The Magic Fairy Exercise
You know the joke with the lost Bedouin? No? How come? It’s a very common joke, not to mention it has quite a deep meaning. OK, I will get you out of ignorance, just relax and read on: Although it’s quite uncommon for a Bedouin to get lost in the desert, one of them apparently [...]
Communicating Honestly Without Going Overboard
This is a guest post by my friend Eduard Ezeanu, @eduardezeanu. When I started my first job, I quickly realized that my degree of openness in my communication was one of those things I needed to get handled if I wanted to thrive. I had an oversensitive ego, I was afraid to make a fool [...]
5 Things I Learned From Teaching Others
A few months ago, I started a series of workshops. One is about doing online business (which I call the “mentorship”) and the other one is about blogging. Both are pretty demanding in terms of focus, energy and time. Mentorship is 2 days in a row and blogging is split in 3 days, usually 3 [...]
Don’t Hit It Big! Unless You’re Ready For It…
So, you want to hit it big with your blog? Go on, do it! Just don’t fantasize too much about how it’s going to be when you’ll do it. And you know why? Because it’s going to be completely different from what you think it would. Let me tell you a story about how success [...]
The 7 Traits Of Highly Successful Bloggers
What makes a blogger successful? What are the common traits of highly effective bloggers? If you’ve even remotely tried to launch your own blog, that question surely popped into your head at some point. And I bet it was rather sooner than later. I have more than a year of blogging as a pro. And [...]
100 Ways To Screw Up Your Life
A couple of months ago I wrote a blog post about 100 Ways To Live A Better Life. The post got featured almost instantly on Delicious, Reddit and StumbleUpon. Since then, it gets a few hundreds hits every day and a new comment every once in while (although it’s more than 2 months old now). [...]
7 Ways To Break A Habit
Habits are a very precious asset. They allow us to drive cars or ride a bike, to speak new languages or to predictably behave in society. But they can also become a burden. Or, even worse, an addiction. Think about smoking and you’ll understand what I mean. Knowing how to break a bad habit will [...]
How To Get From A To B In 5 Random Steps
When I was a teenager I spent a lot of time by myself. I don’t think I was the only one, by the way, being socially impaired is common stuff among teenagers these days. And I’m sure it was like this for centuries. During those lonely moments my mind started to invented games. Maybe to [...]
Blog Like A Pro With 100 Tips
This post is a follow-up of my first “100 things” attempt, 100 Ways To Live A Better Life, which was absolutely a blast. This time, for your convenience, I grouped the tips into several areas: content, layout, plugins, promotion, networking and money. And if you’re into big lists, you may be interested in this one [...]
Using Anchors To Reach Your Inner Power
What’s the best part of your life? You know, the one filled with excitement, thrill and accomplishment? I’m sure you must have one. A period in which everything you did counted and every single action was magically followed by solid, long-lasting positive effects. You do have such a part in your life, everybody has it. [...]
100 Ways To Live A Better Life
You don’t like your life? Change it! Change your life for the better! Don’t have any clue on how to do it? Here’s a list of 100 ways in which you can improve your life. Feel free to add yours in the comments. This post is a response from a challenge I got from from [...]
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