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Entries from February 2008

One Man’s Passion Plan

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Tomorrow on my blogtalkradio show I will be interviewing Eric P Landry on his freedom 37 plan. Just a few years ago, Eric was getting more and more depressed. He wasn’t enjoying his engineering job which in turn made him feel negatively about the rest of his life, including his marriage to his childhood sweetheart. [...]

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Fear and passion.

February 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments

What is stopping you from living your dream life, getting your dream job or running your dream small business?
Have you ever even shared your dream with anyone? If the answer to that is no then please remedy that right now. If you have no-one in your life that you feel you could share it [...]

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Second steps to making a plan

February 18th, 2008 · No Comments

If you followed through with all the lists in the first steps post then you should have some idea about what your passion is and what opportunities may be afforded to you. Now comes the indepth part. Research! I hope that word doesn’t fill you with horror - if it does than replace it with [...]

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Lessons to be learnt from a square watermelon

February 18th, 2008 · No Comments

I really enjoyed this story about square watermelons and think its lesson really applies when you are thinking about how to pursue your passion.
Think outside the box for really creative ways to bring your passion into your existing work or to branch out into something totally different.
Don’t assume that there isn’t a way for you [...]

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Tags: Finding Your Life Passion- PP2

Citizen of the Month Interview - Part two I am the interviewee

February 18th, 2008 · No Comments

A few days ago I published the interview I did with Darcy and today Marie posted the interview she did with me. I had a ball answering her questions so I hope you enjoy reading the questions and answers.
I highly recommend you jump onboard with this fun experiment where you get the chance to [...]

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Tags: Finding Your Life Passion- PP2

Citizen of the month Interview

February 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I came across a post on site called citizen on the month in which people were volunteering to interview and be interviewed by fellow bloggers. As it looked like being a lot of fun I signed up and was paired up with a fabulous female blogger by the name of Darcey who writes in her [...]

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Tags: Finding Your Life Passion- PP2

Facebook takes action to reduce spam

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

C/net reports that Facebook are making sure that applications are giving you a way to skip the step of inviting friends to be informed of the application you are downloading. If, like me, you cringe at having to spam your friends when you want a particular app or you are tired of scrolling through [...]

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Tags: Networking

3 easy steps to make time for your passion by guest blogger Marcia Francois

February 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I really believe that each of us has been put on this earth to do a specific purpose. That purpose is expressed as your passion.
So why should you find out your passion?
Honestly, because without it, life can be rather boring and very drab. When you live life with passion, you start experiencing life in Technicolor!
But [...]

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Tags: Finding Your Life Passion- PP2

Don’t make it easy for hackers.

February 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This weekend a friend of mine had her website hacked and inspired me to research into the security breaches in wordpress websites. I found out something very surprising.
Type into your browser http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/wp-content/plugins/ - replacing the words YOURDOMAIN with your actual url.
If you see a list of all your plugins then so [...]

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Tags: Blogging tips and tricks

First steps to making a plan

February 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments

One of the mottoes for the Passion Project is that anyone can follow their passion, all they need is a plan.
So today’s post is looking at the fundamentals of following your passion so that you can evaluate and start sowing the seeds of a plan.
1. Follow the fun and joy. Look at what in your [...]

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