What does your ideal business day really look like? Seriously.

• A 2-hour work day, 4 days a week
• Two hours each day on writing your next fictional book
• Daily family time with your children at school and home
• Longer and more frequent vacations, while your business still runs. In fact, your business is growing while you’re away.
• Bringing in more money than you did you last week.

How is this possible?

Define and design it.

Here’s a defining question for you…
“What would it take for my business to run and thrive, without me in it?”

Think about what you shouldn’t be doing. Especially those things many others can do better and faster. (And they can.)

Do you really want to implement search engine tactics? Email affiliate partners? Write articles? Build and test opt-in pages? Close sales on the phone?

What do you do best?

Work from, and build your business around, your strengths, and you’re on track to design the business of your dreams.

This requires you to do something that’s hard for most… Give up control of every single detail of your business.

“Do what you do best and outsource the rest,” says Peter Drucker.

If you happen to have a financially valuable skill, even better. Because you’ll bring in greater sales, the engine of your business, while working less and having more fun.

What’s a financially valuable skill?

Copywriting. Direct marketing. Anything that shows a measurable sales result. Of course, you can have someone else do that too.

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Now, here’s an important point you need to understand. If you grab hold of this ONE idea alone, your business will skyrocket.

When you’re working from your strengths, having fun, it sets up everyone else around you to do the same and raise their game.

When THAT happens, you attract more business and attention from others who wouldn’t have considered you before.

There’s a processional effect that’s magical.

People, prospects, partners, will come to you, instead of you trying to chase them. It’s beautiful to witness.

That’s the power of “define and design.”

- Andy

P.S. More to come. Tell me what you’d like to know more about… Enjoy your weekend.

I know…

You got into your own business for the freedom it gives you, being your own boss, creating a better lifestyle for you and your family.

I understand.

Then you got busy. Made some money. Liked it. Maybe even got addicted to seeing a return on your investment of time.

There it is…

Time = money.

If more time equals more money for you, then you have a job.

It’s not your fault. We’ve been conditioned since school days to plan to work for someone else.

But as a business OWNER, making one shift to overseeing the engine of your business… (translation: sales) can transform your life from getting by to thriving, no matter what’s going on in the economy.

Here’s the kicker…

YOU don’t have to be responsible for that department. You can find someone or a company to take that over for you.

As the business leader in your company, even if you’re working at home alone, all you need is one thing…

Vision.

The greatest transformation is how you see your business from its foundation on up.

The greatest trap is thinking that “small business” means small thinking.

Here’s one way to think differently…

How can you create more value in your market, than anyone else right now? What’s missing, lacking?

Answer that and you’ve found one way to supercharge your business virtually overnight.

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Later, I’m going to show you how working LESS can increase your business.

– Andy

He lived through two world wars, The Depression, civil rights, the Cold War, 59 years of marriage, had six children, four grandchildren, and held two of his five great grandchildren in his lifetime.

And he also raised me as his own son. Growing up, I would listen to him tell me of some horrific war stories, near fatal misses, life and death incidents, sharpshooter competitions, et al.

I didn’t quite understand why…why war was necessary. I had read much of it in the Old Testament in Sunday school. And still didn’t get it.

Then I started watching movies. Movies on Vietnam, World War II, various battles, civil wars. The one that REALLY hit home for me was Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan.* I actually watched this movie for the first time at George Lucas’ private THX theater on the Skywalker Ranch, a year after its release when it won awards for best sound, effects, film editing, cinematography, and director. And it was well deserved.

All 20 of us in that theater were speechless after watching it.

Thank you, Sir. Thank you for fighting for our freedoms in this world, even before I knew what was going on, before I was even born.

By “Sir,” I mean the men and women who fought for all of us. I’m Canadian. We fought side by side with many Americans during the two world wars, 1st Gulf War, and others. I salute you.

Remember. Be grateful. Thankful for what we have here in this part of the world.

