By Michael Manville
In a minute I am going to show you how six mega trends will help you reach your lifestyle and financial dreams.
When I say “dreams” I am not referring to some magic process where money falls effortlessly from the sky and into your pocket.
I am talking about six very real trends that are enabling people of all ages to abandon the rat race in favor of a free-wheeling mobile lifestyle that allows them to live and work anywhere they want.
This article will show you how you can benefit from these mega trends, and how you can open up a whole new world of lifestyle, financial freedom, and job security.
Introducing The Mobile Professional
As you’ll soon see, these six mega trends are creating a whole new type of business professional. The new business professional is flexible, mobile, and earns multiple streams of income - I call it the mobile professional.
When you become a mobile professional, you'll realize more than just financial freedom – you'll have more free time to pursue personal growth, physical health, and overall well being.
How Can Six Mega Trends Benefit You?
When you are a mobile professional you are not grounded by an office, employees, or a boss. You can work from a coffee table at home, from a beach in Thailand, from a flat in Buenos Aires, or a cattle ranch in India… in other words, anywhere with an Internet connection. As a mobile professional you carry your “Business In A Briefcase”.
Keep reading to learn how you can be free from the hassles of reporting to a 9-5 job, and be on the front end of six major trends that are shaping the global economy.
Mega Trend Number One
High unemployment in advanced economies is “structural”. Structural is a term used by economists that really means “permanent”.
Countries like China and India have replaced certain types of jobs – not just temporarily, but permanently. Do you think a US or British worker will ever be able to make shoes, plastic toys, or clothing as cheaply as a Chinese worker? Nope. Those jobs are gone for good.
And if you think this trend has nothing to do with “your job” think again. There are a whole host of industries that will be affected by this mega trend and the structural changes to the economy will affect everyone.
This trend is a problem but also an opportunity for those who know how to play it. The problem is that the people who have become unemployed as a result of this trend often do not have the skills to integrate into the new economy. The longer those people stay unemployed, the less they spend on other goods and services like housing, retail, or financial services.
So even if your job wasn’t directly replaced by a worker overseas, your job or company can be affected by overall unemployment in the economy. And if you are one of the unemployed I speak about, keep reading to see how you can re-train yourself and become successful in this new age.
Mega Trend Number Two
Mobile technology is replacing “fixed technology”. This trend is obvious but its implications have yet to fully materialize. The advance of wireless technology has enabled us to do more and more business tasks from anywhere in the world.
Cell phones, lap tops, and now the Ipad enable us to communicate and do business from anywhere. Today, there is a whole new type of professional who can literally work from anywhere that has an Internet connection or cell signal.
A big part of business is communication, and if you focus on using these new tools of communication, you can free yourself from the boring office job and find yourself working from a beach side villa in Costa Rica, or a mountain ski lodge in Switzerland.
The best part about this trend is that new technologies are becoming so simple to use, you don’t have to be a technical genius to use them productively.
Mega Trend Number Three
Media is de-centralizing, personalizing and digitizing. There was a time when just three TV channels were broadcasting to millions of people, and those millions had no way of communicating with each other.
With the invention of the Internet, there are now millions of “channels” and individual or small groups of operators for each one of them. The audience can communicate with the producer, and with each other.
The result?
Blogs are replacing newspapers; readers, viewers, and advertising dollars are moving over to the Internet. Case in point - newspapers like the New York Times are losing advertising revenue to companies like Google.
The key trend here is that you (or anyone) have the power to communicate with millions of people from all over the globe. You no longer have to be a successful actor or published author to express your views and make them profitable.
You also have the power to manage your own “channel” and tuse the same promotional channels used by major multinational companies .
Mega Trend Number Four
Health care is beginning to shift from treatment to prevention.
The traditional idea of health care was to go to the doctor when you feel pain and the doctor will prescribe you a chemical-based solution to treat the symptom.
Now people are realizing that all of these pills can do you more harm than good. Just look at the list of side affects and fine print that accompany all of the drug advertisements out there.
I just love the magazine ads where the tag line is “ask your doctor” and then on the back of the ad are thousands of tiny words explaining the risks involved in taking that particular drug.
I wonder how much money those drug companies spend convincing doctors that they should recommend those drugs? Unfortunately, this style of pharmaceutical “healthcare” is also getting more expensive.
By far the better plan is prevention – and that’s why natural food, natural supplements, and other natural health products are more popular than they’ve ever been. The old adage, “you are what you eat” has never been more obvious.
As a mobile professional you can participate in the health movement by consuming and recommending healthy products and services.
Mega Trend Number Five
People are getting fed up with the rat race. More and more people are finding it harder and harder to cope with hour-long commutes, long days at the office, and corporate bureaucracy.
The stress of a 9-5 job or in many cases an 8-8 work schedule feeds into the health care industry problem mentioned in trend number four.
A growing number of us realize that the rat race, the corporate ladder, and multinational work force is unsatisfying, unfulfilling, and in many cases (as the recent Goldman Sachs law suit demonstrates) downright unethical.
Compounding the problem are situations where both mother and father often working one or two jobs each. So our children are not getting the care or attention they deserve. They are being raised by brain-less television programs, video games that condone violence, and over stressed under paid teachers – many of whom are physically afraid of their students.
As a mobile professional you can solve this issue by being able to work from home or take the kids out on excursions without worrying about leaving the office.
Mega Trend Number Six
Work and business opportunities are moving from top down approaches to networks.
A top down approach is where you have a boss and an employee and the boss tells the employee what to do. A network approach is a dynamic set of relationships that enable people to communicate and interact with each other with more equality and flexibility.
The internet itself is a network and today social networking is huge and growing. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Blogger, what do they all have in common? They are all about building a network.
I am not saying you can get rich by using Facebook or Twitter, but I am saying that the new business professional needs to think in terms of networks.
The leaders of tomorrow’s businesses will not depend on how many employees they have but by the size of the network they can influence. As a mobile professional, you do not learn to manage employees, you learn to manage a network.
Conclusion?
On the one hand we have economies like China, India and Brazil among the fastest growing in the world yet causing unemployment problems on the home front.
On the other hand, we have rapidly advancing technologies enabling us to do business all over the world. Media and health care are changing especially rapidly and represent opportunities to those who are on the front of the movement.
What to do?
Here’s my recommendation based on my own first hand experience: Make a conscious decision to develop a career or business you can do from anywhere – learn to become a mobile professional.
As mobile professional, you will apply the use of technology to create mobility and freedom your forefathers could never have dreamed possible.
You'll learn to develop and build a network.
You'll learn how growth in India and China is an opportunity, not a threat.
You'll capitalize on the personalization of media that makes Google grow and the New York Times shrink.
You'll spend more time with your kids and grandkids, and de-stress your lifestyle.
You'll also learn how to aim for health prevention as opposed to treatment (because what good is wealth without health?). Not to mention the significant tax benefits of becoming a mobile professional.
This idea isn’t fantasy, this is real.
In fact, I bet you already know someone who can do his or her work from home or anywhere. Today there are millions of people who are using their creativity to seize opportunities this new world presents, make more money than they could with their day job, and have more freedom to do as they please and evolve along the way. The new mobile business style leverages these trends.
You have to ask yourself, do you want to be on the front end of these trends, or on the back end? Why work until age 65 to free yourself from the rat race – as a mobile professional you can be free now.
About The Author: Michael Manville is a mobile professional who lives and works from anywhere. He now teaches a course called "Business In A Briefcase" where he shows you how he did it, how many others have done it, and how you can do it too.
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