Exploring alternative means of income does not necessarily involve getting a new job or venturing into a new asset but it also involves limiting nonsensical expenditures on your part. I think it is essential that people should determine their wants versus their needs; the latter being the more essential in terms of priority in spending compared to the former.
If a person can determine and check his expenditures, he will also realize the things that are not worth spending on, thus saving more cash in the process.
This is what I used to think as well. I always looked for more income because I believed that if I could make a tons of money then I could retire easily and I wouldn't have this problem. However, soon I realized that while I was working hard to make a lot of money for myself, then it hit me, I was missing life and I was spending 20 hours a day making money that I wouldn't be even spending.
This is why I need to just reel that back in, and hope that I didn't do anything wrong to my health or my mind, and I am working a normal job now. I love the fact that I do not have to worry about anything extra anymore and I love my job anyway, so it doesn't feel like "work" after all. I want to write a book one day, maybe I will work hard on that again but that’s it.