- Andy

P.S. In the coming days I’ll be talking more about the principles I’ve learned from my father/grandfather about a life well-lived…a life of excellence. This will address everything from love and money to mind and body…the whole you. Stay tuned.

* Movie clip is RATED PG-13 for war violence

It’s better than winning the lottery because YOU did it. You did it YOUR way, like Sinatra. Feel it. Revel in it. Enjoy the moment…

…because that’s all it is…a moment. The moment you “arrive” is when it’s over. That goal you’ve been planning for, striving for, breaking your back for, is gone.

Here’s the good news…

The ultimate day arrives when you actually realize that life is not heading to a final destination, not even death, but a continuous journey. The question becomes, is it an exciting adventure or just another drab day that exists?

What’s been exciting in 2010?

In the past 12 months, I…

* Saw my eldest daughter graduate to middle (junior high) school
* Enjoyed and deepened my walk with God
* Took on a fitness routine I could actually do in 10 min
* Wrote the outline of my first feature film script
* Read more books than I ever have before
* Made new connections both personally and professionally and unexpectedly
* Took on my first $50,000+ client
* Produced my first award-winning film
* Started my first online marketing newsletter (The Golden Bullet)

Those were some of the highlights. What about you? What was exciting in 2010? I would really like to know.

In 2011 I have even more exciting plans…

* Harken and take action on what God is showing me
* Three supercool family vacations this year
* Write the first to final drafts of my action-adventure feature script
* Open my first recording studio
* Take NetSlingers into new markets and expand the brand
* Sculpt my body, while getting to 12% body fat, to increase my strength, and eat a lot!
* Finish reading one book a week
* Learn Spanish in 3 months (taking Tim Ferriss’ challenge)
* Buy a travel business
* Pitch a very cool project to a multiple hit-TV series producer
* Help a client achieve her first $100K weekend
* Help another client achieve his first $1 million (personal) year
* Go on my first official missions trip
* Produce my next film and submit it to key festivals
* Make strategic connections and leverage ALL my plans

If you saw Chris Nolan’s hit movie Inception with Leo DiCaprio (Cobb), Ken Watanabe (Saito), and Joseph G-Levitt (Arthur), there’s a great short scene that goes like this:

Cobb: For this to work, we’d have to buy off the pilots…
Arthur: And we’d have to buy off the flight attendants…
Saito: I bought the airline.
[Everybody turns and stares at him. Saito just shrugs]
Saito: It seemed neater.

I love that. Apart from committing the “perfect crime” (ha!)…what that made me think about was aligning myself with the right people to achieve a simple and greater result, using collaborative resources.

One Year’s Work In A Single Month

Now, that’s a whole other topic, but that is probably my single greatest goal for 2011…to leverage OTHER people’s talent and resources and do in one month what previously took me a typical year.

Tell me what would you like 2011 to look like. Here’s a free tool that can help you plan effectively and take action on your journey. I’ve been using Mark Joyner’s Simpleology for over four years now.

And the results speak for themselves.

WARNING: By stating your 2011 plans below, you will be held accountable, right here. This will be your public declaration and there will be MUCH encouragement and advice offered, not just from me but from all in this community. The more often you can measure your results, the greater your success level. That’s the purpose of this blog. Say (declare) it. Be specific. Give time lines. Follow through or take action. And we’ll follow up.

If your goal is to lose 50 pounds this year, great! How can you lose one pound this week while having fun doing it? Having someone in your corner, whether a close friend, associate, family member or even a virtual friend right here, to hold you to it, is a smart thing.

Let the exciting journey begin!

– Andy

It was very revealing, as John described EXACTLY how he made his first three sales online within 24 hours, after watching this video.

Not only that, we talked about how…

* He dealt with overwhelm
* His REAL job is not in the U.S.
* He used Amazon for profit
* To substantially increase his sales and traffic
* And where to find free online resources

And much more…

This 31 minute video may be the 2nd best thing you’ll ever see.

Enjoy!