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A few months ago business was great. But life was very busy.
And it was definitely more work than play. And I realised that I
wanted more. I craved an adventure. As an entrepreneur, I knew it
was up to me to make it happen. But I had no idea what to do. So I
booted up google and started my adventure search. 40 minutes later
I found this website. 6 hours later I had a Skype interview. 48
hours later I was accepted and had booked my flights to Bali, along
with 25 other location independent entrepreneurs, from all over the
world. We were going to spend a month co-working together.
It was an amazing month & I was lucky to spend it with very
inspiring people.
Give yourself the credit you deserve for getting this far, and
be proud of yourself. Everyone who decides they want more than a
normal life, and tries something different is a Rock star in my
eyes. Fire, hunger and passion are some of the most valuable assets
we possess.
Set monthly goals. This was a Project Getaway task and I found
it INCREDIBLY useful. I will be doing this every month and its
already made a big difference in how much I achieve each week,
personally and professionally.
When you wake up every single morning be very grateful for
everything you have family, friends, health.. you only realise how
important these are when you lose them.
Figure out what type of business community you want to join.
Then find them or if it doesnt exist start it yourself. Startups
are great, but remember you need a life as well starting
today.
Life too important to generally 1. Spend it watching
television. 2. Spend it talking about what you watched on
television. Youre missing out on stuff thats a lot more
exciting.
Live with undefined time. Remember when you were a kid and you
had 2 months of summer holidays? It felt like a YEAR. Every day was
gloriously never ending. There was no schedule, you had nowhere to
be but to play and hang out with your friends until it got dark or
you all got hungry. Every day was a life time. I want my time back,
instead of wondering how the weeks are flying past so quickly. So
Im going back to my roots. Im going to work until its done. Then
all electronic devices will be shut down my iPhone, iPad,
Then work is forgotten. Then Ill relax, or workout, ride the
horse or catchup with friends whatever until thats done. Then on to
the next thing. Every task is given equal importance. Its all I
will focus on while Im doing it. No more rushing to pack everything
into one day.
Ive put myself into some uncomfortable situations in the past
year but theyve always worked out. So Im going to get a lot more
uncomfortable and Ive started already. No guts no glory.
As I want to grow my business and work less, I plan outsourcing
a lot more.
When you find something that works, do more of it. Implement
the 80/20 rule (instead of just talking about it like I did).
Implementing it means letting some things go and changing your
plans, which can be hard.
Once you get past the crazy intense startup period in new
businesses, implement the 20 hour work week. My plan is once I
complete 20 hours each week, my laptop will be firmly closed until
the following Monday morning.
Im not a big meditater. Once in a Tai Chi class I found the
situation slightly humorous, and Ive been pretty much hopeless in
those situations ever since. But when Im in a quiet place I can let
my thoughts take over. I can zone out and bring my brain down a
level where I can connect a lot more with my subconscious and I get
a lot of insights and ideas this way. Its like when you are driving
from A to B but when you arrive at B you dont quite remember how
you actually got there exactly. It allows you to mull things over,
make sense of them, and come to useful decisions on the best way to
proceed. When I take time out to think something over and make
sense of it, I always feel a lot happier and more at peace
afterwards.
I realise we all get stuck in our little emotional pathways,
and this throws us off course a lot. It stops us doing stuff that
could be really beneficial to us. In certain situations we can tend
to default to our usual (negative) way of thinking. You can really
want to do something, but every time you think about it your brain
automatically fires you down a path of total fear, which inhibits
you sometimes for years from doing what you really want. NLP
explains the logic of it really well.
Imagine youre doing weights with your right arm. Every day you
spend 15 minutes and now youre on some pretty impressive weights
and your right arm is seriously in Stallone territory. Now you
decide you want to change something. So you pickup with the weight
with your left arm. IMMEDIATE pain. It doesnt feel right at all.
Something is 100% wrong. Every brain cell you have is SCREAMING at
you, for Gods sake, just put the weight back in your right hand!
You mind is just telling you to do what youve always done. But this
can work badly against you when you want to try something new in
your life.
How you feel emotionally about situations can be the result of
well used pathways in your brain. Once you think about a certain
subject, your brain happily goes along the usual pathway thats been
honed and polished over the last months or years of your life. For
me, when a negative thought comes into my head now, I now realise
its just a physical thing. So I stop the thought (and the emotion
that it triggers as it started to fire down that pathway) and then
think about something totally different. My aim is to stop using
those unhelpful paths and with time theyll become overgrown and
unused, and Ill have trained my mind to follow new neural pathways
that make me feel happier and energised.
I realized a while back there theres no point in looking
backwards, as Im not going in that direction. More importantly,
when you look ahead and open your eyes, there is so much
mind-blowing stuff right ahead of all of us. Why wouldnt you want
to throw yourself into it?