I used to work as a Project Manager for a Swiss engineering company who operated in the oil and gas industry. As you can imagine there was a lot of money flowing around which was only matched by the sheer quantity of emails bouncing back and forth through inboxes. Most days it was like email ping pong around the office with managers, personal, clients. engineers, shop workers, bosses and even the secretary getting involved.

As a project manager we averaged around 100-300 emails a day and were expected to get through them. This routinely added a good few hours to my day and as I was always quite fond of my free time out of the office, this was a problem for me.

Now not everyone will be getting this quantity of email every day but the principles below I used to reduce the amount I actually had to look at by around 90% from 100-300 a day to less than 20 can be applied to anyones inbox.

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1. For Gods sake stop checking your email every 5 minutes

Trust me, nothing in life is that important. Not clients, not problems, not England winning the world cup ( ? ).

No matter how important you think you are there is never a need for people to always have instant access to you.

If you don’t believe me go on holiday for a week and don’t reply to any emails. People work out ways around you if the need is great enough, even personal clients will forgive you.

I try to only check my emails once a day, and I did this even as a project manager so don’t tell me that it is different for you as it is not. Most people have an inflated sense of worth which is why they think they are so important everyone must has access to them. Sorry guys, life does go on without you.

Let your emails batch up and only check them at a certain time for a specific amount of time.

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2. You don’t actually need to read most of the emails you get

Again, look past how important you think you are and think about the amount of emails you actually have to answer. The ones that are directly sent solely to you or are solely for you action mainly. Usually in any business this is very few. In project management it is very, very few though most PM’s will tell you this is not the case.

Get into the habit of only answering emails that are sent directly to you and only you and that will need actioning by you and only you. These are the priority, anything else can wait or can be ignored. Almost all the time there will be no repercussions.

This leads me onto point 3.

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3. Take the time to set up email rules.

I reduced the amount of emails I got in any given day most dramatically by taking an hour to set up some rules. Here they are:

Rule 1: Any email directed to me and only me was highlighted in Red – These are the ones I have to answer and were the only ones that appeared directly in my inbox.

Rule 2: Any email directed to me and another person was highlighted in blue and sent to a “Potential Box” These emails were more often than not answered by the other guy and never came back to me. However if there was a problem I had easy access to the emails.

Rule 3: Any email that I was CC’d on was sent straight to an “Information Folder” and I never looked at them unless someone specifically emailed me on a subject that I would then look up easily using the search. Contrary to popular belief a project manager does not need to know everything about everything that is going on in his project, people are competent if you trust them. A project manager is there to oversee not control and it is the same in other professions.

Rule 4: Write a professional email responder that lets people know how you operate in emails and that if it is incredibly important to send you an email with FYA in the subject line and sent only to you. This has to be tactfully done as many of the rules I set up were not allowed at my company and won’t be at many others. It didn’t stop me from using them because I knew I was more productive that way but I had to be careful that others didn’t know I was using them. People don’t like change in big companies, be sneaky.

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4. Get people talking to each other.

As a project manager you can get caught up in lots of office love triangles ( and not the good ones ) between clients and engineers and internal staff and the shop floor assistance along with the odd intern and these said love triangles are birthed and developed through email. Cut it out quickly.

If everything is coming though you at each interaction there is always a lot of lost in translation problems or at the very best you have you to keep forwarding the emails to the right people and you become a glorified data transferrer. Lots of wasted time.

This problem can be easily removed by setting up policies where people email each other and CC you into the conversations. You will obviously only then look at it if there is a problem but 9 times out of ten things go smoothly. Learn to smile and talk to people.

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5. Send Concise Emails

In todays age of easy and instant communication we have lost the art of being concise and asking for what you want. Back when a letter between businesses would take 2 weeks to turn around it was important to write well so that there was no confusion on what was needed and by when, how and by whom. We have lost that mostly in this age, so you need to get back into the habit.

Don’t just send emails for the sake of it and CC everyone in on it. Know what the aim of the email is and be concise, email the correct person and only others if completely necessary. Include all the detail so it doesn’t come bouncing back within 20 minutes asking you to clarify.

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6. Weed Out Your Trouble Makers

Unfortunately there are always people in business that just love emails and sending them. They seem to think they are doing a better job because of it. They will send them in the early hours of the morning and CC every in on it, or ask stupid questions and reply with one word answers. These are the people that start calling you and sending repeat emails if you don’t get back to them within 20 minutes. They have far too much time on their hands and are a pain in the ass.

Create a special folder for these people and start to slowly phase them out by ignoring them.

Usually they will get more aggressive initially but just keep a record of their pointless emails to use in your defence later on if the issue goes higher. Usually, shown the evidence of their foolishness you will never have a problem.

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To Sum Up

You might think that your job does not allow this type of approach but just remember, I was a Project Manager of a multi billion pound global company and personally had responsibility for many millions of pounds worth of project and clients.

I used these rules and it made my life a hell of a lot easier. I was never fired, reprimanded or brought before the boss. My project, far from collapsing actually ran smoother and I freed up many hours every day.

Do not instantly reject this approach, it WILL save you many, many hours.

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Your speed reading options – put in the hours or read this post.

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Why Read? (850 words)

I have been training myself to read faster for many years now and I have an average reading speed of 300 wpm ( words per minute) with 80% comprehension and a scanning speed of 480 wpm with a comprehension of 45% which can be pushed to around 900wpm if really scanning. However, just recently I have come across a nice little trick that will allow you to read at over 500 wpm straight from the get go with a high 50% comprehension. And yes, because I am a nice guy I am going to let you in on the secret.

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The Basics Of Speed Reading

In short, the science behind speed reading is batching. Like a microcomputer system batches data, so too does a speed reader batch words.

Imagine speed reading is like making delicious chocolate brownies.

Making just one individual delicious chocolate brownie at a time is a very slow process and limits the amount of chocolatey goodness one can stuff in their face. Batching the process however, allows many more delicious chocolate brownies to be created in the same timeframe thus allowing one to get fatter quicker.

Speed reading is the same. Normal readers read every single word and this is a very slow process, like ordering food in India. Speed readers batch the words and read groups of words in chucks which is a much quicker process, like receiving the bill in India.

