I think if you work online, make your money this way - whether it be adult or 'mainstream' - then you have to be 'hooked on accomplishment'. Creating something, finishing something, accomplishing a goal is like a drug, and when you get hooked on THAT kind of drug - accomplishment - then the World's yer Oyster.
I have a good friend, with an IQ like 800 or something. he works in mainstream, for a million-dollar company, and writes accounting software. Some of the most boring stuff I can imagine but he makes $150,000 a year, and has done so for ten+ years. Now, he's also into fetish, like S&M, spanking, male dom stuff. So he's got a kinky interest in what I do.
Trouble is this - and this is a trait that I see a LOT of people in our soceity have: my friend 'gets off' on ideas. he comes up with a million-dollar idea ten times day. "Hey, someone should create a business that does THIS" or "we should try and sell THAT". Everything is a clever ".com"-idea:
www.monkeybrains.com!
www.littlechocolatebunnies.com, on and on.
When you get a "great idea" you immediately get an endorphin rush. Talk about a DRUG! WOO BABY!! Feel the rush of possibility, of hope, the excitement of the clever idea...
And how many of these admittedly great ideas does my brilliant friend actually take action on and do something/anything about? That's right, 0. He gets off on the idea, the endorphin rush, he's hooked on ideas and possibilities. But the actual hard work needed to implement his ideas, try them and make them an actual real-world success is simply too inconvenient and hard for him to actually DO.
Many, many people are like my friend, and I used to be this way, too. 'Mister Peabody' was an idea in my head for a couple years, the name made me laugh, the whole idea of filming homemade porn in my mom's basement while she cooked dinner upstairs was hysterical to me! But it wasn't until I got off my ASS and learned HTML, tried this and that, learned every single day and took action every single day that I started to get anywhere. And once I got going I found I had 'momentum' - what a concept! What a shock! - so the success gets easier and easier.
As I said, I understand where my friend is coming from; when you have a great idea you get your fix NOW whereas implementing your ideas can sometimes take a long time to feel that "high".
So get hooked on ACCOMPLISHMENT, not IDEAS. Feel the amazing, self-satisfying, self-esteem-building wonder that is finishing a project. Even if it doesn't make money. Just completing projects, one after the other, or tasks, again and again, leads to success. Those that can do this thrive, those that want the drug of possibilities seek their jones elsewhere.