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How Important is Your Time?

Time is the one asset in which every other variable is dependent. If your time runs out, what else is left? When I was in Thailand five years ago, I decided that it would be fun to learn how to cook traditional Thai meals. We were in Krabi – a town with no motor vehicles, where 500 foot rocks outcropped from the ocean on the …

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Travel is My Passion – Why Travel is Magical

My true love is travel.  I LOVE TO TRAVEL!!  Travel is My Passion. I started traveling before I can even remember. We had a condo in Florida when I was growing up in Indiana and we would split the year between warm Indiana and cool beachy Florida.  My brother and I flew by ourselves between the two when I was seven. Travel is My Passion I …

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How to Get What You Want Out of Your Business

After over ten years of working with business owners, and consulting them on how to create the businesses of their dreams, I often come across a very interesting scenario that I want to share with you today.  The key to getting what you want in business and in life isn’t actually as difficult as you might think!! I will make up a character called Bob. …

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How You Are Holding Yourself Back (and what to do about it)

For some reason it seems many people are not reaching their full potential.  Why is that?  Find out how you are Holding Yourself Back, how to break free of being a saboteur, and get the life that you really want! Originally, when I was creating my consulting program, I had this fantasy: I would sit my clients down, we would work on their time, money, niche, …

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What it Takes to Be a Small Business Owner

Entrepreneur Magazine just recently published this fantastic infographic created by Constant Contact (but I did have to change “Jack” into a “Jane”, OBVIOUSLY!)  Find Out What it Takes to Be a Small Business Owner below. Check it out! I love infographics!  Do you agree with the chart above? I do agree with most of it, but not the working all of the time and never taking any …

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Want to Change Your Life? Change Your Attitude About Work

Today I want to share something with you that might be the biggest breakthrough that I’ve ever had related to work.  If you want to change your life, change your attitude about work.  But first… a little history. Working as a Child For as long as I can remember, I worked. My parents would put us to work in the yard, I’d work on weekends, …

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How Much Does it Cost to Live in Thailand?

Many folks take a glimpse at my lifestyle here and assume I’m swimming in cash.  The truth of it is, it’s cheaper to live in Thailand than you might imagine!  It is far cheaper to live here than it is to travel, and if you look at rental costs versus the price of hotels, you can see why. I realize living abroad is not for …

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Finding Yourself in Remote Locations

There are moments in life where we get a glimpse of our true nature.  We find a piece or a reminder of what and who we are.  We see moments of time slow and we feel the remembering set in.  We remember – if only for a moment why we came; we know innately that we have a true purpose and feel the very depth …

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#1 Travel Tip: Throw Away Your Itinerary

I nourish active rebellion  -Walt Whitman Buy a One Way Ticket I can’t explain the exhilaration of buying a one way overseas ticket. It is similar to having a wonderful secret.  Or winning a lottery that only you know about.  These days, I only buy one way tickets. Even if I know I might come back, I don’t buy the return.  It is just more …