Why I'm Living in Brazil?

If you’ve been following me on facebook, you know for the past 5 weeks I’ve been doing a “workation” on a beach on the island of Florianopolis, Brazil and its 42 beaches (or as the locals call it, Floripa.)

Workation is my made up word of living for an extended period time, in another
part of the world you would like to experience, while still running your business
remotely. Part Work, Part Vacation.

An interesting side story I learned after I got here… this location (actually even the
house I’m renting out) is where Tim Ferris finished writing his book “4 Hour Work Week”.

And after a quick trip back home to see my family for the holidays, I’m coming back
to live here for a few more months.

And the reason is not the one you would think.

Yes, there are of course the obvious reasons.

• Weather (80+ degrees and sunny, instead of the 40’s back home)
  Beach and Surfing (I’m a 3 minute walk to Praia Mole beach, the best beach
  on the island, and have been taking surf lessons – until I broke my toe last
  week, ouchie)
• People (Can’t say enough about the people of Floripa… some of the happiest,
  nicest, friendliest, and most beautiful in the world. And they live, to live life
  and enjoy the moment.)
• Nightlife (Dinner starts around 10 or 11, weeknights make it home around
  2 or 3, weekends you walk outside the club and the sun is out and 8am in the
  morning. Needless to say this is a place that literally goes all night and sleeps
  all day!)

But the REAL reason is not so obvious, and before I share it with you, first…

Some Random Pictures
(You can see the entire collection, each with full commentary captions, here at
Facebook)

The Swinging Six – Everybody had different travel schedules arriving and leaving,
this was the 1 day all 6 of us were here together.


An Amazing Sunrise At Praia Mole Beach next to our house… this was a Sunday
morning after we just left Confraria Club, gotta love Brazil!


Praia Mole Beach next to our house. Its still not “high season” which starts after
Christmas. During high season the island goes from 450,000 to 1.5 million people.
This beach will be full of happy Brazilians.


My First Surf Lesson with Daniel. Nothing like getting up and catching your first
wave!!!


Churrascaria – A traditional Brazilian Barbeque (aka like Fogo de Chua or Texas de
Brazil in the states). A non stop onslaught of the best cooked meat in the world, here
you see the famous Brazilian Pichanha, hmm, hmm good!


Nightlife “Before” Pic – We met the owner of Confraria Club earlier in the week and
he hooked us up with his own VIP table, cool guy. This is the before picture, before
the adventure started.


Nightlife “After” Pic – And after, yep, we are down 2 men, and its 8:30am and we
are just walking out… and the place still had not closed down! Heard it kept going
for another hour plus… gotta love Brazil.


Nitro Energy, the official energizer of Brazil, now you know why this place is so
awesome!!


The Accordion Rock Band – Only in Brazil does a big pop band have not 1, but 2
accordion players… and they were seriously rocking it out.


I Love My Life – Just finished boarding down a massive sand dune in the middle of
the island. Reflecting on how life has been during this “Workation”.


End Of The Day – Time to head home, but only briefly, there is more of this world,
and more “Workations” to experience.

Now, the not so obvious reason I’m currently living in Brazil.

It has to do with the future of the United States economy.

Specifically a former student of Nitro’s training programs, Mike, who went on to
make over $15 million online the past 5 years.

The past several years we have become very good friends. In fact, when I go to
Austin, Texas I usually stay at his house.

And for the past 3 years, Mike has immersed himself, and sought out the top thought
leaders on where the country is heading economically.

At first I thought he was kinda crazy.

But then, 12 months ago he gave me a list of resources to go through, so I could
educate myself and make informed choices about business and the future. That’s
smart, right, get educated and make smart educated decisions that could effect the
rest of my life.

It took about 8 hours to make it through the different educational sites and videos
he gave me to check out.

It was VERY eye-opening to say the least.

And more importantly, I started making changes.

That’s because, like it or not, things are going to change over the next 3 years. Quite
possibly dramatically change depending on who you talk to.

What that means, there will be winners and losers.

Some people are focusing on the “losing” part, while others, like Mike and myself,

are focusing on the “winning” part.

Mike now has a recording of a 90 minute webinar where he condenses the 8 hours
of information he gave me into 90 minutes. Trust me, the 90 minutes is MUCH better
than the 8+ hours I went through to get up to speed (lucky you!!).

I recommend watching it here.

