Ever been in a hotel, airport, coffee shop, or some place that you pay per computer to use their Wireless Internet? Windows 7 has a new feature “Virtual Wifi” that lets you use your wireless as if it was multiple wireless NIC’s, but why do we care? One way to use that virtual wifi feature is to use free software to allow connecting to wireless Internet while also turning your wireless into it’s own hotspot. Great for the wife’s or coworkers laptops sitting next to you. Pay once, surf many.
There’s been a similar feature since XP to share connections, but this required you to use two different NIC’s and only supported peer-to-peer network. This software fixes both issues.
Software: Virtual Router – Wifi Hot Spot for Windows 7 – 2008 R2
Info: Share Wireless Internet Connection In Windows 7 Without Ad Hoc
What if, regardless of circumstances, you could quit your job and retire within 5 years? What if you could only work 4-8 hours a week and make in a week what you used to make in a year, and do it from anywhere? What if you could leave and take a month to explore something you’ve always wanted to (travel, learn a sport, etc.) and come back with more money then you left?
Imagine spending your time doing all the things “you always wanted to do” but didn’t have the time, money, or energy to do? What if the belief that a job is the safe way and retirement at 65+ is the only way… is actually a lie?
In 2003 I started asking myself these questions, and have found the answers.
I’ve learned in the last 5 years that this is indeed possible and first has to start with believing it can happen. I mostly did this with books, some classes, and support from my Wife. Without any skills in either real estate or the stock market we are quickly coming to a turning point in our mindset and abilities that will allow us to do just that. I imagine this blog will change along with me, since I am quitting my job and phasing out my technology career. I’ve had people tell me this can’t be done, at the same time I’m doing it. I’ve had many moments I thought it was moving too slow and would never happen, or that I didn’t have the magic skills to make it work. But for the moments that it seems to take forever, I’ve had moments (like now) that a huge leap forward has taken place and now realize within a year we’ll both be living the way we started to dream 6 years ago with one simple book: Rich Dad, Poor Dad. It may not be the perfect book, but it lit a spark of hope, and after reading that book we had only one rule we weren’t willing to break: once we started to act on these dreams, we would never give up… never.
What a awesome show! To see your brother on stage rockin’ to hundreds of people is a rare thing. Watched my brothers band Shaman’s Harvest release their 4th CD Shine at the Blue Note in Columbia, Missouri. Listen to a few tracks, see my photos of the event, and support indie bands by buying the album (once it comes out online).
Maybe you just get it… but I didn’t. Maybe I just forgot along the way. Before you read any other self-help book, read all 176 short pages of Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by George Leonard, and then read it again. I find myself going back to my notes again and again to remind myself of what it is to be on the road of mastery in anything I want to do. It always helps when I think of straying off my plan to get better at something. Buy Mastery on Amazon.
