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Personal Development for Smart People

In a smart marketing move, Steve Pavlina recently offered a free copy of his book, Personal Development for Smart People, to any blogger willing to write a review about it. It’s brilliant because for a man who is already financially secure, writing a book is either a stroke to his own ego, or he [...]

Identify Your Triggers for a More Productive Day

Do you ever have a day where you are just running on all cylinders, you move from one task to another, accomplishing more in a day than some people do in a week? Do you ever have a day where you’ve run out of gas, it seems you get nothing done, and despite your desire [...]

Save Money By Being Poor for a Week

In the current economic climate, it seems that just about everyone is trying to find ways to save money and prepare for the challenging months ahead.  I recently challenged myself to live on only $100 for an entire week to see if I could and what I would learn.
I didn’t realize that the project would [...]

Optimize Your Personal Wordpress Blog

Why Optimize a Personal Blog?
There are a number of different sites and services that offer ways to build a website; there are hundreds of ebooks available describing the best “online marketing” strategies; there are thousands of techniques that are supposedly guaranteed to get you traffic and generate sales.  That’s all fine and dandy, but what [...]

Stop Hitting Snooze and Wake Up Early

If you had your choice, would you rather know how to wake up early or stop hitting the snooze button? Through this past week of waking up at 6am, I realized my biggest problem was with the latter- hitting snooze. By combining just about every sleep trick I’ve read about, I was finally [...]