Retiring….. NOW!
One day I decided I wanted to retire. And so I did. I was 39.
One day I decided I wanted to retire. And so I did. I was 39.
I didn’t wait to be 65.
If I don’t have a retirement sized pile of cash on hand, how can I possibly do that?
By automating things. First, my primary business, and now I am building income streams that require as little time and attention as possible.
My goal was : to have multiple streams of income that do not require constant attention.
I cherry pick opportunities very carefully.
I’ve rejected things most people would run towards with open arms.
This is due to …. My inner sense about Inertia.
It exists in all things. Objects in motion, or Ideas in motion, or….. Business Plans.
There is a reason online marketers invented the term “Exit plan”.
It describes the way successful entrepreneurs and solopreneurs who build a cash-cow, now working full time, have to design a way to step down without causing a disruption that ends the stream.
I am starting from a completely different angle.
I am building income without the need for an Exit Plan.
The more automated, the more passive, the better.
People see some of my methods and laugh, thinking to themselves, if he would only push it harder and show up everyday, he’d be making much more.
That is where we differ.
I don’t mind it taking a little longer to build, if that means I don’t have to spend all my time paying attention to it.
My chatbots are a perfect example.
Yes, I am sure I loose some sales to people who just cannot stand interacting with a bot.
And those customers can go buy from someone else.
This cowboy runs a Lifestyle Income business.
All income opportunities bend to my Lifestyle, not the other way around.
I have to offer value, in the form of something people want or need, but I also need for it not to consume all my time, and allow me to live as I desire.
Over time I dial in my chatbots to be better and better, and thanks to GPT it is much easier than it ever has been to train a bot and have it replace you.
In fact, I do this for every new idea that I test out.
My chatbot:
After the first 3 months of having a rather comprehensive chatbot take over my role supporting my customers, I was so happy.
No joke, I woke to read all the convos and teared up one morning.
My bot was handling 99% of all interaction perfectly, and I went from 15–20 hours a week talking to customers and handling sales, to maybe answering a question once a month when the bot encountered a question beyond its scope.
It’s great.
Thanks to chatbots, and other automations, I consider myself mostly retired, even though I run three online businesses and am constantly testing new ideas!
Thank you for reading!
Until next time….
Onward and Upward Everybody!
-Chris
Automated Income Lifesyle w/ Chris Morton
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