lifestyle design

Monday morning reflections

February 13, 2012

My two year anniversary of leaving my corporate job and jumping into a world of time freedom and self-employment was a few weeks ago, and I’ve found myself reflecting quite a bit since then on how my life has changed. Two years. Has it really been that long? Two years. Hasn’t it been more like [...]

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Have you written this down?

February 2, 2012

My definition of success is being able to do whatever I want, whenever I want, without having to think twice about the finances to do so. A checklist for this success would be: – do I have complete control over my time? Yup. – do those that I care about have complete control over their [...]

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It’s been 2 years. I am so, so grateful.

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I was recently introduced to an interesting way of defining a business; high-growth and lifestyle. Per allbusiness.com, here are the definitions of each: Lifestyle business: A small business that reflects the general lifestyle of the individual entrepreneur. Lifestyle businesses are not high-growth enterprises. The principal objective is to generate “adequate” income while living where the [...]

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Planning Your No-Plan Time

November 28, 2011

It’s kind of cheating to create a blog post entirely out of someone else’s writing, but this one was too good to keep to myself. Jonathan Fields, author, wellness entrepreneur, and speaker on such things as book marketing, embracing creativity, and easing fear and uncertainty in business, posted the excerpt below on his site at [...]

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Work Into Life: How can I help?

September 29, 2011

In need of a bit of inspiration, I was flipping through the past few months of scribbles and scratches in my notebook a couple days ago when I ran into this: “Some of us choose to work for a living, and some people choose to incorporate work into living.” -@petershankman I’m not sure where I [...]

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Via a series of conversations last night, I remembered that several years ago I had written diary-like emails to my parents/myself while on a trip to Belize. It was 2006, and in 2007 I archived them in a hidden little corner of these here Interwebz. And I just found them! This piece, the first, and [...]

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Rocking chair on the deck, on Flickr by Ed Yourdon

Lifestyle Design seems to be a term that’s thrown around a lot, especially online. It’s kind of become a cool and hip thing to say, something that makes anyone you meet go Ohhhh when you mention it. And then they walk away wondering what the heck you’re talking about. As popular of a term it [...]

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