Wouldn’t you like to become location independent and work from anywhere in the world right from your laptop?

Most people probably would.

If I were a smart man I would sell you this information, but I’m stupid and I’m going to give it to you for free.

What is location independence, anyway?

Location independence is a cool buzzword that means you make money from the internet and you do some travelling.

So what’s the secret to becoming location independent? It must be really hard to make all that money to afford traveling all the time, huh?

Before I tell you the secret, let me go over a few things with you….

Location independence doesn’t really mean you can work from anywhere in the world, any time. What location independence really means is that you can work from a 3rd world country or countries.

The vast majority of location independent bloggers do not make very much money by western standards. They are not flying back and forth from New York City to London to Paris to Sydney.

Location independent entrepreneurs spend most of their time in Southeast Asia or South America.

Why do they spend their time in Southeast Asia and South America?

Because it’s very, very cheap to live and spend time in those countries, those countries are fun, and location independent entrepreneurs can’t afford to live in high priced countries.

How much does it cost to live in Southeast Asia or South America?

A whole lot less than you probably make every two weeks.

You can live in and travel around Southeast Asia and South America for between $500-$1,000 USD per month. And you can live very well on that money, way better than the locals.

Which is great because most location independent entrepreneurs make between $500-$1,000 USD per month.

That’s the secret.

You don’t have to make very much money to live very well in those countries.

How do location independent entrepreneurs make their money?

That’s easy. They have blogs and ebooks, just like this article, that they sell to you so you can learn how to become location independent just like them. For only $39.95 per month you can learn how to become location independent just like them!

Being “Location Independent” is their job. That’s how they make their money.

Do you want to become location independent?

Great! All you have to do is make the decision, and then sell yourself, your articles, your e-books, your forum, your whatever to other people who also want to become location independent.

How can I do that?

First, you start by learning the ins and outs of blogging. Check out the No Bullshit Guide to Making Money Online and use the resources to start your first blog(s).

If you are new to internet work then you will need some time to learn before you jump on a plane to the Philippines.

But it can be done, and it can be done quite quickly if you put in the time and effort.

Making $500-$1,000 per month is chump change and any person reading this article can do it. The question is do you want to?

There are much better ways to make money than by becoming a location independent entrepreneur.

But there are no other ways, that I know of, to go and travel the world and have it paid for.

How can you get started?

Think of it like this: People want information. What information can you provide?

Everyone is an expert in something. Everyone has particular hobby they are knowledgable about.

If not, then you can learn about something and write about your findings.

Turn it into a nice package and sell it.

A monetized blog(s) or website(s) is one avenue on the path to financial freedom.

It will take some work to get there and that’s why you need to start now.

Should you start a blog or a website?

If you are brand new to running a website then you should start a blog.

If you have no blog ideas then you can blog about your progress on 30 Days of Discipline.

That will give you a solid month of posts so you can learn the ins and outs of blogging.

To learn how to start a blog or website read The No Bullshit Guide to Making Money Online.

Why should you blog about 30 Days of Discipline?

Because blogging and writing about it will give you incentive to not muck up your progress.

Maybe you will like blogging and maybe you won’t but it’s a start. You have to start somewhere.

If you want to make art then you can make art and not pay attention to business.

If you want to make money then you need to keep your eye on the prize and blog with business in mind.

You do not have to start a blog, but remember - there is money on the internet. Do you want a piece if it? And do you want the freedom that comes with it?

If you don’t want to start a blog or website that’s cool. There is more than one way to skin a cat. But tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life. What are you going to do? What are you going to start? And how will you do it?

An accountability partner is someone you share your plans and ‘must-do’ tasks with.

Your accountability partner holds your feet to the fire and makes sure you complete what you said you would complete.

An accountability partner is someone who gives you encouragement when you need it, motivation to finish your tasks, and a boot to the ass when you don’t finish what you were supposed to finish.

