Once you “decide” things happen!
Written by Brenda Martinez on Saturday November 29, 2008 from a remote beach in Mexico.
Once you “decide” things happen!
Okay, so it starts out like this. My boyfriend builds log cabins in Colorado and his busy months are from April-October and he work’s his little bum off. So, he decides several years ago that he’s had enough of the Colorado winters and now wants to spend them in Mexico. We started to go on 2 week vacations. Well that was not enough for him. He decided last year to go on two 1 month sabbaticals. He thoroughly enjoyed it, but missed me terribly. So this year for my birthday and our 5th year anniversary he got me a ticket to fly with him for a month. Well, needless to say, I was scared and excited at the same time. I thought, how I’m I going to afford this? How I’m I going to make this work? OH but how exciting to be on the beach in Mexico while Colorado is freezing and cold.
I immediately started planning for being gone for a month. All the while, thinking, this is crazy, what I’m I doing? I can’t do this? Of course I can do this! I have to do this, I have a round trip ticket for 1 month!
About 3 weeks before we’re leaving, he said he was at Office Depot and saw this book, The 4-Hour WorkWeek Escape 9-5 Live Anywhere and join the New Rich and thought, Brenda needs to read this!
I read it when we got to Mexico, literally with-in 1 week, and I’m writing this story in Novillero, Nayarit Mexico with the most beautiful palm trees and miles and miles of beach with no one around, working!
My goal for the next month was to create my Website. I have been here almost 2 weeks, and have gotten more done then I would have at home. I’m more focused because I have plans and play time in the afternoon. I signed up for Skype to communicate via the computer anywhere in the world and joined Elance.com and hired a web designer and a content proofreader. I hired a Graphic Designer via Elance to complete my website. I will be hiring a Proofreader and Editor via Elance. I signed up with my bank for online Bill Pay. My son is taking care of my home and my dog.
Once I “decided” to make it work, it did. Everything has gone as planned. Read the book, get inspired to join the New Rich. Don’t be a slave to your work for 50 years and then enjoy your fruits of labor when you’re old, do it now! Take mini sabbaticals or “retirements” as Tim Ferris mentions in his book, throughout the year. Hire out your menial jobs. Decide if you want to live your life NOW by doing all the things you would LOVE to do then schedule your work goals around it. It’s all about “deciding” and planning, and writing down your goals.
