The Slinger Life. Hot Dog Freedom.

 

A View From the Top

Here is where I was yesterday…

Hey Slinger (or soon to be slinger),

Something happened to me this morning that made me laugh. It also reminded me why I am so grateful that I have a hot dog biz and why I feel really sorry for anyone who still works for someone else.

I just got off the phone with a new Premium Member. He had joined us yesterday and said he loved all the courses in the online members area. He was really pumped up.

He wanted to order the hard copies because he is currently driving a truck and is without internet access a lot of the time. He wanted to be able to study on the road so he could get out of the trucking business as fast as possible.

I took his order over the phone at around 10 am, hung up, and laughed. What was so funny?

I was still in my pajamas.

In fact I had just woken up. I was sitting by the front room window in my favorite leather chair, sipping a cup of coffee and watching the gold finches pig out at the bird feeder.

You see, yesterday was the first cool day in a long time where I live. It was perfect weather to take my family to the amusement park.

I didn’t have to burn a vacation day. I have unlimited vacation days.

I didn’t have to fake an illness and call in sick to work. Have you ever done that? It’s humiliating.

I didn’t have to ask anyone if I could go. I just took a day off and went.

We ended up staying at the park until dark. Then I took the family out to our favorite Mexican place for dinner around nine.

It ended up being a really long, really fun day. I was dog tired when we got home.

But the last thought I had when I finally laid my head down was a happy one…

“I don’t have to wake up tomorrow until I feel like it. YESSSSS!!!!”

That’s living, my soon to be slinger friend.

If you want to live life with no boss and no alarm clocks, if you want to come and go as you please, if you want more time with your family, then stop dreaming about it.

You can do this.

-Steve

P.S. Today is National Hot Dog Day for the rest of the country, but for us slingers every day is Hot Dog Day.

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