An accountability partner is like a gym partner: he’s there to spot you on bench press, he’s there to yell at you to “push that weight up!“, he’s there to give you a helping hand on the last rep or two, and he’s there to tell you “you had way more in you! You better finish that set next time! Now spot me, I gotta hit 12 reps no matter what.”

An accountability partner is a person you do not want to let down.

With an accountability partner you must have something to lose for the plan to work.

If you respect you accountability partner a great deal then the friendly competition is enough fire to keep you going.

You can make friendly bets with your accountability partner. For example: “If I don’t finish this I’ll give you a crisp $20 bill.”

An accountability partner is there to call you on your bullshit. If you say “..well, I didn’t finish because of this and that..” you accountability partner is there to say “Brother, that’s bullshit. You know it’s your own damn fault.”

When you finish your big goals your accountability partner is there to say “That’s great, brother! I’m damn proud. What’s next on the horizon?”

An accountability partner can be a friend, a brother, a father, or even an internet stranger. But it’s got to be someone that will hold your feet to the fire.

You can meet up on Saturday nights to drink some Whiskey, go over everything accomplished that week (person who didn’t accomplish buys drinks), go over next week’s plans and action items, and then go holler at some beautiful blonde babies.

You can meet up for breakfast, lunch, or dinner and go over plans. Who ever didn’t accomplish what they said they would accomplish buys.

You can smoke cigars and go over plans after a Saturday Barbecue.

You can fire off e-mails Sunday evening / Monday morning to your accountability partner and review everything that has happened this week and what needs to happen next week.

You can fire off e-mails first thing every morning to detail what you must accomplish that day.

It doesn’t matter if you meet in person, speak over the phone, or use e-mail to review your plans and action-item lists, but e-mails are a must to send off your daily must-do list.

The goals have to got to be specific and clear. Nothing like “I have to be more confident“. More like “I have to say ‘hello’ to every beautiful blonde baby I see“.

I’ve got to get my company website going this week…

I’ve got to follow up leads on at least 10 new clients…

I’ve got to hit the pavement and drum up some business…

I have to specifically do such and such…

I’ve got to accomplish or die this week.

You’ve got to do the same for your partner.

You’ve got to hold their feet to the fire. Make sure they do what said they were going to do.

If they don’t accomplish what they set out to they’ve got to give you that $20, buy your whiskey, or, even worse, they lose their pride and got to gain it back.

You don’t need an accountability partner, but having one can be a nice asset in your motivation and accomplishment arsenal and can help to fully visualize and realize your goals.

Even better than having someone hold your feet to the fire is the active review you must do of your plans. The simple act of seeing your plans, speaking your plans, or typing your plans and the plan to accomplish them can make productivity sky-rocket. ‘To-do’ lists are an absolute must and having an accountability partner is a way to insure you prepare your all important ‘to-do’ list every week.

The people who love to go to the gym and train alone won’t need an accountability partner.

The people who like having a gym partner will have use for an accountability partner.

Other people will fall in between. Experimentation is key to finding what is way to be productive.

The accountability partner system is based on the Honor Code. Honor is for men. If your accountability partner has no honor and lies to you to avoid the shame of losing then you’ve got to find a new one. The system cannot work without honor.

The accountability partner system is a way to keep your feet to the fire and accomplish all those small goals that build up to something big.

Keep your BIG goals to yourself. That’s for you and only you. After you put your plans into action is when you are allowed to talk about them. Never talk about big plans before they have been put into action. That’s what motormouths do. That’s what talkers do. That’s not what walkers do.

With the big plans you are your own accountability partner. You’ll hold your own feet to the fire and you’ll do or die because that’s how it’s done.

What time did you wake up this morning?

What was the first thing you thought about this morning?

What was the last thing you thought about before you went to bed last night?

Did you spend your evening watching TV?

Did you go out to eat and drink last night?

Have you cut down your expenses to the bare minimum?

Do you keep buying things on credit?

Do you live within your means, above your means, or below your means?

What one thing did you do today to further your business?

What one thing did you do yesterday to further your business?

What one thing will you do tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after, and the day after to further your business?

Do you read everything about your industry that you can get your hands on?

