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Free Online Learning Opportunities and New Year’s Resolutions

Ward Plunet — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:48:37 +0000

We are so fortunate to live in our current times of free online learning opportunities that our only excuse for not furthering ourselves is laziness. I wrote a couple posts about New Year’s resolutions: picking synergistic New Year’s Resolutions and share or keep private your New Year’s Resolutions, so I figured I should step up [...]

Grab the System D mentality now: and maybe its economy

Ward Plunet — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:12:16 +0000

Innovative, ingenious, inventive, self-reliant are all words used to describe the system D mentality (and economy), and also describe what is required to run any successful business: be it a corner store, an online business, or a startup. So maybe we can learn something from what is normally considered a second and third world phenomena. System D [...]

What location to choose for your lifestyle independence life? And what have I choosen

Ward Plunet — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:18:45 +0000

One of the great things about living the location independent lifestyle is the freedom to choose where you live. The world is your oyster as the saying goes. The case for locating yourself in Thailand: A large group of people that are living the location independence lifestyle choose Thailand as their homebase. There are numerous reasons [...]

New Year’s Resolutions: Keep them to Yourself or Share Publicly?

Ward Plunet — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:29:45 +0000

With the New Year approaching us many of you will be thinking about making our New Year’s Resolutions. The questions is what does the research tell us about which produces the better outcome: keeping your resolution private or publicly sharing it? A couple days ago I wrote about picking synergistic New Year’s resolutions to increase the chances [...]

How to Pick Synergistic New Year’s Resolutions to Improve Your Success

Ward Plunet — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:06:31 +0000

The New Year is almost here and many of you are probably thinking about making resolutions. I want to give you a few ideas on how to pick synergistic resolutions, to increase your motivation, and chances of following through with your resolutions, along with bumping up your overall success and efficiency. In business people are always [...]