Controlling your Life

One of the biggest struggles that people have in starting their own Lifestyle Design Business is having the financial and time freedom to do so. Most people only have a vague idea about where their money and times goes. How much do you really spend on coffee?

Without the ability to control your time, money, and responsibilities, changing your life for the better might be a struggle. You can’t quit your job because you don’t have enough savings to cover you while you start a business. You can’t work on your business because you have too many other obligations in your life. You can’t find important items because you have too much stuff cluttering your space.

All of these things fall under the category of life control. You must first master yourself before you master the world. In order to really be able to follow your UnWork, you must first control yourself and your life.

I believe Life Control is a big issue for a lot of people that want to follow their UnWork. For this reason, I am going to make Life Control one of the topics of this blog, along with specific UnWork information. You will begin to see more info on this topic as time goes on.

I’d love to hear from you any thoughts on Life Control and its necessity when trying to find and follow your UnWork with a lifestyle design business.

Stuck in a Rut

Being in a rut is like being stuck in quick sand. You really want to get out but your just don’t know how – and it just keeps pulling you farther in. You didn’t mean to fall in. It just happened.

Okay. Now what? How can you get out of the quicksand?

First off… Don’t panic. Fighting it will only stress you out. You must be level headed and strategic.

I currently feel quite stuck and it can be overwhelming at times. There are reasons that I need to being doing what I am doing now and reasons that I should not be doing what I am doing now… and that can be quite frustrating at times. I tend to get overwhelmed too easily and panic. But that usually does no actual good (although it does let off a bit of steam).

But what from there? This is where I tend to run into trouble. So I’m going to open this up to audience participation…

How do you deal with being in a rut?

Winchester Commemoratives Vol 2

So this is a post I should have written a month ago, but didn’t. So I’m writing it now. A project that I have been working on for 3 years now finally finished.

My grandfather wrote a book in the eighties called Winchester Commemoratives. It is about, you guessed it, Winchester Commemoratives – those fancy guns that no one ever shoots but collect like crazy. It was published the same year I was born.

Well right before he passed away, he wrote the next book: Winchester Commemoratives Vol 2. He hadn’t finished it though, so that is where my mom and I stepped in to work on it. My mom edited while I did pictures. It took a long time and I learned a ton about print publishing, but we finally got it published.

I’m very proud of it. You can check out the project here:

Winchester Commemoratives Vol 2

Honesty, Friendship and Empires

I went to Pei Wei for lunch today, which is the land of free fortune cookies. I, of course, helped myself to a handful. After opening a few that were about food (I don’t think that a Wonton a day will actually keep the doctor away), I got one that rang true:

Honesty and friendship bring you fortune.

I have never seen a truer fortune cookie (except maybe “You like Chinese Food”), because honesty and friendship are the key ingredients to building an information business online. If you are dishonest, people won’t believe you and won’t buy anything you sell. If you don’t build friendships, you miss out on a whole range of partnership opportunities.

I’ve seen this first hand in the case studies that Chris Guillebeau put together in the Empire Building Kit.

The what?

About a month ago, I signed up for the Empire Building Kit brought to you by Unconventional Guides. All I knew was that I was working on building my online business and could use all of the help I can get. The turns out to be one of the best purchases I’ve made all year. The kit consists of interviews with real online emperors that you are guided through over the course of one year by email. That’s 365 emails! Add to that a No Question Left Behind policy and your get the Empire Building Kit. I recommend it to any UnWorkaholic out there!

I think this product is so great, I signed up to be an affiliate. I would never recommend something that I didn’t think you could benefit greatly from! But I am getting a referral fee if you buy the kit through my link.

How’s that for honesty? :) and now for the friendship:

I’d like to extend Chris’s No Question Left Behind policy. If you have a question about building your empire and becoming an UnWorkaholic, send them to me and I’ll answer every single one. This is true whether you buy the kit through my link or not.