I always love hearing more about the personal lives of the people who’s opinions I care about. Not presuming that you care about my opinion or anything 
But I want to know what drives them, how they came to be where they are, how they go about their day, and more.
So I thought I’d share a little about my life, for anyone who’s interested – my story, my failures, my goals for the future, and more – the good and the bad.
Here goes:
I’m 24 years old, born and raised in QLD Australia, engaged to be married to the beautiful kiwi Elysia Brooker, and I expect to die without ever having had a “proper” job.
Because looking back, I have always had a problem with authority.
Early Years
In my schooling years I was the naughty kid. Right up until the last 2 years of it, I was constantly being sent to the principal, being kicked out of class, told to pick up rubbish and even at one stage, suspended from school for a few days! Luckily I was smart, so I always did well at school – but I hated it.
I remember being 12 years old and having conversations with teachers like this:
Teacher: “Put your hat on when you’re outside!”
Andrew: “I’m not even in the sun… why does it matter?”
Teacher: “Because those are the rules!”
Andrew: “Why do I have to follow a rule just because it’s a rule?? The rule has to make sense!”
Teacher: “Alright – you can go and tell that to the principal”
Turns out that became a bit of a theme for my life.
Fortunately my parents did for me what I think is the best thing you can do for a child on top of loving it unconditionally. They constantly told me:
“You could do anything you want with your life. You have the world at your feet.”
I took what they said seriously.
Personal Development
I read my first personal development book when I was 15 years old and it changed my life forever. It was (believe it or not) Dr. Phil’s “Life Matters” (this is before he went mainstream – when he had interesting things to say) and I still remember some of the lessons I took from it…
It was where I first heard the principle of “accountability”, and remember doing the exercise of looking back at your life and thinking about the things that had gone wrong, and thinking honestly about how in fact, you are accountable for what happened, and you could have either changed it, or change how it affects you today.
Because when it’s your responsibility, YOU can change it. If everything and everyone else is responsible, it’s out of your control.
Money Issues
Our family was never poor growing up, but looking back, money often seemed to be an issue. As kids we had everything we needed and more, but only thanks to my parents working their asses off and sacrificing for us more than we understood at the time.
I saw how hard my Dad worked for our money in particular and I remember making a decision early on that I was never going to let money be an issue in my life.
I decided I needed to be “rich” or there was going to be trouble.
My “Career”
My first adult job out of school was something I’ll always remember.
I wanted money and bad, so I basically took the first job I came across.
For about 6 months I worked 9-5 at a factory that made hats. I was a cog in the machine, a member of a production line. Every day for 6 months I did this one task over and over again – folding the top of this particular hat down. Standing up, in the one spot, no music allowed, talking permitted but only until it affected concentration, for 8 hours a day.
At lunch I used to sit at the table with a calculator I’d found, adding up how many weeks it was going to take me to save enough money to buy this particular car I wanted. I’ll never forget being mocked by another factory worker, maybe mid 40′s:
“Working out how long it’ll take you to retire mate?” He said with a sneer. Like aspiring to something more than slaving away at this sh**hole was such a childish idea.
That year I actually worked 4 different jobs at the same time to save up as much money as possible. Shortly after I wasted all the money I’d saved, but I learned some important lessons about work and money that were more and more valuable as time went on.
University (College)
I am a proud college dropout. I lasted 2 weeks.
I walked in – realized that these people weren’t going where I wanted to go, and left.
Best decision I ever made.
Business – And Failure
After my stint at university, I realized that if I wasn’t going to get “an education” – I needed another way to make money. I started attending those “wealth creation” seminars to learn everything I could about making money. I remember hearing some statistic like:
“92% of the richest people in Australia are business owners”
WHAT?? I thought. Why did no one tell me THAT in school?! I need me a business!
That was also the first time I heard about selling ebooks on the internet. That was my start in IM.
As I’ve written elsewhere, my early years online were just one failure after another. I tried various things that ALMOST worked, but didn’t quite. But I never once entertained the possibility that maybe this wouldn’t work out. I had too many people to prove wrong. Too much pride on the line. I got by with the money from my day jobs at that time and just kept working at it.
I worked my ass off back then. I still do in some ways.