The brain, like an AppleMac, can compute the information it is receiving far quicker than the eyes can send it. It is actually the eyes that are the bottle neck in reading quickly. In addition the eyes tend to “bounce” when reading and one doesn’t read each work in one continuous line like you would think. They eyes actually bounce forward and backwards across sentences and up and down across paragraphs. You may not realize you are doing this when you read but I assure you it is happening.

It is for this reason that when you start to learn how to speed read you are forced to read with your finger following the words, much like you did when you were 10. As humiliating as this is, it helps to train the eyes to stop bouncing around on the page, which slows down your reading speed.

As one increases their reading speed to start batching words and reading in chucks, first in pairs, then threes, fours and sometimes fives. Very fast speed readers will break entire lines into two sections and scan the pages in only two eyes “bounces” while their brain remembers the word chucks and makes sense of them in the background. This takes time to learn so I have discovered an easier way to speed read at over 500 words a minute.

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The 5 Minute, 500 wpm Super Secrety Secret.

“In any article, publishing, blog post or any other form of written word only read the first sentence of each paragraph.”

It’s as simple as my mate George who still eats the red crayons even though he’s now 32. Try it out for yourself. (Reading the first sentence, not eating crayons.)

It has come to my attention that the first sentence of every paragraph almost always seems to be a mini summary of the preceding section. The rest of the paragraph tends to back up what the first sentence is highlighting. If you don’t believe me try it with newspaper articles or blog posts and you will see that this rings true more often then not.

Now lets take that principle and apply it across a whole article. As an experiment try it for yourself. Write down only the first sentence of each paragraph of any article and blog and then review it. See if you can get the main gist of the article and the major points it is trying to present. I think that you will find that you almost always can get a very good idea of the piece and it will only have taken a fraction of the time to read, equivalent to a reading speed of 500 wpm.

Also, you will probably find that because you are only focussing on a reduced number of sentences you will find  it easier to remember the main points and themes of the piece, far more than if your read the whole article slowly and then tried to pick out what it was saying.

Speed reading takes time to develop but is an exceptionally good tool for the average lifestyle designer to develop. Until such time as you have the hours to perfect your reading average, why not try the technique outlined above and instantly reduce the amount of time it takes you to ingest information AND more than likely improve you level of comprehension to boot. You know, because that would make life at lot easier for you. Right? Just do it ok.

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To Sum Up

Just read the first line of every paragraph and increase you reading speed instantly.

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Why Read (1000 Words)

Life is one big social adventure – whether one is out with old friends, going to a dentist, competing in chocolate fudge cake eating competitions, or exploring new relationships while traveling.

Everyone has unique interests, topics they are incredibly passionate about and could happily talk for hours to people about. Mine is chocolate.

These can be the most informed and impassioned teachers you will likely ever come across – and unlike a university degree, they won’t cost you a thing. If you want to explore how to make the very most of this valuable life success tool then read on.

Why Increase Your Knowledge?

This was the third dentist consultant I had seen in the last hour or so. He was suggesting I removed the tooth and get a dental implant. I asked him why he thought this was the best thing to do. He said it was the only option.

I countered with my own suggestion that deep route canal on stem 1,2 and 3 with laser treatment on the regional bone marrow of adjacent tooth could save it and protect the tooth, which, seeing as I am only 24, would be a better option in the long term.

He seemed slightly taken aback and said this was not possible. I again suggested that it was a third of the cost and had the possibility of saving the tooth which would serve me a hundred times better later in life. The chances of success were about 50/50 maybe better, surly this was worth a go. He disagreed, the expensive and damaging treatment was the only option. I thanked him for his time and left.

Why would you need to know about the inner workings of an Ipod touch, exactly how your mouth is designed and modern dentistry can go about rebuilding almost any tooth based damage, or how the German education system works? Chances are, you don’t, not in any real sense anyway unless you have some weird fetish for obscure information gathering.

However, meet me in a pub or lying down in the middle of the street (Tim Ferris fans will understand this reference) and if you have even a remote interest in any of these things or their relative fields then you are probably going to like me, even if we have never met.

Same goes for if you have any interest in new medical break throughs on joint reconstruction, ligament based injuries, charities problem with leaking money, helping street kids, how gold is mined in Australia or the real corruption going on in Thailand . These are all bytes on knowledge I acquired in the last week.

In fact the likelihood is that whatever you have a passion or interest in, I probably know a small amount about it or at least a little about a related field that will allow us to engage with a common point of interest.

How? Because I have spent the last 7-8 years constantly asking questions; some smart, some delving but most painfully and embarrassingly dumb questions of almost everyone I have ever met – be they pub dweller, professional, life long friend or local prostitute. I am of course joking about the last one (we didn’t talk) Again, another joke. Don’t judge me.

The forth dentist suggested we go for route canal to try and save the tooth. I asked about whether he thought additional laser treatment on the surrounding bone across tooth one and two would help. He seemed impressed I even knew what was possible, and offered the advice that as the treatment is not cheap that doing the other tooth would not really have any effect, just the effected tooth would suffice and that a gap of a few weeks between filling and crowning the tooth would allow an additional xray to determine the infection had been removed. I thanked him and inquired on prices.

Even if you are a raving nutcase who believes the world is flat or that polio was a government created monstrosity to reduce the population pool, or a goth…chances are I will still want to know why you think like you do and learn about what you can teach me on the subject, even if it ultimately becomes obvious you are in fact a nutcase.

The only exception to this rule is if you are a Manchester Unite fan as I have no interest in you whatsoever, unless you happen to be a very hot blonde but even then, you are on thin ice lady.

Asking questions is the very best way I have found of becoming highly sociable, engaging and possibly even popular,  while drastically increasing your chances of success and happiness in life through extended daily schooling.

You never know when the information you learn might come in handy.

For example, recently I have concluded from talking to a few guys passionate about SEO that gaining high google rankings is becoming more difficult and expensive and that some better returns can be found by leveraging creativity in well targeted banner adds through other mediums such as Facebook.

This is great, I hate SEO but love creative design – many hours of wasted effort saved. Hours I can now spend playing Call Of Duty.

“We had be talking over the procedure for the last 10 minutes. I had learn’t more from this forth dentist than the other three put together. I understood all the procedures, what the best procedure would be and with what tools and chemicals and the timeframe for it. We decided on taking the best course of action with the best calculate rick of not loosing the tooth while not costing the earth. This dentist I like. The operation was a success and I now know what to talk about if I ever meet anyone in the dentistry trade.”

