Live Life on your Terms!
So, what is one of the key ingredients for making money (online or anywhere for that matter), gaining more quality time to enjoy that money, and getting the freedom to do the things you choose? That ingredient would be, “Never stop learning”!
Now, follow my logic here, the one key to growth is being open to opportunities and information that can help you achieve your goals. Also, being open to information that can help you differentiate between good ideas and plans and the bad ones. Call it intuition, call it common sense, call it luck, whatever you like, it is “Knowledge”, and that is what I am talking about.
Everyday we are deluged with information that we either soak up, or we reject, that is our true power. There is a word for that information, and that is experience. And that experience is gained through constant learning. You can learn from anything, good experiences or bad experiences, good literature or pulp fiction, from quality documentaries or from MTV style pablum. The key is to always be open to learning new things as you never know where the next great idea is coming from. To operate with a closed mind is a sure fire way to lead a closed life.
I can’t remember where I heard it now, but someone once said he never read anything and did not learn something from it, even if all he learned was that he would never read from that author again. I agree with this sentiment. Reading, of any type, expands the mind, and is by far my favorite way to gather new knowledge.
And so, let me recommend a book that anyone starting their new business or self improvement journey “MUST” read. This book covers making money from either your own business or your current job, getting more quality time in your life, and gaining the freedom to lead the life you want.
This book is from the entrepreneur and business maverick, Tim Ferriss. Tim is a unique kind of guy, very successful and unwilling to lead life by any terms but his own. He has become a dance champion in Buenos Aires, a martial arts world champion, a world traveler, and now a Wall Street Journal and New York Times best selling author , all while increasing the income from his business, learning to outsource a lot of the work for the business, and spending virtually all of his time doing what he chooses to do.
This book is The 4 Hour Workweek, and I can’t recommend it enough! The great thing is that Tim not only writes for those trying to make their own way and start their own business online or off, but also for for those that do have, and do not want to leave, their current jobs, but still want to re-structure their lives for the better.
I have been able to bring several of Tim’s strategies to my affiliate marketing business, and yes, they do work. The great thing is, even though Tim talks a lot in his book about online retailing and such, his message is for all people, working all types of business.
Get this book.
