hey what's up life masters this is
Stefan James from project life mastery
and today I'm going to share with you
how I travel the world while running a
multi-million dollar per year online
business now I know many people that
follow me here on youtube or on
Instagram they're always asking me stuff
and how is it that you're able to travel
so much you might always notice that I'm
in a different part of the world if you
watch my youtube videos for the last
year and a half you probably noticed
that almost every video I'm in a
different environment two different
hotel room a different air B&B and you
might be wondering how is it that I'm
able to live this lifestyle to give you
an idea so far this year I've traveled
to over 14 countries I'll be over 16
countries by the end of this year I
travel a lot I'm a digital nomad which
means that as long as I have my laptop
as long as I have my phone or my camera
I can travel the world I can run and
operate my business from anywhere and
I've been very blessed to have created
this business so that's providing
millions of dollars for me in income now
it did not start that way it did not
happen overnight it's not like I found
some sort of get-rich-quick scheme on
line and then I snap my fingers and
press a few buttons and I created this
lifestyle that's not how this works this
took a lot of hard work a lot of
commitments a lot of investing in myself
and learning and growing and I want to
journey because I know many of you that
are watching this right now you're on
that journey yourself I know many people
that are watching this you're already
building your business they're already
committing yourself and learning you
might be in those early stages that I
was you know 10 years or so ago when I
was four starting my business and then I
also know some of you that are watching
this you haven't started yet and you
might be curious you might be wondering
about you know the possibilities that
exist today because of the internet the
Internet's changed the world that
revolutionized my life and providing
these opportunities and you might be
wondering you know is it possible can I
do this how can I do this and maybe by
me sharing my story with you here today
in this video I can inspire you and
provide some different avenues for you
to explore for yourself that if you
really want to change your life if you
want to quit your job if you want to
live the laptop lifestyle or create
financial freedom I can share with you a
bit about myself and my story and maybe
that can help you and your journey to
create whatever kind of lifestyle
you want for yourself now right now I'm
here in Koh Samui Thailand rented out
this incredible villa been here for the
last few weeks with Tatiana my fiancee
she's also got a successful online
business as well and great YouTube
channel called Tatiana James and the
crazy thing is you know it's my third
time here in Thailand and the first time
I was here was ten years ago I was 23
years old and the reason why I came to
Thailand is because I was first starting
my online business you know around that
time in my life about 10 years ago or so
I was dabbling with internet marketing I
read a book called the 4-hour workweek
by Tim Ferriss I know many of you guys
might have heard of a read that book as
well but I discovered this book and it
totally shifted my mindset because I was
conditioned my whole life to believe
that I had to go to school I had to get
a good job I had to you know find a good
nine-to-five and work hard for that job
and do so and trading my time for money
until a 65 years old and then eventually
I could retire and I could be free and
then I could really enjoy my life and
this book by Tim Ferriss really shifted
my mindset to believe that there's a
different way there's a different path
that I could create passive income I
didn't have to trade my time for money I
could create a business that is
automated and is making me money 24/7
and that would allow me to have true
financial freedom so that I could be
anywhere in the world I can you know
we're semi-retire if I wanted to and
still make money still be able to
support myself and its really shifted a
lot of things for me once I discovered
that once I read that book and discover
the 4-hour workweek I decided I had to
do whatever it took to figure out how to
build an online business I you know once
I knew that existed and I was at the
stage of my life I was trying to figure
out what I wanted to do with my life
nothing else was more attractive to me
to be honest than building an online
business and creating this because you
know I remember at the time as you know
should I go to university or college I
know many people are in that boat right
now you know if you're a youngster right
now should I do this or should I do that
but it didn't really inspire me once I
discovered that you could build this
online business and create freedom once
I discovered that it like going to
school getting a regular job that was
like Saudi motivating for me and so I
thought I decided you know I gotta find
a way I'm gonna do
ever take so I fully immersed myself in
learning about internet marketing I read
all the books I went to all the programs
and courses I bought almost everything
out there I found coaches and mentors I
went to seminars I mean I went all in on
this and it did not happen overnight
like I said in fact I went through a
period where I was struggling you know I
went through a period where I was you
know lazy I had a lot of limiting
beliefs that's holding me back I was
afraid to really go all-in with it I had
some doubts I had some insecurities that
I had to really overcome was afraid to
invest money into myself I went through
this phase and journey like that where
honestly I just kind of didn't take it
seriously enough and it wasn't till I
finally got to the point where I said to
myself you know what I've got to go
all-in on this I could have stopped the
dabbling I said I saw and recognized
what was stopping me and holding me back
from success and I decided you know what
I'm gonna go travel to Southeast Asia
I'm gonna go to Thailand and I actually
