Monthly Archives of : March, 2011

Follow Up To My 30 Day Twitter Experiment


30 days ago, I published a post about my Twitter strategy and how I wanted to change it in order to better build my brand. I was finding that many of my interactions were of the automated kind and it wasn’t how I wanted to build my business. So I threw down a challenge of […]

Planning My Prison Break


This is a guest post from Barry at BookBlogBusiness.com Remember the TV series Prison Break? You know, the one where Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows (possibly the coolest name ever) broke out of prison and inspired a nation of followers who sat in front of their TV’s rooting for convicted felons week after week? Remember […]

Letting Go Of The Grind For Good


This is a guest post from David at LetGoAndFlow.com I Want More Everyone tells me I have a great job – “Oh you work from home, that must be fun! You get to make your own schedule and work whenever you want!”. Sorry everyone, but it doesn’t work that way. Working from home as a web […]

Are You Crushing It or Getting Crushed?


I’m going on the assumption that you’ve read Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk, which discusses finding your passion, turning it into a business, and living it with your heart and soul. Sounds great, right? Of course it does. But how many of us can honestly say that we do that? Very, very few. It all sounds so […]

Leaving The Grind To Live My Dreams


This is a guest post from Kim at So-Many-Places.com It was on an early spring hike with my husband Brian that I first remember discussing the idea of giving up everything to travel the world. It had been a long, gray winter, as Oregon winters are, and we were both in low spirits. Life was […]

Cubicle Escape In Progress


This is a guest post from Caleb Wojcik at PocketChanged.com When I graduated college three years ago I thought I was doing the right thing by moving across the country and getting a desk job. I figured I “had it made” and now I just had to work until I was 65 so that I […]

The Longest 4 Years Of My Life


Today marks the fourth anniversary that I have been at my current job <insert loud sigh followed by several minutes of weeping openly>. Now, four years may not seem like a long time, but when you hate your job more than you hate anything else in this world, it’s a VERY long time. To be […]

Accidental Happiness


This is a guest post from Ashley at AfterNineToFive.net How I Knew I Needed To Find It I knew since before I even graduated high school that I wanted to be my own boss. I was independent and free-spirited. I liked to follow my own directions and use instructions only as a last resort. I […]

Goodbye Office, Hello World!


This is a guest post from Jill at JackandJillTravel.com I just gave my 3-week notice to my employer and I managed not to skip and sing my way out of my soon-to-be ex-employer’s office. Let’s just get this out of the way: I don’t hate my job. I don’t have any reasons to. As a […]

A Little Story About Commitment


When I turned 30 back in 2001, I had some kind of epiphany or early mid-life crisis and found myself desperately wanting to change careers. Actually, I didn’t really have a “career”, I was bartending at the Hard Rock Cafe in Denver, Colorado. I had spent 12 years working in the restaurant industry, and while […]