To Sum Up

The very best teachers are all around us, it just takes the right questions.

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It has come to my attention recently that people are working harder…and not necessarily because they want to…but because they have to.

Businesses are continuing to up the workload shelled out on its staff and people are starting to crumble under the pressure.

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Open your eyes to the world and the people in it. Don’t walk through your days with blinkers on and your head down and eyes on the ground. Ultimately, when you strip away the onion layers of life: Success, Hopes, Fears, Dreams, Ambitions, Mortgages, Student Loans, Careers, Schools, Entertainment and all other manner of things, you get to the heart of what it truly means to be human and the thing that ties all of life together in a  wonderfully delicate spiderweb. The heart of our existence is relationship…and on top of that  good relationships don’t have get you far.

Relationship Is Core

Most life design blogs, of which this is one, tend to focus primarily on achievement, goals and your dream lifestyle – in essence that is the point of lifestyle design. However, although all this focus on moving forward is of course a large part of what brings happiness to a life let us not forget what the core of existence is – the relationships we form and develop with with one another.

Super Fast Hospital Stay Through Taking An Interest

I would like to tell a quick story that highlights the power of taking an interest in the lives of others.

I was able to benchmark the value of taking an interest in people the other day as I was visiting the NHS to have some X-rays on my foot which I had unfortunately broke jumping off ruins in Ankawat, Cambodia. For my American readers, you will not be aware of how incredibly slow the NHS is – free yes, but mind numbingly slow. I had already set my mind to at least a day in the waiting room. Then I decided to take an interest in people in order to see if I can set a record for getting in and out of the NHS system in as short a time as possible. I entered the hospital all smiles ready to set records.

First Reception Desk – Bain of all Patients

Usual Waiting Time – Anywhere from 2 – 4 hours.

Instead of the usual one liner of what I want from her, I got talking to the girl on the reception who I found out was about to take a year out and travel the world and had one more month here working to raise the cash. I suggested some great spots to consider and she managed to fit me into a spare 5 minute slot with one of the nurses.

Time Taken – 14 Minutes

Time Saved – Approx. 2 Hours

Score: Taking an Interest 1 : Being Passive 0

Nurses Diagnostic and Transfer – As slow moving as porridge

Usual Waiting Time – Around 2 Hours

I went in to see the nurse and we said our usual customary greetings. She seemed stressed so I let her have a look at my foot without saying much. Then I noticed she had a strange bandage on her wrist, one I had not seen before ( and I have wore a lot of bandages in my time) and so with curiosity getting the better of me I asked her what it was for. She went on to explain that it was a rare form of wasting disease and her muscles were collapsing. She talked for almost 15 minutes without very little input from me. We talked briefly about her daughter – who was set to go to college and her son who was finishing A levels – and other aspects of her life so far. She was a fascinating woman and she also happened to have one of the appointment girls owed her a favor. She used it to get me towards the top of the waiting list.

Time Taken – 35 Minutes

Time saved – Probably another 2.5 to 3 hours.

Score: Taking an Interest 2 : Being Passive 0

The XRay Waiting Room – Claimer of Souls

I entered the xray waiting room. Plenty of people still before me so I wander off to find the bathroom. On the way I bump into the Xray technician leaving the Operating Room and I open with “Busy Day?” We get chatting for a few minutes and I subtle suggest that I am always amazed by how well and efficiently the hospital is run. This makes him overjoyed as, in his own words, that is the first time he has heard anyone say that in over 6 years of working here. He asked if I am here for Xray, I say a quick one for my foot. As it is only a 5 minute job, he fits me in there and then.

Time Saved – Easily another 2 hours

Total Time In and Out – 1 Hour 14 Minutes

Score: Taking an Interest 3 : Being Passive 0

A Landslide Win For Taking An Interest

I believe I set a new unofficial NHS record for a non emergency xray. Typical waiting time would normally have been around 6-7 hours on a busy Saturday as this one.

That is the power of taking an interest in people.

People help people. You can have all the procedure in the world available to you but if someone doesn’t like you then you will probably suffer. If people like you, and you take the time to take an interested in them, their lives and what makes them happy then they are more than likely going to go out of their way to help you. That is the power of social interaction and you might just learn something along the way as well.

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It takes me less than an hour to write blog posts. Most of my posts are around 1000 words.  Usually they make sense. This is how I structure and write them – I create elephants.

The Elephant Within

My post are elephants. Yep, big grey ones with trunks and floppy ears.

I treat my blog posts very much as an elephant because there are five major stages I go through when writing them: These stages are the Heart, Skeleton, Flesh, Skin and Polish stages. It is a very effective system for writing well structured, informative blog posts with the minimal amount of time expense.

My blogs usually take me less than an hour to write and I split this time up into two time boxes of 25 minutes each with a 5 minute break after each one. I use a countdown timer to keep me focussed.

Here is how I build my elephants to act as a guide for building your own.

The Heart

The heart of your post, like the heart of the elephant is critical to it’s survival. Without a heart the elephant dies and without a heart your post too will die. Try not to cry, there are ways to prevent it, your post will be fine.

The heart of your post is the title. Have A strong title and you will have a strong post. The structure of your post will flow from the heart and it is core to forming the strong message of your post.

Personally I tend to come up with good titles for posts at odd times of the day when I am out and about and so I save them to my ipod for writing at a letter date. I then have a section called “Pipeline Elephants” where I setup page documents with simply the Heart, (the title) of each elephant (post) on it.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO BUILD AN ELEPHANT WITHOUT A GOOD HEART.

You cannot perform  an open heart transplant on a elephant after it is being created without leaving brutal scars than run though it.

The Skeleton – 5 Minutes

Once you have a good heart, your elephant is going to need a strong skeleton to support the massive weight of your message. This is usually the largest section of creating your elephant.

The skeleton should only take about 5 minutes to build but creates the foundation and structure on which you will build the rest of the elephant around and so is critical.

In creating the skeleton you need to create the major bones of your elephant and you need to get them in the right order and ensure the flow of the post is clear and understandable. For example the skeleton of this post looked like

Writing The Perfect Blog Post: Heart, Skeleton, Flesh, Skin and Polish Your Elephant

The Elephant Within

The Heart

The Skeleton

The Flesh

The Skin

The Polish

The Parade

Sometimes something as simple as this is all you need, other times more detail might be needed.

