03-13T16:58:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T20:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=36157"},"modified":"2016-03-13T08:39:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T13:39:18","slug":"would-i-make-more-money-doing-readings-instead-of-magazine-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/would-i-make-more-money-doing-readings-instead-of-magazine-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Won&#8217;t I make more money doing readings instead of the mag?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/girl-running-small.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44086\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-44086\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/girl-running-small.jpg\" alt=\"girl running small\" width=\"107\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>A friend asked why I spend so much time on the magazine when it only pays for itself and doesn&#8217;t earn income, why don&#8217;t I spend 40 hours a week doing readings instead?\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t I make a whole lot more money? True, my readings are the income but, the magazine &#8211; I&#8217;m in it for the outcome, not the income.\u00a0 Plus I enjoy it so much, it\u2019s like the story of the Chinese lettuce farmer who was known far and wide as a writer of exquisite poetry and the grower of poor, bitter lettuce.\u00a0 \u201c<em>Why don\u2019t you stop farming lettuce and spend all your time writing poetry?\u201d <\/em>he is asked time and again. \u201cBecause, \u201d the farmer says, \u201c<em>If I do not grow poor lettuce, then I cannot write beautiful poetry.<\/em>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=9467\">Building momentum \u2013 do it for the income and do it for the outcome<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=36155\">The Horizons Magazine Mission Statement<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/would-i-make-more-money-doing-readings-instead-of-magazine-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Won&#8217;t I make more money doing readings instead of the mag?&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/would-i-make-more-money-doing-readings-instead-of-magazine-work\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/would-i-make-more-money-doing-readings-instead-of-magazine-work\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/would-i-make-more-money-doing-readings-instead-of-magazine-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Won&#8217;t%20I%20make%20more%20money%20doing%20readings%20instead%20of%20the%20mag?&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/would-i-make-more-money-doing-readings-instead-of-magazine-work\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend asked why I spend so much time on the magazine when it only pays for itself and doesn&#8217;t earn income, why don&#8217;t I spend 40 hours a week doing readings instead?\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t I make a whole lot more money? True, my readings are the income but, the magazine &#8211; I&#8217;m in it for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44087,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36157\/revisions\/44087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}