I never had a 9 to 5er, the “worst” I had was a part time gig for a few months before I went traveling.

What I did was juggle casual jobs and kept my expenses low by living at home. As my online income grew I was able to move out, but I didn’t quit my casual jobs until I was confident I could support myself with the online income.

I recommend you check out the how I got started link in the navigation bar to hear my full story if you want more details about my early years.

Yaro

Yesterday it was 85 degrees so I decided to work from 6-10am and then from 5-8pm to get my daily tasks done. The mid-day was spent on a beach relaxing and brainstorming! You CAN’T put a price on that type of Freedom.

Thanks for everything you do Yaro, you have been a big help in this Entrepreneur’s Journey : )

What a great post. There’s so much in here. It’s so useful to have the inspirational stuff and the really practical stuff all in one post. Fantastic. Thanks for posting.

Also the push of needing money always helps, thus if the cash isn’t coming in I tend to be motivated to figure out a way to make it come in.

This is all much easier done when you like the jobs you are doing though. I like writing and coming up with ideas and solutions to problems. I don’t like doing my taxes or working on copy testing, hence those things are a lot harder to get me to do

Say you wake up tomorrow and you have a number of articles that HAVE to be finished by tomorrow evening and you just can’t be bothered, are there any tips you could offer to help get over that feeling?

I’m close to making the leap myself – thanks so much for this post!

Also because I do mostly video I find that I can’t force it either. I need to be energeized and motivated to record AND it has to be in the day for me because of the lighting. When I’ve forced it the videos have been terrible. For motivation chocolate seems to help!!

I once worked in a shared workspace before with a bunch of other internet marketers and I found I could stuff done only to the extent that I was kind of stand offish because I wouldn’t join in on conversations or stand around and chit chat.

I had an outcome of how my time was to be spent and I worked to a timer for the most part giving myself a set block of minutes to accomplish a task.

With the exception of the sound of the air conditioner there is no other noise in my working environment and I prefer being free of distraction a cafe brings (especially the distraction of having cute women I want to talk to).

And in the same light I want to be able to tear it up anywhere which is why I admire what you’re capable of doing and I want to take this challenge on so I’m ready for whatever comes at me.

I once worked in a shared workspace before with a bunch of other internet marketers and I found I could stuff done only to the extent that I was kind of stand offish because I wouldn’t join in on conversations or stand around and chit chat.

I had an outcome of how my time was to be spent and I worked to a timer for the most part giving myself a set block of minutes to accomplish a task.

With the exception of the sound of the air conditioner there is no other noise in my working environment and I prefer being free of distraction a cafe brings (especially the distraction of have cute women I want to talk to).

And in the same light I want to be able to tear it up anywhere which is why I admire what you’re capable of doing and I want to take this challenge on so I’m ready for whatever comes at me.

When my housemates come home they always say I haven’t “bothered” to do any work at all.

It’s amazing really, not just to see the difference in our lives, but also the opinions of work.

I’m more of a productivity guy, but they associate productivity with being at work, regardless of the work produced.

I would love to write articles in a cafe, maybe I will try it!

For me, exercise & health is always first because seriously… what else really matters without them? And as an entrepreneur that’s where all my energy and good ideas originate from.

It’s not always an easy plan to follow especially when you wake up excited to start working on your business. It just takes discipline.

The funny thing about me though is that I don’t like to work at home when my wife is here. There is something about that which is truly uncomfortable.

I have to fight the urge to run out the door when she gets home – as strange as that sounds. I want to work, but I find it very difficult. Even though she is not doing much to disturb me, I still feel ill at ease.

This is punctuated by the few times that she interrupts me, usually to tell me about something I didn’t do or should have done. As you can imagine, this disrupts the quality of my work time significantly.

So it is interesting to hear your story about being comfortable in coffee shops. They are my office too.

And the office rent is cheap for a cup of coffee and a muffin.