I remember hanging out with friends in the evening, finishing at 10pm, then driving out to a friends place (who had this computer software I needed) to work there from like 11pm til 4am… go home to sleep for a few hours, then waking up at 8am to go back to my 9-5. Man, I was hungry.
Overnight Success
After a few years I had my “overnight success”.
There came a point where I had more money in the bank than I knew what to do with. It was a very strange feeling.
I went crazy, I bought everything I wanted, I started to travel and then I hit an even stranger point.
“What next”?
I had no desires left. There was nothing else I wanted. I didn’t need any more “stuff”.
I remember thinking “Is this all there is? Is this what having money is?” I thought there had to be more to do than this. There had to be bigger fish to fry – things more meaningful than just accumulating.
Teaching & Sharing
In the period after that I got by on the motivation for helping others, sharing what I’d learned, improving other people’s lives by sharing with them how they too could make money from home.
I got, and still do get a lot of fulfillment from this, but after time, that started to wear thin too.
I saw that, particularly teaching IM, there are so many people who, it doesn’t matter what you give them or what you do, they don’t want to be helped – you can’t do anything for them. And of course there are those amazing folk who take one email you send them and create whole businesses out of it… but those people are rare… and most often they are so committed that they will usually make it whether you help them or not.
I was, and in ways, still am, a bit jaded by teaching IM. Not to mention the endless swarms of scam artists, liars, cheats and unsavory people who abound in a profession that sits right on the cusp of fraud and legitimacy.
That brings me about up to today – that’s it – those are my current feelings about teaching IM.
Today I’m (kind of a secret too) trying to get away from IM. I have some outside interests that I want to commit more time too and I’m trying to scale down the teaching side of my business to have more time for them.
Outside Work
Besides travel and my guilty pleasure MMA (mixed martial arts) I have very few hobbies. Pretty much 24 hours a day I’m working, reading, or sleeping. I read ALOT. Parts of this year my amount of work, and reading have been almost equal. And you want to know a secret?
This year I’ve read almost no books on marketing. And no personal development.
I read history, politics, science, literature – almost everything is interesting to me at the moment. If my early years were learning about and understanding myself, I feel like now I’m learning about and understanding the world.
This year I’ve read (and loved) Tolstoy’s War and Peace; I don’t know any copywriter who can paint an image in your head like Charles Dickens can; My life won’t be the same when linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky dies; And my favorite non fiction author at the moment is George Orwell.
But what I am most interested in today is finding a way that I can serve people more meaningfully. The more I read and travel the more I realize that there are so many people in the world with such great suffering that can be so easily diminished, that I can’t bare to commit my life only to me. Not because I’m religious, not because I’m “spiritual” – just because I can’t see any better way to live.
I can’t stand that poverty exists. I feel tight in the chest when I contemplate the reality of war. And while I know I won’t ever stop these things, I feel like the least I can do is give it a shot. A friend of mine has a quote on their facebook page that says:
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can.” ~ Sydney Smith
That’s about where I’m at in life right now.
Future
As I’ve mentioned before, my soon to be wife and I live in a new country each year, so it’s possible that I’ll end up in your neighborhood some time in the next 5 years.
And if you live in the UK, it will be much sooner than that. I’ll be living in London by this time next week!
I’m getting married on a beach in Thailand in 2012. It’s going to be amazing.
I want to keep sharing what I know about making money without a “job” with anyone who is committed to applying it, and I will never email you about something that isn’t true, doesn’t work, or that I don’t believe in.
That’s me, friends.
When you open those emails in your inbox – that’s who you’re listening to. If you read this far, we’re buddies now
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We must be related….that part about authority and questioning everything is exactly what I do…and exactly why I got into IM
Like I said on my blog, I can’t have some boss with a Clip-on tie telling me what to do lol
Great post! I need to try this live in one country a year…very cool!
-Mark
Haha – totally Mark, we’re part of a strange sub-sect of humanity.
Hey buddy! Yes I read that far on a Sunday afternoon. Just checking my email for the day and found your post. Decided to give a read because I always had a feeling we had similar paths. Found to be true in many respects, first as a cog where I assembled helicopter parts. Thinking back now I felt like part of the machine and not living. Then college, like you said “realized that these people weren’t going where I wanted to go, and left”, again best thing to happen at the time. Finally into internet marketing, been doin’ it for 7 years now and occasionally get the feeling of I need to be doing more outside of this, it’s not all about me. I expect that something will come of that soon.
