Posts Tagged with "Lifestyle design"
The 10 Principles of Good Lifestyle Design
Have you ever wondered why some items you own are just “better” than other items? I’m sure you have, it’s all about good design. What makes a design good? Good design: is innovative makes a product useful is aesthetic helps us to understand a product is unobtrusive is honest is durable is consequent to the [...]
Continue reading...1000 Hours to Your Dream Life
Monday, October 4, 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...Failure is here to stay, so what’s next?
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Failure is a part of every day life for without it we wouldn't be learning at all. Failure is level zero so to speak, it's where we start from, we have nothing, no achievements, no successes. From this starting point we embark on a journey to get where we want to be. Without exception this is "better", "successful", "loved" or perhaps "being worthy in the eyes of others". Nobody goes forth in life trying to be miserable after all, we all have our golden dreams.
Continue reading...The two types of people in the eyes of lifestyle design
Monday, October 12, 2009
Chances are that you've read the four hour workweek, it's also very likely that you know who Seth Godin is and the name Leo Babauta might even ring a bell. Just a few resources (almost) all people into lifestyle design have heard about. But names these to just about anyone in daily life and they will have no idea what or who you are talking about. The whole idea of Location Independence (after all, a goal for most lifestyle designers) is completely unknown to them and they are certain you are out of touch with reality. Or at least have very romantic views on how the world works. The possibilities of Internet in the field of generating passive income streams is shrouded in mystery and above all, in disbelief. What are the actually chances of setting up such an income?
Continue reading...A slow blog is a good blog, or is it?
Sunday, September 27, 2009
It won’t have gone unnoticed by now that my posting frequency has dropped dramatically. There is a high correlation between this phenomenon and the hours I’m spending on my homework. Take this weekend for example, I’ve been working roughly eight hours spread over the last two days trying to solve SQL queries. Problogger warns against [...]
Continue reading...The Personal Development community encyclopedia
Monday, June 29, 2009
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...Location independence explored (The survey results are in)
Wednesday, June 17, 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...Help out the Lifestyle Design bloggers community with this survey
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
To help bring the community together Corbett Barr from Free Pursuits and Lea Woodward from Location Independent are hosting a “Location Independent and Digital Nomad Survey.” This survey is made for both those who are already location independent and those who aspire to be. Seeing as I somewhat write about lifestyle design and have touched the sbject [...]
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