Moving toward a better me…

So here I sit at the end of my week vacation in Hilton Head Island, which is a great past time for me, some of my fondest childhood memories come from Hilton Head. I have spent the entire vacation reading for the third time, a book by Timothy Ferris called the 4-Hour Work Week. It took the third time for the whole idea to click in my head.

I have decided to challenge myself. $30,000 per month, sustained, in 3 to 6 months.

In some of my self reflection, I have realized that regardless the amount of money I am currently making, I am miserable with what I do. I don’t need to divulge as to why, but I can say with all assurance that continuing to do what I do will cause me to eventually go over the edge.

So back to my $30,000 per month, sustained, in 3 to 6 months. I am currently putting together a plan of a way to do this - the rules are that the income has to be completely passive, meaning, I am not running the business. I will be working to find places to outsource all of the work I do. I am determined to outsource every aspect of the business so that I can be anywhere in the world at any time for as long as I want, with very little interaction with my business.

My plan, my success, and possibly even my failures will be posted to this blog. I plan to share it all with you my dear reader. I promise I will not quit until I have met my goal.

The reason for this goal and challenge?

Simply put. I enjoy my family. I enjoy spending time discovering places and enjoying life with my wife, and my children. I am tired of my source of income dictating when and where and how I spend time with my family. Mind you, $30k a month is quite a bit of money, its just an arbitrary number I pulled from the sky to be honest. The key is that whatever the income is, it is enough to support my family and our lifestyle, and give us the ability to travel the way we want to travel, to explore the way we want to explore and do it together. The key is, this income becomes 99.9% hands off for me. I set the ball in motion, and allow the others I have hired to become the cogs in the wheel, while I remove myself from the wheel altogether.