So ya thanks for the post, it is good to hear from the like minded.
Good to hear Rob – I think we’re in touch on Facebook right?
Thanks Andrew,
I liked your post very much and appreciate it.
I always knew you were different.. a very good ..different.
Mary
Pretty sure we are.
That’s a quite a detailed story of your life so far! I don’t know whether you have heard of me or know me as a customer who bought your product previously… but you are the 1st person whom I get to know about niche marketing and learn from you. Fast forward 3 years later, I became a full time marketer and quit my job. In a way, I am quite grateful to you though I don’t know you in person.
Btw, any intention to come to Singapore before your wedding? I live in Singapore!
I remember you Alex – thanks for sharing and congratulations on your success!
I’m sure I will be in Singapore sometime soon (probably passing through, maybe on the way to or from London from Australia) so I’m sure our paths will cross.
Andrew,
It’s great that you have seen so much in your relatively few years. I too have traveled throughout the world and agree that there is way too much needless suffering. We, my wife and I, are active supporters of many medical charities and ministries.
It’s amazing what we take for granted here in the US or other “developed” countries. I have helped
to just install a well in a 3rd world village, and could not believe how grateful people could be for something so simple, yet necessary.
I wish you well in your future endeavors and God’s blessings.
Peace
Denny
That is awesome Denny! Where was the village and how did you get involved in that?
Andrew
Through our church and the country was in Central America. There are so many needs.
We recently have got involved with Habitat for Humanity which is an awesome way for people to help each other here in the US and is now expanding world wide.
Very cool Denny – I haven’t checked out Habitat for Humanity but must do so!
I’ve been a big fan of kiva.org for a long time and am hoping to do some volunteering through them in the coming years when I have more time hehe
Great post Andrew.
I’m the same as you, I expect to never ever have a proper job. I’ve never had a job before. That’s the great thing about discovering IM so young.
Where in London are you moving to? I live just a few miles from there.
James
Good Stuff, Andrew,
You’re on the right track. Thanks for BEing You!
My greatest Discovery: Solitude. There, I coined my ‘saying’: “”Existence Is Benevolence and Benevolence Is Existence.”"
Blessings & take care,
Norm A.
I like that Norm – thanks for sharing!
Hey Andrew,
Good post man, it’s good to learn people’s stories and it’s great to understand who you are and how you operate on a deeper level.
We definitely do have a few things in common… Keep up the great work and let me know how I can help you out brotha!
Take care
David King
If anyone is interested:
http://www.habitat.org/
Inspiring post, thanks. When are you moving to Japan?
Hi Andrew,
Thanks. I can relate to many of the things written.
I’ll be a customer soon. I m leaving those dreaded scammers and guru salespages, and really going to focus on firepow. I know what works now, thanks to you
Yes, I’ve read so far…so we’re buddies
I have the same problem with authority like you and I started dreaming about my own business after I read the first posts on a blog about personal development…I’m just starting out, but your example gives me the power to keep struggling. P.S : So it’s normal to fail a few times before succeding,huh? 
Thanks Andrew!
Normal to fail many times my friend… and keep failing. The failing never stops hehe. It just happens that if you stick at it long enough a few successes get sprinkled in. All the best!
It’s interesting to know what makes someone tick Andrew.
Sounds like you’ll spend some time in the London Library.
Maybe you should just start discussing anything that interests you.
Save a few SEO-moles from going nuts burrowing in the Google soil.
Dickens spent a lot of his time walking around London, observing people.
