Personal Development

Healthy Body, Healthy Business

Physical health, diet and nutrition is something that has always been a big part of my life in one form or another. I haven’t always followed a good diet by any means, as I’ve used and abused my good genes pretty hard instead. An athlete dad raising me on bodybuilding and nutrition helped get me [...]

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5-Years Later: Making Life Better or Just Getting Older

“What do you want to do with your life?” “I want to help people.” “How are you going to do that?” “Not really sure.” This was a conversation that took place with a friend about five years ago. If you go read it again, you’ll know the conversation I recently had with that same friend. [...]

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What the Hell is Lifestyle Design and Why Do I Care?

There is plenty of talk among this community about the term Lifestyle Design. Popularized by Tim Ferriss in his book The Four-Hour Work Week, he talks of a “New Rich” who set up muse businesses and are able to travel for extended lengths of time in what Tim calls mini-retirements. The premise being that you [...]

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Quit Whining or Choose Your Own Path

Sitting in traffic one Sunday afternoon, I tweeted a message about the heavy traffic and how I couldn’t imagine doing that every day just to get to work and back (I was sitting in the back seat and not driving). A response I got from a friend was interesting, and probably “normal” by traditional standards. [...]

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Career Outsourcing: Replaced by the Lowest Bidder

photo credit: Richo.Fan It was August 20, 2009. Kristi Coyne was told she would be out of a job as of September 30. Her department of 130 employees would be let go: the county was farming out their mental health services to a private company. It’s a common story these days, but not one that [...]

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Book Review: Reclaim Your Dreams

If you aren’t yet familiar with Jonathan Mead of Illuminated Mind, now is a good time to start. Jonathan is a Life Coach and popular Personal Development Blogger who quit his “regular job” to live on his own terms. I originally became aware of him about a year ago after seeing his contributing posts over [...]

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Your Invitation to Live Collar Free

Want to travel around the world by motorcycle? Wander the Americas living in an RV? Move to a foreign country? Sail around the world? Love your current life, but want more free time with your kids? Think you can’t? People do these things and more every day. We’re taught to get a good job working [...]

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