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nothing summarizes everything quite like "I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People"... almost in tears from frustration that everything, everything! boils down to that. do you care about other people or do you only consider a subset of humans to be people.

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Touch: Part 1

Bucky Barnes x [Enhanced] Fem!Reader Word Count: 1428 She couldn’t bear being touched. He didn’t like it much either. Can they both learn that touch is not inherently bad?

Warnings: mentions of cancer, child abuse, rape, and torture (nothing graphic), lots of angst, fluff eventually

A/N: I’ve had this idea floating around in my head for a while, so I decided to actually write it. This is just the intro and her backstory, in the next part I’ll actually start getting into her and her impending relationship with Bucky. This is also technically AU because I can’t think of any specific time in the MCU where all of these characters would be in the Avengers Compound at one time, but I’m not writing this to be completely canon anyway, so oh well.

Part 1

Going without being touched was not easy. 

    She managed it, she had to. She learned quickly how to dodge people in crowds, how to avoid brushing shoulders with others. Whenever people wanted to shake her hand when she met them, she clasped her hands in front of her and smiled in greeting until they lowered their hand. It was lonely, she supposed, not touching anyone. But the only times she’d felt touch in all of her memory had been when someone was hurting her. 

    She didn’t want that reminder just from shaking hands with someone. 

    When she was a child, her father’s touch was gentle at first. Then when her mother died, it grew rough. Rougher still, when she hit puberty and she “became a woman.” She considered herself lucky to make it to eighteen years old living in that house with him, and moved out just after midnight on her birthday. 

    When she was in college, her boyfriend’s touch was playful, at first. Then, when she didn’t want more, it was pushy. She didn’t let him do what her father did, she punched him and kicked him and fought back until he climbed off of her, saying she wasn’t worth the trouble. 

    When she graduated college, the doctor’s touch was icy cold. Not inappropriate, not like before, but his words were worse. “Terminal cancer,” he’d told her. “Nothing to be done.” He’d told her how it was nearly everywhere in her abdomen, showed her where in her body had been taken over by the disease. 

    When she got the business card for a man with no name, she’d hugged herself in the bathtub all night, crying, debating calling. She had been given a few months to live, she didn’t want to waste them on treatments that would make her worse or kill her now. She wasn’t ready to die. 

    When she arrived at the “treatment center” for this supposedly revolutionary treatment, she was strapped down to a table. It wasn’t a treatment, she found out quickly. It was an experiment, and she was the guinea pig. This time, there was no fighting back, no leaving at midnight, all she could do was wait to die. The electricity they sent through her body made her think she would at any second, but it didn’t. 

    When the electricity finally triggered her powers, they didn’t think she was strong enough to use them. Unfortunately for them, lightning shot from her fingertips, sparks jumped from her hair, and she was out of her restraints in seconds. She couldn’t control it, electricity sparked off of her skin, burning her hospital gown away, leaving her with statically charged hair and so much energy coming off her body that none of her torturers could get near enough to her to inject her with a sedative. 

    The building caved in around her. She dug herself out of the rubble, no longer out of control with her new powers, and tried to start a new life. 

    The last person she touched was the man who’d given her his card. She grabbed his arm to move it from its place covering his ID, but it was too destroyed by her powers to see what his name was. 

    Nick Fury found her not long after that. He’d heard rumors of a young woman hiding in alleys electrocuting rats for food. She could tell that he was wary of her power, but he was nowhere near scared of her. 

    He’d brought two people with him, a redheaded woman and a man she instantly recognized as the genius-millionaire-playboy-philanthropist Tony Stark. 

    “Who are you?” Fury had asked, kneeling in front of her hiding place behind a dumpster. 

    She didn’t tell him at first, her eyes locked on the redheaded woman, who looked silently dangerous, and the man who knew was Iron Man. 

    “They won’t hurt you unless you give them a reason to,” Fury promised, which wasn’t exactly comforting, but she knew that she was dangerous. 

    “I don’t want to give them a reason,” she finally said, her voice hoarse with lack of use. She told him her name hesitantly, and he’d responded by introducing Tony Stark, unnecessarily, and Natasha Romanov. 

    “Now, if you don’t mind, I’m not exactly the biggest fan of talking behind dumpsters, so why don’t we take this somewhere a bit more civilized? You can get a shower and get some clothes that don’t look or smell like they’ve been washed in the sewer and we can talk about what we’re gonna do with you.” 

    “I thought I was having a conversation with Nick here,” she said, not looking at Tony Stark. His words weren’t annoyed, but she wasn’t looking to talk to him. He clearly wasn’t the one in charge in this situation. However, he did seem like the one most likely to be able to stop her should she lose control of her powers again. 

    Fury looked over his shoulder, shooting a look at Tony, who shrugged and took a step back. “All yours, Eye Patch.” 

