How much preparation done for a road trip can mean how much fun it is or how miserable it is.
There can be both too little preparation and too much preparation.
Can you imagine coming back from a road trip to find out you lost your job or someone died in your family?
This is why there are some things to prepare for. Of course if you were a true vagabond, you would be location independent.
Planning for Work
If you are indeed working, you’ll need to plan for time off. Not every place will grant vacation time or time off so be prepared for a no.
Submit your time off request early and ahead of your trip by months. If you wait too long, there may no slots for time off when you want to go on a road trip.
Plan ahead for holidays and other busy times of the year, many people who work on the holidays apply for time off on the holidays.
Not all places you work will allow you too much time off at one time either, which is one reason why I quit my job.
Many companies do not function well when an important person leaves for too long, unless you learn to delegate your job functions. I learned to delegate my job functions in my previous job and was able to leave for a week or longer without telling anyone.
I used [...]
Posted on February 27th 2010.
Keep it a secret, your eyes only!
OK, I didn’t plan to write about this program at all, though I think The Shoemoney System can help a lot of newbies to making money online become true Vagabonds. I’m not selling my soul promoting this program no, I signed up for this program myself.
If you are one of the lucky ones who reads Vagabond Insider, keep this a secret, too many people doing this system will create a lot of competition.
I signed up for the system the day it launched. I’ve been bombarded with advertisements from many different places. From John Chow’s blog and email subscription, to Jonathan Volk’s blog, to even Shoemoney’s blog and email subscription(s) (yea I received multiple same emails from shoemoney about the program).
Receiving emails nearly everyday got the message into my head to check out the program, I watched some of the intro videos Shoemoney provides and it hooked me into it.
I’m currently going through the videos, the podcasts, and signing up for affiliate networks in the program. The system doesn’t give everything at once, something I both like and dislike. It means I’m only limited to the videos released every week, though I won’t overwhelm myself with watching dozens and dozens of videos.
If you have ever watched dozens of How To videos [...]
Posted on February 4th 2010.
Be happy! Sometimes great events just happen.
I resigned from my job one month ago during this recession.
My income has not been as stable and some expenses have popped up. I recently went on a 2,000 mile drive to do the following things in the new state, Texas:
$187.00 Register my car
$34.00 Get a new license
~$445.00 Set residency in a new state for tax purposes (I’ll write about why this is great for a traveler in another post)
Apply for a Sales Permit
$879.00 Apply my Limited Liability Company as a Foreign Entity
Luckily the business related items (even the drive) is an expense for my business. I’m able to write off my mileage and not pay taxes on business expenses. This is one reason why a majority of millionaires in the book Millionaire Next Door, are business owners. This is one reason why I recommend starting a business as well. Many of these business owners mix business travel with personal so it is a business expense.
Being an employee doesn’t allow this freedom or tax advantage.
Many of my friends work as independent contractors as Search Engine Evaluators (google this if you want to apply to these jobs). There are thousands of people around the world earning a good wage telling search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc if certain search content is good. In the United States, they making [...]
Posted on Feburary 2nd 2010.
Remember the Pony
I’m sure you heard the phrase, “you are what you eat.” Or “I think therefore I am.”
All this boils down to this, you are what you think. If you think with a poverty mind, you therefore are in a poverty world. If you think everything is too expensive, everything becomes too expensive. If you think you are fat, you are fat.
This is very important to know because it affects your daily life. This thought process affects your love life, your money, everything. If you think negative, negative will come. If you think positive, positive will come.
Check out the following video from Mort Utley, it is the keynote speech from Southwestern Sales School (I recommend book selling at least one summer to every college student).
Mort talks about the summer, though it applies through our whole lives.
I’m going to fool myself into profit just by thinking prosperity. Next [...]
Posted on January 11th 2010.
