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How I Just Got Published In A Print Book (And Some Important Lessons I Learned Along The Way)

3 June 2011

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photo credit: Lori Greig In early July a new book is going to be published which will feature contributions from a number of writers. As you can guess from the title of this post I’ll be one of them. Now this isn’t a book about internet marketing or lifestyle design it’s in another niche in [...]

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Stop Planning And Start Living

10 May 2011

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photo credit: Xelcise Open any self-help book and you’re bound to come across the topic of goals. From to-do lists to bucket lists, short term to long term, one key aspect of creating the lifestyle of your dreams is about knowing where you want to go and then figuring out how you’re going to get [...]

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Why Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone Is Essential To Your Success

17 April 2011

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photo credit: Esther Gibbons Each of us has a “comfort zone” – a set of behaviours that makes us feel safe and  comfortable. Doing something outside of these boundaries can feel stressful, unpleasant and, well, uncomfortable. Consider some examples of things that *may* be outside your comfort zone. For many people the thought of holding [...]

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Believe In Yourself: 4 Motivational Videos To Get Your Adrenaline Pumping

28 March 2011

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At times building an online business can seem like an uphill struggle. You can work long, hard hours investing both your time and money only to come out the other side with little or no results. Obviously that sucks and it can be all too easy to lose the motivation to continue. But in many [...]

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The First Warning Shots Of Summer

19 March 2011

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photo credit: Nanagyei – Still has some catching up to do.. I may be tempting fate by saying it but it looks like spring may finally be arriving here in the UK. Today is about the warmest day we’ve had so far this year with bright sunshine and cloudless blue skies. I’ve seen my first [...]

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How To Promote Your Blog Made Easy Thanks To New Targeted Website Traffic Ebook

9 February 2011

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  Want to learn how to promote your blog and receive a flood of targeted website traffic? If so then help is at hand… WordPress Traffic Explosion has been written specifically with you in mind. This new ebook is packed full of information and advice on how to promote your blog and drive massive amounts [...]

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The Secret To Discovering Your True Passions In Life

10 January 2011

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photo credit: Vincent Luigi Molino One of the main purposes of this wonderful concept known as lifestyle design is to have the freedom to spend far more time on your passions. Too many people work at jobs that they dislike – or at least find boring – simply because it pays well or because the [...]

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Dreamlining And Why Your Dream Lifestyle Probably Costs Less Than You Think

9 January 2011

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photo credit: Xelcise When we think about dream lifestyles it’s tempting to picture in your head an image of the lifestyles of the “rich and famous”. The sort of lifestyle where you attend Hollywood movie premiers, date a model, live in a huge mansion in Bel Air and have a collection of supercars to choose [...]

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Creating A Local Mastermind Group To Help You Achieve Your Lifestyle Design Goals

8 January 2011

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photo credit: ecastro In the early days of a new blog internet business can seem pretty lonely. You’re working hard to produce the best possible content, trying to get the word out about what you’re doing and build up a readership but it’s easy to get demotivated. The internet is full of sites started with good intentions but [...]

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Forced Minimalism And When Life Makes Decisions For You

5 December 2010

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photo credit: [Satbir] My girlfriend just threw me out. I won’t go into the reasons why but I was given one hour to pack and leave. And let me tell you – an hour doesn’t give you long to grab your belongings. What would you have done in that situation? What would you have grabbed? [...]

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Finding The Right Work:Life Balance While Building An Online Business

27 November 2010

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photo credit: Vvillamon While the idea of starting an online business and building it up to the stage where you can quit your job and “live the dream” is a heady thought, finding the time to actually accomplish this goal can be rather harder than you might first expect. We all have a variety of [...]

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The Best Lifestyle Design Book You’ve Probably Never Read

22 November 2010

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photo credit: erix! I think it’s fair to say that Tim Ferriss really kick-started the whole “lifestyle design” movement with the Four Hour Work Week and through recommendations in his book, on Amazon and from other people interested in the topic a number of other books have become “must reads” for those of us interested [...]

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Quitting Just Before You Reach Your Goals

19 November 2010

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photo credit: woodleywonderworks A few years ago I set out to lose a serious amount of weight. I wasn’t huge by any stretch of the imagination but over the course of a few years I had seen my weight slowly increase as my waist size went from 32″ to 36″. Nobody called me “fat” but [...]

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Lifestyle Design Unleashed Is Now On Twitter

17 November 2010

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photo credit: Rosaura Ochoa  For those regular readers of this blog who subscribe via the RSS feed you may not have noticed the changes I have made recently to the site. Quite simply I am very keen for the blog to become a “meeting place” for like-minded individuals rather than just a source of one-sided [...]

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Lifestyle Design: Short Term Sacrifice For Long-Term Success

9 November 2010

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photo credit: seanmcgrath When my lifestyle business took off a few years ago allowing me to quit my full time job, I decided that I wanted to celebrate the fact in style.   So I booked a two week luxury vacation in Cuba. For 14 long days I sat in the sun, swam in the [...]

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I Hate My Job! Now What?!

4 November 2010

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  photo credit: mdanys Do you hate your job? Do Sunday nights fill you with dread at the thought of another week of slugging your guts out for little thanks? Are you feeling stressed and overworked – or just plain bored? If so, you’re not alone. Many people spend their entire lives working in jobs [...]

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Lifestyle Design And Personal Relationships

2 November 2010

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photo credit: LaserGuided  When we think about lifestyle design the common themes are freeing ourselves from a full-time job thanks to freelancing or running an internet business, freeing ourselves of time and energy-draining activities and people, and generally gaining control over our lives so we can live it on our own terms. To travel. To [...]

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Time Management For Internet Marketers

23 October 2010

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photo credit: Robbert van der Steeg Working for yourself is entirely different to working in a normal “job”. Whether you are working online full time or just dabbling in your spare time success takes a considerable degree of practise. And by practise I don’t just mean in the practical skills of keyword research, SEO and [...]

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How To Get Rid Of A PageRank Penalty

18 October 2010

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photo credit: Dave Keeshan If you take part is some of the “seedier” aspects of internet marketing including blackhat link building, website cloaking or even just selling links on your website to other webmasters there is always a risk of a PageRank penalty. Sometimes, if you’re very unlucky, you might even unknowingly open yourself up [...]

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The Ultimate Guide To WordPress Plugins For User Generated Content

6 September 2010

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photo credit: lumaxart Whichever way you cut it, on the internet content is king. Whether that is content in the form of articles or videos, podcasts or ebooks not only do we all need content, but generally speaking the more content that we have and the higher the quality of that content, the more money [...]

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