Asteeeg! Beyond traditional careers and conventional lifestyle

Productivity and time-management lessons are not what you would expect from the unapologetic trailer-trash comedy show “My Name is Earl”. But those are what I exactly got. Or maybe it’s just me since I reviewed some of Brian Tracy’s self-development materials in the morning and watched the episode finale of the sitcom later that [...]

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As said by one of my all time favorite authors Tony Robbins, questions you ask yourself, consciously or subconsciously, determine how you think and live. I sincerely believe this especially after trying for myself one of his exercises to see what the essence of thoughts are. Setting aside philosophy, metaphysics and any [...]

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I’ll assume you are between 27 and 33 years old, my specific target reader for this post. Then, I’ll correctly assume your parents are baby-boomers and were in professions such as architects, teachers, doctors, lawyers, corporate managers and such. In your earliest years, they told you that you can be anything you want and the [...]

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Are you a fanatic of lifefhacking and its subsets - success tips, entrepreneurship, self-development, health, finance and whatnot? This whitepaper compiled a very complete and exhaustive lists of blogs and links on the subject of lifehacking.
Just don’t forget, spending too much time reading them would actually be counter-productive… Focus on not more than three that [...]

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I just have to share this. The beautiful picture above is Victoria Falls in Zambia.
My desktop wallpaper is plain black with a few white text of power notes such as “Focus”, “What is your desired outcome?”, and “Are you inventing things to keep you busy instead of completing your goals for today?”
My screen saver is [...]

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Networking is one of the most powerful and fastest ways to learn more about the things that interest you. Going further, why not network with celebrities? It can be fun if we just can overcome fear of being rejected. Hey, they’re people, too, right? And with Internet it’s not impossible to reach out to them.
Following [...]

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Quit your night-shift call center job. Well, maybe not today or tomorrow but when you have learned enough and saved enough to get by for a new career. This is one opinionated post that will surely touch a nerve with the huge population of young working people in the industry but I’m writing from [...]

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Last October, under the advice of my entrepreneur friend I took a three-week vacation to relieve some stress and to test 4HWW’s mini-retirement. Without much planning, I packed lightly, took a quick snapshot of my finances, and left word to a select few (business and personal) in case of emergency only. It was one of [...]

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I’m a nut for non-fiction, particularly books on business, entrepreneurship, self-development and productivity. For those who have read more than a few titles on such subjects, eventually you would notice opposing ideas (which all seem to be right) among authors of any topics.
Take for example two recent best-sellers that are driving the life-hacking craze - [...]

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Many of us need to expand our views on entrepreneurship beyond creating a small shop or manufacturing a new product, which can be intimidating. There are many, many new alternatives to traditional office work and earning income.

Here’s a short list of careers or money-making options from the top of my head. We’ll go over some of them in more detail in future posts.

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