World traveler, Lola DiMarco, has been able to fulfill her many dreams and reach her goals as a published travel writer. She has written for various travel websites such as Huffington Post Travel and traveldudes.org and maintains a very active blog at lolastravels.com. Lola has a knack for planning out her travels and focuses on […]
Lindsay Hunt left her life occupying cubicles in the corporate world, moved back in with her parents and spent her energy building an online business while maintaining a very active blog. As a successful social media and online marketing consultant, Lindsay is now ready to support herself once again. Ms. Hunt consults with small and […]
After receiving an average performance rating at his job, Scott Mackes, founder of Margin of Excellence, decided to take control of his life by learning how to take on a leadership role and tackle the challenges that stood in his way of excellence. Over the course of a year, while trying to improve his skills […]
It has happened to all of us at some point of our life. We start out on a journey, full of passion and excitement. We make a good beginning and seem to be progressing towards our goals quite well but as we go along the way, we loose sight of the destination. We feel fatigue […]
Consider this: 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women will face cancer at some point of their life. For me, these stats are too overwhelming to be ignored. One woman decided to do something about it. Vicky Lynn, a middle aged cancer survivor, woke up one day and decided to spread the message […]
Getting clear about what you want in life, and more importantly, finding the willpower and motivation to pursue it, can be extremely challenging. That’s where people like Bex Grennan come in. Grennan, a life coach and stage performer, has a real knack for helping other’s dreams come true. Bex and I share similar interests and […]
Dan Johnson has not always been an artist. Until quite recently he was a web designer who painted for a hobby in his ‘spare time’. Then one day he woke up and decided to ditch his 9-to-5 job to become an artist. I saw some of dan’s paintings online and immeditely became a fan. His […]
Emma gray lives her dreams of travelling around the world. However, she’s not the typical backpacker that you would normally read in travel blogs. She’s a regular person with a regular life that includes a job, a home and full time university studies. That doesn’t stop her from pursuing her passion for travel and in […]
Have you started a business but feel like it could be better? Terry is the mastermind behind SOBCon Conferences now in its seventh year. The conferences give business leaders the opportunity to learn, develop skills, plan, and strategize with a small group. Each session includes time for attendees to apply the concepts and ideas to […]
After spending years in a boring office job, James Clark realized he’s had enough and took up a working holiday visa to the UK in 1999. He soon discovered his two biggest passions— the internet and travelling. He’s one of the world’s first digital nomads and has been an inspiration for many others. He’s a […]
Love and relationships are at the core of our lives. Creating meaningful relationships is essential to our well being and happiness, yet so often, we struggle to make them happen. I was quite a shy bookworm when I was growing up. It took me quite a journey to build my confidence up around the opposite […]
It may be hard to believe, but only a few years ago Matt Callaghan could barely run 2 Kilometers. These year Matt is training for 10 Marathons and 3 Ultramarathons – One of them will be a 246km (~152miles) race to Mount Kosciuszko, the highest mountain in Australia. Matt and I had been drinking buddies […]
While sitting in a northern Brazilian beach a year ago, it hit me for the first time that I’m truly financially free. This new freedom meant that I didn’t need to look for a job upon my return to Australia. In fact, I didn’t even have to go back to Australia. I could choose to go wherever and do whatever I want on any given day.
A year later, and both my partner and I are still enjoying this ultimate gift of complete choice. I am not rich as most people think when they meet me for the first time, but I don’t need a job to keep up with my current lifestyle. The steady passive income stream I developed before and while traveling is enough to cover both of our expenses, and more.
But first, my story.
Money. We all use it. We all care about it. We all think about it.
The lack of money in our life can spark a range of emotions, from fear to frustration, to worry. We worry whether we have enough of it, or whether we spend too much of it. When the job market is poor, for example, or when the stock market crashes, we often get mad and blame the economy, or the government, or both.
What we hardly ever do about money, however, is ask ourselves where it comes from and who controls it.
The key to Becoming Financially Free is a simple equation: monthly passive income greater than monthly expenses equals Financial Freedom. The path to freedom, however, is not a straight line and often requires navigation between different monetization strategies. In this context, a key question becomes: What is the best way to earn active and passive […]
The first step to a successful internet business remains the most critical and is often the hardest to take: picking the right niche.
When you begin thinking about how to set up a new online business you may find yourself in one of the following two scenarios:
1. It is a total vacuum in your head: you have no idea of what you want. You do not know where to start. Your thoughts are locked and frozen and you are uninspired.
2. Your head is overloaded with ideas and you cannot sort them out in order to come to a clear vision of what you want. Your thoughts are overflowing and you are drowning in an ocean of floating concepts.
This post has not been written to encourage you to do an Ironman triathlon, but rather to encourage you to believe that anything is possible if you open yourself up to seemingly outrageous possibilities. For many people, the idea of competing in an Ironman triathlon is (initially at least) impossible. An Ironman triathlon consists of […]
The online world is getting crowded with websites in almost every niche imaginable. That makes branding and standing out one of the most important elements in building a successful online business.
Through this article, I will outline, in a simple manner, how you can effectively stand out from the crowd so your business can grab online users’ attention almost immediately and not become just a drop in the vast sea of the internet.
Financial Freedom is not just about having more money. This is only half of the equation.
In addition to creating passive income, you also want to reduce your monthly expenses so you can invest the difference back in your business.
One effective way to do so is by adopting a more minimalist lifestyle, something that I’ve been doing for the last three years. In fact, this was a key factor in my financial freedom journey. Without it, I would not be able to build my passive income sources.
Content is often regarded as the lifeblood of an online business. Many entrepreneurs, however, still choose to focus the majority of their efforts on short-term marketing tactics.
This begs the question: what’s the efficacy in bringing more users to a website whose content is mediocre?
In this post I will cover 22 effective writing strategies to help you make your content truly useful and compelling.
The past 3 days I spent in the car driving from the North-Eastern part of the States, where I celebrated Christmas with my new family, to the sunny coast of South Florida. It was a long and tiring drive, but provided a good opportunity to reflect on the highlights of 2011 and to think of […]
To me, it feels like 2010 came and went so fast. I still find it hard to believe that I’m more than 8 months on the road, traveling to places I only dreamed of a year ago. Some of you know that around a year ago, both my parents had a terrible car accident, which […]
It’s been a while since I last wrote, so here’s a quick old-fashioned update with a few photos (in reverse chronological order). I just got back from a business trip: Las Vegas, L.A. then straight back to Melbourne for the racing carnival season. For those of you who don’t live down under, Spring Carnival is […]
“Are you going to travel forever?” This question has been repeatedly asked over the last year by other travelers who have heard that my business allows me to continue traveling indefinitely. I’ve been on the road for the last 10 months now, and I’m obviously living not only my dream, but also one many others […]
On every area of your life, weather it’s your health, finance, career or your relationships, you have the option of either facing the truth willingly or living in denial of the truth. If you pretend that everything is okay, your external world will eventually prove you wrong. Ignoring the truth, more than often, will make […]
