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This Is Why You Are Stupid And Lazy
In one line: you are lazy and stupid, just so you know! You want a solution to your problem, and you want it now. You want others to tell you what to do, what to think, how to act. In trying to earn an income through the Internet your looking towards other people to lend [...]
Continue reading...2010 Reflections, It’s Getting Serious
28 December 2010
The last blogpost this year, and we’re looking back at all the things that took place. First off are the things about mind the beginner as a blog. It’s been a bit more than a year now since this blog started on it’s own domain. And although it’s still a small blog when compared to [...]
Continue reading...A snowflake insight, you’re lucky!
20 December 2010
A quick blogpost in between here, I was walking outside and it started snowing, snowflakes everywhere. One of them wad lucky enough to hit me right in the eye. It hurt a lot, but it made me think. Of all the billions of snowflakes, this one hit home. And if I kept looking up more [...]
Continue reading...The dreaded “I’m too late” feeling
16 December 2010
For the past few weeks I’ve had this feeling that I’m loosing grip with the present. I keep thinking back about past events and what I should have done. Totally useless I know, there is nothing that can be done about the past but accept it and move on. I’m going to share a few [...]
Continue reading...A Question To Ask Yourself Right Now
9 November 2010
What is the next step you can take? A single question, with a lot of power behind it. I’m going to ask you to do one thing right now: Sit back, close your eyes and envision how you want your life to be. Give it a minute and really imagine it, in as much detail [...]
Continue reading...The 4 Basic Needs of Communication
27 October 2010
Is there anyone out there who does what you do? Or do you think you are absolutely unique! On the one hand every action is unique, but that’s the Zen view on things. Most people don’t see life this way and find that in one way or another we’re all just copies of each other. [...]
Continue reading...This Is How My Life Will Change
18 October 2010
In this third blogpost in a about being unhappy with the current situation I’m giving you the exact way I’m going to change my life in the course of 1000 hours. In the previous blogpost we identified three main topics that need to be addressed in order to make a significant change. These were; Building [...]
Continue reading...Don’t Read This Blogpost If You Know Exacty Where You Are Going
12 October 2010
You can call it a bucket list, or you can call it a life list. Some people even just call it a to-do list. No matter what you call it, people who make a list of life goals early on in life somehow seem to accomplish most -if not all- of those goals before they [...]
Continue reading...1000 Hours to Your Dream Life
4 October 2010
There comes a time in your life when you realize that the way things are going is not how you want to be living. Right then and there you start developing an interest in personal development and you might even discover phrases like “digital nomad”, “lifestyle design” and of course the mandatory “4 hour workweek”. [...]
Continue reading...What To Do When You Don’t Know The Way
27 September 2010
As you might have noticed, I haven’t been blogging much lately. Less than a blogpost a week even, which somehow feels very wrong. The big problem is that I can’t find anything to write about these days. So let me just enlighten you on how life is at the moment. It’s a bit of a [...]
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