    Fury turned back to her and, begrudgingly, said, “What he said, though I was going to try to say it at least a little nicer.” 

    He held out a hand for her to take, but she only looked at it. 

    He watched her with his one good eye and then withdrew his hand, backing up to let her get to her feet by herself. Neither of his companions offered a hand either, following Fury’s lead of not reaching out to her. She respected their quick learning. 

    She didn’t want to be touched ever again. 

    They took her back to the Avengers Compound, where she was ushered inside and into a shower, given clean clothes as promised, and then sat down with Fury to discuss what would happen next. 

    Once he was assured she wasn’t going to try to hurt any of them, and once she had told him what had happened to her (in the facility, at least, and why she was there in the first place; she felt no need to tell him about her father or her college boyfriend), he offered her a home in the compound. 

    “It’s not like this is some kind of luxury getaway,” he told her. “If you’re here, you’re an Avenger. You’ll train with them, live with them, and once you’re ready, go on missions with them. Of course, you’ll be monitored until you’ve proven that you aren’t going to hurt people.” 

    “So, I’m a probationary Avenger?” she asked, raising an eyebrow. 

    Fury smirked. “If that’s what you want to call it, then sure. We can go with that.” 

    She met everyone slowly over the next few days. Besides Natasha and Tony, there was Bruce Banner, Wanda Maximoff, the Vision, and several other Avengers either living in or visiting regularly the compound. There was also Captain America, or Steve, as she’d been asked to call him, and his best friend, the former Hydra agent and Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes. 

    She’d interacted with all of them regularly, but Bucky always seemed to be quieter, keeping to himself. She appreciated it, especially considering the fact that she was constantly surrounded by people there. She went from eating breakfast to training to lunch to training to learning more about the Avengers and what they did to dinner and sometimes then to even more training. She worked with Steve and Natasha on hand to hand combat, though she always wore long sleeves and gloves to prevent being touched and winced just about every time she made contact with someone. Wanda helped her control her powers, realizing that they’d been tapped into in similar ways and could therefore be controlled similarly. Wanda mentioned that if Thor ever came back to Earth, he would be able to teach her more about directing and controlling actual lightning, if it was possible. 

    Her days were filled with trainings, and after several weeks, they found her prepared and trustworthy enough to take on missions. She went with them, shadowing Wanda as they took down a Hydra base. She kept her powers under control easily and didn’t even have to fight anyone. All she had to do was fry their computer systems once Natasha got the information they needed off of it. 

    Several months into her life with the Avengers, she felt more at home than she ever had before. She still had nightmares from time to time, and she still couldn’t bear someone touching her, especially not her bare skin, but she felt like she was finally making progress in her life. 

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Recommended books comes in all different contexts! In the past, when people recommended books to me, I take a look at the source from who’s telling me about it.

Why are they recommending this particular publication to me?

Have they read it and can talk about it in depth?

What was their biggest take-a-way from their recommendation?

How are their real world results different after reading the book?

There are so many more questions that run through my mind when someone tells me there’s a book out there perfect for me. I do this not to find reasons to not read the book, rather, I do it to determine what priority I’m going to give the book.

Should I buy it right away?

Will I take the time to read the reviews?

Am I going to read the book once I buy it or will I read it whenever I get to it?

I Love Books

This is me and how I think things through, decide for yourself how you choose to buy and read books. Because I’m so open about my love for reading and writing books, it’s unlikely that a week will go by without a few suggested readings from people.

For years people have been asking me what books I recommend, I now simply tell them to type in bitly.com/150books to view the list of my Top 150 Recommended Books. Rather than telling someone that there’s only one book that’s right for them, they can determine themselves which books is truly right for them.

Recommended Books to Read

150 books is a lot to choose from. In psychology marketing, they say to only give people 2-3 choices to choose from, not 150! If you’re an avid reader, you already know how difficult this is to narrow your suggesstions down to your top twenty, let alone only two.

As a side note, I was at a networking party last night and I did recommend one particular book to someone because of what they do for a living. If you’re a leader in any capacity and you do what you can to empower your people, it’s a no-brainer for me to recommend Dr. Stephen Covey’s book The 8th Habit just like I did last night.

Great Starter Books

These are only a few books I expect everyone I surround myself with to have read at least once, if not 10x over. They’re great for everyone who’s competent enough to read. Also, view my list of Top 150 Recommended Books for more recommendations.

Napoleon Hill – Think & Grow Rich. Hill draws on stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his generation to illustrate his principles. Think and Grow Rich has been called the “Granddaddy of All Motivational Literature.” It was the first book to boldly ask, “What makes a winner?” The man who asked and listened for the answer, Napoleon Hill, is now counted in the top ranks of the world’s winners himself.

