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Move away from trading time for money.

One single decision.

There was one business decision I made that literally changed everything. 

I was travelling in Japan for the first time. 

I hated the high prices there and I asked myself: How can I stop trading time for money? 

At the time, I was based in Bali, Indonesia and was teaching English online. 

I couldn’t really call it a business - rather a modest source of income. 

But since I had done it for a while, I had a small following in my niche market. 

 

I remember sitting at my notebook, staring at the question: How can I stop trading time for money?

(And be able to afford all the adventures that Japan has to offer).

 

And then, without much thinking, I wrote:

1. A membership site.

2. Multiple teachers.

3. Community.

 

I decided to get this done by the time I had left Osaka to head back for Bali (I had about a week).

1. I threw a quick landing page together.

2. Set up a payment system.

3. And emailed my small database.

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Move towards your sense of flow.

How can you create flow in building a global enterprise?

After starting up and building two businesses of my own, I began to realise this.

Flow in building your enterprise is the path of least resistance and most creativity. It's the way to do something with a sense of ease, allowance, natural skill and joy. By allowing for a natural flow, you and your team are being who they are best. 

One key principle I follow in creating that sense of flow is to Combine Disciplines. Whilst starting up the School of Growth Writing, this allowed me to combine my unique set of disciplines that made my brand stand out. 
 
Here are some of the disciplines I chose, which made me move towards my sense of flow:
 
- Language Teaching
- Entrepreneurship 
- Theatre 
- Writing Therapy 
- Samurai/Eastern Philosophies 
 
Why is this so important? 
 
✅ You will combine a different set of disciplines that make you stand out
✅ You will define...
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Is It Your Business?

 

When someone gives me a hard time - be it a colleague, an employee, a partner, a friend or a stranger, before reacting, I ask myself one question: ‘Is it any of my business?’

I usually don’t react.

What that question does is show you whether this person’s problem or drama has got anything to do with you.

95% of the time it has nothing to do with you and it is just them having a bad day or, if it is a closer relationship, it is often the other party living out their childhood and past traumas.

It’s very rare that it is really about you.

And, if it is, then you take appropriate action. Having paused and assessed how much of your business it is.

But, when it isn’t about you, and you consciously realise this, you are able to step away from it and have some  distance.

A reaction vacuum.

The only way to get to bed calm is to not engage with the other people’s drama, and then, of course, your own.

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How to Use Travelling to Upgrade Your Thinking - EPISODE 10

What if you looked at travelling as a way of expanding your mind and thinking, a tool to help you become aware of your system of beliefs, your judgments and your ideas, and to call these all into question?

In this episode from Melbourne, I share how you can do it.

Watch more videos: http://goo.gl/Lm7CRa

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What's Your Intention For Today? - EPISODE 9

 What’s your intention for today?

Our every action, every word, every decision have an intention behind them. It is either conscious or subconscious.

If you are not aware of your intentions and don’t set them consciously, the subconscious takes over and rules your day, your year, your life.

From a rooftop in Singapore, I share how you can work out what your intentions are.

Watch more videos: http://goo.gl/Lm7CRa

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Do You Live By Magical or Chronological Time? - EPISODE 8


There are two types of time.

When you understand them both, you can choose HOW you experience life and even WHAT you experience.

I didn’t come up with the concept - the Greeks did.

However, understanding it, literally changed the way I live and see my life.

Watch here.

In real time.

Chronological time.

Make it magical.

I’m explaining how.

I’m explaining how from a boat on a Lithuanian lake.

Watch more videos: http://goo.gl/XAYbwf

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How & Why to Live From the Heart? - EPISODE 6

 I’ve been losing my voice and so had to take a forced break from filming new episodes. But let’s get going again. What’s the difference between living from the heart and living from the mind? A big one.  

In the first half of the video: I share how making choices from the heart helped me move to Bali, set up a number of businesses and live a more meaningful life.

In the second half of the video: I teach a powerful technique to help you silence your  mind, connect to your heart and see your life’s challenges and successes from that place.

Watch more videos: http://goo.gl/Lm7CRa

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