We actually have a few ventures that aren’t service based at all – a lot of my perspective is based off of them. It’s nice to keep the pickaxe sharp, but if there are ways to spin gold from straw it doesn’t make as much sense to spend the entire day digging for it.

You are in the wrong kind of business, my friend.

I have owned numerous businesses that I could take off for 3 weeks, sometimes 3 months, and the cashfow (and high profit margins) just kept on flowing.

The article is right — client service gigs are much more akin to jobs than more ‘productized’ entrepreneurial pursuits.

mod 1 on E-Myth as well. And Kiyosaki, good for inspiration & getting started, but for going the distance.

ps. my sites do $5k per month, 95% of it passive. check my blog for the screenshots. peace.

I took five weeks off from working to relocate my family to Europe temporarily.

Now taking that much time off obviously set me back a little ways and I would have made more money had I been working, but I did it anyway.

What “job” do you know of would give an employee five weeks off to move anywhere in the world they chose?

Hey Jeremy. Kiyosaki has some great, tight focus, single sentence points – I don’t endorse his wider strategies, but I do respect how much controversy the man is able to stir up.

Bryan, I don’t agree – business redundancy is very attainable. My personal reasons for working towards it aren’t coming out of a desire to pace my work schedule or take more vacations. I enjoy what I do. But if my business can’t survive without me or one of my business partners, it’s a job – just happens to be a good one.

No business owner, (or job owner) *can* take 3 weeks off. If you’ve got dreams that one day you will get enough hosting clients so you can shove off to Europe for the month….prepare to be let down.

The fundamental laws of business tell us that if someone could take 3 weeks off, someone else would be willing only to take 2 weeks off and would therefore steal business from him. This would continue until what we have now; nearly all your time most be spent focusing on work.

Do not despair, learn to enjoy stressful, hard work for its on reward. Never expect to get a break. Do not pretend that Saturday is different from Monday.

According to Thomas J. Stanley (in his book “The Millionaire Mind”), a man who has researched America’s wealthy for over 20 years, two of the important keys to success are 1) finding something you love and 2) something that no one else (or very few people at most) is doing. If you do what’s easy, more than likely you’ll have very stiff competition. It’s better to create your own niche with a smaller pool of competitors.

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