Hi Andrew, I can really relate to a lot of what you’ve written. Instead of the ‘naughty’ boy I was the joker. These days I try to add to my income a little with IM and I do get some success though it seems to take far more work than it’s worth. I’m 51 now, disabled and living in 2 rooms in a wheelchair. I always wanted to ‘make a difference’. One group of people I really admire are health workers. Those tireless everyday heroes work selflessly to help others. They make a difference to peoples lives everyday and I really envy them. Best wishes – Mark
Andrew,
Thanks for sharing your story it was really enlightening. I am on the journey to become an internet marketer so I can be free forever of the corporate golden hand cuffs. I have done alot of traveling the last 10 years. I have travel to Brazil, Italy, Spain, France, Canada, Dominican republic all while retaining my 9 to 5 job. I had a really nice time in all of those countries. However, it really never enough time, because it’s only a week or two vacation. So always in the back of my mind, I am thinking I have to go back to that cubicle. I have been working at my current company for 14 years a computer programmer. But I still like computers, but the whole corporate grind is so old.
So early next year I am taking off and moving abroad for a year. I am going to do everything in my power after that year is up not to return to the 9 to 5 grind.
I feel so alive when I am abroad and meeting new people and experience different cultures.
Ok, enough of my rambling. But thanks for the genuine post.
Jamel.
NICE Jamel – where are you moving to?
Andrew
I will be move to Brazil. I was fortunate thru my job to work in Sao Paulo Brazil for 7 months four years ago. On the weekend or Brasilian holidays I would fly to other parts of the country (Salvador, Rio, Fortaleza) . It was an amazing time I met some amazing people. I can speak portuguese ok, so this allowed me to explore the country uninhibited. I can actually that was the best time of my life in recent memory. I realized many people there are poor, but they are happy and alive. I took notice of this.
Thanks for that Andrew.
It’s good to know you, your posts are always “meaningful” and helpful.
I hope someday I will be better positioned to “give” and help others. My “overnight success” has not arrived yet after 4 years of trying, but I am on the right track and always believe it’s not far away.
Cheers,
John.
Wow….I read every word Andrew……it was just like reading about myself! I was always the class clown who could skirt by on minimum effort – and so, readily did! Always challenging ‘stupid’ rules and taking the time to state my case and wrap authority figures up in knots.
Can’t abide being employed and once told a boss he was a ‘phoney, fake, backstabbing little worm’ ( he was as well )
From leaving school I did manage 3 years college because basically I didn’t really know what to do with my life. After qualifying I went to work for a sleazy boss who worked me senseless then decided to drop me so I set up my own business in competition with him – guess who closed 2 years later
Really glad that you’ve found financial stability at such a young age. It may feel unsatisfying now that you’re used to it but believe me if someone took it away from you it would feel far worse. People kill themselves through money stress.
Money can’t buy happiness but it means you can be miserable in comfort
lol
All the best to you,
Nicola
Haha, great story Nicola – thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing Andrew. I know your email has helped many today especially me.
Rick
THANK YOU for sharing…..
G’day Andrew
That was a great post, and for the record I attribute seeing the beginnings of success online (finally) to stuff I learned from you. I look forward to receiving your emails and always feel confident in trusting the info you give.
It’s funny how you can feel a connection with people just through written messages. Although I’m almost 40 years older than you (am I really that old), I also remember having the same kind of realisations about how life works, including a healthy suspicion of authority and it’s done me any harm.
Hope you don’t give up teaching I.M. too soon
BTW, We live on the south coast in the UK, so if you want some ideas on great places to visit when you’re in London, give us a shout.
Best
Vince
Glad to hear I was of service Vince – that makes me happy
We will surely be passing through your area at some point so we’ll have to catch up for a chat!
Andrew
Nice Post Andrew- Am a big fan of your work -honest
Love the “Overnight Success” LOL Sweat and a Loooooooooog night……..
Tell Elysia not to hurry back to Auckland…its pouring with rain
Keep up the good work
Great post Andrew. It took me into my forties before I realized that we all need to be doing good things outside of our personal lives. I shared all of the traits you discussed in your post. We are not such a small group as you might think.
HI Andrew,
I feel a kinship with you. I like helping people and want to expand my financial abundance so I can do more. I feel the suffering in the world is beyond me to stop but I have to do my part to help those I can. I have your PNP program and am working on it. I really liked hearing about your “problems” with authority. I think of myself as psychologically unemployable. So I have to create my own living. I also particularly admire how you live in different countries. Thank you for sharing more about you.
Wow, thanks!
You’re definitely levels above me. I lasted in college for 2 years.
