Being Skint Doesn’t have to get in the way of succeeding

thelifething is doing some Spring cleaning…in July.

As some of you will know I am currently lost somewhere in the South of India, fighting off advancing hordes of fire ants, being bled dry by ravenous mosquitoes, and sharing my bed with Chernobyl sized cockroaches…that and having a wicked time traveling. On my travels I tend to bump into people and they tend to get me thinking, which is never safe for anyone.

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Why Read? (1500 words)

This post highlights a few lessons the Indian street sellers have taught me about business success which all you business owners and bloggers out there would be wise to check out. I reckon anyway…just read it.

As per my post the other day I was meant to be running the UK three peaks charity challenge but actually went and completely ballsed it up. Not being one to take failure lightly here are some lessons from the disaster which I hope will help you not make the mistakes I did.

However, what many of you might not know is that this was not my first business and that I have experienced the depressing swim back to shore when the shiny new boat you were happily sailing away from the crowd on abruptly sank. On reflection, I should have seen it coming, the boat had many holes that I was just too foolish or blind to see, it was a miracle I got out of the harbor at all. Here’s what I learn’t.

Another 3 months, 16 cities, 13 languages, over 100 curries, thousands more photos, 1 gashed leg and another round of massages – here is the next 3 month instalment in the life of a traveling entrepreneur.

Hello all you lovely readers. I am back. All limbs are accounted for, skin is sufficiently tanned, I just received an awesome “Thelifething.com” inscribed red baseball cap for a birthday present and all is right with the world. I am sure you have all missed me, and even if you haven’t I am going to pretend that you have. Lets get right back into things with a post of some of the thoughts I was jotting down while sunning myself on a beach in Goa regarding the most important lessons I have learn’t in the last 25 years. Its about 2000 words but well worth a gander. Be sure to say hi in the comments so I can make sure that my readers haven’t all died and enjoy.3

This is the followup post to the popular “A Day In The Life Of A Travelling Entrepreneur” when I was living in Bangkok. I spent 3 weeks living in Bangalore recently during my travels in India and thought I would compare the differences. As with the last post, this has not been fabricated, I simply took a camera out with me and took some photos when I was out and about on a typical working day.

No puppies were irreparably harmed in the making of this ebook. Regrettably a few squirrels, a chicken and two turtles did perish. (but this was no doubt coincidental). Click through to get your very own copy of my first free ebook – A Free How “Teux Book” for those that don’t read “How To” books. You know you want to.

Why do you blog or for that matter why do you do anything at all? An important question to ask oneself, after all most bloggers are investing a considerable amount of time and effort, not to mention funds, into their blog and so to this end, What do you get back? Seriously.

As a reflection and a starting point for answering the questions you need to ask yourself this important question. To help the process, I though I would put together a few of the major reasons why I blog and why I invest so much time into writing articles every week, getting involved in community and investing into the blogosphere even though sometimes I would rather be scuba diving.