Dr. David J. Schwartz – The Magic of Thinking Big. Achieve everything you always wanted: financial security, power and influence, the ideal job, satisfying relationships, and a rewarding, happy life. The Magic of Thinking Big gives you useful methods, not empty promises. You don’t need to be an intellectual or have innate talent to attain great success and satisfaction—but you do need to learn and understand the habit of thinking and behaving in ways that will get you there. This book gives you those secrets!

Wallace D. Wattles – The Science of Getting Rich. Still in print after 100 years, it was a major inspiration for Rhonda Byrne’s bestselling book and film The Secret. According to USA Today, the book is “divided into 17 short, straight-to-the-point chapters that explain how to overcome mental barriers, and how creation, not competition, is the hidden key to wealth attraction.” The mental technique that he called “thinking in the Certain Way,” was intended to establish a state of positivity and self-affirmation.

Brian Tracy – Maximum Achievement. The step-by-step blueprint for success and achievement presented in these pages includes proven principles drawn from psychology, religion, philosophy, business, economics, politics, history, and metaphysics. These ideas are combined in a fast-moving, informative series of steps that will lead you to greater success than you ever imagined possible — they can raise your self-esteem, improve personal performance, and give you complete control over every aspect of your personal and professional life.

Tony Robbins – Unlimited Power. If you have ever dreamed of a better life, Unlimited Power will show you how to achieve the extraordinary quality of life you desire and deserve, and how to master your personal and professional life. Unlimited Power is a revolutionary fitness book for the mind. It will show you, step by step, how to perform at your peak while gaining emotional and financial freedom, attaining leadership and self-confidence, and winning the cooperation of others. It will give you the knowledge and the courage to remake yourself and your world. Unlimited Power is a guidebook to superior performance in an age of success.

Challenge

Check out my Top 150 Recommended Books and find some that speak to you. Either buy them through Amazon, purchase from a local Barnes & Noble, or go check them out at your nearest library. Read them cover to cover while taking notes!

The One Minute Authorpreneur: The Quickest Way to Achieve Any Dream educates you how to very write, publish, launch, and leverage a book to attract into your life whatever it is you desire. Once you become an author, the entire world instantly views you as an authority figure, an expert in your subject matter.

This book lays out for you the systematical, step-by-step, sequential process to maximizing a book to catapult your entire world. Use it to attract clients, speaking engagements, high paying consulting contracts, the media’s attention, and much more.

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I AM: Children’s Book for Positive Thinkers is for children of all ages, baby-adult. It gets you and your children thinking more positively about themselves and the world around them.

By the time a child reaches seven years old, the perception about themselves is already set. Before they will reach the age of eighteen, they will have been told negative limiting beliefs about themselves over 17,000 times.

Learn more about I AM: Children’s Book for Positive Thinkers

I Am, I Do, I Have: Big Thinking for Positively Successful Children uses ones thoughts to live create and live a phenomenal life. Since our thoughts are the beginning of everything we create in our life, you’ll repeat positive affirmations about who you believe yourself to be. By having a certain mentality, the physical actions we take are within line of how our conscious mind chose to train our subconscious. And once our actions become habitual, we produce real world results which we live in.

Learn more about I AM, I DO, I HAVE: Big Thinking for Positively Successful Children

Master Your Life using Transformational Quotes Workbook Series takes you from where you are to where you want to go. Clearing out your foggy mind, you will get clear with what direction you know your life should go.

Within each book, you will come away with different take-a-ways no matter where you are in life. The quotes we say and hear are for a reason. Stop letting quotes pass you by and start  reflecting on them and how they apply to you.

Learn more about the Master Your Life Using Transformational Quotes Workbook Series

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5 Signs You’re Meant To Be An Entrepreneur

You don’t complain – you change.

You know the type: they’re always complaining about a different problem in their life every single day of the week, but never offer an alternative solution.

Those are the type of people who won’t succeed as entrepreneurs.

But you aren’t one of them. When you come across a huge problem in your life, you figure out ways to bypass those problems, or fix them entirely. You know pure complaints don’t lead to gold, but only waste your time and take your mental attitude down a few levels.

That’s a sure sign you’re a purebred entrepreneur.

Take Elon Musk for example: he wanted to create a simpler, easier way to transfer money – so he made PayPal. He wanted to turn the world toward cleaner energy solutions and drive an electric car that didn’t suck – so he created Tesla. He wanted to find a cheaper, more efficient way of getting humans into space – so he created SpaceX.

Instead of complaining about the issues of the world, Elon actively seeks solutions.

Pure, unkindled passion.

Passion is a staple in every entrepreneur; you just can’t survive the long work weeks, lack of funding, and heavy stress that comes associated with starting your own business without it.

But, you can’t just be passionate about something. There are tons of people in the world who are passionate about things. Even worse, there are people who become enraged with passion so intense that they burn out in a matter of days.

This can’t be you.

