Why I Closed My Facebook Account And The Benefits

February 20, 2013

Well I’ve been thinking about it for a while now and today I finally took action. I deactivated my Facebook account. How do I feel? Pretty great actually. I found myself updating from my phone a little too much and  I wanted to live my life more deliberately and be present more in the moment. I didn’t want to deal with friend requests, see updates all the time, see stupid photos or what other people had liked. I want to start reading again, going for walks and spending quality time with my kids. It’s funny because I should have been doing these things even if I was still on Facebook but I wasn’t. I don’t blame Facebook for that, I blame myself. It’s just I see Facebook as a distraction. Being more of an introvert myself it was great to be connected with so many nice folks from all around [...]

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The Road To Positivity

February 9, 2013

The last few weeks have taken a toll but I’m not complaining. The last few weeks have been pretty shit to be honest. Inwardly, nothing to do with my relationships or anything like that. I guess you could say I had a  ”been building up for a long time and about to crash land” type day. Well last week I nearly packed it in. I even shared it with my friends on Facebook. Big mistake. Friends and family thought I was talking about suicide! A couple of years of frustration had led to a bad day and I shared it on Facebook to get some motivation in the hope that someone would give me a cyber kick-up-the-ass. I got a few virtual kicks and a few virtual slaps. Facebook was created to make the world more open and connected! I feel sharing your thoughts on Facebook is not a problem. [...]

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The Painful Side Of Blogging And Building A Micro-Business From Scratch

January 27, 2013

Well it’s been a full on week so far… I’ve worked full-time at my current job to bring in that reliable income for my family, whilst writing blog posts for another blog I started up a couple weeks back and created a new blog which I hope to grow. It’s all part of learning and if you don’t jump in there, nobody’s going to do it for you. So now I have three blogs… One of them is this one. The Late Starter where I share my thoughts and some of the stuff I learn along the way & to keep myself accountable see more here The second one  is where I am learning how to write, how to stay focused and learning about marketing  in general which will serve me in any future venture I involve myself in. The part I like best is the emphasis it has on [...]

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Why Every Wannabe Entrepreneur Needs This Book

January 15, 2013

A few weeks ago I ordered this book through the local book store. One of my favourite blogs is chrisguillebeau.com. Chris is also the author of this book. It’s premise is that of the microbusiness. Basically what a microbusiness is, is a business that brings in enough income to sustain a person or a family so that they don’t have to get a job. The cut off is that the microbusiness must bring in a minimum of $50,000 per year, though many of the people interviewed in the book bring in over 7 figures per year. Of course, he is only interested in people that have created such “muses” by minimal investment. $100. In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau shows you how to lead a life of adventure, meaning and purpose — and earn a good living. There are many others like Chris — those people who have found alternative [...]

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Moving Forward Fast – Changes For The Late Starter in 2013

December 31, 2012

Things have really gone pretty slow for me this year and I can accept blame for that because it’s come down to me not taking action and not following through on goals I’d set myself, lack of direction and a fair bit of ‘sitting on the fence’ with regards to life. Complacency is a word that comes to mind. As the new year approaches I’ve been thinking a lot about The Late Starter – how far it has come, where it’s at and where I want it to go. I originally set it up as a place where I could document my journey towards becoming location independent and that much really hasn’t changed. I have always been pretty open to the different possibilities of exactly how I achieve location independence, but I would say that the charge had always been towards making money online. Not only to earn but to [...]

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Changing Gears: How To Get From Here To There

October 11, 2012

Lately I’ve been really pissed off with myself because my online marketing is coming along at an extremely slow rate but I know I only have myself to blame. Lack of decisiveness is partially to blame as is lack of focus. Aside from that, I’ve really come a long way from the days of living in my hometown of Rotorua, New Zealand. Raising a family on a meagre salary as Operations Manager and having to scrimp and save to even take the kids to McDonalds once in a while >> fast forward to present >> to our new life living in Australia, managing to purchase a household lot of furniture new with cash, and having to ability to take our children out to places they used to dream about (Themeparks, Zoo’s) and my wife and I are able to go out for nice romantic dinners and just basically enjoy life [...]

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Starting From Scratch: What To Do When You Are Stuck

August 23, 2012

When starting this blog I was advised to make it about my journey to creating a success story of my own. Sort of like documenting the journey, writing about my successes, failures and general experiences. Knowing that I was a few steps ahead of others, this was a good idea because I know I’ve helped people along the way. When I first started out and knew absolutely nothing about the concept of having a “way to make money online” whether that was a service business, product business, information product or a blog, I would have loved to have had some kind of resource or blog documenting someone’s journey to success. One day I found one created by Chris Farrell but has since been taken down. I managed to read over half of it but I think his plan was to have it created in to a book. I think for many [...]

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Falling Off the Blogging Saddle

August 13, 2012

I nearly sank into blogging oblivion over the past few months for a variety of reasons. One of the main reasons was probably lack of focus and being busy with getting settled here in Australia and the fact that I really hadn’t done anything online since being here apart from emailing and checking in with Facebook on my iPhone. I got to reading one book during the past couple of months called “Rise of the New Professional” which was awesome. You can check the site out  here It was a launch created and implemented by Mike Klingler. I really enjoy his updates on FB as they are so positive, motivational and uplifting. The premise of his latest launch was all about helping people create a passion filled career online. He provided case studies of past students who had left there 9-5 jobs and were now making a very decent living on [...]

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4 Months In Australia And The Journey So Far

March 28, 2012

It’s been a while since I updated my blog I know. Truth is though, I’ve been thinking too much about what to write and haven’t really come up with too many ideas. Reason being that this blog is all about my journey to location independence so writing about how Australia has been so far is going a bit off topic. Perhaps I should have made this a travel blog! Unfortunately I haven’t done zip about my mission to location independence and I’m disappointed in myself, since that was one of the reasons of coming to Australia in the first place. The job I managed to secure upon arrival is a demanding one and it requires patience and focus 24 hours a day and 7 days per week. I do have 7 days off after being on 7 days but that is when I rest up for the following week. I’ve [...]

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The Australian Adventure

February 15, 2012

I know it’s been a while since I last posted. There’s a lot to organise when you move to another country and have to start again, and it’s especially hard when you don’t have your family with you. In my case, my wife and kids. I’ve been living in a nice little suburb called Forest Lake in the South Brisbane area since November. I work up in Toowoomba, which is a 113km journey West of Brisbane in the Darling Downs area. I work 7 days on and 7 days off. So it works in well because I have time to sort things out and explore the region a bit. I’ve been up to the Sunshine Coast which is a beautiful coastline of golden sand beaches, tropical weather, warm sea water and lush forests. I went up to Noosa to visit a friend on the last day and slowly made my [...]

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