What happens when a lawyer takes a one year hiatus to travel the globe? If she finds her true passion, that one year turns into five and the world of lawyering vanishes before her eyes. Jodi Ettenberg had planned to take one year to travel and then return to NY and work in the field […]
When it comes to growing an online business, focusing on relationships works better than any short-term tactic you can ever learn. Why? Because relationships really, deeply matter. They cut across every part of life. When you strip an online business down to its basic elements, it’s still about people selling to other people. In fact, […]
There are some things that men can only learn from each other. Whether it’s strategies for financial success or the secrets to better sex, men who are looking for more in their lives turn to men like them. Mike Hrostoski, The Men’s Coach, does exactly that. Mike helps high performing men master their relationships with […]
Does going to work feel like an obligation or an adventure? By refusing to settle for the first answer, Sean Ogle found the freedom to make a living — not just a paycheck. When he started Location 180 in 2009, the only certainty in Sean’s life was that his desk job would never enable him […]
There are many factors that constitute a successful journey. But perhaps the biggest secret of success is one’s mental toughness and his or her ability to move beyond pain. You see, eventually, we all reach a threshold, the point at which we just can’t go further. This is where our ability to withstand discomfort becomes […]
Most online businesses are still overly focused on short-term marketing tactics to sell their products. They pitch people over and over again with the belief that if they do do it enough times, they will eventually will make some sales. Now, short-term tactics are not necessarily ineffective. Some are, but tactics are not strategies. Without […]
Every online business needs an email list. An email list can help you establish a long-term relationship with your visitors, validate your future products, keep in contact with your prospects, promote your business, drive traffic, and most importantly, it can raise your bottom line. Unlike advertising where your message is largely ignored, or social media […]
Creating a website is easier than most people believe. When I first started my online journey over a decade ago, I built websites from scratch by writing code in a plain text editor. Thankfully the online world has come a long way since then and now there is a wide variety of incredible free software solutions available that […]
Benny Lewis, the spunky language hacker behind Fluent in 3 Months, is living proof of the raw potential in all of us. Benny thought that he was not good at languages (not even his own native English), but now, after over a decade of living in different countries, he can speak more than 10 languages […]
Why in the world would anyone want to walk from Delaware in the east coast all the way to California clear across the middle of the United States? For Nate Damm the answer was an internal longing that kept nagging until he hit the road. Eight and a half months later Nate reached California with […]
If you’re interested in reaching a larger audience online, building a personal or professional brand, or increasing sales and profits without the hassle of conventional advertising, there’s good news: A platform exists that allows you to prove your worth directly to potential readers, followers, and customers without any cost whatsoever. Individuals post their questions and […]
As you already know, simply having a website is not enough – it also needs traffic. What good is a website if nobody sees it? One of the best ways to create a continuous streams of new visitors to your website is by utilizing Search Engine Optimization. This simply means getting your site ranked higher […]
There comes a point when doing everything yourself is actually counterproductive to your business growth. This is where delegation and outsourcing come in. Outsourcing can transform your business and free you from low-value administrative tasks. In this post, I’m going discuss how to use outsourcing to your advantage and build a freelancing team you can […]
She walked passed me as if I was a Mirage – tall, long wavy brown hair, heels and slinky black dress, confident swagger. Damn! I’d never watched such a figure move across a room… The girls back home dress casually, nothing like the scene I was discovering in Australia. I knew that none of my […]
Completing my 10-year bucket list, shifting focus, and setting a theme for the next decade It’s this time of year again… time to reflect on the past year, turn a new page, and make new resolutions for 2017. If you’ve been following my journey for a while you will know that every year, around […]
When it comes to committing to a freedom journey, it’s easy to come up with excuses. In fact, there are so many that if I listed them all, I’d never get to the point. I do, however, want to touch on the major ones. You see, from my experience, making excuses is normally the main […]
All I knew about Vipassana was this: A 10-day meditation course at an isolated retreat. You are expected to avoid any contact – verbal or otherwise, and remain within a small area of the course site. You are not allowed to speak, read, listen to music, or write, and have to spend at least 10 […]
Selling domain names has been a very profitable business since the rise of the Internet era. First, when the Internet was still in its early stages and you could still find good domain names available, people started buying short, generic ones, hoping to flip them for a fortune. And boy, did they have success: in […]
AJ Leon used to be an unremarkably average financial executive in Manhattan until December, 2007, the day he decided to stop living the life he was supposed to live, and start living the life he was destined to live. Now, he spend most of his time changing the world. AJ nomads around the world and […]
Travelling the world, making money online, and enjoying freedom to the fullest might sound like utopia, but this dream has already been manifested by thousands across the globe. As a part of my “One Year to Freedom” book launch, I asked 42 established digital nomads for their top advice to the person that wants to […]
A recent commercial by an electronic brand says doers are a rare species. Though the line initially comes across as an appreciable attempt at a dramatic production, on closer examination you realize that the statement is true. This is not because few have the potential to achieve greatness, but because few have the will and […]
Every child is encouraged to pick out a role model so they he / she has some person to look up to when motivation is required to keep pushing ahead in life. There is, however, a misconception associated with the purpose of having a role model in the first place – you translate “guidance” here […]
When you find yourself taking a hard blow from life, you have the power to choose from two options – to get up and make the most of what you have, or to wallow in self-pity and slip down a few paces. It is the choice that you make, and you always have the power […]
Reading the biographies of various prominent personalities, dead or alive, you might have written off their successes as mere serendipities. “He just got lucky that his soon-to-be mentor happened to catch his performance,” or “she was simply at the right place at the right time.” However, what you fail to notice is that he / […]
When you hit a low, you are faced with two options: you can either choose to be depressed or rebellious and waste yourself, or you can choose to pull up your socks and work on yourself, climbing out of the pits and emerging victorious. What makes all the difference is how you respond to a […]
