It’s January again, A New Year and another go at completely redesigning your life and reducing the amount of chocolate you consume. I am kidding of course, if anything one should be increase the amount of chocolate consumed, the redesigning life bit still stands though.

So to help you out I have spent the considerable time it takes to read all the articles on this site to put together for you a reading list to help you kickstart your 2010. Happy New Year.

“I guess if you got freeload money from your rich dad or your partner, then you can spend it as you did. 
But, hey if you are poor, not matter you do, you are still poor.”

This was a comment on one of my recent posts “Three Months In The Life Of A Traveling Entrepreneur”. Bit presumptuous I thought, and just the smallest bit passive aggressive in that unsettling way that makes one think the author might possibly be sitting at his computer right now planning my future demise…I hope he or she at least has a decent cup of coffee with him or her.

Splash.

The bracing cold water hits my face and flows over my body as I dive out of the sun and slip into the cool water. I exhale and let myself drift slowly downwards to sit crossed legged on the bottom of the pool. I remain motionless, listening to the faint underwater hum of the filtering system and watch the bubbles float slowly upwards through dancing underwater sunbeams to break gently in an array of reflected light at the surface. It’s 2pm. Tuesday.

It’s guest post round up time kids.

Now some astute readers may peer through this smokescreen I am putting up and see a blatant, and frankly abysmal excuse by yours truly for not writing a proper post….and you would be right.

I have been having an awesome time in the last few days and have neglected to write a decent post of even borderline quality, and as it happens my reserves of upcoming posts are dwindling horribly.

The Leap – How Three Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career From Good To Great “Here’s to Your Leap” Ok I confess, the blog title is not my own. It is in fact the title of an excellent book I have just recently finished reading. The author of said excellent book is an incredible guy [...]

In the movies, quitting your job is always a momentous occasion – usually a pivotal point in the lead characters life or the turning point in the story line of the movie – and thus because of this is subsequently always spectacularly overblown. Why Read – Approx 5 Mins Readtime Although there is unlikey to [...]

Read time: Approx 6-8 minutes / 3-4 Minutes Highlighted but important. If you don’t read anything else on this site read this. It will make you rich. 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 [...]

Monday morning I sat down at my desk and opened up my email. Among the ones that stood out was this one below from Shiran of Monaco. She, along with some other readers have asked how I design my life, especially with regards to making money and where it comes from. In her email she [...]

Picture: The room I pitched and won funding for my first business venture Nurtur. Approx Readtime: 3-4 Minutes / 2 Minutes Highlighted Other people not understanding the brilliance of your idea presents a problem and so for this reason alone some very clever individuals came up with the concept of “The Ideas Pitch”. The “Ideas [...]

These philosophies have allowed me to retire from a hard 40-50 hour work week and move to working less than 90 minutes a day with a substantial increase in lifestyle quality. This is one of many posts to come exploring the new lifestyle I am fortunate enough to live and how it is done.