Well… I just love it.

The moment I understood the concept of Simplicity and applying it, my life changed.
I will talk about that alot in the future.

It is about macheting down the jungle of information overload and eliminating the perfectionist inside.
Don’t misunderstand though: I always and still do believe in the power of QUALITY! Just that to achieve quality, it is not always neccessary to exhaust yourself, others and the idea you are working on by sticking to perfectionism.

By talking about simplicity, I mainly talk about doing things one-by-one whilst having the goal in mind and clearly defined.

As said, I will talk much more about it here in the near future.
For now, I at least changed the layout of my blog to become even more simple and easy to read.
I will test some more font-styles, but am pretty sure the current design is very easy to read. Cool abouit it: If you click to read a whole article, it opens without a sidebar!

Some may say that’s not good for navigation purposes. I say: It’s perfect for focusing on THAT article you read at the moment and not being distracted by more options.

I will let you know how I work on implementing Simplicity in my business workflow-systems in following posts. You’ll get real-life examples.

Have a great weekend!

Norman

You may have noticed the last posts almost all were about James Brausch.
Well, I think I found a reason.

I just listened to his “LifeManagement 101″ Audio CD and found out he just has very similar thoughts about life.

Maybe, if we meet someone (be it in person or virtual, how I met James on his blog…), your subconscious mind checks similarities to that person by scanning all it can get to compare to your mindset. That may be text, topics, videos, thought, anything.

Well, James seems to be a crazy guy (what 98% people would say ;o) and I seem to be.
I tell you: HE’s not!

He does one thing so super-right (if he really does how he says) that most so-called “gurus” preach, but I would bet most of THEM never put into action.
James understands WHY he chose the internet to make it his road to freedom (he defines “freedom” better on the Audio-CD!).
That reason is:

Family!

I couldn’t agree more.
And I always knew it. In fact, i have some other entrepreneur friends and some of them work on the internet. If you talk to people like that, many times the discussion goes to “Why are we doing what we do?” “What makes us different?”.
And you know what? Even if they work the same tasks like me (some of them), want to make money with the same tools like me (Selling other people’s products, create own products, build a list, etc…), they always answer this question different than me.

If you ask me today:
“Norman, why are you so eager to get your name out there, to develop products, take risks, test stuff * and sit in front of yur computer?”

*(I LOVE testing! BTW: Did you see that Google Website Optiomizer is now out of beta-status and FREE for everyone in their Adwords-Accounts? It’s fuckin’ FREE! That tool is so awesome, it honestly made me thousands over the last 3-4 months! It’s Taguchi-Testing for Dummies! You HAVE to USE it!)

Back to the topic:
So my answer would be:
“I am doing this because very soon, I want to do nothing else than to spend time with my loved wife, my kid (which will be born late summer this year! I can’t wait!! ) and my garden. I love green grass , blue sky, a reading a good book in a hammock and have a barbecue with friends & family (WITHOUT having to go to work tomorrow!).”

So, let’s sum this up:
I do what I do just and only for the purpose to FREE MY TIME!
I know I am not where I want to be with my income yet, so I still work. But I will work less and less, year by year.
My dream is to stop working. Or just doing it for fun & charity in the future. As soon as possible.

And you know what the other guys I mentioned say:
“Hey, we want to get THIS done to start THAT and then do the next project and: WE JUST LOVE TO WORK!”

Honestly, what’s the point?
You LOVE work? You LOVE being away from your family? Why do you have one?

I have to admit, there may be relationships that are not as wonderful as the one I have, but please people > Solve it or divorce! And then focus on LIVING again.

I truly NOT believe that we are here on planet earth for working our asses off!

Conclusion:
If you are a newbie to Internet Marketing or just started or are in the middle of it and realize you just have no time for yourself, family and fun anymore, I very much hope that this is temporary to get your initial momentum.

Think of time as a health supplement. Get the most of it for yourself in your own life.

In any case, James’ Audio is a good introduction to the theory of making your life YOURS (again) while still making money.

Here’s the link to his course again (NO affiliate link and it’s only $10 for the CD!):

http://www.jamesbrausch.com/?p=435

Have a great day everyone!
I love life. Not money. And not work.
Norman Freeman