I’m writing this in the United Airlines Red Carpet lounge in Narita airport near Tokyo. It’s 2AM Dallas time, but it is the middle of the day here in Japan. I am waiting on my connection to another Asian country. That will be my third airplane today and I have a bus ride to follow that. I left my house in Dallas 20 hours ago and I have another 8 to go before I reach my hotel. I am officially declaring that a long day (phew).
It’s A Small, Small World
All is not lost, however. I am chatting with Garry Conn via GTalk as I write this. He is still up in the middle of the night generating content about how to make money online as usual. It’s funny, because with the internet, he has no reason to suspect that I am in Tokyo aside from the fact that I told him. The technology is simply amazing. The first thing I did when I got off the plane was to check on Michael Phelps. Looks like he won his eighth Olympic Gold Medal while I was somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. Well, on this day, swimming meant something very good for him — for me, not so much. Needing to swim during a scheduled international flight over the pacific is never a good thing. Luckily, no swimming for me today.
Working On The Road
I did spend time on the plane catching up on course material from the Internet Business Mastery Academy (check out my review of the Internet Business Mastery Academy if you missed it). The courses in the Academy are targeted at designing an “Internet Lifestyle.” Many people in the Internet Academy have left or wish to leave their day jobs to pursue a career on the Internet. As I have stated many times, I love my day job and have no intention of leaving it. Still, it would be cool to have a low maintenance part-time Internet business that generated enough cash to pay off the house and support early retirement on my terms.
So, this has gotten me to thinking about my own goals for MasonWorld.com specifically, and my internet business in general. I know I want to continue to grow this blog, and I want to develop multiple streams of passive internet income (not necessarily from this blog). In the very beginning, I thought my passive income was going to come from building armies of AdSense and eBay sites. Sure, I have a few of those, but they are not very fulfilling. The thing that I love is helping people be successful. For example, I was happy the other day because someone was able to implement my free link cloaking solution successfully on their blog with my help. It was not a big deal, really — but I was glad I was able to help someone (even just a little).
Time To Update The Roadmap
What all this really means is that I need to update the MasonWorld RoadMap with an eye toward 2009. I will have accomplished everything I set out to accomplish in 2008 by December. I will have some AdSense sites, a blog I like, some eBay sites, a my first product. So, what is next? What do I really want from all of this? That is what I am working through using some of the methods taught over at the Internet Business Mastery Academy. When I figure it all out, you will be the first to know.
What Do You Want (Leave a comment below)?
One thing I would like to know is who are you, why do you read my blog, and what would you like to hear about? That will help me set the direction. I will also use your feedback to put together a reader survey. So, let me know what you are thinking. Leave a comment below, send me email, or drop me a note on the MasonWorld contact form.
Best regards,
Mark