Do you spend your time living vicariously through other entrepreneurs and not doing any work?

Are you on internet forums picking the brains of successful people in your industry?

Do you think you can actually start a business working 4 hours per week?

Do you work on your business on your lunch break from your job?

Do you waste time with your going-nowhere friends trying to come up with ideas for a business?

How many daily phonecalls do you make regarding your business?

How many e-mails do you send every day regarding your business?

Are you content with your 9-5 job or do you feel contempt for your 9-5 job?

Are you just playing? Are you just bullshitting? It’s ok if you are. All you have to do is quit pretending to be an entrepreneur. If you’re going to quit anyway, there is no better time to quit than right now. Get rid of the heartbreak and hassle of starting your own business, you can go to work for someone else and live for the weekends. Just say the words “I quit” and you’ll never again wonder why you can’t get your business off the ground.

The internet is a wonderful, phenomenal tool. One of the greatest inventions of all time.

Anything you want, the internet can provide.

Anything you want to learn you can learn online. The knowledge of the world is free to all or comes at a small price.

But we take it too far. We all do. We spend our time playing on social networking sites and pretending we’re cooler than we are, or we spend our time complaining on social networking sites. Or we spend our time looking at pornography. Or we spend 3 hours watching funny videos.

We spend our time in a fake world, a fake reality, talking to a computer screen, talking to other fakers sitting behind their computer. We walk outside and instead of saying hello to a pretty girl we bury ourselves in our phones, and it’s just as well because she’s even more obsessed with her fantasy.

All that time spent on baloney could be used to learn or earn. On the internet we can learn how to earn. Any industry we want to know about we can find on the internet. Any company we want to connect with we can find on the internet. Any industry we want to break into we can find on the internet. Anything we want to sell we can sell on the internet.

The first step to saying goodbye to the nine-to-five jive is research, research and more research and it can all be done form the internet. Learn, learn, learn until it’s time to earn, earn, earn.

We could learn from it and then put our plan into action and earn from it.

All that wasted time spent on baloney could be used to advance our freedom from the nine-to-five jive.

If you can’t learn from it or earn from it then burn it. Let it go. Light it on fire and watch it die. It’s a waste of time and it’s a waste of life.

If it has no tangible, positive results then burn it up.

Leave the social networking sites for the lonely people, for the lost people. It’s for the narcissists. It’s for the people who have nothing else. They can have it. Unless you can earn from it you don’t need it.

The old friends worth connecting with aren’t playing around on social networking sites all day. The ones who actively use social networking use it for whining, complaining, cry-baby’ing, and ego boosting.

They live online, but online living is no living at all.

Internet stars actively promote social networking for one very important reason - they earn from it. It gives them tangible results. It’s a cash cow because of all the people spending every day and night obsessed with their fantasy world. What the average Joe doesn’t know is that social networking is a big, big money-maker for the internet entrepreneurs.

“But it’s a great way to connect with friends and family!”

No it isn’t. People connected with friends and family for a really long time before the internet. Social networking is a great way for smart people to make a whole lot of money. That’s what it’s for and that’s how a smart person should use it.

There are three kinds of users of all social networking sites:

a) Earners: Big Dogs who make Big money from the social networking sites and who have the most followers

b) Learners: Small Dogs who are actively trying to become Big Dogs, they’re learning from the Bog Dogs how to do it

c) Cash Cows: People handing out money without even knowing it, the smart people capitalize on the cash cows

E-mail is a perfectly efficient way to say “hi” to friends and family and leaves plenty of free time to learn and earn.

The internet can be a tool of freedom or a vicious slave-master. Choice is ours. We know how the smart people use it. You could the the man behind the screen making the money or you can be the man in front of the screen handing out your money without even knowing it. There’s ass to kick on the internet - if you aren’t the kicker then you’re the one getting kicked. Leave the positive and cut out the baloney.

If you can’t learn or earn from it, baby, it’s time to burn it.

Coming Soon: BOLD & DETERMINED is going tell you how to make money on the internet.