The Next Step

All,

Post travelling I always think..mmm..I need more of this. Travelling or even just landing in another country is just brilliant to me.The planning, the excitement. My passport is full of stamps and visas. I love it. They each remind me of a time, place and people.

Whilst I was travelling recently, I remember sitting in one of my many aeroplanes and as I sat there thinking.. I thought God...I have the next X number of years to sit in an office, earn a pittance..oh how dull. There must be more to life than that. I posted recently that after reading Rich Dad's Prophecy . Be it true of not I have only 2 years potential before something 'big' may happen. I think the signs may be screaming at us all. Am I financially ready for it...Not by a long shot! Yet I could easily be.

Fear

Sat here in my office I realise that all my efforts are helping somebody else further their own goals..At least on the surface not my own. I noticed in Japan that many of the people were just working for a company ie somebody else and not themselves...(Salary men) Ouch. This has really begun to play on my mind. I'm slowly finishing my E-Books, yet, again not as fast as I would like...why? I actually think because I have a job. If I didn't have a job and it was really life threatening . I'd be working harder and faster, no? Everything comes down to importance and a mind set. I've just ordered myself a heap of books from Amazon to kick start myself and the proper formation of ME.PLC and build the systems that I know I can and maybe even must.

Some of the lack of 'work' on my goals is fear. What if it all goes wrong...or even what if it all works out? It is a balance sometimes as to what I'm focusing on. What will my friends think? Yet in all fairness, the only person I really have to satisfy is myself. I know if by next trip I'm no further down the line..I'll be cross with myself. Is actually what I'm working on something I really, really want? Maybe there is some apathy. I'm a great talker after all. Not always a great doer.

Insight

I know the following :

I can do it. I need to do it. I must do it.

I'm worth more than the next X number of years sitting in front of a PC at a desk..wishing and hoping. Yes, you get what you focus on...yet sometimes you also have to do as much as you can to help, further, draw your goals towards yourself. Are you doing all that you can, from where you currently sit to achieve your goals?

As far as my career is concerned and there are many other areas where you should have goals :

I want to work (Well, almost)...yet the ultimate goal is be the owner not the worker. So that I don't work, I play..I spend time with my family and friends in all corners of the globe.

Once I have my business set up, the goal is to have it run itself.

I want more travel and if I choose 1st Class and stay in the best hotels. = Web based control or view of work therefore I think.

Earn as much in a month as I currently do in a year. This should be passive income ie I get the money without being tied down to one location. (Question to Accountant - How can I get that as a wage without paying 40% tax or how to get more each month without waiting for a dividend

I've got more studying and revision to do and quickly.

On the bright side

I've found that because you desire or want something. Your mind and you only think of that because you have the potential to achieve that. Therefore all that you want you can achieve if you can think about it.

Happy Travels

A

p.s I really wondered what I was going to write about today and in the future...I just started writing..Does it all make sense, is it coherent...should it actually have been multiple posts (rants) ? Anyhow, thanks for letting me just run with it!!

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Less is More

All,

Well I find myself back in the office after a fabulous trip, many miles and flights to and around the other side of the world. The trip and time out was much, much needed. It gave me time to recharge my batteries, ponder over things, really think about what I want and where I am going. It also gave me time to catch up on my audio book mp3 listen. I listened to several books that I've already read. After all, they say repetition is the mother of all skill. Several light bulbs went off inside my head. The bottom line being I really need to forge ahead with my own ideas and begin creating things that can run and sustain the lifestyle that I want, whilst not being tied to and office chair.

Working

I checked my email maybe 2 or 3 times if that. Japan and Fiji, at least the main Island has good Internet connections. Didn't really need to as most emails where not that specific. My mobile would not work in Japan. Most mobile phones don't. Part of me missed not being about to send the quick txt or chat, the other half didn't. It did make me think time for a new mobile.. I'm thinking something with wifi..then I can use skype more and I don't need to worry about mobile phone contracts etc...I need to do the numbers and really see if it is a viable solution. Or just carry a laptop which I am a little loathed to do. Yet that is they way I'm headed. My goal is to be able to work from anywhere in the world. Only I know where I am, clients and others don't.