Imagine if your were building the skeleton of an elephant, you need to get it in the right order and built sturdily so you don’t end up with the head coming out the ass.  The skeleton will always flow from and around the heart. The heart is your core message and the skeleton is the structure for taking that message to your readers.

Flesh – 20 Minutes

Once you have a secure skeleton build around your strong heart it is time to flesh things out. This is where you add the bulk to your elephant – the content to your post.

The trick I find here is to start bulking out the major section around your skeleton without rereading what you have written. Basically brain dump everything you are thinking onto the page, ignoring bad grammar, spelling mistakes and anything else that stops you from concentrating. All this can be corrected and improved int he subsequent sections.

The idea is to have your skeleton and fleshing out section complete within the first 25 minute time box. This might sound like  a huge challenge but with practice it becomes easier and easier as your mind gets used to focussing on the time boxes you have in place. I rarely check my work count and timer when fleshing out but more often than not it always comes close to around 1000 words and within the 25 minute deadline.

Don not underestimate the power of the subconscious. In this time is is best to be in a place where you are less likely to be distracted or have to have your attention divided.

Remember, you have a limited amount of time to build your elephant and you don’t want to leave it half complete. That would be horrendous and probably scare small children.

Skin – 15 Minutes

So you have a strong heart, a solid skeleton and some meaty flesh around the bones. It resembles the shape of an elephant but it still looks pretty bloody.NOw is the time to skin  the elephant and give it it’s distinctive look.

The skinning stage should take about 15 minutes and is the time to re-read over your bulking sections making your corrections to the way it flows and changing any content to make it flow better and ensure you message is getting across.

Throughout the fleshing stages, no doubt new ideas have come to mind on better ways to get your message across and these can now be implemented at this skinning stage. The skinning stage help ensure that everything is kept in place, just like the skin of a real elephant does.

Polish – 10 Minutes

Now now you have a good looking elephant on display with about 10 minutes to spare. Best to spit shine that bad boy and get it looking good for your readers. Perhaps put a bow on it or something, whatever floats your boat.

Use the last 10 minutes to check grammar, correct spelling, give your elephant a quick final once over to make sure you hare happy with it and then give it a quick, playful slap on the ass and it is ready to go out the door.

The Parade

Now as it happens I like to work in batches so I tend to write batches of up to 10 posts over a few days and then set them up to automatically to be posted over the next few weeks.

This help free my time and also is required when traveling and I cannot be confident of internet access so I parade a whole load of my elephants at once. You may be different, do whatever works for your.

I have just finished the fleshing section of my post current word count is 1,0002 and time is exactly 25 minutes. Without looking, I promise. It gets easier with proactive.

*As it happens I am now skinning the elephant and the word count is 1165 but I finished with 8 minutes to spare so total work time is 45 minutes.

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I guess everyone want to be a little more carefree in life or at least look like it to other people. I am also sure that many of us are just the slightest bit jealous of those that seem to be very carefree, especially those that are also seem to have done everything as well at the same time as being annoyingly carefree.

The Carefree Secret

Well here is a little secret. If you analyze a lot of successful carefree people you will find that actually underlying this happy go lucky surface is usually a very systematic and process driven structure for achievement. Sneaky I know but before you go out and lynch them I want to share some insights into this underlying structure that can be adapted to you own life.

Appear Carefree Through Carefully Planned Systems

Personally I am an avid promoter of systems, especially ones which are used to structure the repetitive tasks in your life allowing you to appear more care free and spontaneous on the surface. Systems are great for saving time, removing stress and being productive.

If you asked anyone who knew me for a short or long period of time they would generally be more than readily enthusiastic in highlighting how rarely I seem to plan things and generally act in very spontaneous ways and seem to drift through life in a very carefree manner, rarely letting issues or problems derail me. This is a great brand and one that I strive to develop every day but is also easy to achieve.

What also surprises people most is that under this carefree, devil may care approach to life I actually do an incredible amount of stuff and get through far more workload than most. I owe this mainly to the systems and processes in life that I am constantly honing and tweaking to allow me to get the very most out of each and every hour I invest while still living a great spontaneous life.

It is all down to Structure and Systems

It is all down to how I structure the day to day running of my life so that I can focus on the unexpected turns of the journey. After all, that is where the real fun happens and I want to have as much time available to me to enjoy LIFE.

To help paint a picture of the systems I use to make my life easier I have highlighted some everyday ones below.

Systems I Use To Free Time And Be Productive

• I always check email, blogs, social and stats once a day in the morning – NEVER more than once.
• I Always backup work once before shutting down in the evening. ALWAYS last thing in the evening so I don’t feel tempted to wait for 10-15 minutes till it completes so that I can work.
• I Leave Saturdays unplanned to finish off any outstanding work. If there is nothing to finish, then I take the day off. This gives an added incentive to complete all my work during the usually Mon-Fri.
• I use my 7Life system to structure my days to ensure that I am getting the key tasks I need done to achieve the vision I have for my life and the goals to get there as well as factoring in time for a social life, entertainment and continued learning.
• I worked out that I operate most effectively on 6 hours sleep so I have timer that ensures I get exactly 6 hours a night. If there is a deposit at the end of the week I catch up on Sunday.
• When I travel, I travel light with a single rucksack and I have a place for every article and I know everything I have an where to find it. This saves untold amounts of time when I don’t have to constantly check every pocket to  find something make sure I haven’t left anything.
• I always keep my wallet, phone and ipod in separate pockets and always the same ones so there is no fumbling around. I also place them in the same place and the same order when not in my pockets. I have never lost my wallet, phone or ipod in years because of this system. While in India I have adapted the system and now always carry a few rupees in my back left pocket to give to the beggars in passing instead of fumbling around my wallet.
• I spend exactly 1 hour on almost all blog posts – 30 Minutes to Skeleton and Flesh out the post, 15 minutes to skin and 15 minutes to polish. I time box it with a Countdown timer.
• I work in 2 hour productive pies. 25 minutes followed by a 5 minute break, 25 minutes etc as studies have been shown that this is the most effective way of working. Generally I do two pies a day, one in the morning and one in the evening focussing on just 2 key things I need to get accomplished.
• In any given day I tend to focus an hour on reading, four hours on 2 key “Work” tasks, another two hours on a non work related task, around an hour on “Housekeeping” and the rest of the time on entertainment and social activities. It works well for me.
• Sundays are for organizing, improving systems and washing etc. I don’t work on a Sunday as I believe a day of rest per week is essential to a happy and productive life. On Sundays I like to spend time alone, organize my room, improve the systems and sort out washing as well as catch up on some reading, watch some movies and spend a few hours planning the next week and update my ipod with new podcasts. Basically relax and take some time off.