If you want to not only succeed, but thrive doing it, you have to be consistently passionate about whatever it is you’re trying to accomplish. Motivation is fleeting. Passion – for you as an entrepreneur – must be undying.

Take Sara Blakely as an example: she began her billion dollar business, Spanx, while she was working a full time sales job selling fax machines door-to-door. So, after a grueling, hot day of rejection and meager commissions, Sara would continue selling people on her prototypes at night.

Not only that, but she couldn’t afford to pay a patent lawyer, so she taught herself how to write her own from a textbook she bought at Barnes & Nobles. She would drive from Georgia to North Carolina at night, with no sleep, and pitch to factory mills where she would meet nothing but rejection. Until, finally, she found an investor.

There’s only one thing that keeps someone striving for their goal like that: passion.

You aren’t happy without competition.

As an entrepreneur, you’re going to go through some of the toughest, strenuous times of your life when you first start.

But, you’re going to love it.

You’ll love it because you know things in life don’t come easy. That’s especially true in a capitalist economy, where trade flourishes from pure competition. You’ll always be looking out for the next player on the block, and you’ll always find a way to beat them – because a competitive nature is what’s going to get you to the top and keep you there.

You’re an independent soul.

There are people who need to be guided on how to start a project, and then there are people like you.

Entrepreneurs don’t wait on data and testing and long guides on how to create the next greatest product. Mostly because, well, nobody has created some of the products that you’ll create.

That’s why you have to be a self-starter.

Even if you aren’t creating a new revolutionary product, you have to be an individual who doesn’t put things off but rather jumps neck deep into the market and starts hashing out their business. That’s the key, here: you have to be someone who isn’t afraid to start.

When J.K. Rowling was living off welfare and struggling to take care of her child as a single mother, she didn’t piddle around waiting for a bestseller to fall in her lap.

No, she sat herself down at her keyboard, and started.

You don’t think inside boxes.

There are always linear solutions to problems, and sometimes those are the solutions that haven’t been thought out, yet. But most of the time a revolutionary invention, or form of marketing, isn’t thought of by following linear paths.

As an entrepreneur, you have to be proficient at looking at the world through an objective, outside lense.

Look to Google as evidence for this: there were already tons of search engines on the internet before Google was born. Sergey Brin looked at the internet, and their poor search engines, and thought of a new way to index search results via backlinks. This was revolutionary, and completely rocked the digital world with an idea that was formed by looking at a problem with an outside view.

Whatever it is that you’re planning on creating – even if it’s already been done – you have to find a way to approach it from outside of the box.

That’s how entrepreneurs turn millionaires.

These are only some of the dominant traits found in entrepreneurs, and is by no means a defining list.

The thing about entrepreneurs is, even if you found a way to categorize all of their traits in simple lists, they’ll still find some way to break expectations and shatter your perceived image of them.

That’s what entrepreneurs do; they change the status quo.

Anthony Aires Chief Executive Officer

Real Deal Productions, LLC Prosperity Publishers, LLC

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5 Signs You’re Meant To Be An Entrepreneur

You don’t complain – you change.

You know the type: they’re always complaining about a different problem in their life every single day of the week, but never offer an alternative solution.

Those are the type of people who won’t succeed as entrepreneurs.

But you aren’t one of them. When you come across a huge problem in your life, you figure out ways to bypass those problems, or fix them entirely. You know pure complaints don’t lead to gold, but only waste your time and take your mental attitude down a few levels.

That’s a sure sign you’re a purebred entrepreneur.

Take Elon Musk for example: he wanted to create a simpler, easier way to transfer money – so he made PayPal. He wanted to turn the world toward cleaner energy solutions and drive an electric car that didn’t suck – so he created Tesla. He wanted to find a cheaper, more efficient way of getting humans into space – so he created SpaceX.

Instead of complaining about the issues of the world, Elon actively seeks solutions.

Pure, unkindled passion.

Passion is a staple in every entrepreneur; you just can’t survive the long work weeks, lack of funding, and heavy stress that comes associated with starting your own business without it.

But, you can’t just be passionate about something. There are tons of people in the world who are passionate about things. Even worse, there are people who become enraged with passion so intense that they burn out in a matter of days.

This can’t be you.

If you want to not only succeed, but thrive doing it, you have to be consistently passionate about whatever it is you’re trying to accomplish. Motivation is fleeting. Passion – for you as an entrepreneur – must be undying.

Take Sara Blakely as an example: she began her billion dollar business, Spanx, while she was working a full time sales job selling fax machines door-to-door. So, after a grueling, hot day of rejection and meager commissions, Sara would continue selling people on her prototypes at night.

Not only that, but she couldn’t afford to pay a patent lawyer, so she taught herself how to write her own from a textbook she bought at Barnes & Nobles. She would drive from Georgia to North Carolina at night, with no sleep, and pitch to factory mills where she would meet nothing but rejection. Until, finally, she found an investor.

