Yearning To Travel To Thailand On A Regular Basis
The last year solidified two things for me. First, I want to find a way to make money on my own and quit my job. Second, I want the time to travel more often, not only to Thailand, but around the world and also to visit my family. However the second can not happen until I’m successful at my first goal. And what I am learning is that the first goal is difficult to attain.
I’ve put a plan in place to start building up a second income, where I can work from anywhere in the world…oh and I’d have only me as the boss. There is a lot of hard work involved and when I set out, my goal was to quit my job by November. However I’ve already seen January slip away and February will still be gone with not a lot of progress. I think I’ve got the right formula, but I don’t sit down and do the work necessary. By the end of my regular work day I am so burned out that all I want to do is relax. If I do get to the computer I usually surf the web or do ‘research’ on my business instead of actually doing the work. This weekend I was supposed to put in two long ten hour days. Instead I did more ‘research’ and worked on my pet blog instead. I need to start making money now, and doing the work now, so that by November I will realize my goal of living in Thailand for 60 days.
I need to set myself some goals and hold myself to them. Daily Goals, Weekly Goals, and Monthly Goals. The problem lies when I get them down on paper the workload just seems so overwhelming, I’m not sure I can complete it. But I must try. I don’t want to look back in 9 months and see that I didn’t give it a real go, and I’m still in the same place I was at the beginning of the year. Instead I want to be sitting on a beach chair on Patong beach or in a beer bar in Pattaya thinking “I can’t believe I really did it!” But it’s going to take a lot of hard work and sleepless nights.
I think along with goal setting, getting organized, and I mean ultra anal, is going to become a necessity. I spent a fricken hour trying to find logins to my website today because I haven’t posted in so long. No organization equals wasted time. I also have a lot of little small items to do that fall through the cracks if I don’t keep track of them somewhere. Organization will be key.
I’m also going to try and set a new schedule for myself. My sleep patterns have been crap lately and it hasn’t helped my motivation or work ethic. I know, excuses, excuses. The new plan is to get up early, workout (I’m becoming a fat bast*$d), eat healthy and get to work by 8 am. I can then leave at 5pm – get some errands done then come home to concentrate on working my second job. I’m going to have to go balls to the wall for the next three months to catch up on to where I should be already and get ahead of the curve. But I think a full time income by November is still possible.
I need a way to keep motivated as well. I have placed a few pictures of my trips to Pattaya on my nightstand so I remember why I’m getting up everyday. I’m also going to frame a few more pictures of my Thailand vacations and put them on my desk and around my house so I have a constant visual reminder to get to work…I’m a visual person so this should help.
I just need to make this happen. I’ve already invested the money and I’m getting close to $1,000 in the hole. I need to make that money back and then some. Well enough about this. I’m going to make my yearning to travel to Thailand on a regular basis a reality. I need to get off this blog and get to work.
