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I mentioned in this post about getting a concierge service, delivered through a flat fee, through my credit card provider. Here’s an update on some of the tasks I’ve put them to in the past week: * Sourcing Adobe Creative Suite at the lowest possible price * Determining routes, pricing,
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I love the book “The 4-hour Work Week”. A mate of mine just posted in his blog about the beginnings of his adventures in outsourcing, using outsourced workers from the Philippines via oDesk.com to do property research (great post by the way – I thoroughly recommend it especially if you
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I’ve probably spent too much time watching the stock exchange and the forex market over the past few days… What’s happening in the world economy at the moment is pretty much unprecedented over the past 50 years, and there is lots of reasons come from lots of places
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Image via Wikipedia Here’s the thing… I would describe myself as someone who is continually pregnant with the plans and dreams and hopes I know God Himself has planted in me, and will bring to pass. The problem is, there is the ever-present mundane-ness of the now… You know
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I’ve had moments over the past months, just like most other people I know, where I’ve “looked down” (i.e. think of the scene in Shrek where they are crossing the bridge and Shrek instructs donkey not to look down… that kind of “looked down”). My beautiful wife
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Quick thought… I’m the kind of person who is very quick to start working out contingency plans if a dream, goal, task or venture or mine doesn’t seem to be panning out. When bumps in the road come, my mind spawns a whole range of Plan B‘s,
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I often talk to people that are absolutely chomping at the bit to start their own business, and the number one pre-startup question I hear in conversation is this: What the heck am I going to sell? Here’s a few ideas and examples of what’s worked for me.
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Matthew 17: 24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?” 25 “Yes, he does,” he replied. When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do
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I’ve had a few funny responses from people I know personally to my Goals for 2010 post along the lines of: “Great goals – I had no idea you were a smoker though…” I started smoking when I was about 14 years old, as so many smokers do, with my
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I define the fundamental essence of business as this: Connecting low yield solutions to a high yield problems. In simpler terms, find something that is cheap or undervalued and connect it to a market that will pay enough for it for you to cover your cost of goods, your operating
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I only ever set 5 goals as a New Years thing… More than that and I get distracted. These goals ultimately spawn a list of tasks and sub-goals, but they are the “big rocks” – the themes I’d like to keep in mind as I journey through 2010. Here they
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Baby Boomer: “Oh yeah, those young tackers will never achieve anything – they are always on their mobiles and that Tweeter thing.” Gen Y: “Those old farts have no idea what’s going on…” One of the saddest things that I often see and hear is the generation gap between Gen