There’s only one thing that keeps someone striving for their goal like that: passion.

You aren’t happy without competition.

As an entrepreneur, you’re going to go through some of the toughest, strenuous times of your life when you first start.

But, you’re going to love it.

You’ll love it because you know things in life don’t come easy. That’s especially true in a capitalist economy, where trade flourishes from pure competition. You’ll always be looking out for the next player on the block, and you’ll always find a way to beat them – because a competitive nature is what’s going to get you to the top and keep you there.

You’re an independent soul.

There are people who need to be guided on how to start a project, and then there are people like you.

Entrepreneurs don’t wait on data and testing and long guides on how to create the next greatest product. Mostly because, well, nobody has created some of the products that you’ll create.

That’s why you have to be a self-starter.

Even if you aren’t creating a new revolutionary product, you have to be an individual who doesn’t put things off but rather jumps neck deep into the market and starts hashing out their business. That’s the key, here: you have to be someone who isn’t afraid to start.

When J.K. Rowling was living off welfare and struggling to take care of her child as a single mother, she didn’t piddle around waiting for a bestseller to fall in her lap.

No, she sat herself down at her keyboard, and started.

You don’t think inside boxes.

There are always linear solutions to problems, and sometimes those are the solutions that haven’t been thought out, yet. But most of the time a revolutionary invention, or form of marketing, isn’t thought of by following linear paths.

As an entrepreneur, you have to be proficient at looking at the world through an objective, outside lense.

Look to Google as evidence for this: there were already tons of search engines on the internet before Google was born. Sergey Brin looked at the internet, and their poor search engines, and thought of a new way to index search results via backlinks. This was revolutionary, and completely rocked the digital world with an idea that was formed by looking at a problem with an outside view.

Whatever it is that you’re planning on creating – even if it’s already been done – you have to find a way to approach it from outside of the box.

That’s how entrepreneurs turn millionaires.

  These are only some of the dominant traits found in entrepreneurs, and is by no means a defining list.

The thing about entrepreneurs is, even if you found a way to categorize all of their traits in simple lists, they’ll still find some way to break expectations and shatter your perceived image of them.

That’s what entrepreneurs do; they change the status quo.

Anthony Aires Chief Executive Officer

Real Deal Productions, LLC Prosperity Publishers, LLC

P.S. Keep coming back to AnthonyAires.com to take advantage of the free goodies I share.

If you’d like to connect with me my social media channels you can go here:

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5 Signs You’re Meant To Be An Entrepreneur

You don’t complain – you change.

You know the type: they’re always complaining about a different problem in their life every single day of the week, but never offer an alternative solution.

Those are the type of people who won’t succeed as entrepreneurs.

But you aren’t one of them. When you come across a huge problem in your life, you figure out ways to bypass those problems, or fix them entirely. You know pure complaints don’t lead to gold, but only waste your time and take your mental attitude down a few levels.

That’s a sure sign you’re a purebred entrepreneur.

Take Elon Musk for example: he wanted to create a simpler, easier way to transfer money – so he made PayPal. He wanted to turn the world toward cleaner energy solutions and drive an electric car that didn’t suck – so he created Tesla. He wanted to find a cheaper, more efficient way of getting humans into space – so he created SpaceX.

Instead of complaining about the issues of the world, Elon actively seeks solutions.

Pure, unkindled passion.

Passion is a staple in every entrepreneur; you just can’t survive the long work weeks, lack of funding, and heavy stress that comes associated with starting your own business without it.

But, you can’t just be passionate about something. There are tons of people in the world who are passionate about things. Even worse, there are people who become enraged with passion so intense that they burn out in a matter of days.

This can’t be you.

If you want to not only succeed, but thrive doing it, you have to be consistently passionate about whatever it is you’re trying to accomplish. Motivation is fleeting. Passion – for you as an entrepreneur – must be undying.

Take Sara Blakely as an example: she began her billion dollar business, Spanx, while she was working a full time sales job selling fax machines door-to-door. So, after a grueling, hot day of rejection and meager commissions, Sara would continue selling people on her prototypes at night.

Not only that, but she couldn’t afford to pay a patent lawyer, so she taught herself how to write her own from a textbook she bought at Barnes & Nobles. She would drive from Georgia to North Carolina at night, with no sleep, and pitch to factory mills where she would meet nothing but rejection. Until, finally, she found an investor.

There’s only one thing that keeps someone striving for their goal like that: passion.

You aren’t happy without competition.

As an entrepreneur, you’re going to go through some of the toughest, strenuous times of your life when you first start.

But, you’re going to love it.

You’ll love it because you know things in life don’t come easy. That’s especially true in a capitalist economy, where trade flourishes from pure competition. You’ll always be looking out for the next player on the block, and you’ll always find a way to beat them – because a competitive nature is what’s going to get you to the top and keep you there.