was inspired by a friend that we also
went to Thailand and I realized there's
actually fairly cheap to live in
Thailand and I could kind of get that
taste of the laptop lifestyle while
being there and I could really focus I
could you know go all in I have any
distractions like I did from back home
and I was you know able to support
myself for a few months save up some
money and just really go all-in on that
while traveling around Thailand and
that's what I did in fact I remember at
one point I was in the Beijing Airport
on a layover going to Bangkok and I'm
from Vancouver Canada so that's where I
came from and it was also the winter
time too I wanted to get away from the
rain and a cold and all that so Thailand
was perfect for me but I remember I had
my journal out and I was in the airport
and I was writing down I'm gonna make
$300 a month passive income in my online
business and if I don't make that then
I'm gonna stay here for however long it
takes for me to be able to create that
so I put so much pressure on myself
where I said to myself I'm not coming
back to Canada till I make that 300
bucks a month and I didn't know how I
was gonna do it but if you have a strong
enough why if you have a strong enough
purpose for doing something you figure
it out you find the way and that's what
I did so at the time I was kind of
dabbling around with a few different
things and one of the first ways I
started making money online what's
through affiliate marketing affiliate
marketing is a process of promoting
are people's products there you go
promoting other people's products and
you earn a commission from it and I
discovered this method of doing
affiliate marketing where I could find a
bunch of products that I wanted to be an
affiliate for they had affiliate
programs so for example some of them was
a confiding mix blender a Blendtec
blender these are like very expensive
blenders andr dollars a Fitbit if it was
like a new device that came out at the
time and it was like a an activity
tracker there's another one called the
body bug I don't even know if it's
around anymore but I found all these
little products at affiliate programs
and I realized that I could create these
little blogs these little websites and I
could create content on it and I can
learn search engine optimization where I
could optimize the content and these
blogs so that when people search for
these devices they're looking for
reviews of them and it can find my
articles my content they can come to my
blog and then on my blog it had
affiliate links where people click on
them and then head over buy the product
and either earn an affiliate commission
from that and you know it wasn't gonna
get me rich but I realized but if I had
a bunch of these website ups up up and
running and automated it and I can make
a couple hundred bucks for each website
that that could you know provide some
incredible income for me so I started
doing that and I you know started doing
doing pretty well and making some money
with it sure enough I did accomplish
that goal in Thailand I'm making 300
bucks a month which is pretty cool you
know being here when I did that now
being back ten years later but I was
able to make some money doing that and
then what happened was Google changed
their algorithms you know for basically
you know basically what they changed was
they no longer were ranking these
websites they're really small little
websites because my blogs had like five
or ten articles on it they instead
changed their algorithm where they're
now trying to rank websites that were
more authoritative websites websites
that had more credibility to add more
content on it they weren't just these
little small blogs that I was doing
before nose kind of based on this little
tactic and technique that I learned that
worked for the moment but didn't last
and so my whole business was wiped out I
lost all the money that I was making and
I went back to the drawing board and
after that I actually got into
publishing books I learned that you
could publish ebooks and people are
looking to buy books that could help
them solve their problems and I
discovered Kindle
Publishing the fact that you could
publish a book on Amazon Amazon has a
platform called Kindle KDP Kindle direct
publishing published a book on Amazon
and Amazon similar to ranking in Google
you could rank your books on Amazon
which is a search engine accept Amazon
is a buyer search engine people go to
Amazon to buy stuff people go to Google
they're looking for free information
mostly but on Amazon they've already got
their credit card and they're looking to
buy and so I realized I could write
these books and publish them on Amazon
and I could make some money doing that
and then the more books that I publish
the more money that I can make so I did
that and I started publishing Kindle
books so then paperback books so then
audiobooks and then I realized that I
didn't have to write the books myself I
could actually hire ghost writers to
write them for me and instead I could
focus on being a publisher building a
publishing company and a marketing
company and I could you know I didn't
have to write the books but I could
focus on publishing and marketing them
similar to you know these big publishing
houses like HarperCollins and Simon and
Schuster and this big you know Penguin
Books they're publishing companies they
work with authors and ghost writers and
they handle the publishing and marketing
so I started doing that and that was
really my big break online where all the
sudden has making you know eight
thousand nine thousand ten thousand
dollars a month and at this stage I was
around twenty four years old and that
totally changed my life guys it really
did I mean first I want to say actually
make my first money online like the
first hundred bucks 300 bucks when I
achieve that goal in Thailand that blew
my mind and it wasn't really the money
the money was nice the money you know
could help me pay my bills a little bit
more but really what changed things for
me was the belief system of what was
possible because now all of a sudden you
know this thing that I had read about in
