I always wanted my lifestyle business to be something fun and exciting! I was a dreamer and dreamed of being in the movies. My favourite movie stars were Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan – Yep I was a martial arts fan!
I started with the martial arts at around 8 years old when my Dad took me and my brother to Judo classes. Later on I studied Karate and Tae Kwon Do. It was nothing like what Bruce Lee did though and I wanted to know how he got so skilful! I later found Wing Chun Kung Fu: Bruce Lee’s original style. After studying many more styles, I found a good Wing Chun instructor, so stuck with it.
My Lifestyle Business – Wake Up Call
Eventually the time came for me to get a job. It was a real bummer. I was living this fantasy of being in the movies when reality hit. No body cared for my far-fetched dreams and I was soon in the dog-house. Having been dragged through the school system my dreams were pretty much kicked out of me by then too! “Get a real job, grow up and join the rest of society” – was the general message; not if I could help it!
I dropped out and bummed around for several years before meeting a stuntman who had been on James Bond films. I knew this was what I had to do, so I went about doing it!
It took me several years before I got my first paid stunt gig, on a film called Enduring Love doubling Rhys Ifans.
Get A Real Job They Said
My lifestyle business didn’t come about until several years later. I was enjoying the stunt work when it came in, but I spent much of my time working low paid jobs in between, wishing and hoping for more stunt work. The constant pattern of unemployment, juggling jobs and feast and famine eventually took it’s toll on me.
Life was slowly slipping away and I was losing that joy and excitement for life which was once so prevalent. Relationships suffered and I was going nowhere. Maybe they were right – I should get a real job!
Instead I looked for something else. I looked for my lifestyle business. I wanted a business which could give me the same freedom I already (kinda) had, but with more flexibility and less stress. If I could earn an income from the internet, I would be able to live without a boss, a job and still do the stunt work when it came in. I looked at many lifestyle business ideas which proclaimed amazing results but which didn’t get me anywhere.
I eventually found this video of Stuart Ross (click below) and knew it was a sign!
My Lifestyle Business – The SFM
I met Stuart Ross after joining the SFM (Six Figure Mentors) in 2014. I also me co-founder Jay Kubassek (see below). At this point in my life I was already studying online marketing and in particular I had found a business model known as affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a revenue sharing model which lets anyone promote products over the internet and earn commissions based on the sales.
Certain products paid more than others, in particular digital products paid the best commissions. See lifestyle business ideas.
The SFM taught me how to choose the best products to promote and earn in multiple ways through the best strategies. See lifestyle business mentors.
They’ve got an amazing community of entrepreneurs too, who help and support each other. Here’s a picture of one of the Q and A webinars of us masterminding together.
Wanna be part of this amazing community and learn how to build your own online business? Just sign up on this website for the free workshop series and you can be!
My Lifestyle Business
My lifestyle business lets me work from anywhere, earn from my laptop and create more time and financial freedom to do the things I choose to do. The question is, what does your lifestyle business look like?
