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A Step Closer to Controlling the Four W’s of Your Life

Posted on March 31, 2010 2 Comments

Where you do it

If you haven’t checked out the two other posts that are connected to this blog post, I recommend you visit them now or after you finish reading this blog post. As you know, there are four W’s that you need to take control of in your life. What you do, When you do it, Whom you do it with and of course the one I am about to tell you about. Where you do it.

Where would you work if you had no geographical limitation or any kind of consequences? Would you work at a kiosk in the coast of Costa Rica, or would you stay working at your 9-5 base like the rest of the workaholics? Be honest with yourself, there is no right or wrong answer. I asked one of my friends this question and he could not give me an honest answer. The problem: he is so brainwashed into believing you need to work a cubicle or inside four walls.

The reality is that you can work anywhere you want to work from. One of my friends told me his friend is working from home now while he plays Xbox 360 and he works for a big Fortune 500 company. This guy might not make a 5 figure income, but at least he is controlling when he does his work, of course what he does, and WHERE he does his work from. He’s got a lot of control of his life for someone that works for THE MAN. A lot of my mentors work from the other sides of the world and do business with people from the U.S. My girlfriend’s favorite wedding photographer will fly in to your own town to take engagement photos and weddings, too, if you hire her (over 80 weddings in two years). She lives in California! All you need these days to take care of whatever you need is a laptop and an internet connection. You can find that even in third world countries.

Whether you just want to control WHERE you do your work, to be able to have more time to travel or because you hate working in that cubicle, liberating yourself from where your two feet stand when you are doing work, it’s important you decide NOW. You don’t want to keep waiting for the little brain inside of you to start telling you it’s okay or impossible to do your work from a beach in Krabi. If you don’t believe me ask Cody Mckibben yourself.

Last Post of this Series…

  1. Master the Last W of your Life and Multiply Your Income!

Control “When You Do It” to Multiply your Money

Posted on March 29, 2010 2 Comments

If you have not checked out the first part to this series, I recommend you do so.  Check out how you can begin to control the “what you do” part first.

I use to think that the best way to multiply my income was to work more hours per week. I learned my lesson the hard way, and trust me you don’t want to do it the same way. Even though I was self employed, working more hours did not help my end goal. If anything, it actually helped me make less money and add more stress to my life.

The main reason for this was that I was not doing what I loved. I was not following my true passions. The thing is, selling vacuums door to door for more hours does not make you any happier; getting twice as many doors slammed at your face, if anything, lowers your self-everything (esteem,worth,dignity). That’s why controlling “what you do” is the first step before you start focusing on “when you do it”.

See, I know that if you are looking for a way to really live the location independence lifestyle you’re probably not controlling when you do anything, like when you wake up, when you go to work or start working, or even when you stop working and go home, am I right?

How to start controlling when you do it:

Before something becomes a reality it has to come from a thought (don’t mean to get all “law of attraction” expert here) but I believe that’s how you can begin to change what you are doing, when you do it. For example, what are you thinking about right now as you read this post? Probably of how you can learn to control when you do stuff, the way you found this post is the same way, you where thinking of how you can start doing what you want when you want to, right? Well there you go. Start THINKING of when you want to do something, what you’ve always wanted to do, and WRITE it down.

My next suggestion would be to start a time line of how you are going to get from where you are today to where you want to be in a week. For example, if you want to start waking up earlier, (a) you need to set up the alarm for an earlier time and (b) you need to go to bed earlier. You see, if you can write down some actionable steps you can achieve when you want to do something. I know this is a simple goal, but if you want to really start controlling your life and when you do whatever it is that you want to do, you need to plan!

Summary

Write down something BIG you want to change, something unrealistic in your mind. Example: instead of working at an office, working from your home.

Put down 3 action steps. Example: start looking for jobs that can be done from home. Find a job related to what I like to do. Apply at 10 places per week until I get the job.

If you want to begin controlling your life you need to do unrealistic and unreasonable things NOW. Your mind is used to a 9-5 job, it’s used to taking orders from others, and it’s used to doing things that make you fit in with the average crowd. Say goodbye to all those from now on controlling what you do and when you do it.

Part 3: Related Post

  1. A Step Closer to Controlling the Four W’s in Your Life.
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