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Working even when you are not at work

MFogarty

Published on November 21, 2016

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The goal of our working here is to be able to walk away from the "work" and still be able to earn a passive income. We strive to be able to work less in an office and put in the hours when we want to and where we want to. This is the driving force behind our going to work every day, to our getting out of bed every day, to even our opening our eyes ro face the day each day.

We wake and motivate ourselves to work so we can hope to work less in the future. If we are not the ones doing that in our lives then we are not in control of our lives. We work for someone else. We earn a paycheck from someone else's company. We work on their time clocks so we can get paid weekly or bi-weekly or in some cases even monthly.

These days (if they are working for someone else) are not so pleasant as we wear out our bodies and watch as age takes its toll on us. Our efforts are put into someone else's plans and they never go any further than the supervisor that we may tell in passing even if we are passionate about it.

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We can change all of that now. We can take charge of our lives and put the effort into our own businesses instead of someone else's business. We can put the energy and passion that we give out each day to others to ourselves and our business. In time,we can reap the rewards of our working for ourselves if we are persistent the way we were for our employers.

Be motivated for yourself. Be working hard for you and not someone else. Get your website(s) working for you so you do not have to go to work anymore if that is your goal. Find yourself seeking what you really want to seek out and not what you HAVE to seek out.

Learn to do things that you have not done before and do not be afraid to try them out after you have learned them. Take all the tools of the trade that we have been taught and use them the way we are supposed to. Decide to be the one that is working when you are not at work instead of being told when you have to be at work.

It will not be overnight but it will be one night. It may not be today but it will be one day. If you can keep your focus on your priorities to make your business(es) prosper then when the time comes, you will know what to do to move from the workplace to the penthouse. It is just a few extra clicks on the mouse and changes in attitude that gets you there.

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