Developing Your Own Systems For Success

These are just some of the systems that I use and are they are constantly adapted and tweaked depending on the situation. Hopefully they give an indication of how being structured and systematic on the back end of life allows you be appear more carefree and spontaneous on the front end.

You no doubt have your own systems to a degree and I would suggest developing more to help reduce the time and effort that does into running your life on a daily basis so that you can dedicate more time to focussing on what is really important to you in life.

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Become An Idea Hitman In Order To Give A Few Of Your Concepts A Fighting Chance Of Success

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 (I had a pretty rough football match yesterday, long story). We, as a collective, have a problem.

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The Problem Of Creative Genius-ness

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At any one point in time I am sure that there are literally hundreds of possibilities, quick ideas and flashes of inspiration bouncing around and fighting dirty in your head for which you hurriedly hunt down a pen, pencil or sharp object to slice your own finger in an effort to jot it down in blood should you, God forbid, ever let one of the slippery buggers get away. If this is not the case with you then I can only presume that you are either a. dead or b. in the wrong line of work.

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The problem then, is that you have so many ideas; some good, some not so good and some, quite frankly, more than likely illegal, and so little time.You cant possibly pursue all of them and yet to let one goes seems to be an evil akin to smothering a small fluffly kitten while watching Pop Idol.

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Case in point. You have to do it.

NOT SMOTHER A SMALL KITTEN, but let a lot of your ideas go in order to focus on what is most likely to work. Don’t become a Failed Ideas Man (Or Woman)

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The Failed Ideas Man

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I would put forth that it is one of the major contributing conditions to why a lot of start-ups fail and creative entrepreneurs go insane and end up making meaningful small talk with trees is that they try to pursue every idea they have without taking the time to access it’s merits as a workable concept.

The trick to success is to get strategic and start streamlining the ideas, very much like a hitman would streamline the competition. That is not to say stop white boarding new ideas – or indeed going on a killing rampage – but instead give the appropriate amount of time to each idea and cut them as soon as they appear unworkable. You need to have a system for accessing the quality of an idea and wether it is indeed worthwhile investing your precious time commodity into. Most of your ideas will not be worth the investment. I know this because most of mine are not either.

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Some of my ideas are just down right unworkable, solely self serving or horrendously unethical and no doubt so are a few of yours.

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In addition to weeding out the weak ideas at the beginning, you also need a series of gateway points in the development of an idea that accesses if it is worth continuing on with as it develops. Not all ideas are remain valid and sometimes they have to be cut mid way through development if situations change. This is usually harder then cutting them in the beginning as now time has been invested.

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You have to be brutal, if things aren’t working, tell your idea to hit the showers.

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I will follow this post shortly with another, probably entitiled “ A Sexy, Simple System for Surmising The Success Of An Idea” on how I access the quality of my ideas and put them through a rigorous series of testing in order to eliminated wasted time on ones that are likely to fail.

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Too Much Forward Leaning And You Are Going To Fall Over

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In addition to being able to cut ideas like a well trained sheep sheerer, an ability to think to the future but focus on the present is critical.

I also tend to pursue ideas for my company and ventures that are too far in the future. It’s important to plan ahead, essential in fact, but if your spending a majority of your time planning the advertising campaign for a future product you will be looking to launch in 2014, then I would suggest that something needs to change otherwise I doubt you will have a company in 2014. I have been guilty of this countless times.

Now spending time on creative ideas looking at where your company could be in the future and even designing the office you’re going to have or scoping the cars your going to drive is not a bad thing, my own business partner and I do both of these currently. Some may think it’s naive or crazy but actually it’s a very good way of keeping the passion and motivation going through the good and especially through the more difficult times. It all ties in with having that goal and the more vivid you can make it the more likely you will achieve it.

However, that said, there needs to be a balance in the amount of time dedicated to those forward thinking thoughts. For example, if my business partner and I spent everyday in the local Audi garage (we like Audi’s) then yes we would probably be very, very passionate and very, very motivated but then we are never going to create a business that can afford us to drive one, (although maybe they’d give us a job or pay us to go away.)

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A strategy is required to ensure that time is focussed on ideas closer to the present to make sure your company continues to move forward while still keeping the long term vision in view.

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When I have some more time next month I will also write a post of some simple systems to allow you streamline your projects in phases and ensure your are focusing on the critical stuff at the right time. Watch this space.

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Conclusion

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Pick a small selection of ideas and get focussed. Look to the future but don’t neglect the present.

The SUCCESS Ebook

If you already know about it and have got a post ready for the 1st of Feb head over to the group and let others know so they can bookmark your site in anticipation.

If you haven’t already, head on over to the SUCCESS Ebook Facebook page and sign up so you are the first to get hold of it when it comes out at the end of the month. This group will be there for all who have read the book and is a place for discussion, idea bouncing and general networking between like minded and motivated people. Click this link, it is likely to be the best thing you do in the next 30 seconds, guaranteed.

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Define You Elephants And Then Eat Them

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Morning/Afternoon/Evening Lads/Ladies/Sirs and Madams depending on where and when you are reading this post. I am writing this from Chicago airport having just spend two glorious weeks in Kansas City under snow in -25 degree weather and so my fingers are still relearning how to type.

As I am sure many of your are aware, we have just left 2009 and are tentatively starting to take baby steps into 2010. If you are unaware of this then frankly I am surprised you can operate a computer. Go look in the mirror and ask yourself some serious questions.

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A New Year and no doubt new GOALS, new RESOLUTIONS, new HABITS and new inventive ways to eat an incredible amount of CHOCOLATE CAKE.