Its going to cover all the key things that are going on, and how to end up being in
the “winner” column as we move forward.

Some people will focus on the negative side of the message he gives, which I advise
against. Instead focus on how to end up on the positive side of the equation.

Before I wrap up this post, here are some Action Steps you can follow:

1. Watch the webinar.
2. Start positioning yourself properly for the changes that are coming over
the next 6 to 36 months based on the information in the webinar.
3. Finally, it’s even more important now, than ever before, to create passive
income streams you can run from anywhere in the world.

For the 3rd one, there are really only a couple that I feel fit the description, based on
the future we are heading into.

1. Local Online Marketing:
I’ve been touting the benefits of this for the past 18 months, and have seen TONS
(more so than anything else we’ve taught) go on to create full-time incomes. And
with our turn-key done for you outsourcing, it can truly become a passive income
stream.

We are releasing the “2.0” version of our ground breaking Local Business Money
Machine course in January. (Good news, if you are a current member of LBMM, you
will be grand fathered into this new program for free.)

This COMPLETELY updated version streamlines the entire process from getting
clients FAST, to delivering the services (without having to do it yourself), and
getting paid $1000 to $5000 a month per client. With just a couple clients you are
making $10,000+ a month.

Why this fits long-term? Local businesses are not going anywhere, and its even more
important than ever they start using the internet to get clients… that means demand
has never been higher. And with the outsourcing solutions available to you, once

you get clients, the work just gets done for you.

You literally can run this business from anywhere. My business partner, Jeff, has
been traveling and living all across the world the past 18 months and its had zero
effect on his local marketing business (in fact its been exploding.)

2. Mobile:
There has been A LOT, and I do mean A LOT of talk about the opportunity mobile
marketing offers. And for good reason, that is where all of the opportunity is going
over the next several years!!

The writing is one wall with this one, this is an opportunity to position yourself in
front of.

The challenge, most stuff out there teaches you how to drive traffic via mobile
marketing, or other complicated and constantly changing methods. All fine and
dandy, except that’s not passive because the game of mobile traffic will shift faster
than the hips of a Brazilian dancing Samba.

At the end of the day, it means you are constantly trying to stay ahead of the
changes, it’s a lot of work and requires constant supervision.

If your goal is to create a true hands off income stream over the next 3 to 6 months,
there is 1 specific approach to follow.

I used this little technique 12 years ago when follow-up autoresponders first came
out, and I’m still getting paid for that work 12 years later (it really, REALLY is
passive income). I’ll show you how to do it right now with mobile.

Look for it next week, I’ll send you some free resources I’ve rounded up for you, as
well as how I did it 12 years ago, and am doing it MUCH bigger right now today with
mobile.

What’s cool with this one, its pretty straightforward, so no information needed to
buy to learn all the steps. The free resources will get you going.

My personal goal, turn this one into $100,000+ a month residual income in 2011.

(FYI, my results are not typical, you will most likely make a lot less, but based on the
action you take, you could do really, really well, or make nothing at all.)

3. “4 Hour Work Week” Style:
One of my buddies who came on my 5-week Brazil “Workation” truly lives the “4-hr
work week” life. In fact earlier this year he spent 3 months traveling through Asia
and worked a total of 3 hours. I guess you call that the 1 hour work month!

Despite hardly ever doing anything (he will flat out tell you there is only 1 thing
he does, takes little time to do, but makes all the money)… he has a multi-million
business that is less than 2 years old, was built from scratch, and previous to that he
was completely broke and had nothing in life.

I’m getting him to share his story on how he did it. Earlier this week I gave him a
deadline to put it together. It’s funny, for the first time during this “Workation” he’s
been doing some work. Amazing the power that deadlines offer us entrepreneurs!!

So Why Am I Living in Brazil?

On my to-do list this year, based on what I learned from Mike, is to set up a business,
along with some property, in an overseas country for a number of reasons.

Imagine having your own dream place in this world. With a house owned free and
clear, that you can travel to whenever you want. Even take mini-retirements to. Or,
like I will be doing, going there in the winter (which is summer down here) for a fun
Workations.

There are other reasons as well, which will probably be more apparent after
watching the webinar.

Who knows, maybe you will come join me for a few days on Praia Mole beach,
drinking coconut water straight from a fresh green coconut while sipping a cold Skol
as the waves splash at our feet as we share stories of life and business.

Tudo Bem, e Tchau!
-Kevin

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