Adventure, Business, Travel
Have you ever considered turning your life upside down?
Maybe making an erratic change like moving to an entirely new city and leaving everything you knew behind even if just for a little while?
My girlfriend is in the process of turning her life upside down right now.
It takes a lot of guts to make immense changes to your lifestyle and the one word that came to mind when I think of her latest decision to move to Canada is:
Courageous. [Read more…] about Turning Life Upside Down
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
Okay first off I should warn you that this post is around 1700 words. I seem to be writing longer posts than usual over the holidays. I like it but I don’t know if you like it. I wrote a guest post for another site the other day and it was around 1900 words! This post is basically a summary of accomplishments from 2010 and a summary of what I want to accomplish in 2011. I’d also like to hear what some of your goals are in the comments. It’s good to lay them out for others to read. It makes one feel a little more accountable.
So before we launch into the New Year with resolutions a blazin’, it’s a good idea to sit back and reflect on the year past. Review all the accomplishments you’ve had and go over what went good and what didn’t.
Congratulate yourself on all the things you feel you accomplished and most importantly, learn from the mistakes. Have some long-term goals in mind as well so you know what each little accomplishment is really working up to.
Consider writing down a lifestyle change you wish to make on top of the specific goals. For example, rather than just writing “quit smoking”, write about become a healthier person and living a healthy lifestyle. This means quitting smoking, becoming more active, and eating healthy.
Now to reflect on 2010. [Read more…] about A Year in Reflection + Goal Setting for 2011
Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope your all having a wonderful day with family and friends and if your at work (like my brother), know that your family is thinking of you and can’t wait to see you when your off. I hope you have been to some wonderful Christmas markets. Originally I was going to write about reflection on the year past and goal setting for the year ahead but I’ll leave that until next week. Since it’s Christmas I’d like to reflect on some of the great organizations and cool people I came across in 2010 and would like to say thanks to for all the inspiration you have given me throughout the year.
Earlier this year I bought 100 copies of the “Four Hour Work Week” so that I would have the opportunity to go down to San Francisco and meet Tim Ferriss and other cool people in the online world. It was a cool experience to have dinner next to Tim and 20 other participants from around the world followed by a party on a warship at the San Francisco harbor. Aside from quick introductions with Ramit Sethi, Kevin Rose, and Paula Abdul, I managed to briefly meet Noah Kagen of AppSumo who I asked to be my “voice” that yells at me to keep me motivated towards my dreams of location independence and online entrepreneurship. Noah was surprised I would come all that way just to network with people doing what I want to do and agreed. Thanks Noah!
I then read a book called “Leaving Microsoft to Change the World” which I wrote about in an earlier post. This is the story of John Wood; a former high-level executive for Microsoft who chose to quit and start a non-profit organization called Room to Read. Room to Read helps build schools and libraries for children in less fortunate countries as well as supply them with books (in both English and their language) and grant scholarships to girls so that they can become educated and pass that on to their family. The organization is one of the best and the book brought tears to my eyes. [Read more…] about A Very Merry Christmas!
Something I realized a few years back was the importance of experiences rather than material objects.
I started thinking about what I was spending my money on and I realized that most material objects would soon lose their appeal and become garbage.
I hate throwing things out and I hate wasting money so I had to think of something better.
Then I realized I rarely ever regretted experiential purchases. Tickets to concerts or trips to other countries. Different educational courses or going out to a movie or a play. These things meant much more to me and stayed in my memory for a lifetime.
That’s when I decided to put most of my money towards experiences rather than material things. [Read more…] about Invest in Experience – A Gift That Won’t Grow Old
A while back I learned the importance of saying yes. Saying yes to challenges that scared me. As a teenager who was to shy to step outside the box in case I embarrassed myself, I constantly limited all my opportunities in life. Little fears that I had would stay fears because I was to shy or embarrassed to challenge them head on. Then I realized how important it was to say yes to doing things that scared me, facing my fears, and growing as a result.
What’s something that scares you that you have always wanted to do?
[Read more…] about The Importance of Saying Yes – And My Biggest Challenge Yet
I’m participating in a program right now called Unique Genius. Aaron, the creator of the program just sent me an email about his girlfriends close friend who just passed.
His girlfriend luckily got a chance to say goodbye and hear some of his parting words:
“All you have are the memories and experiences and love….”
[Read more…] about Lesson From a death & a Reminder of How Fragile Life Really Is