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Cash Rich… Lifestyle Poor

My friend and DJ Sean Gallagher runs an online business teaching people how to DJ. His business gives him the freedom to live anywhere in the world, and he built this lifestyle very intentionally.

Sean values freedom more than money. That’s one of the reasons we hit it off so well (that and because he lives in Mexico and spends a lot of time surfing).

Last week Sean related a story to me that I just had to share with you. It made me really appreciate what I have.

Money is nice, but freedom is priceless.

Here’s the story in Sean’s words…

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How to Live Off Your Passion

Does your work make you happy?

If not, you’re definitely not alone. You’ve probably heard the statistics: studies show that as many as 80% of people don’t enjoy their work.

I’m never surprised by those stats. For some reason our society encourages people to take “comfortable” (read: boring) jobs in support of missions they don’t really care about. I’d hardly expect anyone to be happy working under those conditions. I know I wasn’t.

Wouldn’t it be great to do something you really love for a living? Do you feel like you have more to offer the world than working at your current job?

Discovering Your Passion and Making a Living from It

Today my friend Scott Dinsmore from Live Your Legend hopes to help you figure out what your passion is, and how to make a great career out of it.

Scott is one of the most enthusiastic and capable people I’ve gotten to know over the past year or so. Every time we talk, I leave feeling like I can take on the world. Somehow Scott knows how to get the best out of people.

Side note: Scott also has the uncanny ability to meet some of the most incredible entrepreneurs face-to-face. He’s had one-on-one conversations with people like Warren Buffet, Tim Ferriss, Gary Vaynerchuk, Seth Godin, Tony Robbins and more. Scott basically doesn’t believe in limitations and knows how to make big things happen in life. He has taught me a lot recently about creating genuine relationships with passionate people.

For the past few years Scott has studied, interviewed and done case studies on hundreds of folks around the world making a living off their passion.

He’s created a complete self-study course that combines the art of discovering your passion with the science of making money from it.

The course officially launches today, and Scott is offering a special 30% discount on the package for the next four days (see what’s included below).

Check out the course here: Live Off Your Passion: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Passion and Getting Paid to Do Work You Love

(Don’t mind the slightly cheesy sales page, Scott’s new to publishing guides like this. I’ll encourage him to create something a little less cheesy next time ;) )

Here’s what you’ll get with Live Off Your Passion:

  • A 200-page, 52,000 word PDF guide containing 25 modules
  • An in-depth step-by-step 72-page interactive accountability and action workbook to ensure results
  • A suite of online resources, tools and top websites for monetizing a passion
  • 14 expert video interviews (including one with yours truly, Leo Babauta, Jonathan Fields, Pam Slim, Michael Bungay Stanier, Lewis Howes, Jullien Gordon, Jenny Blake, Ray Zahab, Jonathan Mead, Scott Fox, Barrie Davenport, Adam Baker) and case studies from some of the top bestselling authors, entrepreneurs and coaches on and off the web exposing their specific strategies for living off passion
  • 3 bonus PDF reports on focus, time management and outsourcing 101
  • A mini eBook especially for the ‘lifetime employee’ on how to find passion in your current job
  • Over $360 in real product bonuses from other businesses and entrepreneurs (these are pretty incredible bonuses)
  • The “The Discover Your Passion Guarantee” – if you don’t find a passion and start making money from it within 6 months, get your money back, no questions asked

Scott has poured so much into this project, I’m really excited for him and everyone who experiences it. This is a guide that could change your life, just as Scott has already changed mine: by helping you live life as a grand experiment and adventure. I’ve never met anyone who cares so much about helping people discover and hone their passions as Scott.

Learn more about How to Live Off Your Passion here


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It’s Always Too Late

I had coffee with an entrepreneur yesterday who admitted how regretful he feels about not having started earlier on his entrepreneurial path.

Maybe you’ve had a similar thought before:

“What if I had started this when I was in my early 20s? Where would I be now? I feel like it’s just too late now.”

Here’s the bad news. It is too late. It’s always too late.

If your only concern is your current self and your world now, in this moment, then there are a bazillion things you could have done differently in the past to have changed your fate today.

But most of us don’t just live in the present. Just as you lived through the past, up until this moment, you’ll also live until other moments in the future.

And that’s the person for whom it isn’t too late.

If your 30-year-old self is disappointed you didn’t start 5 years ago, won’t your 35-year-old self be ecstatic that you started today?

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“I Wish I Could Do That!”

“You’re so lucky!”

“I wish I could do that!”

“Must be nice!”

The new guide Dream, Save, Do by my friends Betsy and Warren Talbot starts out with those three lines.

Betsy and Warren have been traveling full time for over a year now, and have no plans of stopping anytime soon (they plan to be gone for at least three years). When they tell people about the life they’re living, they usually hear some variation of “I wish I could do that.”

It’s true, Betsy and Warren are lucky. They’re lucky to be alive and healthy and smart and to have been born in the free world. But that particular luck isn’t why they’re able to travel the world endlessly, living their dream.

Just a couple of years back, Warren and Betsy were living a pretty typical life. They both worked in successful big-company jobs that left them little time to enjoy life. Betsy was so busy and traveled so much that she couldn’t even join a book club with friends were she lived.

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Adventurous Entrepreneurship: “Geeking Out” on Mexico, Surfing, Wellness and Launching a New Blog with Doug Grootveld

My wife and I have a lot of people to thank for opening our eyes to a whole different way of living.

When we first took our sabbatical to Mexico back in 2009, dozens of people inspired us with stories of location independence and adventurous lifestyles.

Doug Grootveld and his wife Alison are two people at the top of that list. Doug and Alison have been spending winters in Mexico for the past 8 years. They’re not rich or retired or Internet moguls; they simply admitted what they wanted from life and figured out a way to make it happen.

That attitude rubbed off on us in a big way and we haven’t looked back since.

Doug is a certified acupuncturist and self-confessed “wellness geek.” He just launched a new blog called Wellness Renegade that I’m excited about because it combines Doug’s talent for healing people with his adventurous attitude towards living.

I captured this interview with Doug to share his inspiring story with you and ask him about the process of launching his new blog (especially because he’s a “non-techie” person, like many of you).

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