5 Things I Love About the Affiliate Lifestyle

I remember the days of driving 30-45 minutes one way on I-90 in Boston to a job that I hated. In fact I hated it so much that I actually spend half my time surfing the web and the other half the time working on my Adwords campaigns.

And I quit before they could fire me!

I know some people actually enjoy their day jobs, and if you’re in that small minority, then congratulations.

But honestly I can’t understand how someone can go to work to a job that they hate 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year (48 if you have 4 weeks of vacation time!), day after day, month after month, and YEAR after YEAR for 45 YEARS!

Is it any wonder that so many people drink excessively, smoke, watch 4 hours of television a day??

My life is so radically different now, so much better now, as a super affiliate, it’s hard to describe.

I honestly never thought life, at least my life, could be this AWESOME!

I’m not saying this to brag.

I want all of you affiliates out there that are struggling to make money, working full time, and trying to find time to spend with your family as well, to know that success in this business-if you build it right and build solid affiliate campaigns-is SO WORTH IT.

Here’s some things I really love about the affiliate lifestyle:

# 5 SHOCKING BANK TELLERS:

I love when I go to the bank and the bank teller, looks at me, half shaven, wearing a free T-shirt I scored at the Affiliate Summit, and flip flops, and then looks at my bank account!

Shock and Awe! LOL

My wife and I went to the bank the other day and the teller told us we have too much money in our saving account, and recommended that we transfer the money into a CD where we could get a higher interest rate.

I told the teller that I would think about it. Honestly I DON’T CARE! In the time it takes me to actually set a CD with the bank, I could start an affiliate promotion that will make me 10X whatever interest I would make off a stupid CD.

#4 NAP TIME

What can I say, I’m a lazy affiliate. On a hot summer’s day at around 2:00pm I love turning on the ceiling fan and taking a nice nap on the sofa.

When I was in kindergarten I hated taking afternoon naps, now I love it!

#3 REAL SECURITY

A lot of job people talk about having ‘job security’ as their excuse for not starting a business. “Because you never know, the business may not work, it may go under, blah, blah, blah.”

If you think you have ‘job security’ in this day and age, you are living in a dream world!

Real security is:

1. Having the ability to launch an affiliate offer tomorrow that will cover all your living expenses.
2. Having so much money in the bank you could literally live on it for YEARS. This is a GREAT feeling!

#2 WORLD TRAVEL/MOBILE INCOME

My wife and I love to travel, and it’s great traveling when you’ve got money, because then you can go first class all the way!

We’re going to Bermuda next month for 5 action packed days that include

1. snorkeling
2. parasailing
3. sailing
4. helmet diving
5. swimming with dolphins
6. snorkeling over a shipwreck/glass bottom boat ride
7. horseback riding
8. Bermuda Aquarium, Natural History & Zoo
9. private tour of the island
10. botanical garden
11. perfumarie
12. Fort Hamilton

While we’re in Bermuda, we’ll be staying at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess, the top hotel on the entire Island. The Amex Centurion Travel Counselor, that I get with my black card, cut us a nice deal: instead of $520/night, we’re only paying $450/night!

Oh, by the way, 4 days after we get back from Bermuda we’re off to a 10 day Alaskan Cruise, that includes multiple helicopter trips over glaciers and snow capped maintains, a dog sled ride over glaciers, and a bunch of other activities.

We have a suite on the Alaskan cruise with Celebrity Cruises, with a butler!

YES, a butler!

The Alaskan Cruise goes from Anchorage to Vancouver. Once we arrive in Vancouver, we’re spending two days there, and then taking a float plane over to Victoria where we’re spending a day with friends.

And that’s JUST August. We have other excursions planned for October, November, and December (we’re going to India in December).

Let’s not forget, you can do affiliate marketing from anywhere around the world. You can actually LIVE in different parts of the world and run your business.

How about spending a month on a Greek Island in the Mediterranean for 2 months?

Fields Marshall is an American who moved to Pucon, Chile where he lives on a resort spending his days whitewater rafting and working on his affiliate business.

He right now makes a modest income as an affiliate, but lives like a king in Chile since the cost of living is lower than the US.

You don’t need to make $30k/month as an affiliate to live your dream life. If you’re making a modest income right now as an affiliate you can still live your dream life, Fields is a great example of this!

#1 LIVING THE LIFE YOU CHOOSE

I love being able to work my affiliate business around my lifestyle and not the other way around.

Recently my wife and I have decided to play squash every morning (well at least 5 days a week) at the local gym before we do anything else. Not only is it a lot of fun, but it really gets your energy levels up for the whole day.

So far I’ve beat my wife at every game we’ve played, but she’s getting way better everyday. She going to beat me soon!

Here’s what cool: Being able to go the gym at 9:00am in the morning while the rest of the world is busy at work.

My wife and I like making a schedule of all the fun things we want to do in a given day, and I work in my 2-4 hours of productive time in between all of that. Let me give you an example…

On Monday my wife and I played several games of squash in the morning and did some weight training, we then went to see the new Harry Potter film in the afternoon, and had a nice dinner at a Chinese restaurant in the evening.

Between our morning trip to the gym (squash/weight training) I squeezed in two hours of productive work. Then after Harry Potter and dinner, I did another hour of work and caught up on email and wrote a blog post.

Don’t let your work dictate your lifestyle, let your lifestyle dictate your work.

Now I know some of you are thinking, “There’s no way would get anything done on a schedule like your’s Amit.”

Wrong!

If you actually set deadlines for yourself and focus your time on income producing activities, that is, stuff that directly impacts your income, such as adding keywords to your ppc campaigns, then you’ll be amazed at how much you actually get done.

It’s possible to get more productive stuff accomplished with 2 hours of focused concentrated effort then 8 hours of fumbling around trying to do 10 things at once: checking email, working on your campaigns, while your chatting with a friend on Googletalk, and on the phone with your affiliate manager.

And you KNOW what I’m talking about!

So if you’re not living the affiliate lifestyle yet, WHAT are you waiting for!

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