John Jonas Blog» lifestyle http://www.jonasblog.com John Jonas on Living The 4-Hour Workweek Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:24:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright 2003-2009 John Jonas John Jonas On living the 4-Hour Workweek No No My First Trip To The Philippines http://www.jonasblog.com/my-first-trip-to-the-philippines http://www.jonasblog.com/my-first-trip-to-the-philippines#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:30:47 +0000 John http://www.jonasblog.com/?p=944 I’ve had GUYS in the Philippines for about 4 years now.

This was my FIRST trip!

You don’t have to go there to make it work. That’s one of the great things about the Philippines.

While I was there for 2.5 days I recorded quite a bit of video of my observations and experience.

I then sent all the (HD) video to one of my GUYS (whom I hired because he spoke english) and he edited it and put this video together (he really didn’t have other skills except english when I hired him 4 years ago…now he can do anything!).

16 minutes of learning, treachery, kidnapping, disaster, running out of gas, and just good fun!

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If (WHEN!) you get a chance to go and meet your GUYS, please take it. You’ll have a blast, and your relationship with them will change for the better forever.

]]> http://www.jonasblog.com/my-first-trip-to-the-philippines/feed 270 What I do VS. What actually gets done http://www.jonasblog.com/what-i-do-vs-what-actually-gets-done http://www.jonasblog.com/what-i-do-vs-what-actually-gets-done#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:56:14 +0000 John http://www.jonasblog.com/?p=767 Here’s what I’ve done for the past 24 hours:

  • Checked my email
  • Talked with my partner Dan
  • Wrote a blog post
  • Wrote 2 emails to be sent to my mailing lists
  • Used jing to make an explanation video
  • Played golf
  • Chatted with a few of my GUYS in the Philippines
  • Ate dinner, played with my kids, practiced more golf in my backyard, …
  • Read a book (it was only 130 pages)
  • Slept
  • Ate, got ready, played with my kids, went to the LDS temple
  • Had a meeting with someone who wanted help
  • Played Golf
  • And am now writing this blog post (it’s 11:56am)

Here’s what actually got done in the past 24 hours:

  • Email got filtered, checked, and responded to
  • 2 domains got bought
  • A squeeze page, sales page, and website got put up
  • An autoresponder series got put into aweber, along with sales emails getting inserted into them
  • The 90 minute call I did a few weeks ago with ReplaceMyself.com members got partially transcribed
  • 2 blog posts got done on my affiliate sites
  • A new test version of one of my sites got created…I haven’t seen it yet, I just heard it’s done
  • My golf game improved
  • One of my GUYS learned a ton about the inner workings of wordpress while creating a new theme for me

All of these things were done by my GUYS in the Philippines. 100% without me (except for the golf and email).

Hiring GUYS in the Philippines is the way to go if you work from home and actually want to be productive in your business.

Hiring GUYS in the Philippines is NOT optional.

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Maybe not around the lifestyle you currently have, but around the lifestyle you want to have.

If you design your business around your lifestyle, it makes making decisions in your business much easier (“should I do this? Does it fit my lifestyle? No! Ok, decision made.”)

I did a 50 minute interview with Sterling and Jay from Internet Business Mastery specifically about lifestyle design.

They have the #1 podcast on iTunes for the keywords “Internet Business” and “Internet Marketing”. If you ask me, that right there tells you that they know what they’re doing.

On the call they touched on:

  • Getting a podcast to the top of iTunes
  • Using your business as a vehicle for accomplishing your goals
  • How to avoid creating a 2nd job for yourself
  • Why MONEY can’t be your ultimate goal
  • Why outsourcing has to be part of your business
  • Why your job is wholesaling your time
  • Turning your life’s passion into a business
  • Building rabid buyers who come back time and time again
  • Creating Systems in your business so you don’t have to work IN your business

Listen to (or Download) the call here:

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To get started designing your lifestyle, get Jay and Sterlings 3 Pillars Mini-Course FREE Audio.

Once you understand outsourcing redefined, all of this becomes very, very possible.

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