Warning – Read This Before Starting An Online Business

When I started my own Internet journey in 2005, I wasn’t really thinking about financial freedom or earning lots of money.

I thought about sharing my knowledge of tennis with the world – and have more people benefit from what I have learned.

Therefore, I did not have a set amount of how much I want to earn. I just wanted to publish my brain.

So there was not this “catch” in my mind: if I invest this much time and effort into this, then I would expect such and such reward (money). Read more

Taking Full Responsibility For Your Life

Those of you who use Chitika ads on your sites have undoubtedly noticed that Chitika earnings dropped in recent months.

The company has taken a different approach (it does not really matter what they are up to) and that results in much lower income for most publishers.

For example, I earn around 60-70% from what I used to.

After this change I got a few e-mails from people asking me what had happened and there were lots of complaints. I found a bunch of negative forum and blog posts about Chitika and how it “sucks” now.

The underlying message of all these messages was that Chitika is responsible for poor income and emotional state of these publishers.

In other words, “It is Chitika’s fault that I do not earn enough and I do not feel well.” Read more

Money Making Mindset For Entrepreneur Success

I recently got an email from Amy from who asked me a few questions about my money mindset and entrepreneurial success – and I thought it would be interesting to share.

There are so many negative beliefs around money that cause us to self-sabotage our progress and keep us stuck at the same monthly income for years.

While just changing beliefs can’t just magically manifest money in your lap, it’s crucial to have positive attitude towards money if we want to have a great income and be financially free. Read more

Why Focusing On Saving Money Doesn’t Work – And What Your Intention Should Be

As I browse various websites on financial freedom, it strikes me that so much focus is put on ways to save money.

In fact, there’s more focus on saving money than there is on earning more money.

I personally think that’s a wrong approach for two reasons:

1. If you think about saving money, then you’ll definitely see yourself lacking money at some point in the future. You assume that you need to save money now so that you will have it when problems arise.

You’re already creating problems in your mind, which creates issues in the future, AND that puts you in a state of stress all the time – anticipating something negative to happen at some point. Read more

Happy And Prosperous 2008

Thanks to everyone reading and commenting in 2007!

It sure was one of the most exciting years in my life and I’m glad to have shared some of my experiences with other people.

I wish you all to sooner or later achieve financial and personal freedom and enjoy your life to the fullest.

I’ll be posting the winners of the “comment contest” soon so stay in touch and thanks again for all the Stumbles, links, del.icio.us bookmarks and other ways of supporting Freedom Ideas blog.

Talk to you next year…

My Journey To Freedom And Over $9000 Per Month

My online adventure started in May 2005 when I decided to have a personal website. I’ve read many tennis websites and found that, at least in my opinion, lots of instruction online was not that effective.

I wanted to share my ideas with more people than just a few kids on a court (who weren’t even really interested).

It never occurred to me at that time that my online business would help me to achieve financial freedom and freedom from being stuck in a job.

Learning To Walk In The Online World

I asked a friend who worked for an IT company to help me out, and he suggested a website design firm that would create a website for me.

The design, the ability to write text and upload pictures, cost $700. I thought I had a good deal.

Achieved Financial Freedom On 1st Of December 2007!

I have finally achieved financial freedom on 1st of December 2007!

The feeling hasn’t settled in yet, but I feel an incredible relief and peace of mind.

My mind keeps going into the future to check what I HAVE to do and there is nothing. No pressure, no deadlines and no work that I don’t like to do.

The only things that I see in the future are things that I WANT to do.

I am moving from Thailand back to Slovenia in 4 days where I’ll celebrate my freedom and financial independence with my family and friends.

This New Year will also be a special one since it will be all about NEW beginnings. It’s like I can start writing a new chapter in the book of my life.

I sincerely hope that you have this same powerful desire to achieve financial freedom and become totally independent of a regular job.

I am aware that this achievement is a product of my perseverance and burning desire to free myself, but I have a great deal to thank Ken Evoy, the whole team at www.sitesell.com and many SBI-ers who shared their advice in the SBI forums.

Thank you all!

P.S. I’ve outlined my journey towards financial freedom in the 10-step process:

1. Freedom Starts In The Mind
2. 5 Reasons to Follow Your Passion Instead of Money
3. How to Make Money Online and Enjoy Freedom
4. Ken Evoy and Site Build It
5. How to Write Content That Attracts Visitors And Natural Links
6. On-page Search Engine Optimization
7. Make Your Site Known – Link-Building Strategies
8. Intelligently Monetize Your Website
9. Test and Tweak To Maximize Your Website Income
10. Enjoying Financial Independence And Making The Best Of Yourself

“If you think you can do it, or you think you can’t do it, you are right.” Henry Ford

Only 29 Days To Freedom!

Great news! My contract at the tennis academy ends 1 month sooner than originally planned so I have only 29 days left to total freedom!

Basically I asked for an earlier leave since there are only a few kids here at the academy and I would like to plan my USA journey from my home. The boss had no problems with that.

And of course, it will be nice to celebrate new year with my friends and family.

I am planning a series of articles for the last 10 days before freedom. They will show you a 10 step plan to financial freedom and how I got to this stage.

On another note, my October monthly earnings have grown for 10% since September so I was only $452 short of my monthly income goal.

It seems I’ll have to raise the bar again. So… What was my monthly income goal?

Do You Want To Make More Money Online?

If you ask this question to internet marketers and bloggers most of them would give you a weird stare and say, “OF COURSE, man, what kind of question is that? ”

But if you then ask them WHY they want to make more money, you’ll often see a blank expression on their face accompanied with no immediate answer.

So many people get stuck in this more-money race that they completely lose sight of the big picture.

Think about it: money is either metal, paper, or numbers.

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