Monthly Archives: March 2008

The Essential Skills You Need To Run A Location Independent Business – And How To Tool Up

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As someone who comes from a corporate background of management consulting, one of the things I found the most thrilling about our journey to becoming location independent was the “skilling up” required… I love learning new stuff.
In consulting, it was the constant need to learn something new, to assume the status of an [...]

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Enjoying The Here And Now: And Why It's Really All We've Got

In the course of striving for something more, something better or something different, it can often be hard to enjoy the here and now.
We experienced this not only in the run up to our location independent lives but also whilst living our LIP lives in the early days. For us, it manifested itself like this:

Before [...]

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Street Smart Tips For Location Independent Professionals Plus How To Avoid A Common Trick: Part 3

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Concluding this series on Safety & Security, which includes my previous post about how to keep your stuff safe whilst you travel and Greg’s post on how to keep yourself safe in a foreign country, in this post I’ll be sharing the story of how I was robbed by a group of [...]

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Why Escaping The Rat Race Was The Best Thing I Ever Did And Why You Should Consider It

Price Pritchett, an internationally-recognised expert on change, once said “Change always comes bearing gifts.” I believe this to be true although the gifts may not always turn out to be what you expect.
My decision to leave the rat race over a year ago was not an easy one. Despite growing tired of the office politics, [...]

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Online Apps Vs. Desktop Apps And How To Deal With eClutter

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In the race to escape the cubicle and ditch the desk so you can work from anywhere and become location independent, many of you are turning to online apps, digitalisation and computer-centric solutions.
What would happen though in the following scenarios…

Your access to a power supply was limited?
Your access to the internet was [...]

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