My Running Playlist

Aug 17, 2011 Travel & Fun

Since I started to run, a couple of months ago, several interesting things happened. First, I experienced a lot with my schedule. Started with workouts in the morning, then decided to move them in the evening. Also, I drastically improved my running gear. For instance, I invested in a pair of running shoes, replacing my [...]


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Taming Monkey Number 8 – First Update

As you may already know, I’m, on a special kind of challenge this year. I ditched my new years resolution and replaced them with monthly challenges in which I intend to “tame an inner monkey”. Basically, an inner monkey it’s an underdeveloped part of myself, or a promise I never lived up to. You can [...]


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No Strings Attached

Aug 11, 2011 Personal Development

A few months ago, Bianca, my 5 year old daughter, learned how to tie a knot. I wouldn’t have noticed that if it wasn’t for a very obvious change in her playing: one day, I found the living door tied up with a red string to the first chair in the room. Actually, the string [...]


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Living Off The Grid

For the last 3 years I’ve been living completely off the grid. I don’t have a regular job anymore, my income sources are completely erratic, and my personal relationships are either collapsed or very hard to understand from a traditional perspective. I travel a lot and when I work, I set up my own hours [...]


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Taming Monkey Number 7 – At Leisure

It’s time for my monthly taming monkey report. If you don’t know what is that taming monkey thing, I suggest to read the introductory post. To make a long story short, I ditched my new years resolutions and replaced them with monthly challenges. During these monthly challenges, I intend to tame an inner monkey. Like [...]


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WPSumo Promo Code – August 2011 Edition

Aug 1, 2011 BloggingBusinessDigital Tools

It’s that time of the month again, namely the time when we’re adding the promo code for WPSumo. If you don’t know what WPSumo is, well, then it’s time to find out that WPSumo is a great WordPress framework, with a ridiculously high amount of features. I’m a partner on this project, so it’s not [...]


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Luck, Bad Luck And The Illusion Of Control

I used to be a control freak. No longer than 4-5 years ago I was owning and running a moderately big online business. By “moderately big” I understand a network of websites with more than 1.000.000 unique users each month and a yearly income in the hundreds of thousands of euros. According to today’s economy, [...]


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Happy Accidents

I’m not an active Buddhist, Taoist (or even a Christian, although I was baptized as such) but every now and then I stumble upon some beautiful stories emerging from those parts of the human mind. What follows is a beautiful Taoist story: There was an old man with a small farm in China many years [...]


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Out And Away From Facebook

As many of you may know already, I decided to suspend my Facebook account. In fact, I decided to suspend my Facebook activity, the account suspension was just a consequence of that. From now on, I will focus my activity on Google+. Here’s a link to my account on Google+, if you want to add [...]


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Unlocking The Wrong Door

My first car was a wreck. A real wreck. The make was Dacia and the model was Nova. The color was metal blue and the engine was a 1.4 liter gasoline. The doors weren’t closing right and rear window exploded one very cold winter while I was waiting at a red light. Don’t ask why, [...]


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July Freebies And Promotions

Jul 11, 2011 Money & Wealth

Some days are like chocolate boxes. After you open them, there is something incredibly sweet and tasty inside. I decided that today will be one of those days for my readers. July Promotions I don’t know about you, but I’m experiencing an incredibly hot summer. I’m in Romania at this time and it’s summer around [...]


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The Ultimate Wordpress Framework

I use WPSumo on this very blog, not only because I was one of the founders, or because I actively maintain it, improve it and promote it, but because it's the best choice when it comes to a premium wordpress framework.

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  • WPSumo - the utlimate WordPress framework. This very blog is proudly built on it.
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