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This is how it should be, this is what January’s are for. Unfortunately, it is the law of the land and of human nature that February and March are designated months for slipping back into old habits and forgetting goals.

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Well on this blog, we don’t stand for that kind of nonsense

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Todays article is about creating a structure for making the most out of this coming year and in the process developing good habits that will ensure each day, week, month, year and decade of your life are equally as productive and fulfilled.

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How do I know this system works? Well frankly because I developed it, I  have lived by it for many years now and believe it or not I am actually highly productive. Useless with the ladies but highly productive.

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If you want to transform your life then this system is the simplest and very best possibly way I know how you can do it. It  is definitely worth 15 minutes of your time.

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The 7 Life System

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If you want to live this system, and I definitely recommend it, then your life will now consist of sevens. The Seven Life System is a highly structure and focused yet very flexible  way to ensure that your are heading towards your goals and the life you wish to lead.

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What Will This System Do For You?

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This is the only structure I follow and because it focuses me on the core 20% of tasks that will return me 80% of the results I have a lot of time to “swan around abroad” like my good mates tend to say while still achieve a fair amount more then them.

This system ensures I waste very little time on things that are not important and CORE to my dreams and my goals in life. This system allows me to be calm when things go wrong in the short term because it keeps me focussed on the end game, the bigger picture.This system has allowed me to quite my job and live life on my own terms and eventually this system will help me make an impact on the world.

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This system helps me lead a stress free and hyper productive lifestyle full of adventure and it will do the same for you, you need only apply it.

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How Does It Do It?  Like Eating An Elephant

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How do you eat an elephant? In small pieces. How do you solve a problem or finish a task or achieve your life goals? Break it down.

If you are set with the task of eating an elephant then trying to do it on one sitting is just going to make you sick. However if you break it down and maybe eat a few steaks a day then you could conceivably polish it off in a few months. The same thing applies for problems, tasks and life goals.

A huge problem never looks quite so large if you break it down into its core components and focus on each one in term. A large task can also be handled easily if broken down and undertaken in small mouthfuls.

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Life goals look as big as elephants and so they should but if you break them down into easily manageable chucks and eat your elephant then you WILL achieve them.

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The 7 Life system helps you define your elephants and then gives you a structure to polish them off.

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Lets Begin

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The Power Of Goals

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First, let me just give a quick visual representation of the power of having goals.

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Positive progression is one of the greatest creators of happiness in life and having targets and goals is the map by which you navigate.

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As shown in the Pictomin, goals keep you moving in a generally forward direction to your dreams. Although it will never be a straight line, nor would it be any fun if it was, having targets will help you keep moving in the right direction. If you do not know where you would like to be in 1 year, 3 years, 5 years or 10 years, how will you know how to get there. It is like trying to get to somewhere you have never been without a map.

Have a target to aim for, otherwise you will not know what to shoot at. Set your targets and watch as your life aligns to meet those targets.

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Integrating Your Goals Into A Structure

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Most people, unlike poor football teams, have plenty of goals but no system to achieve them.

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The Seven Life System will help you achieve whatever goals you set.

Predictably the 7 Life System has 7 sets of goals as outlined below.

• 7 Life Principles
• 7 Life Goals
• 7 Before 20/30/40/50/60 Goals
• 7 Year Goals
• 7 Month Goals
• 7 Week Goals
• 7 Daily Goals

7 Life is a top down system meaning you start at the top and work your way down. In this system your 7 Life Principles are the most important, then your 7 life goals, then your 7 before 30 goals and so on.

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Your 7 Life Principles

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If you have never had any life principles then you need to get some.

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These are Seven key points that define who you are, how you behave and how you operate. The cliche “If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything” is brutally true.

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Make sure you define who you are because if you don’t then the world is more than happy to do it for you.

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As an example I have included the 7 life principles that I live by, in the early days these changed a lot but as the years have gone on I have refined them. These current ones have not changed in almost 3 years.

• Love People. Love Life. Love Circumstance
• Live Life Like An Adventure
• Never Waste A Breath
• Learn Ferociously
• Don’t Hurt People
• Take Risks
• Dream Big

Take some time to write down the 7 Principles you want to live by, the 7 things that define you. They will change and be tweaked but start by getting something down on paper. It is a powerful process to write down your goals, it helps you clarify them and concrete them on your subconscious.

Once you have your 7 Life Principles you can move on an define your 7 Life Goals

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Your 7 Life Goals

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These will not be defined overnight but if you don’t have any life goals then now is a good time to get some.

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What 7 BIG things would you like to achieve in your life? Dream big, think about your perfect life and what it would involve. What life goals would get you there?

Again, for reference here are mine.

• Save a Life
• Live On Every Continent and see 50% of the World
• Become a Millionaire
• Design and Build A House
• Complete My Life List
• Make An Impact On The World
• Live To Be 90

If I come to the end of my life at age 91 and I have achieve these 7 things, I will be happy.

Your 7 Life Principles and 7 Life goals are critical to defining your life direction. Once these are complete, and they can change, don’t worry about getting them right the first time, you can move onto you 7 Before 30 goals (or before 20,40,50 depending on your age, the next closest decade)

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Your 7 Before 30 Goals

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So you have you life principles and you have you life goals? What next?

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These will now no doubt influence your 7 Before 30 goals as ultimately everything you do should be aiming towards your life goals.

Again for reference here are mine

• Get Married
• Make £16,000 Passive Income A Month
• See 25% of The World
• Own Three Cash Generating Properties, Three Cash Generating Businesses and Three Cash Generating Patents
• Have 5 Marathons, Three Iron Mans and 1 100k race under my belt
• Have 50 Life List Goals complete
• As you can see a lot of these goals are working towards achieving my life goals. The system continues and you next define your 7 Year Goals.

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Your 7 Year Goals

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What are your 7 goals for this year? If you don’t have any you don’t have a target and how can you take aim with no target?

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If you do, what are these goals based on? What will achieving them move you towards?

Your 7 goals this year should mainly focus on moving you towards achieving your 7 Before 30 goals which in turn are focused on achieving you life goals.

