The sun is streaming through my windows. Hmmm – they definitely need some washing, but in the winter! Even here in mild Vancouver washing windows in the winter is a futile exercise, not because it’s cold, but because of the rain! No sooner are the windows clean than the rain “washes” them again, leaving them splattered with raindrops.
Had a wonderful Christmas. Quick jaunt to LAX for a few fun days with my daughter, back in time for local festivities.
Typically my Sunday mornings are given to musings on whatever it is that captures my thoughts on any given Sunday morning. Today it is my blog income life that is top of mind. As the year draws to a close I find that I am examining my blog income life in greater detail – both in terms of the blog itself and indeed, the life that I am leading because of blogging.
As mentioned in a previous post, I am nominally pleased with the progress of the blog and am confident that it will continue to improve in the coming year and beyond.
Now the life. The money truck has not rolled up the driveway so drinking fine wines and dining out on epicurean delights has not happened with any regularity yet. I do spend a good deal of my time writing, oh heck, most of my time. Blogging is addictive and I love it!
One of the things that keeps niggling on my mind is time. I am fortunate that I derive enough from my businesses so that I can spend a lot of time writing. Reading is also something I enjoy. I have an ever lengthening list of books to read. On the list for the longest time has been The 4-Hour Workweek. I never bought it – other books kept taking precedence – until last week.
Whenever I fly I buy a book at the airport bookstore. Last week I was on my way to Los Angeles – that is a good two and a half hour flight, enough for a good read. I walked into the bookstore and what should be there front and center but The 4-hour Workweek! Expanded and Updated yet! A whole100 pages more than the original, of course I snapped it up.
Days later I am visiting Pat’s Smart Passive Income Blog and lo! The 4-hour Workweek is prominently featured again. The Universe is sending me a message, right? Right?
Now it’s got me in a conundrum. Of course I buy into doing less and getting more – who doesn’t? The idea I have nurtured whilst taking internet marketing courses was that I would build an online business that would allow me to be anywhere I wanted to be at any time and if I needed some additional funds all I would need to do – as the gurus say – is press “send” and make money.
Reading Tim Ferriss’ book however has put a whole different spin on my idea. My business plan for 2010 is pretty much complete. Throughout the year I always tweak as needed. I suspect that much of that tweaking will be centered around The 4-Hour Workweek. Dan Lok , a local internet marketing wunderkind once told me that he worked like the devil the first year in internet marketing, but now he is down to 4 hours a day, 4 days a week (he is in his seventh year in the biz). Maybe I can just “tweak” down to not working past a certain hour in the day for starters but still have better and better results.
For now, from my mental meanderings to yours … what’s on your mind when it comes to the time you spend blogging?
To an Awesome Blog Income Life!
Valentina
#1 by Flippa Chick on December 27, 2009 - 20:14
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It’s really funny that I landed on this post because our worlds must be aligned too since this is about the 3rd message I’ve read about “The 4 Hour Work Week.” For a while now I’ve been against picking up a copy because, to be quite honest, I think it takes time to work up to a position where you can only work 1-hour per day, 4 days per week. In fact, I’m of the belief that even if I set myself up for passive income that allowed me to all but quit my Internet Marketing career, I wouldn’t be able to stay abreast on what’s happening in the online world, neither would I be able to test new strategies, etc.
So while a 4 hour work week may sound like “the life,” I’d be glad to just work a 15 or 20 hour work week for the rest of my life — granted I could disappear for vacations when I wanted. =)
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#2 by admin on December 27, 2009 - 20:57
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Hey Flippa! Thanks for dropping in.
You know I felt just like you about the title and I think that is one reason why I did not pick it up on its first go round … it’s got a slightly different perspective than that one thinks of when first reading the title. It’s worth the read — will get you and me closer to our 15/20 hour week.
best………….valentina
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