It was more than 8 years ago – in May 2010 – that I quit my last and final “job”. I’ve been a full-time entrepreneur ever since.

But looking back at it now, it certainly wasn’t easy getting there.

It only took me 10 years of working nights & weekends, and getting a side-business running “on the side”, while I prepared to become a proud quitter.

10 years of sleeping 4 hours a night, 10 years of blood, sweat and tears, incredible will-power and hustle, pushing through some extreme lows, tolerating bad jobs and horrible bosses and verbal and emotional abuse, all so I could get a stinkin’ Greencard (and eventually become a US Citizen), cutting out all the fluff in life like parties and entertainment and sitcoms and TV so I would have the time to stay locked in on my end goal, staying self-motivated by constantly reminding myself as to the “why” I wanted to do it – my lovely wife and my 2 precious kids.

So here’s to all you proud (job) quitters, moonlighters, side-hustlers, wantrepreneurs, job-haters, soul-crushing-job-losers, nights-and-weekenders, side-business owners, podcast-on-the-siders, boss-haters, steady-paycheck-riskers, not-willing-to-settlers, and one-life-to-live’rs.

Keep crushing it.

Stay beasting.

[UPDATE: Contest is over. Answer revealed here.]

MYSTERY: Guess what I’m trying to highlight in the picture?

And win a prize even if you guess wrong.

The Amazon prize is: The actual answer to the question!! (something from the picture).

So reply and enter to win the free prize at Forum.Subscribeme.fm

ANSWER REVEALED: https://forum.subscribeme.fm/t/contest-guess-what-im-trying-to-highlight-in-this-picture/81

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#contest #forum #subscribeme #subscribemefm #prize #freeprizeinside #notwhatyouthink #itsnevertheobviousone

Yeah, I know, clickbaity claim

But no, radio is not actually dead. Getting there, but it is technically still alive, and not doing too well.

I got 6 months of free Satellite radio with a car I bought recently. If I was in the car for a total of, say, 50 hours over the last 6 months, I probably listened to Satellite Radio for a total of about 10 minutes.

The remaining 49 hours and 50 minutes, I was listening to podcasts.

And this week, I’ll be letting my Satellite radio trial expire.

Nothing rules like podcasts.

Sorry, but Radio is dead.

Long live podcasting.

If your want your neighbors to start mowing their lawn and cleaning their backyard…

for planes to fly over you…

and all the kids in the area to start playing outside…

then just get in front of your microphone and hit record…

and see how your entire neighborhood magically comes alive!

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#podcaster #podcasting #podcasterproblems #firstworldproblems #recordingstudio #recordingissues

Disneyland’s “Fast Pass” is not very fast. Should’ve been “So Dang Slow” Pass ?

Disney is leaving millions of dollars on the table by blowing this.

Universal’s “Front of Line” is much better.

Check out my episode at SubscribeMe.fm (listen below) where I explain why your business is better off doing what Universal is doing and not make the same mistake as Disney.

How Your Online Course Can Be Better Than Disneyland

#fastpass #disneycaliforniaadventure #disneyland #businessmodel #businessstrategy #pricingstrategy #pricing #universalstudios #frontofline #premiumpricing

Waiting in a long line to watch Guardians.

My boy Ro is inside, chilling with his nachos & cheese waiting for them to start letting folks in.

Guess what I’m doing while waiting?

Listening to a podcast, of course!

What is not Tracked, cannot be Measured.

What is not Measured, cannot be Optimized.

Regular folks track NOTHING.

High performers track EVERYTHING.

It’s totally fine to be in the middle, and improve as you go.

But you gotta start somewhere.

Watch my next few posts on how to track some important things at work and play.

#track #measure #optimize #improve #notfornormalpeople #forhighperformers

Wish I could be like him.

This photo always lifts up my spirits and the awesome song “I’ve got a pocketful of sunshine” (Natasha Bedingfield) starts playing in my head. And my mood is instantly elevated.

He is a male dog named Vanilla (don’t ask) – the world’s happiest, kindest, sweetest, gentlest, shyest, most loving being. And all he wants is a tiny strip of sunshine from any window in the house, a little food & water, and an evening walk or run.

Never imagined there could be a living thing that had such low expectations, and such a high level of happiness with whatever little he has.

Never complains. Always happy. Always grateful.

I’m not there yet, but I try, every day, to be grateful for what I have been blessed with.

#grateful #blessed #mybestfriend #happyforlife #grateful #lowexpectations #begratefulforwhatyouhave #natashabedingfield #pocketfullofsunshine

Podcasting is one of the greatest things ever invented.

I personally believe that when it comes to the ability to connect with people on a deeper, personal level, Audio is second only to Video.

And with all the ways already invented every day to interrupt, annoy and distract people – TV, Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Whatsapp, Hangouts, and on and on… and more ways being interrupted every day, podcasting, in some ways, has become the single most powerful, relationship- and fan-building tool there is – even more so than video.

You can’t listen to the radio show that you want to, when you want to. Whatever is playing when you get into your car is what you have to listen to.

Even with expensive Satellite radio, you only get more channels, but you don’t get the channels on-demand. You can’t get a show on satellite radio to start when you’re ready for it – you still have to listen to the shows on their clock, not on yours.

You can’t be driving and watching a YouTube video (I guess you could, but if you did, then you probably wouldn’t be well enough to be reading this right now, would you?).

You can’t read an online article or a book or a blog post or a PDF report, when you’re driving to work, or walking your dog, or at the gym, or doing the dishes…

Podcasts can go “where no other media has gone before”.

The host of the show – whether they are making you think, laugh, cry or learn – they’re in your ears, talking directly to you, they have your fullest attention, you are focused in on their voice, even if you’re performing a chore.

The power of audio is yet unparalleled.

And thanks to my podcast at SubscribeMe.fm, like He-Man might have said if he had a podcast, “I Have The (Audio) Power!”

#audio #podcast #podcaster #podcasters #podcasting #radioisdead #ondemand #learningonthego #heman #masteroftheuniverse

DOGPOO: Do Once Get Paid Only Once.

DOSAA: Do Once Sell Again & Again.

You cannot build a long-term profitable online business selling one-time products.

You need to create recurring products and subscriptions.

I have packed my 21 years of experience selling online, into a podcast on how to create membership sites, online courses and recurring subscriptions, at SubscribeMe.fm.

Be sure to start from episode 1. Lots of goodness in the (so far) 54 episodes.

And yes, I made up “Dogpoo vs. Dosaa“.

And in case you didn’t know, Dosa is an Asian-Indian delicacy. If I could suggest you have just one Indian food, it would be that.

So the words were deliberately crafted:

Dogpoo: Stinks.

Dosaa: Rocks!