Read Time: A few minutes (or 3-4 hours if you read everything suggested – don’t do this)

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Another Year, Another…I forget.

Another year, another few goals under your belt, a ton more that have been missed and a few additional ones for the future. We truly are all very similar. Although I am not taking quite such an active role at thelifething anymore, some more observant readers may have noticed this, I thought I would put together a quick list of awesome reads to get your New Year off to a great start.

In the “2011 Guide To Being Awesome” I have selected three of the top post for each topic on this blog. If you are new or just want somewhere to start on thelifething, then this is probably your best bet.

Enjoy, and don’t worry about tweeting or commenting if you frankly have better things to do, I really don’t care. This is written to be helpful to you so if it is not, just move on, there are plenty of other things in life to spend your time on and I won’t feel hurt. I promise.

In fact, before you start it would also be worth checking out the guide from last year, you can do so here.

Productivity

How I Owned The Hell Out Of My Email And Reduced It By 90 Percent Without Being Fired- This post made up part of the “Work Smarter“ course which has been used by over 500 users, businesses and managers.

Writing The Perfect Blog Post: Heart, Skeleton, Flesh, Skin and Polish Your Elephant- For all you blogger out there, this is going to same  you some serious man hours. Trust me.

A Simple Structure That Will Change Your Life – One of the top 5 most popular posts on this blog, don’t miss it people.

Fitness

Frankly there are only really 4 real posts here anyway, which is strange as I am a fitness fanatic, so just check out the Fitness Section.

Living Abroad

For anyone who has ever wandered what it is like to pack up and just leave the country to live abroad, then you might want to check these bad boys out.

3 Months In The Life Of A Travelling Entrepreneur - 3 Months, 5 Currencies, 6000 photos, 150 Restaurant Meals, 40 Hours of Wake boarding, 3 Police Bribes, 2 Seven Foot Bull Sharks, 1 Elephant and more massages than can be safe for one man.

A Day In The Life Of A Traveling Entrepreneur- I’ll be honest with you, it rocks.

How To Live An Awesome Life Abroad WITHOUT Having a Job - While out in Bangkok I regularly got asked two questions whenever I meet someone and we got talking Why are you not wearing pants? How can you live out here but not have a job?

Lifestyle Design

How To Bankroll Traveling The World And Living Your Dreams Without Being A Freeloading Little Rich Kid – The guy who inspired this post was a bit of a douchebag, but hey, the post was helpful to a lot of people.

6 Life Success Lessons To Live An Awesome Life - Pretty self explanatory really.

Cubical With A View: The Office Of A Traveling Entrepreneur On Holiday – Rule Number 1: The work of a traveling entrepreneur is never done and the office will always follow you.

How To Have The Journey Of Your Life – Your Destination, Roadmap and Vehicle For Achieving Your Dreams. – Yeah, crowbarred an extra one in there.

Entrepreneurship

The Trick For Success Is To Become An Idea Hitman – One of the hardest things any entrepreneur is going to face – apart from the wall they are currently banging their head against following another failed venture – is actually coping with the astronomical amount of ideas that seem to constantly invade ones thoughts, dreams and unconscious periods

Critical Lessons For Business Success Demonstrated By Fantastically Annoying Indian Street Sellers- Criminally underviewed post that supplies some kick ass lessons for business. Well, it helped me anyhow.

How University Awoke My Entrepreneurial Passion – Another Reader Email Answered – As some of you may know, I try to answer one reader email a month and this month the email that grabbed my attention was this one from a Falmouth based surfer called Archie

Money

An ever popular topic, here are some killer posts for 2011.

CHOOSE: Master Of Money or Slave To It. Download Your FREE Promobook Now!!!-  Shameless plug, learn to love it. You can by the bookhere. Yep, I went there.

Creating Multiple Steams of Income For A Super Sexy Life Of Wealth – Everybody wants to be sexy and everybody wants to be wealthy but few are willing to make the decisions necessary put in the time required to learn how to created multiple streams of income so that they can become wealthy and live a sexy lifestyle

How to be Rich Stage 2 – Dead Fish Economics for Super Wealthy Living- Football Superstar Ronaldo and balding Mark from finance are both in the same financial situation. As they are both living by the same financial equation and they will both reap the benefits or suffer the consequences of that equation.

Personal Development

We all want to get better, right? Well here you go then.

Drastically Change Your Life…For Free – Short and Sweet

The Power Of Expanding Your Reality As Highlighted By My April Fools Millions- A lot of you were fooled. I’m not a millionaire yet, buy soon.

A 5 Minute Read To Make You A Million Billion Times More Successful-  The Success Book, download it right this second.

Escaping The Rat Race

No one wants to be a rat, here’s some tip on how to avoid it.

The Most Important Post I have Ever Written About Lifestyle Design –  Read the title, it’s important.

How I Live Like I Do Without Robbing Banks – A Reader Email Answered. – I love Tim Ferriss’ take on living and how he designs his life, it is exceptional and truly inspiring. However, the one thing that I feel he does not address in his book is a couple of home truths. If you are reading Tim, please don’t hunt me down (but get in contact – that would be cool)

Owning Nothing and Experiencing Everything Vs Owning Everything and Experiencing Nothing - Granted, this title probably could have been shorter.

Have a Great 2011

There you go, check out those post and any others that interest you and I wish you the best 2011 yet.