Friend of mine showed me this thing from BILL GATES, saying “you won’t get a $40k/year job right out of high school”, total BS.
One of the things I’ve really enjoyed about you is that there is absolutely no fluff.
I never got into IM, because it felt like a lot was preying on other people who wanted to get rich. In short an MLM, w/o adding value to the world.
Firepow is one of the most powerful (and underspoken about) tools for internet marketing. You’ve definitely got a “no fluff” attitude, which is refreshing.
Thanks again for sharing.
@David – Thanks alot mate, I really appreciate that.
@Ian Right on! Let us know if you need anything with PnP.
@Paul – That’s it – just for lots of people to make a small difference is all that’s needed.
Hey Mark
what a great post mate, sounds like we are all looking for the same thing.
to make the world a better place, a litte bit at a time. Just to make a difference and not to waist your life. You are doing a great job of teaching here on your blog not just in marketing but in life.
Wonderful post Andrew, I learned a few things about you I didn’t know
If feel exactly the same way about accumulating money, but knowing that there are much bigger issues of importance. For me, it’s about animals and the environment. Ultimately I want to be able to donate 100% of my time to relieve animal suffering in this world – making money online is the means to that end. I hope you too can achieve your personal goals.
Know exactly what you mean Rebecca – I’d like to donate 100% of my time to a cause like that too – that’s my ultimate goal. Keep me posted on how that goes for you. P.S. I’m sure we’ll meet up one of these days… seems like I’ve known you forever!
Ha Ha, I am with you all the way with questioning the why of presumed authority, I also share your understanding that we all have the ability, to be more to other people then watching a news item and say there is nothing I can do to help.
I keep hearing the story about how persistence pays off and success will come in this direct marketing game, thanks for reminding me to keep working at it, at times it can be very demoralizing to not see the success hoped for but still put in the work.
Loved reading your post. You’re so wise for someone so young. Wish you and your soon to be wife all happiness.
Thanks for sending me the email with a link to this in. It’s one of the nicest emails I have had in a long time.
I can’t stick authority either. Not great about rules. I can relate, totally.
Maybe I’ll bump into you in London; I live in Scotland but I have have family in England, so I am often down that way!
Best wishes,
Ruth
Thanks for sharing Andrew. I am in Perth, WA and have been a cutomer of yours. Your idea of niche marketing gave me a proper start to my IM. Though still far from being full-time, but yeah..I would love to work from anywhere..traveling!
Cheers
@Anurag – I remember your name
Good to hear you’re doing well!
@Ruth – We’ll definitely come up to Scotland at some point so will be great to catch up!
@Evangeline – That means alot. Thank you very much
Andrew – when you’re back in Australia let me know! Crazy that we haven’t met yet…
Hi Andrew
I am a fellow Aussie who loves to travel and envey you living in different countries. My online journey has been similar but I started it at a much later age…much later age
I have always liked your information with no fluff and hope to see more of it in the future. This post has inspired me to keep going with achieving financial success and to enjoy my life along the way as well as spending every minute on the computer.
there was once a man with tongue of wood, who essayed for to sing, and in truth it was lamentable. but there was one who understood the clip-clapper in that tongue of wood and with that….the man was satisfied thank you andrew for following the sound of a different drum….and helping those who cannot heat it.
Hey Andrew,
I can identify with what you’re saying – no, not the part about you already making more money than you need but about authority. Over the weekend, just somehow consumed by the urge to give up on this whole IM. How can I not feel this way when I’m making like errrr…$2 annually from IM? And how can I not feel jaded after recently spending thousands on an IM workshop by a local guy that still left me bewildered!
Then I read about your overnight success where you slip in a little sarcasm “After a FEW years, I had my overnight success”. That woke me up this morning – admittedly, I haven’t been working hard the way you did. I had bought your products but had not followed through 100%. About time I re-focus.
Andrew, you’re getting married in 2012. Hmm, let me put that as a target for me to accumulate enough from IM to be able to invite you and you bride-to-be to Singapore….
Hi Andrew,
I started affiliate marketing by joining NBI. You have been always a figure of inspiration. Appreciate the sharing of your life story so much. It is still so far away for me to be able to quit my job. Feel lonely sometimes, as no one in a 9-5 job understand that craving to be different and free…
I am from Asia, and Thailand is definitely one best spot for wedding and honeymoon! For me is the other way round, I went to Australia for my honeymoon. I love it so much there!
