Just relaxing and kicking back after putting down the telephone to the holiday company, I thought that I would share my experiences with you. This is the first time that I have arranged and booked a holiday whilst running an internet business and I must say it was a very rewarding experience.

For those of you who have read my eBook “Internet Business and a Life of Freedom”, (If you have not yet read it, then be sure to subscribe and download a copy), you may recall me giving an example of the way that most people working a 9 to 5 job would go about booking their annual holiday. In the chapter entitled “Freedom to Make Decisions and Do What You Please”, I refer to having to make a choice of booking your holiday when you find it and then asking your boss for the time off, or asking for the time off first and then finding a holiday to fit into that time period. This is the way that I have always booked my annual holiday – until today!

Honeymoon Hunting

At the beginning of March this year, my fiancée and I are getting married after being together just over 7 years. We had to cancel our previous honeymoon plans after having to put the wedding off for a year. During that time the price of the honeymoon had literally doubled which would have made it virtually impossible for us to afford. So, we have been keeping an eye out for an ideal honeymoon location in a nice warm part of the globe, that is more affordable for us. My newly started internet business is not yet bringing in a consistent stream of income, so it was important that we kept within our very limited budget.

But here’s the thing. After my fiancée had located the ideal holiday (I can’t stand holiday hunting on the internet – it takes absolutely ages!), I was able to book it immediately without even needing to consider if I could have the time off work or not. This to me is a big part of having the freedom to do what you want to do.

It wasn’t until a couple of days later that I realised that we had arranged the wedding and the honeymoon, without me even needing to get any time off approved, or worry about what kind of state to leave my workload in. Usually, having been working in IT, I would need to get all my outstanding work complete and then explain to an external consultancy firm how to run my servers! I had to stop for a moment to take in this experience as it just happened almost without being noticed.

My fiancée is still working her 9 to 5 job, bless her, and she has had the pressure of sorting out her workload. She sees clients and she has had to contact them to let them know that she is going to be away from the office for 3 weeks and seeing as it’s getting close to the end of the tax year, she has got the added pressure from her boss to ensure that she has billed her clients to-date, in order to get funds paid in before the end of the financial year! What a hassle.

A New Way of Life

Me? Well, I have it slightly different now and I must say it is much less stressful. Admittedly, I may have to sit down a couple of times a week for and hour or so whilst on honeymmoon and while sipping a nice ice-cold beer on the sun terrace, in order to type a blog post or two, but that’s what I enjoy and it wouldn’t seem like work to me anyway. All I will need to do is put my laptop in my bag and go! We are due to go to Egypt for a few weeks for some time alone to get over the shock of tying the knot and wondering how our lives will be changing! All I needed to do was to make sure that the hotel that I am staying at has an internet connection. That is all the requirements that I need, oh, and sunshine and my new wife, of course. What more could I ask for?

I know that weddings are never small affairs and even though ours only has a few carefully selected people (I think around 25 in all), organising it has been a 2 year experience. When we started to make the arrangements there were concerns about me getting the time off work, but needing to put it back a year has led me to this point in my life that I am at today. I feel so lucky and enlightened being able to move quickly and travel on any date available, due to the fact that I can just get up and go without the need to pass it by the boss first and wait for his agreement. What an eye opening experience!

This is the freedom that I talk about. The freedom that allows me to be flexible in my approach to work and work from virtually anywhere in the world. I have worked hard to get to this point and it sneaked in the back door without me realizing it. But now as I write this, I can be sure that my dream is coming together piece by piece, designing my ideal lifestyle is on the right track and I have been able to claim the first piece of freedom only four months in to my internet business. This is not only proof that I am on the right track, but also proof that you don’t need to be making extreme amounts of money in order to benefit from the lifestyle flexibility that internet business brings.

I look forward to sharing more events like this with you in the coming weeks and I hope that you can get some form of motivation from this experience in order to take your life to the next level, by running your own internet business.