You’re an independent soul.

There are people who need to be guided on how to start a project, and then there are people like you.

Entrepreneurs don’t wait on data and testing and long guides on how to create the next greatest product. Mostly because, well, nobody has created some of the products that you’ll create.

That’s why you have to be a self-starter.

Even if you aren’t creating a new revolutionary product, you have to be an individual who doesn’t put things off but rather jumps neck deep into the market and starts hashing out their business. That’s the key, here: you have to be someone who isn’t afraid to start.

When J.K. Rowling was living off welfare and struggling to take care of her child as a single mother, she didn’t piddle around waiting for a bestseller to fall in her lap.

No, she sat herself down at her keyboard, and started.

You don’t think inside boxes.

There are always linear solutions to problems, and sometimes those are the solutions that haven’t been thought out, yet. But most of the time a revolutionary invention, or form of marketing, isn’t thought of by following linear paths.

As an entrepreneur, you have to be proficient at looking at the world through an objective, outside lense.

Look to Google as evidence for this: there were already tons of search engines on the internet before Google was born. Sergey Brin looked at the internet, and their poor search engines, and thought of a new way to index search results via backlinks. This was revolutionary, and completely rocked the digital world with an idea that was formed by looking at a problem with an outside view.

Whatever it is that you’re planning on creating – even if it’s already been done – you have to find a way to approach it from outside of the box.

That’s how entrepreneurs turn millionaires.

 These are only some of the dominant traits found in entrepreneurs, and is by no means a defining list.

The thing about entrepreneurs is, even if you found a way to categorize all of their traits in simple lists, they’ll still find some way to break expectations and shatter your perceived image of them.

That’s what entrepreneurs do; they change the status quo.

Anthony Aires Chief Executive Officer

Real Deal Productions, LLC Prosperity Publishers, LLC

P.S. Keep coming back to AnthonyAires.com to take advantage of the free goodies I share.

If you’d like to connect with me my social media channels you can go here:

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Crypto mining…AKA cryptocurrency mining, bitcoin mining, ethereum mining, and more…has recently seen a massive surge in interest. So I set out to evaluate it and see if it’s an effective, profitable side hustle and passive income stream.

As you may know from my blog and book, stringing together numerous passive income and variable-pay income streams allowed me years ago to not only quit my 6-figure corporate job, but also double my earnings and continuously grow my wealth and freedom.

If you’re serious about making money and not just working for your money, you owe it to yourself to learn about cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

So…

Is crypto mining a profitable side hustle?

The short answer to is crypto mining a profitable side hustle? Huge YES! But, as with anything, there are plenty of gotchas and risks. I personally consider mining a very exciting, rewarding, and profitable project. It’s a modern-day gold rush.

The long answer to this question…read on!

Even if you don’t decide to mine, you owe it to yourself to pay attention to Bitcoins, Ethereum, and the rest of the scene. There are exceptional opportunities.

I like to think about it this way…if I don’t take action now and crypto stays on its years’ long trend, then I will be very upset! If I invest an amount I’m okay losing, and I lose it…then okay. I’d much rather not miss out.

Some dollar figures to put this side hustle into perspective

To whet your appetite, my single $2,000 rig is generating about $1,000 per month cash flow right now (this changes daily). The top dog on my mining pool is pulling in $719,000 per month top line. Hot damn.

Read on for more on those numbers…

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Why the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Crypto Hype?

While I’ve been aware of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for years, they’ve become harder and harder to ignore over the last few months.

A picture will say 1,000 words…here’s a shot of price over the last year from Coinbase.com:

With price increases like this, you have a whole batch of new millionaires popping up. In fact, $2,500 invested in 2012 would put you around $2.5 million today.

I have one such guy in my network.

While this may look like a sudden spike, the reality is, you can dig back into those past spikes going way back in time, and the graph is practically fractal. Plenty of people thought $100 was an insane bubble. Then $200. $500. And so on. The mania has hit mainstream media, but these epic moves up are a historical part of the game.

Why have cryptocurrency values gone up so much?

There are countless reasons for the increased volume of cryptocurrency interest as well as the value. Here are a few key ones:

Mainstream acceptance: Cryptocurrencies are becoming much more of a household name, especially for investors and especially globally. Bitcoin, in particular, is showing that it is in fact an established player that can offer unique diversification in portfolios. Sites like Coinbase.com and Gemini.com allow people to trade crypto just like stocks, making it user friendly.

Government acceptance: In addition to individuals, governments and various authorities have begun opening up formal policies to facilitate Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges. China, Japan, South Korea, and soon India are big names among others. With this comes much more user-friendly platforms and traditional exchanges. This opens huge demand.