Japan

Briefly things that fascinated me where :

1. Toilet Seats - All had buttons to press and play with...oh how bizarre and for me terribly exciting.

2. Vending Machines - Beer and food from a vending machine...brilliant.

3. Customer Service - They take it to a whole new level. The Saturday, spotty teenager could learn a think or two.

4. The People, culture, language and food...I hear the words road trip coming on.

5. Most people appear affluent, yet most work for companies...everything is about show and keeping up with the neighbours. - Yet how many are really wealthy and happy. During the day, I didn't see many men about. Mostly women. At night, not many smiling men.

6. Tokyo is one hell of a city.

What I Learn From My Travels

I still adore Fiji.

I want 3 months more travel in Japan at least.....radically different to anything I've ever experienced before. Cultural, Food, People and Language all so different, yet I had a ball. We could all learn so much from them.As stated above time to get moving and pushing forward. Nobody else is going to give me the lifestyle that I want other than me!

My money beliefs were coming through almost on a daily basis...things have shifted 'upstairs'... I have to be rich because I like to travel and I like fine hotels...I stayed at one of the best yet in Kyoto . I really did keep thinking I can afford, I have more than enough money.This is why I want my own business and have to have my own business!

Happy Travels

A

Excuses, Excuses, Excuses

Munich was brilliant...Japan is just a few hours away.

I've had such a 'busy' month it has been unbelievable. I've waited all year for a 'big' holiday and it is almost here. Yet I'm cross with myself.

A month ago I'd asked a friend of mine to phone me on the Friday just gone to check in to make sure that a 'major' project I'm doing was completed and running live. With being on holiday any holes in my automated system would show up. It would be the ideal time for a real time and live test.

My friend phoned me up and I started...I've not finished my project and I'm cross. The deadline had been playing on my mind. I've not reached it and my reasons (excuses) for not completing it were pitiful. They were in no particular the following :

I've been out every weekend this month - Munich, really good friend got married in a church. The wedding in this church is a once in a lifetime experience. This is one special church, not your average country village church. Then there was the stag doo... I just need a few hours ie Sunday to finish all the writing that I've wanted to do.

I've had assignments to finish. I wanted these finished before I went away on holiday. Therefore I could rest knowing that I've done them. These I've done, finished and handed in.

I'd come home from work and I'd be tired and not want to do any more 'work'.

I've just not had enough time.

Ouch

When I had to verbalise these to my friend. I got really cross with myself. There were/are actually really poor and pathetic reasons for not completing my project which in the long run could have a major impact on my life.. Yet at the time of 'putting off' the work, they all seemed very valid. I recently heard that if you want to get something off the ground you'll need to spend 5 hours a week on it. I don't know if this figure is true yet. That is one hour a day or thirty minutes in the morning and thirty minutes in the evening. Or twenty minutes here and there.

If my life really depended on me completing this project I'd have found the time and finished it.

I've recently been rereading Rich Dad's Prophecy . Whether it is true or not, surely being financial free due to your own passive incomes is better than working for somebody else? I've got two years if the dates are to be believed to be financial free. That is.was quite scary. Since at the moment, yes I've got cash, but no passive income...Even if the dates aren't true things are happening in the financial world that I'm not liking. I'd rather be in control of my financial outcomes and success rather than relying on the government. Some how I think relying on the government will cost me more if I continue to work for somebody else.

Learning

For me it is very simple.

1. Break down time into smaller chunks. There is more than enough time to complete all projects.

2. Do you want this to form part of your passive income stream...do you want to be an employee or the owner working on the beach?

3. Set another deadline and work to it. Now that I know that my excuses can easily be overcome...overcome them!

Happy Travels

A

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