About a year ago I read 4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferris, for the first time. It motivated me to take a look at my business and my life. It truly inspired me to look at the things I was spending my time on and do more fun things. Do things I enjoyed doing, etc., etc.

You can see this video here from 11 months ago where I go to the zoo w/ my kids and talk about taking them to Barcelona for a month. And, yes, as I mentioned in the youtube video above, I’m still a strong believer that you should use your kids as reason, and not as an excuse. A reason to be healthy, a reason to have fun. Not the excuse to stay away from exercise, lay around the house, never travel.

Oh, and you can see some pictures & blog posts of that month-long trip to Barcelona on http://www.havekidsstilltravel.com and there’s even some videos here on the blog somewhere.

At any rate - that’s all good. But let me tell you how 4HWW F&$*#’d me up.

I cut out parts of my business that I actually enjoyed. I viewed them as time consuming for the return and didn’t want to ‘need to do them to survive’. I’ve focused more on income streams that develop recurring income. And I’ve got a great little team of people that I give many of my rote tasks to. Honestly, the recurring income is still under development … but it’s in motion.

This is all good and well, but half the time I’m bored out of my freakin’ mind!!! If it were 100% up to me, I would try to just travel the world for a year; but my wife won’t buy in to the idea right now. She’s 30 and let’s just say I didn’t marry her because of her “Susie Homemaker” qualities. Andrea is great at a lot of things, wants to feel productive, and deserves to be able to pursue whatever she wants to pursue. (Hint: she does not want to pursue a life of following Harris around the world with 2 toddlers in tow.)

Don’t get me wrong, we travel plenty - small trips right now since we just  moved to Scottsdale, AZ from Minneapolis … unpacked, big house, checkin’ out the area, etc. So, we haven’t done any big trips since last October. But that’s fine.

My point is this — what’s the point of lowering your workload, if you don’t do anything <b>FUN</b> with your free time??

I certainly figured out that if you make a BIG GOAL (a mini retirement as described in 4HWW), it certainly does give you energy. But the bigger idea that I missed was this:

If there are things that I truly enjoy doing inside of my business, I should keep doing them! Don’t cut ‘em out just because they’re time consuming or don’t have as big of a direct ROI. Do ‘em for the pure enjoyment of doing them. Sure, a brotha’s gotta pay the bills — but a little while ago, I really was very close to bliss - having fun in my business, making kick-ass money doin’ it, and travelling quite a bit.

So, I’m turning over a new leaf. A year after 4 Hour Work Week, I hereby don’t mind if I have a 40 hour work week as long as I’m enjoying it. (And I think this actually *is* part of what Ferris was trying to say as well — DO WHAT FEEDS YOUR SOUL.) Hell, I don’t care if I’m “working” 80 hours as long as 76 of those hours are fun!

So, those of you that have been following me for a while - thus starts another chapter in Harris Fellman trying to define to himself what works best for him. Maybe some will work for you, maybe not. Thanks for stickin’ around - get ready for some more “Fun Harris” real soon.

Comments always welcome.

Harris Fellman

P.S. I just started on twitter — follow me if ya want: http://twitter.com/harrisfellman

I just got this email from my friend Ewen Chia. Pretty big news.

Hi Harris,

Thanks for being my joint venture partner!

I’ve more good products coming up for you to promote
and make money with and will update you soon…

Today I just want to tell you about a new change in adwords which will be good news to most of us.

Something big happened in the internet marketing world this morning and you need to know about it…

Google have done something which they said they’d never do, and it probably spells the “end” for services like Wordtracker.

Here’s the summary…

- If you’ve ever used Google Adwords you’ll know they always represented search volume for a keyword by a rating out of 5.

This morning they scrapped that, and started showing ACTUAL SEARCH VOLUME for keywords.

Now Wordtracker keyword volumes have always been accused of being wildly inaccurate because they make predictions from only 2-3% of actual search activity.
So now that Google has made a change, more accurate search volume is finally available.

Go try it out here, enter a keyword and you’ll see Google’s estimate of actual search volume - and
this is great news for us internet marketers!

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

How does this affect your keyword and market research?

Now you can be absolutely sure of the size of a niche because there’s no more need to make wild guesses about search volume

Hope you find this useful.

Talk soon Harris.

To Your Success!

Ewen

Alright everyone, the answer to the little guessing game is “4 Minute Money”. You can get a free report / introductory guide right here:

–> http://www.4minutemoney.com/free

I’m not going to do a bunch of hype and hoopla before hand. It launches on THURSDAY April 17th. There will be only 1000 “ELITE” memberships made available. As you’ll later find out, 4 Minute Money came to be because I met a guy named Brian “Koz” Kosobucki at a Wisconsin Seminar. I found out he was doing some stuff to make money that I hadn’t heard of before. And as it turned out, all of the money making actions could be done in just a few minutes.

We’ve put together 6 different guides to create 4 Minute Money as well as automation scripts to make a 4 Minute Money Maker’s life even easier. I honestly didn’t believe it myself at first — but Koz really does make money by jumping on line; crankin’ out a single action that takes about 4-minutes; and we’re not talkin’ $8 in 4 minutes … usually it’s hundreds.

Alright, that’s it for now - feel free to post your comments here. Again, we’re not really crankin’ out the whole uber-hype machine you see everyone else doing. I want you to see the guide first to see what it’s all about; product launches Thursday at 11am; we’re limiting the ELITE membership to 1000; and that’s about it.

http://www.4minutemoney.com/free

Keep Having Fun,

Harris

PS If you do have a question or comment, just hit “Comment” below. Thanks!

As promised, here’s the second video about how to avoid server meltdowns when you do a Product Launch Formula style launch. It happens to the best of ‘em — but they don’t have to. Jeff Walker himself warns you of this - but lemme tell you something, it’s very real.

If you haven’t already signed up to be notified of my not-to-be-outdone *bonus* for PLF2 - sign up at www.plf2bonus.com — you’re gonna love this bonus.

Last but not least — post your comments — I’ll reply if you’ve got questions, too.

Keep Having Fun,

Harris Fellman

This whole “Santa Sal” thing is getting
WAY outta hand…..I mean, now he’s gone and
gotten himself a Little Helper! I don’t even
have a “little helper” unless you count
Mckenna….and this is NOT the same thing….

This….you absolutely have to see for yourself…..

–>  http://www.santasal.com

There’s just no telling what’s going to happen
next, so you might want to keep your eyes on
this site. I mean, there’s 4 WHOLE days till
the Santa Sal Giveaway even starts….

–>  http://www.santasal.com

Heck, I can’t wait to see what happens next!

See ya Soon!