Wish you a great wedding and happiness!
Thanks for sharing Andrew,
Very inspiring as usual. In fact, I have read many personal stories about current successful online marketers and there is a clear path showing problems with authority, dropping out of school and not being able to keep a job even with economical issues in hands. The only action possible for these type of people is to build a business of their own.
I wish you the best with your plans.
Hi Andrew,
I really appreciate your candour and honesty in the post. You are indeed a kindred spirit.
I was always trouble in school too. In fact, my mother always got called to school to meet the principal, all the way until I was in in Secondary 2. After that, I decided that I didn’t want to trouble my mum anymore, so I “conformed”.
Plus, I was also blessed with a good brain. So doing well in school and getting into university sort of made it up to my mum. But I undid all that when I dropped out. Not as fast as you though. I stuck it out for one and half years.
My reason for dropping out was the same as you, I didn’t see getting what I wanted from a university education. Plus I got really bored with all that structured learning.
Because you see, for as long as I can remember, I have always thought that there was something seriously wrong with our modern education & hence, career, system. It never felt right to me. I always knew that I wanted to start and set up things of my own. Which I later found out was what it meant to be entrepreneurial.
And like you, I am extremely spiritual (maybe religious too). I have decided that all my entrepreneurial efforts will bear a spiritual bottom line; to help make this world better than when I found it by helping & consequently, empowering those who cannot help themselves. For that is what I feel the reason I was put on this Earth for.
So all the best to you Andrew in your journey! Keep us updated on your spiritual endeavours…
I am definitely interested.
“It is NOT about having more, it is about Being More.”
- Andy Iskandar -
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for sharing some of your personal life and thoughts with
the rest of us. If you haven’t read anything by Ayn Rand then I’d
highly recommend that you put her on your reading list. Start with
The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged.
Once again thank you for the post and enjoy…
…. many good things.
Thanks Sam! I’ve read her “Capitalism” and “Anthem” but haven’t tackled the bigger ones yet. I wish we could talk at more length about those philosophies here
All the best,
Andrew
Hi Andrew,
I have come to respect a lot, the information and experiences you share with us. Would love to meet you – any plans to come to India in the near future?
Hey Andrew
Nice story. Yep I feel I know you better now.
Good luck on your quest to finding more meaning in life and good luck to you and Elysia for your marriage in Thailand in 2012.
If you’re in Jakarta, Indonesia, please give me a shout! I’d love to show you around!
Welly Mulia
good honest post andrew. you’re correct it is better to give than receive, enjoy your travels.
cheers brendan
Rules, college what?????? Heck no. Us A-Type entrepreneurs make our own and eventually we nail because we have more to prove then the rest!
Great post thank you.
Gina
@Mayank – Will definitely end up in India soon. Our longest time staff members work there and they are like family, plus I want to meet Dr Mani, and the author Arundhati Roy! Hopefully will see you there one day!
@Welly – Will surely end up in Indonesia at some point too and would love to catch up!
@Andy – Kindred spirits indeed mate – even got the same name! Thanks for sharing your story.
Great post my man, I often find myself envisioning what it would be like to not have to worry about money any longer, the freedom that comes with it and the responsibility as well.
I know that for myself, growing up without a dad, if it hadn’t been for sports, music and a few key positive adult roll models, I would either be in prison or dead on the street somewhere. That is why once I get this IM machine going along I will divert my attentions to help troubled youth.
Thanks again for the look inside of the possible!
Matt
Hi Andrew,
Like you have said just keep doing it! Leaving a legacy of helping others is a wonderful goal and I like to believe that will be a benefit of all this work. BTW- I follow you on Twitter and enjoy your tweets – I’ve been to 13 of the 100 
Once again your inspiration, honesty and integrity shine above all the nonsense in the daily grind we are in. The combo of NBI and Firepow have been my guiding light and I am finally seeing some fruits of my labor. Pleas do not give up your teaching
Best to you and Elysia
dude.. that’s an awesome story!
