How To Make $100K!

Over my decade or so on the web, I've had so very many ideas for websites, blogs, and other money making "schemes." Most which remained simply that, ideas and pleasant pipe dreams. One of them was an interactive blog which would simply ask the question, "How to Make $100K!" Which would hopefully elicit ideas from readers how I could go about making this sum (to help pay off my then house mortgage.) I could then try the most viable (as well as perhaps kooky and entertaining) advice and ideas and report the results. 

I was reminded this morning of this idea via an email from Groupon, following the link to their website, then finding out about their "Groupawn" project, where Josh Stevens was challenged to live only off Groupon for one year. Apparently he succeeded and was awarded the sum of, guess what, $100K!

I had to ask myself, how on earth did said "Groupawn" find out about this opportunity? And why do I never hear about this sort of thing until AFTER the fact??  Do I not already spend enough of my life on the internet? I've "doubled." I've done Etsy, Ebay, and any number of auction or sale site wannabees. I've been a web guide, an affiliate, started ebooks, written articles, entered sweepstakes. Do I need to spend even more time online?  If I had started the $100K blog (and promoted it it properly), might some reader have alerted me to the Groupon project? And what is out there right now that I don't know about?

It's a little like hearing someone else has won the super lottery jackpot. Yes you feel great for them. But you always question, did they play religiously? Or are they one of those flukes that just bought one random ticket on a lark and hit it big? Making you wonder, is luck and success something that is random and predetermined, or is it really something that can come to those who think about it, plan for it, intentionally work for it, and/or seek it out? 

Questions for the ages.  But perhaps it still isn't too late. The house may be long gone, but there are other fish in the sea. And we certainly haven't lost the need for a place to live. So maybe I will make this "project" under my Nestish umbrella. Only now I think my goal will be $250K. Which would be just enough (maybe) to buy us a small 2 bedroom starter home or cottage where we live, with a small yard for our daughter and her pets, a laundry hookup for our washer and dryer (ah, no more coin op!) and a basement for all of the stuff we have now in storage. Which is really all we are looking for. 

But, you know. $100K wouldn't hurt either!