by: Ken LaVoie - Author of “Start your own amazingly profitable lawn care business”

Pretty much everything that shows up in your life is a direct result of those “beliefs” and “agreements” you are programmed with all your life. “no one ever got rich working 35-40 hours a week”, “money doesn’t grow on trees”, “you’ve got to watch every penny”, “employees will take advantage of you if you don’t watch them”, “you can’t make money doing x, y or z”, “you’ve got to be RIGHT THERE watching your business or all hell will break loose!”. I simply decided (often unconsciously) what things were going to be like and never gave it a second thought. I didn’t know what I was doing when I did that, but looking back, I realize that’s exactly how it worked. Now I’m living a great life, making all the money I need, looking for ways to make more and doing my fair share of charity work and donating to my favorite causes. Our family donates 10% of it’s income, roughly, to our church, daughter’s school and a local hospice cause - www.hvwa.org. In addition, we volunteer uncounted hours for those causes.

Now, I get up around 4:30 am, check email, take care of any web related work I need to do, meditate, head upstairs and spend a few minutes with my family, meet my employee when he arrives around 7 and take off and do estimates and landscape work from around 730-12. Then I usually take an hour nap, do some reading, and go to work on my computer for a while, doing investment and business research, writing letters or journaling. I play with my little girl and have dinner with her and my wonderful wife, Debbie. Then around 630-7, the little one is off to bed and my Deb I have some down time watching mindless television and talking with each other. Some weekends we sit in our living room and watch movies all day, other times we spend it with extended family or traveling … And I haven’t worked a weekend in 5 years.