I fucking hate commuting. Which is why I did something about it, instead of complaining about how crap my Life is.
If you want to stop commuting and have a decent quality of Life I suggest you read this short post. By the end of it you’ll know what to do to stop commuting and how to work from home doing what you love. No hype guaranteed.
The Commute problem
What a total waste of Life and a great way to poison the Environment with a few more tonnes of Carbon emissions, as well as starting your day in a stressful and dangerous way.
My non – commute day
I would consider myself average in what I’ve achieved so far as a Self – Starter Entrepreneur:
So I work from home and keep my main semi-passive income stream ticking over with an hour a week of work? Big deal. I’ve worked bloody hard to get there over fifteen – odd years of failure and success and still have some business investment debt to clear, that’s the reality.
As far as I’m concerned I’m no Four Hour Work Week Blog paradigm, but even a small shift towards that freedom model has made a massive difference to my Life.
Here’s my day
It’s 10:12 am. I’m still in my dressing gown writing this short blog post.
I forgot to turn the alarm clock off. normally I don’t set the alarm at all because most of my business communication is by Email and I don’t have a massive portfolio of clients, just decent ones that pay me a fair rate for what I do.
So after the usual breakfast in bed with Jen, I had a ten minute interaction on Twitter with my followers (my followers are more than ten times the number that I follow myself, which is always a good measure of how much value you deliver to your audience).
Next up I’m writing this post because I care about my personal brand as opposed to making money for someone else’s brand.
Yesterday was an unusually busy day with my main business (I work in the ultra – competitive business energy broker markets in a smarter way than my competition) there were two new clients wanting to do business with me and also three existing clients adding new properties to my portfolio. I must have spent twenty five minutes on the business yesterday.
Today I’m having another “big day” as it were.
First I’m off to the gym, because fitness comes first and because I’ve got the time to go there.
Then I’m investing a whole hour dealing with the new business and passing the info on to my admin guys.
Then I’m optimizing the SEO on my simple niche website which cost me less than ten pounds to build. This will bring me a maximum of 2003 unique targeted visitors per month with less than two hours work.
Because the energy markets are so competitive I had to think around the problem and attract a niche audience using a free ‘hook’ with huge value. Smarter than my peers that spend weeks just cold calling.
Note that I still do cold call occasionally, but only to a targeted niche, armed with the right niche website to direct prospective clients to.
So what have you learned so far?
#1 earn passive income in a business that does not require you to travel to an office or meetings etcetera
#2 outsource your admin
#3 deal with high paying clients who appreciate your high value service
Time Leverage
This is what separates the time – rich from the quality of Life poor.
Which is why the final thing I’m doing today is to plan a system to create a network of affiliates for my business energy business.
I would rather five other people work to gather clients and potentially earn themselves a five figure sum per year, whilst I give them the tools and simple training to do that.
Then all I have to do is pay my small team and spend time building multiple brands (I’m building three simultaneously right now) and multiple income streams which is only possible and risk-free using the power of the Internet.
Living
This is about putting quality of Life before work by working smart and therefore working less.
No matter how much I earn I’ll keep my personal expenditure low relative to the general Consumer population because I hate Consumerism for the sake of spending money and status / addiction to money making.
I’ll always appreciate everything I have right now in this moment instead of living in some future perceived Utopia. I love my Life as it is right now, staying healthy, having a great relationship with Jen and plenty of days out in the Sun.
And you?
If you want to do work you love, go to my other blog Bootstrap Cafe and subscribe there to the Email news feed.
I’m launching a new resource, The Back Room in February 2012, which will be hidden away there, revealing secrets that give you the tools to earn passive income in the smartest and most enjoyable way possible, so you can get on with living instead of commuting.
‘Nuff said.
