As a child, England was all I knew. It was all my family knew. And then, one day, everything changed. My parents told me we were moving to the Philippines. I was seven at the time. I didn’t even know where Denmark was, much less the Philippines. One 20-hour flight later, we found ourselves in […]
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Today’s post I want to get back to my roots… While I focus on things such as finance, success, leadership, marketing, copywriting and time management these days, most of my life has been spent teaching English. I remember being put in charge of a history class with another TA way back when and I just
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Success, time management, business, marketing, happiness… These are the common themes that run throughout my blog posts. If you’ve been reading this blog for some time now you’ll know that I broach the same topics again and again, just from a different angle. But in person, unless it’s work, I tend to keep things
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Ah…youth. Those were the good old days. Sure, we didn’t have the Internet, smartphones or bluray players, but we enjoyed ourselves nonetheless. Watching my son grow up, I often wonder just what it must be like for him to grow up in this age of high speed information. Social media is something I use for
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“Throw away your smart phone,” is something I’m sure you’d never hear me say. But that’s precisely what some people need to do. If you’re checking FB during dinner, if you panic when you leave your phone at home, if you find yourself always looking down…then yes, maybe you’ve got a problem. The smart phone
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Goals are what separate the winners from the posers… We’ve all heard people say they want to write a book, master a foreign language, open their own business, get a degree, stop smoking, whatever. There’s only one problem, they never do. A lot of people talk a big game, but when it comes down to
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If you’ve ever seen the movie Patch Adams, you’ll understand the power of laughter. It’s the story of a doctor who uses laughter as a source of relief for people who are sick or depressed.And yet, most of us are often too busy worrying about something (health, money, family, work) to laugh. That wasn’t always
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Weird…but good. That’s how I felt when over the holidays I basically unplugged myself for 10 days. I barely touched the computer and wrote a total of one email while I was away. Occasionally I checked FB, but for the better part of 10 days I was pretty much disconnected. That’s part of the joy
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Change… It’s the one inevitable part of life. Technology, medicine, education, laws, concepts, society…it all changes given time. But with change comes pain. Just ask companies such as Kodak, Borders and Blockbusters which didn’t see how technology would change their industries. Think about it for a second, less than a generation ago Kodak was a
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde… That’s who I feel like at times. For those of you who know me, you probably know me as someone who is caring yet stubborn, serious yet goofy, caring yet aloof, strong yet a pushover. I’m all of those things and more. I guess I look at life as someone
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