Posts Tagged with "dreaming"
Winning the lottery by being frugal
Yesterday, the lottery in The Netherlands was up to a record breaking amount of money (€27 million) to be won and it was guaranteed to be won by someone. You can imagine the frenzy. People literally bought hundreds of tickets and were already spending the money in their head. You know how that goes. “I [...]
Continue reading...The zero hour workweek
Friday, April 24, 2009
How many of us feel like we are out of place where we are right now. Our work takes place in the proverbial cubicle where we secretly do other things at the same time. Running an online business or perhaps blogging in the boss’s time. We hate don’t like our job a lot and as [...]
Continue reading...Taking a chance, is it worth the risk
Sunday, April 19, 2009
“In order to engage in life fully, we sometimes have to subject ourselves to small, calculated risks. And though we can’t control anyone else’s behaviour, we can learn to control ours to minimize those risks.” This is a quote from Neil Strauss’ book Emergency. (Page 385 if you want the context) and I found it [...]
Continue reading...The truth about positivity, stop dreaming!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Once more I look at my mountains and realize that they are tall. I can imagine myself standing on top and being on top of the world. I can dream about it and most of all I can be positive about it. But let’s be honest, does being positive get you up there? Absolutely not! [...]
Continue reading...Stand still please, the future will still be there tomorrow
Monday, April 6, 2009
The rat race is all around us. Running around, always looking at the horizon or the top of the mountain. It’s totally useless you know? We set goals in our lives, wonderful things we would like to do one day. We read about 4 hour workweeks and think that would be just great. We keep [...]
Continue reading...To blog or not to blog, be realistic and dream.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
..That is the question is it not? Why would you blog? Why wouldn’t you? There seem to be more and more blogs every day, it’s a virus spreading on the internet. Starting up a bog is easy, you just get an account at wordpress and voila you can start writing about anything and everything. Perhaps [...]
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