Cash Cow Follow-up

Here's a follow-up on from my post "yesterday.":http://alexpooley.com/articles/2005/12/06/cash-cows In this post I talked about how both company founders and an individual can have cash cows, but an individual working for himself has very tight restrictions on his/her time because they _are_ the business. Well, here's a link to an "article":http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,1134713,00.html briefly discussing Google's culture of the 70/20/10 rule. This rule states that a worker at Google should spend 70% of their time on Google's cash cow, 20% on related work, and 10% on entirely new stuff. Even the company founders are starting to work within these rules. The point I want to drive home is that Google have a cash cow working _for_ them, where as the majority of us with jobs are working for our cash cow. The typical day of an employee is 100% of time spent on your core income producing activity, and for the majority of us with full time work we can't change this fact. Clearly the only way to work on 'adjacent' business, and completely new business is to eat in to our 'life' time. Most of us don't have a choice, so if you want financial freedom - get used to it. At least for me, this clarifies why it's such a struggle to break out of the daily grind. You don't have a choice, you need to make time to break out of the rat race if that's what you're after. What keeps me going is the blue skies ahead.