My life constantly conspires to stress me.  It doesn’t seem to matter what I do, or how much stress I’ve recently got on top of, something always turns up to fling me back into the path of stressed out.  But I am pleased to report that the latest episode of totally unexpected stress has finally [...]

Everyone online is looking for the key to success.  Like everyone who has been trying to make a living online for any length of time, I find myself on several people’s mailing lists.  And from time to time, I really connect with someone, their way of thinking or their writing style or both.  And when [...]

Life is a game. Whether you enjoy life or not depends upon the rules – your own personal rules of life. Whether you realize it or not you guide your life, make your choices, based upon a set of rules you selected for yourself in early childhood. These rules were based on misinterpretation or complete [...]

Have you ever discovered something you thought was ”brand new” to you, which on closer inspection actually turned out to be one of your all-time favourite items?  That’s exactly what happened to me recently! Let me explain. Last year we managed to get away for a few days (and three glorious nights) without the little ones for the [...]

When I was a kid, the news was reported in daily newspapers, and at specific times on the TV and radio.  Now, it’s 24/7 multimedia experience.  You can get it by text to your cell phone, over the internet, on 24 hours news channels etc.  At any point in the day, no matter where you [...]

Building a business online can be a daunting task.  And when you have the opportunities of the internet before you it is easy to get lost and unfocused.  But the same advice is true whether you are building a bricks-and-mortar business or a virtual real estate empire.  Online opportunities are so many and diverse that [...]

On Friday I went to my first ever London Lunch, hosted by Martin Avis.  I was pretty nervous because I haven’t needed to walk into a room full of strangers for the purposes of “networking” for literally years.  And internet marketers can be pretty aggressive and hard hitting I think.  So I was in two [...]

What triggers confidence?  Where does confidence begin?  Some will argue that they had a feeling within, right from the beginning, that they just “knew” that they would succeed.  Others will say that they just hoped that they would succeed and then “got lucky” and this indeed was the seed which their confidence grew from.  Either [...]

Is there something you really want to do?  Anything at all?  It can be something big, like moving to another part of the country.  Or something smaller, like taking an hour of time several times a week to go to the gym.  What’s stopping you? If there’s something you’ve wanted to do for a while, [...]

While I’m writing this article near the end of the year, I do know that you could be reading it at any time – which is just fine.  These suggestions work the same in late December, mid March, early summer or while watching leaves fall. Read this advice, and you’ll see the timing is universal. [...]

“Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion.  You must set yourself on fire.”  Arnold H. Glasow What a brilliant quote that is!  Interesting and inspiring!  It really captures how I feel about success.  But sadly not everyone feels the same way!  It’s a sad truth that so many people I have come across, heard of, [...]

If you’re anything like me, when you decided to venture online you thought, “What am I going to do” and then you discovered there were so many opportunities online that the temptation is to be dazzled by the “newest shiny” object that comes around.  Even now, when I am well aware of what I am [...]