Technology revolution: The technology behind cryptocurrencies is called blockchain. Among other things, it allows for data to be decentralized. As far as computing goes, this technology may ultimately be as revolutionary as the Internet. Rather than having individual databased controlled by single entities, data can be distributed and self validated. This has many implications that are yet to be explored, but are very interesting from security, sharing, scalability, and military perspectives. IBM, Microsoft, Russia, and countless other big names in the tech, defense, finance are all actively working on applications outside of currency.

The good news is this means there are real fundamentals driving value, not just speculation. Of course, there is plenty of speculation on top of cryptocurrency, but it’s very exciting to see real value drivers underneath.

Why are cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin important?

Since crypto allows for distributed data, there isn’t a centralized control mechanism that can manipulate it. Said less fancy, governments and banks don’t own it.

This is particularly attractive if you live in a country that could decide to reduce the value of its currency in order to boost exports…leaving you to hold the bag.

Ethereum blockchain used by United Nations for sending aid to Syria

Venezuelans are seeking a haven in crypto coins as crisis rages

Or, it could help if you country is piling on huge amounts of debt and simply printing money to keep up.

Among other things, crypto is a hedge against the cost of living rising faster than earnings. Depending on your situation, this may be more or less of a personal impact. But regardless, there are massive parts of the global population that do have these concerns, which gives crypto value.

There are many other revolutionary concepts that crypto brings to the table, which you can explore on your own.

Why do cryptocurrencies need people to mine?

Alright, so you have a concept of what’s going on. What is mining and why do cryptos need miners?

In order for the concept of distributed data and blockchains to function, you need a big, wide network of computing power. You cannot allow big companies to centralize this power into their data centers either.

You need individuals to participate.

So how do you do this? You reward them by paying them for contributing computer power. This is your opportunity.

Mining is simply contributing computing power to the networks that run these cryptocurrencies.

I have started Ethereum mining, which you’ll see as the focus for the rest of the article.

I’ll recommend you choose the currency you feel best about mining. You can see a pretty good list of currencies by profitability here, but there are many other factors to consider than just current profitability.

What is Ethereum, Eth, and Ether?

Ehtereum is a blockchain technology like Bitcoin. Its “coin” is called Ether. You can roughly consider it an alternative to Bitcoin. But it’s also much more. Its technology has far wider reaching applications than just currency.

The reality is there are many altcoins (Bitcoin alternatives), but few have gained the acceptance of Bitcoin. Ethereum is one of those altcoins. Exchanges like Coinbase.com and Gemini.com allow you to freely trade dollars for Eth and Bitcoin, just like you would with traditional stocks and FOREX.

Because Ethereum has broader potential than Bitcoin, it’s growth has been mind blowing.

There are definitely plenty of other altcoins that might be more profitable to mine than Ethereum, but I believe Eth has the right mix of being young while also having stable footing and a disruptive potential.

Look…Ethereum’s vision is massive in vision. To me, it is the potential of blockchain realized. It spreads computing seamlessly across the globe for to-be tapped use cases.

“Ehtereum: Rise of the ‘World Computer'” ~Silicon Valley Data Science

Just the way we all knew the Internet was huge, but had no idea how it was going to become so integral in our lives…Ethereum is set to do the same. It’s a potential complete revolution in computing.

Here’s a shot of Ethereum over the last month! That’s right, one month. This is also from Coinbase.com.

This 10-minute video is a great overview of how Ethereum works:

Don’t want to watch a video? Check out this article: WTF is Ethereum?

How much money can you make from mining Ethereum?

This is a loaded question. First, as you contribute computing power, you are paid by receiving Ethereum. Now, we can dissect from here.

In my article 13 Real Small Business Ideas, I talk about whether or not each idea can make you rich. How do we know?

Is it passive?

Is it scalable?

Is it sellable?

The answer for all 3 is YES. Crypto mining can make you rich and it has made many people rich.

But consider, if you get paid in Eth:

Do you convert that Eth every month into dollars and take profit? If so, at current (today’s) prices, a single rig (which cost me about $2K) is tracking to make me about $1000 per month. Awesome.

Do you leave the earnings as Eth and let them grow? Each of today’s $300 Eth might be worth $2,000 by the end of the year. Don’t forget…value could go down too.

Do you take a blended strategy? Some profit and some holding.

Mining pools are groups of people who mine together to receive payouts more quickly and consistently. I use nanopool.org.

You can look at current output and see the top earner is making somewhere on the order of $719,000 per month at current price, output, and difficulty.

What are the risks of mining Ethereum?

Alright, everything sounds great so far. Here are just a few of the risks:

Eth price could drop. If you have huge holdings, your value goes down. If you’re using mining as monthly income, your income drops too.

Mining difficulty increases over time. As cryptos mature and more people participate in the network, the more the “difficulty” goes up. That means it takes more computing to earn the same. This has been a pretty predictable incline and is accounted for in good profitability calculators.

