Lifestyle Design Makeovers and Stories of the New Rich
Wow it just so happens that not too long ago Tim Ferriss, did a post with a contest for the idea that I had for this blog. The idea is simple. Find the new rich. Interview them. He has a lot of neat stories (videos) on his blog here: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/12/22/cold-remedy-free-flights-anywhere-in-the-world-plus-live-qa-tonight/
“Your personal growth depends on breaking out of this reality, that’s why I propose we let go of our goals and start unleashing our dreams.”
- Brandon James
He said some seriously deep stuff in his last post like: “The thing that we don’t get is that the word responsible translates to “response able”, or the ability to respond to events and circumstances. Building a life of stability and safety is making it so we never need to respond to anything.” I expect that he’s going to be one of the thought leaders of Gen-Y.
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(I think I’ll leave the malfunctioning YouTube video right here.)
(Should have known to use Vimeo after four YouTube fails.)
I just noticed that I have been adding little to no commentary on some of these video so if you don’t have twenty minutes to learn how Justin Wright made the transition from wage slave to digital nomad and entrepreneur, here are the highlights and summary of the main points.
Highlights:
Justin’s Advice:
I should note that Justin and another entrepreneur I recently interviewed both had skills for the new economy. Justin is the expert on Wordpress and is dangerously knowledgeable about SEO. Colin (interview to come), is an expert at personal branding and web design and graphic design. I study internet marketing and copywriting and I know a little bit about SEO, but I when I reach expert status in these areas I will be able to live where I want and do what I want.
What do you love or what have you decided to be the expert on?
Justin Wright is the founder of ZoopMedia, a company devoted to all things WordPress. He runs a digital nomad blog called Life of Justin and offers a variety of paid Wordpress services. He also has free Wordpress tutorials available to help those just starting out. His mission is to live a life of minimalism, adventure, and to help others do the same.
I think that this presentation that Timothy Ferriss did at the TED conference in 2008 really explains who he is and some of the strategies outlined in The Four Hour Workweek which has become the bible of lifestyle design.
My favorite quote from the lecture is: (Fear is Your Friend) “A lot of time it shows you want you shouldn’t do, more often than not it shows you exactly what your should do.”
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So…it took me a while to get this up. Let’s see, I recorded this on Saturday so that’s one, two, three, four, five days later that I’m actually getting this post up for you all. I’m just going to share what my personal experience has been with this one. With the little mastermind that I have started in my local area of “big thinkers” and entrepreneurial types I have found all the resources, advice, and encouragement that I could possible need to get my business up and running.
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Man some people just inspire the hell out of you! I mean, their stories just make you want to pack all your excuses into a trunk and drop them into a lake. This guy Tellman Knudson’s story just made me go, “What!!! I guess I am lazy…” This guy was born with a condition that caused him to be severely pigeon-toed. And he did something about it.
Kind of like Joseph Pilates. He rejected the fact that his condition would limit him and then worked his tail off until he was in a league of his own. For Tellman, this meant cross-country running. He ran until his legs straightened out. For Pilates it meant overcoming rickets and training every muscle in his body to work together.
Now he’s Something near and dear to my heart. Well he tells his story better than I do:
That’s right he’s raising $100,000,000 dollars for a charity that helps homeless children.
Running clear across America barefoot costs a lot of money apparently, and I only just heard about the adventure because Tellman Knudson happens to be one of the top authorities on list-building, and I am an avid student of marketing. So he created an absolutely, draw-doppingly, awesome offer with a few other marketers to fund his run across the states and raise that $100 mill. for charity.
I couldn’t resist; I just had to snap it up and blog about it to boot, Check It Out:
http://budurl.com/fundtherun
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Just Because Viddler Let Me Down, I’m Reposting This With Youtube Embeds.
Every Once In a While You Happen Upon Someone That Truly Gets It:
A resolution I made in December when I created this blog was to spend more time taking in positive messages and really reprogramming myself (from all the negative thinking that bombards us daily.) This guy really gets personal development so I’ll definitely be listening in more to what he has to say.
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For about 20 minutes I had the opportunity to grill serial entrepreneur, Greg Rollett on starting out in lifestyle design. What I found out is that he not only talks the talk, but he walks the walk. He’s not only the founder of Rock Star Lifestyle Design, he’s a real social media expert that has done Gen-Y Marketing consulting for for Disney, Coca-cola, and Miller Brewing Company. He’s been interviewed as a personal branding expert on the Orlando evening news for the Employment Guide; he’s created the coolest non-profit that I’ve heard of to help the homeless in his area, Rock for Hunger; he lives to help others succeed: indie musicians and Gen-Y-ers that want to design life on their own terms. I caught up with him at the end of December 2009 just in time to hear about another project of his: the Rockstar Business Series for 20-somethings that want help starting out online.
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