life and death and work
Way back on the 14th July I wrote a blog post saying, and I quote, "I’m going to start passing on more of more knowledge, and more frequently. So I hope you don’t get sick of too many newsletters from me"
Ha :) Well what a joke that turned out to be.
I meant it at the time, but then life got in the way and I ended up travelling for over 3 months. My daughter, Kate, got married in Australia in early September, so I always knew I’d be having a week off for that. But then, unexpectedly, my parents decided to fly out from England to the wedding six weeks early, so that I could show them parts of Australia they’d never experienced.
So I packed a suitcase, grabbed my wallet, and drove 8 hours to Brisbane airport to pick them up…then off we went. Five weeks of the best the east coast of Australia has to offer, then a long drive into Queensland’s dust bowl interior to show them what it used to be like before the coastal areas turned into a cross between Florida and California.
The wedding, which I’d not been looking forward to because all I could think about was the cost, and having to make a speech 
and dancing (which I hate) turned out to be great. Then we all went away for a few weeks to the lovely Qld beach resort of Noosa.
After that my parents flew back to England, followed a few days later by Kate and her new husband Ed, and I settled down to start work again.
But suddenly things took a turn for the worse.
Just days after they’d all gone we got a phone call from England saying that a very sick relative wasn’t expected to survive until the weekend, so I quickly bought plane tickets and within 4 hours we were heading overseas. And stayed away a month. A fairly horrible month.
Anyway, now I’m back.
With nothing much else to do, because I’ve spent most of my time sitting in a house with grieving relatives, I’ve thought about business and work and money quite a bit while I’ve been away. And really I want to carry on pretty much as I live now. Loving life, enjoying life and the freedom I have.
I’ve said this before many times: for me this internet business is all about living a more laid-back lifestyle, earning just enough to keep staying in the worlds top hotels and flying up front at the pointy end of planes, goofing off for a while on tropical islands lying in the shade of palm trees and swimming in seas so full of brightly coloured fish that they wisp against your body as they swim around you.
But that might not be what you want. Many people come online wanting to make millions, and then more millions (and some like the guy featured in the first issue of Yanik Silver’s new printed newsletter do, making $3 mill a year from one ebook on Clickbank) so if your only aim in life is to make millions, live in a big house and drive flashy sports cars then you need to work and work and work till your eyeballs pop from staring at a screen too long.
You’ve got to decide what you want out of all this Internet stuff. Because what you want decides the way you’re going to get there, the steps and actions you need to take.
Me, I’m going to keep on just the way I do now. And that means NOT sending out email sales pitches every few days. Not trying to get money out of you at every possible opportunity.
But I have been rethinking my whole, almost private, and perhaps selfish (because I don’t really share it with you) approach to earning money online, and I’m going to make some changes. But not ones that affect my lifestyle too much
You’ll see soon