Ethereum mining will stop at the “Proof of Stake.” Eventually, mining Eth will no longer be an option. No one really knows when this will occur.

Is this all really that bad? There are risks, but I obviously don’t think they’re that bad.

First, a single rig will set you back about $2K. Compared to buying real estate, that’s not too bad at all. Now if you go nuts and buy 1,000 rigs…you may disagree with this. Spend what you’re okay losing.

Second, I can mine other currencies if one becomes unprofitable.

Third, these are great computer parts–not specialized machines. I can use or resell this equipment. In fact, Ethereum mining is done on GPUs, which are just gaming graphics cards. Whereas Bitcoin, Litecoin, and others require specialized equipment, Ethereum utilizes every-day computer parts that can be repurposed and resold.

And last, mining is a fantastic hedge. If price drops, I’ll buy. If price goes up, I mine. It allows me to build my portfolio effectively.

This side hustle, just like with others, is about finding work for your rig that is out of balance. Eventually more people will mine Eth, the price will drop, or something else will change and it will become less profitable. But for now, it’s something most people won’t do and there’s a big demand for it. So get what you can while it’s good.

What’s an Ethereum miner made of and look like?

Depending on what you mine, your rig will be made of different components. Ethereum (and many other cryptos) is mined with GPUs (standard gaming graphics cards). Apart from that, you have a huge power supply, a motherboard capable of hosting as many GPUs as possible, some RAM, a CPU, and either Linux or Windows running it.

Here’s a peak at my rig as it was coming together. In my basement, I have a very large storage room that stays nice and cool. It’s the perfect spot.

This rig is much bigger than is looks in the photos, so I added an everyday 72-lbs iron gorilla head for easy size comparison.

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And here’s a good-looking GPU rig used for mining Zcash from /u/TheBigGame117.

How does crypto mining compare to real estate investing?

I love real estate investing. It’s my go-to strategy for cash flow and wealth, but it’s not always easy getting deals. But since I like it so much, I generally choose to benchmark other side hustles and investments against it.

A single mining rig costs me about $2,000. That’s cheaper than a house…by a long shot.

I earn (currently) about $1,000 per month per rig in cash flow. That’s better than most single-family rentals.

My main expense with the rig is electricity. Things are more complicated with a rental property.

With a rental, tenants give me monthly profit, pay down my mortgage, and I get to watch my house appreciate. If I keep some of my earnings as Eth, I can expect some of the appreciation too.

All of that is great, but real estate is much more established and stable than crypto. Crypto has the potential to be extremely rewarding, but it also has the potential to waste a lot of my time and money. It is risky simply because there are so many unknowns and it is relatively young.

For me, the right portfolio includes both real estate and crypto.

What are the Ethereum mining pitfalls?

Information is changing fast! So watch your sources. If you look at articles from a couple of months back, you’ll probably find people stating that Ethereum mining won’t be profitable.

You’ll also find recommendations for hardware that is no longer available. This can be very frustrating. Man of the guides and equipment lists will lead you to dead ends.

The only way to deal with this is to dive into active communities and watch the conversations until you feel comfortable. A couple of keys for me were:

https://forum.ethereum.org/categories/mining

https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/

Bad advice is everywhere! Here are some issues I see…

Advice from last year (when price and difficulty was lower) doesn’t apply today.

People are in different situations and countries than you.

Comments may be from very young people or people who aren’t really mining.

Some people are over zealous.

Some people don’t want competition.

So how do you overcome these obstacles? Take in as much information as possible until you can discern the good from the bad. And like any business, rely on your network first and foremost. I have 3 trusted people in my network who are actively mining. Their advice and experience is gold. They help me cut through the clutter.

Is Ethereum mining right for you?

If you have the slightest bit of technical inclination and can work your way through online guides for setting up Ethereum Mining, you owe it to yourself to dive in and see if this something you can pull off.

Here is what you’ll need:

The ability to dig through online information and chat rooms to figure out how to make computer hardware do things it wasn’t designed to

About $2,000

A basic degree of comfort using either Windows or Linux command line

The willingness to learn how to put a computer together

The patients to troubleshoot, troubleshoot, and troubleshoot!

As I said, you’re asking gaming components to do something they weren’t designed to do. You will run into problems and challenges. But if you enjoy that sort of challenge and like getting your hands dirty, this is for you.

How do you get started mining Ethereum or other crypto?

Here are some great places that I found exceptionally helpful:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/wiki/index

https://forum.ethereum.org/categories/mining

http://1stminingrig.com/

Personally, I dove in and read up on mining. I immersed myself for 2 weeks straight. Dive deep, then decide to pull the trigger or not.

But if you just want to buy some crypto like you do stocks or foreign currency, the easiest way to get started is to go to coinbase.com or gemini.com. I both buy and mine.

And of course, if you have any questions, hit me up in the comments below!

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