For reference here are my goals for 2010:

• Make £1000 Passive Monthly Income
• Spend Over 6 Months Abroad
• Start Another Company
• Complete Three Running Races
• Reach 2000 Blog Subscribers
• Become an Expert on Real Estate and Improve Credit Rating To Above 800
• Read 52 Books (12 on Property Investment)

As you can see they help me towards my 7 Goals before 30 and thus my life goals. If I achieve nothing this year but these 7 goals I can be incredibly happy that I have been productive and am working towards my dreams. Of course  I have other goals and I am sure I will achieve more but these are the CORE things I will achieve above all else.

So how are you going to achieve these goals? Lets break it down into months

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Your 7 January Goals

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Lets review my goals this month which will help me ensure I achieve my years goals.

• Read India Book
• Launch EFS new website and North and South Stores
• Confirm Ovo Deal
• Publish SUCCESS Ebook
• Complete World Travel Map
• Learn 5 Guitar Songs By Heart
• Get Set For India Adventure

If I achieve all these goals this month I can leave for India happy in the knowledge that I am making big progress towards where I want to be at the end of the year and this by the time I am 30 and also my life goals. Hopefully the 7 Life System for achieving your goals is becoming clear now. To finish the example I will end with this weeks goals and todays 7 goals.

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Your 7 Week Goals

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• Get EFS Site To Testing Stage
• Get EFS Marketing Material Complete for Stores
• Collaborate all received entries for SUCCESS book and Chase Final Few To Reach 40 Bloggers
• Complete Overview World Map – No cities
• Record 6 potential Acoustic Songs onto Garage Band
• Enjoy Your Badboy self in Kansas

As you can see I have two more goals to finish by Sunday so that I can look back an know I have had an incredibly productive week which was focused on achieving the defined goals I set.

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Your Friday Goals

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• Read Source Control
• Read Seth Godwin Book
• Finish Weeks Podcasts
• Write New Blog Post – A Productive Day
• Read 70 Pages of Book
• Explore Chicago and eat at Lou Micelios world famous pizza joint
• Follow Up On Pictomins Deal

Friday I was just traveling so I focused on reading.

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The Flexibility Of The 7 Life System

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This brings up the flexible aspect of the 7 Life System, I don’t always achieve all my daily goals or even my weekly goals, sometimes life gets involved. This is ok, you can be flexible. I try to always achieve my monthly goals and definitely never miss my yearly ones but daily and weekly are flexible, if something comes up they can always be shuffled around and almost always are when I am traveling.

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The KEY To The 7 Life System

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Right people, now the key to this system and the power of it is REPETITION. I have all of these goals in a descending list on a word page and I read them EVERY MORNING when I get up and EVERY EVENING when I sleep. On Sundays I plan my weekly goals so I hit the ground running on Monday and in the evenings I plan the goals for the next day. This is where the power of the system lies, this is where your 7 Life Principles, 7 Life Goals, 7 Before 30 Goals, 7 Year Goals, 7 Month Goals get ingrained into your subconscious and become a part of you.

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I have no doubt this system changed my life

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I have no doubt the reason I have been able to risk the good and go for the great and live the life I do is because for the last 3 years I have been repeating to myself day and night that I am the guy that takes risks, the guy that loves life and everything in it. I read, listen to podcasts and learn daily because I have repeated “I learn ferociously” to myself every day for 3 years. My life principles have become who I am, my life goals are ingrained into my subconscious, everything I do, consciously or subconsciously are aimed towards these goals. This focus and directions is powerful and will CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

This is not a difficult system to follow but it does have the power to seriously CHANGE YOUR LIFE. I highly recommend you at least give it a chance, you will be stunned at the results.

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To Conclude

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Create Your 7 Life System. Read It Every Morning and Every Evening. Watch Your Life Transform.

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Best of luck all.

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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.

* Also don’t be shy to comment even on old articles as I am interested to hear your opinions, views or gripes. Don’t make me come over there and make you comment.

If you are short of time I have starred my more favorite posts.

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What Life Do You Want In 2010?

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So tell me then, what do you want out of this year. Do you know? Have you even though about it? 2010 is not a year to be wasted so have a gander at these posts to get inspired and work out what you want your 2010 to look like and how you want your perfect life to be designed.

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I Am Going To Tell You About One Of The Worlds Biggest Problems And How It Can Be Solved

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At the beginning of 2010, be inspired by ordinary people that have done extraordinary things. Will 2010 be the year that you become EXTRAORDINARY.

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Deliberately Make Your Life Remarkable *

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“Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin and then end, with no lasting memories or anything of significance in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a persons life.” In 2010, will you be Indian Jones or Mr Jones from accounting?

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The Road “Most” Traveled Is Frikin’ Dangerous Man *

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Before you run headlong into 2010 take some time to reflect on what the key to a full and successful life actually is and make sure you are traveling the right path. If you are not sure, then you need to read this.

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Why Do You Fear To Be Great, You Yellow Bellied Coward?

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Have you DONE something with your life? Do you have a STORY worth telling?

Are you GOING to do something with your life in 2010? Will you HAVE a story worth telling in 2010? Read on if you want one.

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Soap.Lather.Rinse.Repeat – The art of living free in the moment while naked in the shower *

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One of my favorite posts and one that I will be rereading many times over this coming year. However successful your year is going to be in 2010 always remember to put life into perspective.

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No Gumpy Boy, Life Is Like A Thai Massage

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Just remember that, unlike the 70s films of past years, the goal is not to have a happy ending, as by then it is too late. The real goal is to have a happy journey, however you work out the best way to ensure that.

Here’s to your happy ending, I mean journey. Ahem.

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Improving Yourself In 2010

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Make 2010 the best year to date and enter Christmas next year a greatly improved specimen.

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Chocolate Coated SuperMagnets -The Practical Art Of Making Yourself Irresistible *

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If you want to make the most of 2010 then you are going to need to be irresistible – and here is how to do it. Five core rules that are easy and practical to apply to ensure your social life gets ramped into overdrive in 2010.

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The Five Killer Rules For Assassin-like Effectiveness In Your Work *

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Don’t waste 2010, become hyper effective instead. This is one to print out and stick up.  If you want to become substantially more productive in 2010, waste less time AND become a Ninja then you need to read this.

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How To Talk To Strangers Without Wetting Yourself.

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Become a social animal in 2010 with these 7 incredibly simple and practical tips for engaging anyone, anywhere.

