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Archive | June, 2007

How I Won the Battle of the Bed

Waking early is without a doubt one of the biggest changes I have made since starting my personal development journey. Previously I was one of those people who would continually hit the snooze button on his alarm and would only get up when it got to the point where I really had to. Why wake up early then you may ask? Well let me explain how and why I won the Battle of the Bed….

I believe that if you wake early each day it is a sign that you are happy with your life. It shows that would are excited about the coming day. It shows that you are motivated to succeed.

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Hitting the Pause Button

Life travels fast these days. Regular readers will know that I will soon be moving to Canada with my fiancee and baby boy to live. This move has been on the cards for sometime, but it always felt like some far off event. Now it is less than 3 weeks away….

I find it’s important to every so often hit the pause button on my life and see what’s working well, what could be done better and what to ditch. Now is one of those moments. In particular, I want to reflect on this blog.

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Success From the Inside Out

Fast cars, expensive clothes, big houses, a high income job, overseas holidays, a diversified share portfolio, a beautiful husband or wife…. when a person attains these they are successful, right? These are all symbols that have come to represent success. Indeed, many devote their life to chasing these ‘things’. Is this wrong?

Let me first say that these are all wonderful things that are worth aspiring to have. But there is a certain approach that ensures there is substance to these symbols. This is an approach that ensures that large house is filled with a loving family, that you do not sacrifice what is really important in life for that high paying job, and that the person wearing those expensive clothes is happy. This is a whole-person approach. This is success from the inside out.

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5 Ways to Enjoy Each Day

Well its Friday. As someone who works Monday to Friday, I can tell you there is something special about today. At work we dress casually, chat more to each other (usually about plans for the weekend) and are just generally happier.

For many, Fridays are one last hurdle before the weekend. These people live for their weekends and, on the one hand, I can hardly blame them. Weekends are when they get to do what they want to do, whether it is partying, eating out, playing sport, etc. On the other hand, it seems such a waste to simply “wish away” 5 days of the week as I see many people do. The big idea for today is: enjoy each and every day.

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How To Model Yourself on a Billion Dollar Success Story

In my original article, The Google Story, I looked at some of the unique reasons for Google’s amazing success. So how can you be more like Google?

1. You Need a Greater Reason Than Money

Becoming rich is a worthy goal, but if it is your primary focus you may actually have a harder time attaining it. Google’s founders didn’t set out to be billionaires, rather they were determined to build the world’s best search engine.

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The Google Story

Do you want to succeed in business and in life? What better company to model yourself on than Google, the biggest business, media and technology success story of our time.

I have just finished The Google Story by David Vise. It’s a fascinating look at how Google’s founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, took Google from being just another Internet start-up to a company with a market value of tens of billions of dollars. There are many reasons for Google’s amazing success. This article will look at the one reason that most resonated with me: the simple, yet unrelenting, desire of Google’s founders to build the world’s best search engine.

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