Even the best laid plans go by the wayside when you live in a fabulous country, in a stunning town on the coast with perfect weather. It is a beautiful sunny Autumn day, the temps are just perfect day and night and I wanna be on the beach... But I should be grateful, after all I don't have to go to a JOB (Just Over Broke), I've been self employed for 4 years and have designed my life so that today I don't have any staff, work from home and everyday do what I please. I watched V8 Supercar racing on the weekend and next weekend I'll be watching the Formula 1 and V8 Supercars... truth be told the racing sends shivers up my spine as I dream one day of owning a succesful race team. Life is fantastic and I've never felt any better.
But I have lots still to achieve so what is my strategy? I want time and financial freedom with health, happiness and contribution for my family. I hear all my poor friends say "Money is not everything" and my Mother's voice "Money doesn't grow on trees" as they struggle through life. But then I see my rich friends enjoying their lives as they travel the world and have wallets full of money... granted they haven't got their balance completely right, but believe me, there is a lot less stress and worry about money. Infact they have a completely different attitude towards material possessions while the poor friends protect them like a crystal glass.
The book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki has had a profound effect on my life and I now watch and learn from the people that have made it. Contribution is probably my biggest desire in life and the satisfaction associated with this would be huge. I can't wait until the day I source charities and people hard done by, to distribute 10% of my earnings to.
How am I going to get there? Well in the past I have some limited success with trading options on the US market, very very limited success online, fairly ok success with 2 businesses, better success with eBay, but the best success from property. While property has been successful I need to improve my cashflow so that I meet the debt serviceability requirement of the bank. So the focus will be on cashflow. Somebody said "Cashflow is King" boy are they right.
Cashflow - my options are:
- Online - eBay, Google Adsense, Affiliates, own product.
- Offline - coaching business owners to market better.
eBay is already set up as we sell our junk in the shed but it's proving a problem when items have to be packed and posted, labour intensive. eBay will work better for me when I have developed my own ebook or product that I make once and sell over and over = leverage. Adsense, I paid some marketer big money to set up 34 adsense sites and at the present return it will take 12 years to recover the cost... what an idiot. However since then I've come across Liz Sherwood and it looks like I may be able to crank them up with some tweaking and Liz is also providing some unique content which will boost the rankings. Affiliates, well I'm promoting them in my blogs but until the traffic gets up there I don't expect much from that. I bought Yanik Silver's public domain package which is fantastic but I have failed to implement it. Who said the trick is not in the education but in the implementation of the education!! I'll get there now I have a plan...
Ok, I'm convinced, I need to focus initially on coaching small businesses to market better. I mean I've got mountains of stuff from Dan Kennedy, Yanik Silver, Mal Emery, Peter Sun and more... It's got to be worth $$$ to business owners as advice. Cool, today I'll complete a mindmap and tomorrow the implementation...
I'm soooo excited....
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