a book and that I heard about and saw
other people living now that I got an
experience of it where I made some money
myself it validated this is real this is
possible and it made my mind think if I
can do this then what else is possible
if I can make 300 bucks in a month and I
can make 500 then I could make a
thousand five thousand eight thousand
and it really shifted my mindset and
then actually motivated me even more
just to go deeper with it and really go
all-in and so when I really started
publishing books and ramping it up even
though I had some failures and
challenges along the way again it wasn't
just I'm giving you the
short version of this but the books blew
my mind
we're all of a sudden is in a position
where I didn't have to work anymore you
know I kind of semi-retired for a little
bit because I thought what I wanted was
just to you know have passive income and
be financially free where I never had to
work again and I enjoyed that for a few
months to be honest but I didn't I
wasn't fulfilled I wasn't really happy
and what happened for me then was I sort
of asked myself the question Stefan if
money wasn't a factor really what would
I do with my life that if I didn't need
the money what is my purpose what is my
passion what would I want to give what
would I want to contribute what would I
want my legacy to be and when I asked
myself those questions from a place of
abundance now versus scarcity because
before I was in a desperate point of my
life where now is in a position of
abundance and I had more choice in
freedom I said you know my real passion
is self-development my real passion is
learning growing developing my life and
then sharing what I learned with other
people so that when you share it it
comes back to you and you feel so good
and fulfilled because they're helping
other people as well being a giver being
a force for good in this world and so
that's what I realized that I needed to
start my own website my own channel
I started project life mastery this is
back in 2012 was 25 years old at this
stage and project life mastery I decided
is this going to be a YouTube channel
and a blog eventually later became a
podcast as well where I was just gonna
share my goals you know share what I'm
committed to my life share on how I'm
improving each other in my life share
what I'm learning with other people so
that maybe they could benefit from it as
well you know sharing you know sharing
how to build a business eventually is
what it kind of turned into as well
because what happened was I started
putting out YouTube videos and putting
up content on a blog people found it and
then follow me and they'd ask me
questions stuff and how is it that
you're making money online how is it
you're doing this and that and
eventually I started teaching that to
other people I started I started
actually teaching people how to publish
books on Amazon and I was doing
one-on-one coaching at first helped
people have great success with that and
then eventually I created a course that
would teach people step-by-step how to
publish books and how to make money
doing that and then I realized also
through project life mastery you know
there's all these great things that I
was buying for myself and learning and
growing in my life
that I saw these affiliate opportunities
where I could share the things that have
benefited me with other people so I come
across a great course and it really made
a difference in my life
and then they had an affiliate program
so it shirts my audience and then other
people would buy it and benefit from it
and then I can earn a commission from
that so you know essentially project
life mastery what happened was I started
making money in different ways you know
I started making money from doing
affiliate marketing and then creating my
own courses and training programs
helping other people I started doing
some coaching and some mastermind events
where you know people would come out and
spend some time with myself and had
coached them and helped them build their
business and give them feedback on it
you know eventually I also started doing
I was doing books as well actually on
project life mastery where I published
in my own book so then some of these
other books I published on Amazon a lot
of them were self-development books I
realized those books I could link in
those books to my website and also the
books that I was you know selling on
Amazon there's opportunities for me to
do affiliate marketing with that too
because a lot of people that were buying
these books on these certain topics they
wanted more once they read the book they
wanted more information they wanted more
in-depth training that I could then
provide for them by promoting other
people's stuffs as an affiliate and
earning commissions from that too so you
know I started making money in all these
different ways which is kind of cool and
it became so much easier and faster once
I was doing it around my passion and
what I really loved now 2014 what
happened was I discovered that really
the big opportunity on Amazon is
actually selling physical products
building a brand and selling products on
Amazon because you know you could
publish books and that's a great way to
start but you know you're not gonna make
much money selling books because the
royalties you get are less than ten
dollars versus you know if you can
actually sell physical products and
build a brand you can make much higher
profits and there's much more of a
market on Amazon for physical products
than there are for books and so then I
was trying to figure out how to do that
and I was really looking to build
multiple streams of income in my
business because I learned the lesson
the hard way back when I started not to
depend on one platform or one stream of
income you know if you remember my story
I shared with you how Google changed
their algorithm and it wiped out my
business I had to start from scratch
so I wanted to create multiple streams
of income so I wasn't dependent this on
one platform or one stream so myself and
actually my fiancee Tatiana at the time
we started getting to selling on Amazon
we bought a course called the amazing
