Archive | June, 2009
The Personal Development community encyclopedia
I’ve had several questions lately about what certain terms are that I’ve been using here. Well, to make things a bit clearer I’m going to provide you with a post on terms that are being used in the personal development and lifestyle design niche. It’s by no means complete though and I urge you to [...]
Continue reading...My blogchallenge, a weekly update 10
27 June 2009
Time flies when you’re having fun. It seems only yesterday I was writing the last weekly update. Well, here are the numbers again. I’ve heard from various sources that they appreciate these updates and are looking forqard to them every week. The end date of the challenge is slowly coming closer though and the person [...]
Continue reading...Kindness as an Internet currency
26 June 2009
Something new happened to me today, I was a bit stuck on a topic to write about. I confessed this to Carl (Slacker Reform, have been talking a lot lately) and he suggested I write something on Kindness or Generosity. A brilliant idea and let me start with saying thank you Carl for this kind [...]
Continue reading...Upgrading for the sake of upgrading: an ode to the old
24 June 2009
How often do you see a commercial claiming a “new and improved” formula, or just something stating it’s “new” or “the latest”. Almost every month they design a new toothbrush that’s supposed to be an improvement over the old one. I still use a simple average toothbrush and it does what it’s supposed to. The [...]
Continue reading...Living on a small footprint, minimalist living: The Japan edition
22 June 2009
I’ve been looking into minimalist homes a lot lately and at how the Japanese tackle this challenge in particular. In my previous article on minimalist living I identified what it is exactly that we need to live somewhere, for convenience I’ll give the list again: A bed A desk/table and chair A toilet A shower [...]
Continue reading...My blogchallenge, a weekly update 9
20 June 2009
Another week has come and gone, another weekly update is in order. I’m getting more into the routine of blogging, so I’d better watch out for the “routine-trap” and keep the quality high. I have no idea yet what I’m going to write about next week but I promise you, it will be great! Average number [...]
Continue reading...The 86 fears of (aspiring) location independent professionals and digital nomads
18 June 2009
As promised yesterday I’m going to give you another great resource: a list of fears those aspiring to become location independent suffer from and a list of the fears the already independent suffer from. There are a few recurring themes in these two lists that were composed using the recent Location Independent and Digital Nomad [...]
Continue reading...Location independence explored (The survey results are in)
17 June 2009
Two weeks ago I asked you to fill in the survey on Location Independence and Digital Nomads set up by freepursuits.com and locationinedependent.com. Well, the two weeks has passed and the result are in. 268 people took the survey that was promoted by a group of lifestyle design bloggers. Of course I immediately took a look [...]
Continue reading...9 Books that changed my Life
15 June 2009
I haven’t always been a lifestyle designer with a zen twist, it had to start somewhere and I can blame it all on a book that probably everyone who is into lifestyle design knows by now. The four hour workweek by Tim Ferris. This book opened my eyes to the possibilities of Internet and changed [...]
Continue reading...My blogchalenge, a weekly update 8
13 June 2009
Saturday is here again and so is the weekly update. Yesterday was the 12th of June, which means I’ve got one month left to reach my goals of either 500 pageviews a day for seven consecutive days or 300 subscribers. Well, I can tell you I no longer believe I will reach those numbers within [...]
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29 June 2009
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