A new project...

Goals in life are important. They give you direction and purpose. Be they big or small, having something to aim towards makes existence worthwhile...

For me personally my goal for the last few years has been simple. See the world, have a good time, enjoy myself...

This time is, however, coming to an end... I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now or, perhaps more accurately, I can see the train approaching on the line!

I have always known that the day would come when I would have to hang up my back-pack and "get on with life". This means that I need new goals...

I was going to travel to South America after my time in Australia and travel around there for a while. However, a series of unexpected expenses, combined with some of the worst weather in Australia for a decade ruining the crops and farm work, have led to an inescapable conclusion. This being that I won't have the funds to fly to South America, travel around for a few months, and then fly back to the UK. My backup plan is to fly to South East Asia, spend a month or so enjoying myself there, and then flying back to the UK.

So... My new goals... I still really want to visit South America. Preferably fairly soon, so I need the means to do that. To this end I read a book recently called "The 4 hour Work Week". It is a guide to how to streamline your life and business, and make both location independent. In simple terms this means that you can live your life with minimum interference from work, and the little work that you do have to do can be done from anywhere in the world... (If you want more information on this book, which I strongly recommend reading, visit www.fourhourworkweek.com).

So my goal for the next year is to automate my life.  I want to have an income of around £2000 a month (or £500 a week), that is essentially self sustaining. The real goal at the end of this is to visit South America next year, and to not have to stop my income stream to do so. I have a few ideas for projects in the pipeline, which I'm not going to discuss on a public forum such as this, but if you want to discuss ideas with me then feel free to get in touch on facebook...


It is good to have plans... It is even better to have big plans!