I’m quite jealous though.. why wasn’t it until a few years ago that I started to question authority and start living life by my rules? that seems to be a common trait for most successful entrepreneurs… and I’m slowly getting there.
that and you seem to have everything you want already.. and you’re still 24! geez man.. I just hope you keep learning and sharing what you learn with the rest of us. have fun in London from next week too.
Stu
One of the biggest responses to one of your blog posts I’ve seen. One thing it says is people love stories about other people. Thanks for sharing Andrew.
A.
I always read your e-mails Andrew and I always thought that you were a really genuine and sincere person from how you wrote your e-mails. You always wrote like you really want to help. Your life story is very inspiring and well written.
I just hope in the future I can learn this affiliate marketing , so I can be a success like you are with it. Thanks
I am speechless, all I can say at this point is “thanks” for sharing. I am truly touched.
I think most people really do not like being “workers” trudging away just for a paycheck, but they end up lying to themselves about it and ignoring dreams of better things because that is easier than facing the uncertainty (and rejection from others) of moving into something better for themselves.
Also, it is so drummed into us as children that we are supposed to “go to school and get a good job” that it is difficult to move beyond those instilled belief systems. I know myself, I worked for over 10 years at a college, trying to be proud that I had gotten a “good job” and I was SO miserable until I finally couldn’t take it anymore and quit before I had another job to replace it with. Now I am a beginner at the online world of marketing and it is so much fun (even though I haven’t made much money yet).
I have no regrets, but I sure have received many negative comments from the people I used to work with. In fact, most of them do not speak to me anymore since I have moved forward with my life. Hot Tip: Don’t tell anyone what you are doing, and keep your dreams to yourself (at first, anyway). The negative Nancy’s of the world will do anything to hold you back. Just ignore them and cut them loose!
All the best to you, Andrew……..
You are great Andrew. So young you have a long way to go. I don’t have yet the quality and the quantity of your success. I just started IM and I have learned and I am learning a lot from you. I know that emulating you will lead me where I want to go.You are one of the rare value on the internet. I appreciate you and wish you all the best for all.
Hi Andrew,
Even b4 reading ur story, I thought that we would meet up some time this year at Goldie, but as u r leaving this week for foreign climes, it looks like it may have to wait till another time. If so all the best for ur trip.
Greg
P.s. Got ur P3 blurb. I am on PPG’s list, and I like her – which is why I am on her list, BUT this is what Andrew Cavenagh has been doing for some years.
I’m a little bit late here, but I just happen to read this blog post today. I really feel a lot of similarities with my own story especially the rejection of higher authorities. Why work for somebody else and make “them” rich when you can work for yourself and the sky is the limit. Working on salary has never been an option to me.
Been doing the IM thing for 4 years now, never been too succesful but enough to do it full time and having a great life in Shanghai, China.
As always your posts are inspirational, keep up the good work and drop me a line if you ever pass by here.
Not sure how I missed this.
Good stuff Andrew!
One more year then the kid will be off to college and we plan on traveling. I love your one year in a different country idea. Hard to beat Hawaii though.
Just found your travel couple blog last night, nice. (Bummer about the cabby)
“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought”
~ Napoleon Hill
Love the quote Ron!
Hawaii surely is hard to beat. I’ve only seen Oahu but we had a blast! Did a chopper ride around the island too – mind blowing!
Keen to see where you get to on your travels!
Andrew, thanks for sharing your world with us and your honesty about IM. Just picked up Unstoppable Affiliate and look forward to some online success, finally.
Hey, once you’re married, consider coming to Budapest, Hungary and perhaps make a choice to live here for a year. Not exactly a coastal life but a beautiful and different culture. I’m from LA, California and I needed a change. Definitely some culture and history here. Hope to meet up one day.
eric
Andrew, I have just had the pleasure of reading your blogs and comments of others and am fascinated by what I have read. I must read more and will from now on!
Thanks for your honesty!…….Mike
Excellent Andrew, you are now thinking real straight about your life. Don’t get confused at this point in your life.
When one reaches at the peak, it is essential for him to look upon others and help them to get at the same point where you are today. The feeling of happiness you will get by helping others can not be counted in any terms.
I hope you will keep teaching your IM knowledge to people who really wants to learn and implement it in real life just like me !