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Beating the “Internal Conflict” for Long Term Weight Loss and Habit Change

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Ever tried giving up weight and failed? Ever attempted to start a new habit and found yourself petering out? Ever tried setting an achievable goal only to not achieve it? Let this year be different to the last…seriously this time.

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1 And 1 Make Eight Hundred and Eighty Six Thousand – 3 Things Necessary For Success That The School System Neglected To Teach You.

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10 Ultimate Tips to Supreme Health and Fitness

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Become a lean, mean, only fight when absolutely necessary machine in 2010 with this practical rules for great health, fitness and figure.

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Finding Success In 2010

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2010 could be the year of great things for you and these post will help give you the best possible chance to find that success.

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Guaranteeing Blogging Success Without Shooting Yourself in the Head *

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If you are or are going to be a blogger in 2010 then, like the instructions on a parachute, this is a must read. Failure to do so will have catastrophic consequences. You have been warned.

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A Story Of A Life Designers First Time *

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In 2010, Do not let life pass you by. Be forceful, make life play ball, make life work for you. Get your hands dirty, get sweaty, get involved until you physically can’t give any more and you collapse exhausted but content, safe in the knowledge that you gave it your all.

Another of my favorite posts, don’t miss it.

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The Guinness Advert Got It Wrong – Good Things Come To Those That Don’t Wait *

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Procrastination, they say, is the killer of progress, creativity and small puppies. In 2010 make this the year you get off your backside and do something.

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5 Lies That Society Shouts At You And 5 Truths That It Keeps Quite On *

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In 2010 society WILL lie to you and it WILL keep some things from you. Here’s a heads up moving into the New Year a little wiser than most.

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Time isn’t money so relax– It is far more important.

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You are only going to have one 2010, you will never get a chance to repeat it so worthwhile making sure you are investing your time effectively. Another one to print out and keep over your desk – 5 Investment tips for your time.

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Some Super Sneaky Suggestions for Selling Yourself AND Your Brilliant Ideas without Resorting to Violence and/or Blackmail

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Looking for success in 2010? Then you are going to need to get people to understand how brilliant you are. Unfortunately, not everyone may appreciate your brilliance or the brilliance of your ideas straightaway, and thus it is your duty to enlighten them. Here are three incredibly effective tips to allow you to do just that.

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The Leap – How Three Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career From Good To Great

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Planning to kick your career into overdrive in 2010 then let best selling author Rick Smith give you come guiding.

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Structure Is Like A Strong Wind…Flow is Like A Frikin’ Hurricane  *

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Learn how to harness “THE BEAST” (who incidentally goes by the name of Joe) in 2010 for incredible creativity and productivity like a hurricane on steroids.

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4 Concepts For Kicking Ass In Life Learn’t From Mixed Martial Arts

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Mixed Martial Arts isn’t all about kicking ass first and taking names latter. This 2010 apply the principles of Respect, Playing to your strengths, Understanding that Position Isn’t Everything and That The Key Is Balance for a successful year.

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A Happiness Fundamental: The Social Spiderweb

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2010 is a time for friends, families and loved ones. Here is a great tool for benchmarking whether you are spending your time with the right people and how to change things if you are not.

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The Indescribably Pleasure of Doing Nothing and then Resting Afterwards

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2010 need not be all about productivity and moving forward, some times, like a stag party at a nudist colony, it is good to sit back and let it all hang out – Find out how here.

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Escaping the Rat Race In 2010

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Whether literally getting out of a job full time or becoming financially independent outside of a paycheck here is how to escape the Rat Race in 2010.

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Why Its Worth It

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A Day In The Life Of A Traveling Entrepreneur *

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Self explanatory I think but the “Day in the life of” posts are my most popular on this site so if you need some inspiration to kickstart 2010 then here is the place to get it.

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Cubicle With A View: The Office Of A Traveling Entrepreneur

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Need some inspiration in 2010 on why exactly you are wanting to leave your current office behind. Well here it is, 2010 could be the year that you move into offices like these.

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3 Months In The Life Of An Entrepreneur

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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 – Here is 90 days in the life of a traveling entrepreneur.

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Proof That Experiencing The World Doesn’t Have To Cost The Earth

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For anyone doubting that venturing abroad in 2010 might not be worth it then stick this in your pipe and smoke it. Seriously though, check out what £122 will buy you in Thailand. I mean it, it’s insane.

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How To Do It In 2010

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How To Bankroll Traveling The World And Living Your Dreams Without Being A Freeloading Little Rich Kid

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Drastically change your life in 2010. Here is basically how I got to being able to escape the Rat Race and live my current lifestyle – minus the odd awkward relationship, dodgy curry and missed plane takeoff.

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How I Live How I Do Without Having To Rob Banks

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What exactly was my 9 to 5 job before ? What sort of business provides my passive income? How much does [living in Thailand] cost me monthly ? How much do I earn? Find out here.

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How To Live An Awesome Life Abroad Without Having A Job *

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Learn the secrets to gaining 300% Interest On Your Money, Hiring 10 Guys For The Price Of One and Reducing Your Workload by 80%. Oh, and the reason why I tend not to wear pants. 2010 could be your year for moving abroad.

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Quitting Your Job In James Bond Like Style Without Ending Your Career

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Is freedom from the Rat Race calling you in 2010? If so, make sure you read this article before flipping the bird to the man. Yes quit, it will probably be the best thing you ever do, but do it with style with 5 proven pointers.

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Own Nothing…Experience Everything

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Do you seem to own everything but have done nothing. Join the debate and see if the ONEE approach to life will bring you a more stress free 2010 full of experience.

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Becoming Rich In 2010

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Interested in leading a richer life in 2010? Then the Rich Series post will help you achieve that goal.

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Stage 1 – Understand What It Means To Be Truly Rich.

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On your journey to a richer 2010 start by understanding the five core areas for benchmarking a rich life: Financial Security, Freedom, Good relationships, Health, and Identity. Time to live the rich life.

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Stage 2 – Understand The Three Financial Equations Of Wealthy Living

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Are you a Happy Fish, An Unhappy Fish or A Dead Fish. If you don’t know then you need to if you want to become richer in 2010. Better scan this post and make sure which one you are hadn’t you, go on, you know you need to.

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Stage 3 – To Come

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So there you have it – An almost comprehensive list to make sure your 2010 goes off with a Bang. Have a Good One.

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