selling machine which taught us how to
do it and I launched the supplement
brand on Amazon had some great success
with that for a few years eventually got
out of that business and now in a
position where I started partnering with
other e-commerce businesses and brands
because eventually I got to a point it
was just too much to manage at all and I
could instead just partner with other
people and offer my expertise and my
knowledge and be an investor and working
smarter than having do the nitty-gritty
stuff like I did at the beginning and so
got into that so so you know it's a long
story but hopefully you're seeing by now
I mean my story started just with one
strategy
okay just really what it started the
hunger the desire the commitment the why
the purpose and then finding the
strategies that can help me and then
making money from that and then slowly
growing and transitioning into other
opportunities that existed as well and
Here I am today 33 years old now and
I've built an incredible business and
I'm proud of and I make money you know
in a variety different ways from
affiliate marketing to my own courses
and training programs to YouTube ad
revenue that I make when people watch my
youtube videos to I've done drop
shipping I still do drop shipping in
fact I also do print on demand I've got
you know a merchandise brand as well
physical products and e-commerce
businesses I'm also an investor so I do
invest got a big portfolio that I invest
in the stock market a lot of dividend
paying stocks a lot of different things
that I've done coaching consulting
mastermind events a lot of things a lot
of different aspects of my business
including books still as well and you
know really what I want to share with
you is what's possible you know this
journey guys that was not easy it's
incredibly challenging there's a lot of
ups and downs there's a lot of failures
I lost money so many times and you know
by watching this 20 minute or so video
you might think that it's easy or you
know it's easier as fast or something
like that it's not the case you know
maybe for some people it is but I know
for me it wasn't for me it was a
struggle especially at the beginning but
what kept me going
was just the belief in the faith of what
was possible I always knew that you know
I was gonna find the way that's gonna
figure it out I believe that if you're
committed enough to something you find
the way or you make the way and today
there's more and more examples there's
more and more opportunities as more and
more possibilities in fact today's
easier than has ever been before guys it
really is I mean when I look back when I
started and I had to create some of
these blogs and websites so so much
harder back then there was little you
know tricks and loopholes and stuff like
that but though all those clothes and
they didn't work they weren't
sustainable and really what I learned
you know when I start a project like
mastery because before when I first
start us quitting his little thin
websites and looking for tactics when I
shifting my mindset to building some
something a legitimate a legitimate
business an authoritative website a
brand putting myself out there
connecting with people trying to serve
people trying to add value trying to
help when I made that my mindset and
that my mission everything else followed
from then you know my caring and my
passion I think have been some of my
greatest attributes that helped me be
successful because if you really care
about people and you want to serve and
help them you'll go through the training
is the knowledge you'll find the answers
and you'll do the best you can to do
that and communicate and create products
and services that can truly serve and
when you have a passion for something
that's infectious and contagious to
everyone else so for me you know guys
this has really changed my life I think
this has been the greatest opportunity
that has existed in my life but also for
so many people as well
the fact that anyone can do this from
almost anywhere in the world and as long
as you have an internet connection you
can build a business you can start
creating content you can start you know
selling on Amazon there's so many
different paths that you can take and
opportunities but really what it comes
down to is just committing yourself and
saying you know what I'm gonna do
whatever it takes and so I'm so blessed
to be able to travel the way that I do
now and experience would have
experienced 10 years ago guys I mean
staying a little guest houses in
Thailand and hostels and struggling
financially to now today renting out
this incredible villa it's pretty
amazing how your life can change so
hopefully this can inspire you guys
hopefully can motivate you guys that if
you're on this journey don't give up
keep going keep learning keep studying
you know sometimes you could be so close
and people give up you never know the
next opportunity the next action the
next idea the next insight just you know
really taking that action can change
everything for you I'm so grateful that
I didn't give up and then if you're
watching this and you're kind of
exploring this as an opportunity you
know I'm sure explore it a little bit
more but at a certain point you got to
commit a certain point you got to do
what I did and so you know I'm all-in
I'm gonna figure it out I don't know how
but I'm gonna commit I'm gonna study I'm
gonna invest in myself and I'm gonna
really go for it and you know you're
gonna learn so much to this journey and
it's all gonna be worth it I can promise
you that I'm so grateful I look back and
I remember the hard times and today I'm
like you know it was so worth it because
yes you might have to sacrifice at the
beginning you might have to put in work
put in money at the beginning to learn
this but once you do you can live the
rest of your life free and that's a
small price to pay to have freedom for
the rest of your life so you can do what
you want when you want whenever you want
with whomever you want
so my friends thank you so much for
watching this I got more videos here for
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