This is a copy of my email newsletter sent at the end of a month living and working in Bali. The wonderful thing about creating your own business today is that you can design it to be portable. All you need is a laptop computer, a mobile phone, and a WiFi connection, and you can [...]
Archive for the ‘How to play your way to the rich life (Secret 10)’ Category
5 steps to being brilliant (without being a jerk)
Posted by John on August 8th, 2010
I’m just back from a 5-day break in Sicily at a remarkable boutique hotel. Every so often in our lives we are lucky enough to happen upon something truly brilliant – a restaurant, a hotel, a home. It may be grand or simple, but everything is just right – the food, the decor, the location, [...]
Pablo Picasso on charging what you’re really worth
Posted by John on May 21st, 2010
One of the great challenges of getting paid to play is learning how to charge what you’re really worth. Unless you master it, you’ll always struggle to make the income you deserve. I have a good record for doing this (see How to become a £1000/day consultant) but I think Picasso really had it nailed [...]
Catch yourself feeling rich
Posted by John on May 20th, 2010
One day in the course of writing Screw Work, Let’s Play, I found myself sitting outside in the London sunshine at a Thai restaurant with a friend. As we sipped Lemongrass tea and discussed her imminent move to America to further her acting, the conversation turned to money and doing what you love. I said [...]
How to be idle (and still be a success) – a video interview with Tom Hodgkinson
Posted by John on May 19th, 2010
Your vision of the rich life might not be about huge amounts of money. It might be having lots of free time that’s more important to you – just as Tom Hodgkinson discovered. Tom is editor of bi-annual magazine The Idler and author of several excellent books including How To Be Idle, How To Be [...]
Internet Entrepreneur Daniel Wagner on creating a location independent lifestyle
Posted by John on May 18th, 2010
Not that many years ago Daniel Wagner was working as a Pizza delivery boy. Now he’s created a successful business that he can run from anywhere in the world. So he decided to take the opportunity to leave England and go live in the sun in Cyprus. He recorded this great video on the plane [...]
Meet the man who travels the world and gets paid doing it – the Chris Guillebeau interview
Posted by John on May 17th, 2010
Chris Guillebeau makes a full-time living from his blog The Art of Non Conformity while travelling the world on his mission to visit every country on Earth. Last year he very kindly agreed to be interviewed for my book Screw Work, Let’s Play and share a little of what’s made his lifestyle possible. Chris, how do [...]
How I created the 50 million selling game Jenga – by Leslie Scott
Posted by John on May 13th, 2010
Leslie Scott created one the world’s favourite games, Jenga, so I was delighted when she agreed to be interviewed for my book Screw Work, Let’s Play. Here, she explains how she turned her baby brother’s playing bricks into the world’s second biggest selling game (topped only by Monopoly). She also explains how she kept going through [...]
How to become a £1000/day consultant
Posted by John on April 26th, 2010
My last full-time job was Senior Managing Consultant at Deloitte and I quit to become an independent consultant. My plan was to charge double my daily income at Deloitte so I could take half my time off to do more creative things. In the end I quadrupled my daily income (earning over £1000/day) and only [...]
