My last call for people join my mastermind phone call got way more response than I expected. I thought a few dudes would write me an email, I’d toss them on the call and call it a day!

Our most popular posts are generally when we offer paid internships for aspiring internet entrepreneurs to come join us in our adventures in South East Asia.

Dan: confirmed in person as the real deal! I really love this reader’s attitude and approach to business and life, I wish he would start a blog! .The post came about just from someone doubting whether you can actually make a good living online… I do and here some key lessons I’ve learned while building my online business.

last month one of the new TMBA interns helped to jump start sales at a struggling e-commerce domain we own. For 7 months it had been averaging $1,950 monthly. Last month we generated $9,300 in sales. We’ve decided to host a private webinar on this topic, share the domain name with attendees, as well as some of the things we are doing to increase our traffic and conversions.

I’m currently living in Bali, Indonesia. I’m in the final steps on throwing down some serious loot on a 1 year lease, which for somebody who has been publicly diagnosed with “location ADHD,” and who has bounced around the world like a ping pong ball for the last 3 years, is a pretty huge deal. I don’t think I’ve changed much. My values are still pretty much the same.

As many of you know the 4 Hour Work Week was a huge inspiration for me. I read the book a few weeks after it came out and literally started my business the very next day. I even printed and filled out a dream line as advocated in the book. In retrospect the book hit me at a great time. Although I was making what I thought was excellent money, I hadn’t really ramped up my commitments or my lifestyle requirements. I didn’t have a family. I didn’t feel I had tons to lose.

This post is for anyone who has thought about picking up the guitar but hasn’t yet. For those of you who aren’t musicians, becoming one is both more fun and easier than you imagine. I’m writing this post in the hopes that I can convince 1 or 2 of you to pick up a guitar and start making your own music. Below I describe a basic theory and method for getting started with the guitar that I’ve taught in real life to many friends with success.

Many of you who know me or who have read the blog for a while know that I’m always keen to talk packing and gear. If you haven’t yet, you can check out my written digital nomad packing list that I made up last year. I absolutely loved all the comments, emails, and shared links I got from having written that post. Since that time, I’ve made some small changes that have improved my kit a bunch (and will no doubt put 99.99% of you to sleep).

I’m always nervous to write these posts. As our business grows and number of people involved continues to scale, I’m simultaneously struggling to make things happen faster (why aren’t we millionaires yet!!!?) and wondering how the hell all this happened (did we really sell $250,000 worth of goods this year?!!?!) The TMBA has been an incredible highlight for me in the process of growing our business. It started with what I thought at the time was a silly idea– but quickly evolved into an opportunity to work with some truly exceptional team members.

Time goes by fast. Exactly 10 months ago, I met Dan and Sean (from Badladz) for the first time. Naturally, our first meeting culminated in an epic night out in Manila. On the next morning, we rose at 5am (a bit too early in my opinion) to avoid traffic-jam and made our way to Puerto Galera. From this day on, I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time with Dan and Sean until I left 6 months later.

As someone who is currently earning passive income of businesses that don't have an important blogging element, I wanted to weigh in with some alternatives to commonly held opinions in the business blogosphere.

It only occurred to me 4 years ago that it was possible for me to be an entrepreneur. When I realized I could do something in the world that wasn’t handed to me or “delivered” by some mysterious process I didn’t yet understand, my life got a lot slower.

Here’s a bunch of thoughts on getting started in a new venture. I think they could help somebody start something. Especially in the lifestyle business blogosphere.

Most aspiring entrepreneurs are focused on making more money. A problem with that approach is that it often leads to short term thinking. I’ve found that when people focus less on money, and more on the underlying value they are creating, they end up being happier and doing better.

Over the past 4 weeks, I’ve been on the phone for 10+ hours with entrepreneur, photographer, and 3+ year Bali resident Tommy Schultz. We’ve been discussing every detail of his life in Bali.

I encourage people to do an exercise that Ferriss advocates in the book: sit down and write out in precise detail exactly what you want in life. Do not write down what is realistic.

Way back when I was fresh out of college, working at my first real job, I used to come home at night and scan the Craiglist wanted ads. I had this crazy fantasy that some jet-set entrepreneur would need an assistant to help super charge their business.

This week has been so much fun. Last night I saw @sgblank give a talk to the San Diego lean start-up group and he totally pumped me up. I recommend his blog.

If you are rich, sexy, funny, powerful, good at the guitar, a great writer, a fast talker, a fun times maker– and I know many of you are– I am taking notes. Below you’ll find 10 principles I penned after spending a lot of time with my friend Keith.