A few months ago, I asked in a money-making forum a simple question, to introduce some new programs for me to add to my earning plan. I was told to never invest in anything online by one person. This was a sentence I never expected to hear there especially and this led me to really think about the whole thing quite a lot. First I thought they were completely wrong, but after pondering on it a bit more, I came to realize that person wasn't actually wrong or right. For that person, investing was the wrong way to earn, but someone else will 100% of the time say spending money to make money is the way to go (and by far a faster way to become a crypto millionaire). At this point, I've done both, and when you got $$$ to spend, it's so damn easy to make money with it, in crypto particularly. But... the reality is, not all of us have the kind of funds to gamble on without caring whether it's a loss or a win, and not in the kind of amounts that'd make us rich overnight.

Personally, I started writing a weekly update journey on reaching $10 000 when I had less than 500 euros sitting on my bank account. The desperation was at an all-time high in my mind, and the fact that I'm self-employed (aka have no job but don't want to call myself unemployed) for the past 5 years is... something to think about. While it offers all the freedom in the world, it is by no means a stable source of income to me; some months are better than others, some months even less so. 

So, with all this in mind, I figured I'd share my 2 cents on how to make sure you can succeed in crypto, even when you have nothing (or very little in the large scale of things) to start with. 

1. Learn to multitask

Time is money, and the less time it takes for you to complete 1 task, the more you can earn. If you can run 2 programs at once, you get double the money in the same amount of time. Right now, I'm actively using multiple PTC (you click ads, you get paid) sites, and usually, to get the points/coins/tokens, you need to keep the window open and you can't leave it until the timer runs out to get credited. This is a great opportunity to take advantage of the 10, 30 or even 60 seconds you have while waiting for the timer to finish. For utilizing the time you need to wait, I've got a few suggestions actually:

• Method 1: Roll a short claim time manual faucet right before you click the ad, so both the ad timer and the timer between faucet claims are simultaneously getting used up. For example, let's say you join starbits.io, a manual faucet that needs 5 minutes between each claim, and you make a claim for 1 BTC satoshi. Now, you can go watch a 60-second window ad on Coinpayu, and look at that, the time until the next starbits claim is 4 minutes AND you've earned 3 BTC satoshis in Coinpayu in the meantime. 
• Method 2: Use multiple PTC sites at once. There are PTC websites out there that don't require you to actively have that exact tab open, one such example would be Adbtc. So, click an ad in Adbtc and then open another Coinpayu window ad in a separate tab. Now, you've earned at least 2 or 3 times more in the same time as it'd take you to earn just the Coinpayu ad's 3 BTC satoshis. 
• Method 3: Use multiple devices at once. Let's say you own a phone and a PC. Open the ad that requires an active window to earn points on PC, and use an app on your phone that you can earn with while waiting for the ad timer on PC to finish. There are many faucet/game apps for earning available on mobile choose from. My favorite by far is Free Litecoin, because you can send the LTC to any LTC address you choose (which can be changed anytime), and doesn't require a Coinbase account as some other apps might. 

With just 1 of these methods, you've already doubled or tripled the amount you would've earned otherwise in the same exact time, and the more you can do at once, the more you can earn. Combining all 3 is obviously the best option here, as they can all be simultaneously used, but it's completely up to what you're comfortable with. Overall, I think the many that claim PTC/faucets aren't profitable, are wrong. Obviously, making a good amount from 1 program alone is hard, but there are so many it'd be silly not to take advantage of that. Many small streams will create a river.

2. Set goals and write them down

While multitasking is purely about increasing efficiency, setting goals is mentally one of the most important things that I personally also ignored before starting to write my journey here. Why is writing the goals down important? Because when you're starting to lose hope and everything seems impossible, you can go back and look at what the big picture is. Writing down the long-term goals, and adding smaller reasonable goals weekly/monthly will help you keep your mind in the game. And don't get lazy and stop doing it, because that's when you'll lose your way. 

3. Don't invest your last money or savings. Ever. 

Crypto is a wonderful thing everyone should get into, but never with the last bit of anyone's funds. Right now, the world is only preparing to accept crypto and while a majority of us who have wandered to publish0x in the first place believe in crypto, not every institution does yet, so having a little bit of FIAT money is not a bad thing for now. While crypto is one of the better inventions of the last century, it is by far one of the most volatile and risky ways to spend your money. The saying "Only spend what you can afford to lose" has been around a long time, and you should seriously keep that in mind. Everyone wants to become a crypto millionaire, and if you say you don't, well... what tf are you doing here? Just go back to full FIAT balance if you don't want to increase your wealth this way. Now then... as I was saying, never be left with nothing on your bank account! What if the crypto you buy loses value or you get scammed and you need money for rent/food/emergency? What's the big plan then? I'll tell you, you got none because you spent every last cent on crypto and hoped for the best. Well done. Never ever leave yourself completely vulnerable.

4. Diversify

Whether it's coins or websites/programs you're thinking of here, don't rely on just one. Previously I discussed with someone online, and for months they had built up a referral empire of 1000s in one site, only for the site to be wiped out overnight without any prior warning, so all his hard work got wasted and he was left with nothing in the end. This is the worst-case scenario, and avoiding this is everything. This is the exact reason why it's not a bad idea to test different sites and methods to find a few that you like. This in moderation, of course, don't just blindly sign up to 80 sites at once and forget about them. Also, keep in mind, only diversify as much as you're comfortable with! Even if I'd be comfortable collecting 20 coins, maybe you're not. Maybe it's spreading too thin for you, and collecting 3 coins at once is already plenty of work. In another extreme example, actively collecting 100 different coins/tokens is just too much! You can't humanely keep track of all of that at once in a reasonable timeframe, especially if you're starting with close to nothing. Maybe later you'll want to expand, but only take on as much as you think you can handle well in the early stages of the journey.  

5. Don't give up

Lastly but most importantly, don't give up, because that's when you'll lose 100% of the time. As with everything in life, consistency is the key to success. When you think earning $0.10 an hour is too little, take out the notes about the goals you wrote before, and spend a minute thinking about them. Soon, maybe that $0.10 turns to $0.20 with a little bit of extra work or due to finding better sites, even without a sizeable rise in that coin's value. No one starts from the bottom and immediately a $100 bill lands on their lap. It takes time to create something, and in this case, that something could be earning $100 a week or reaching 0.25 BTC. Whatever your goal may be, don't lose your hope. I know it's hard to hear this, but patience is much required in crypto. It's not a get-rich-quick scheme, even though some media presents it as such. It's a bloody battle for survival and resisting the urge to sell, even when BTC falls from 60k back to 30k. 

I'd say these 5 points are pretty solid to start with, but obviously, there's so much more to this all. Every journey is unique, and the best we can do is try to learn from each other, maybe adopt good habits and try to kick out the bad ones. I hope my writing has given you something to think about, or at least been a decent read. 

Thanks for your attention so far, I really appreciate it!

Here are the referral links to all the programs mentioned in this post:

• Starbits 
• Coinpayu
• Adbtc
• Free Litecoin