Archive for the 'Bootstrap' Category

Okay, hands up who has a pile of magazines they will never read? And who has a stack of clothes they never wear? Who has friends or family who make them feel awful? And who dreads going to their job? I bet most people would have felt the need to raise your hand to at [...]

So what to do? What do you actually want to do with your life? “If you’re unsure about what you’re going to do with your life, try to remember some of the most interesting people didn’t know what they were going to do at age twenty-two or even at forty. And nearly all of them [...]

Recently, I’ve become keen to ensure I make use of the quality information available online for free. There’s a lot I want to learn more about and it would be stupid to just ignore the experts out there. I found myself searching for reputable RSS feeds on generic school topics, so that I could continue [...]

The best place to start reading this blog is the dedicated page for the project of bootstrapping your life systematically and secondly, the page for becoming (or bringing up) a well-rounded person. From either of those pages you can get a feel for the site and the sorts of articles you might want to read [...]

Get Organised – Start using a decent task manager and use it religiously. I could rant and rave about how good remember the milk is. But I won’t. I have compared it to many task managers and project management systems and found it far superior to all of them. Just go check it out, okay?

Are you drifting along doing jobs you merely like? Are you settling for a relationship that isn’t what you dreamed of? Why are you doing that? You need to be in charge of your own life because if you leave the direction of your life to other people it will never be what you really [...]

So, you’re running a business from home? You need a little help? Sure you do. Because all that time by yourself leaves you a little lost for feedback and you’re merely hoping you’re still on the right track. Sound about right? I read a fantastic book called “Your Home Business – Helen Chryssides”. I was [...]

Take a read of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert T Kiyosaki (with Sharon L Lechter)”. I thought this book was great! Along with being a very pleasant read it had many valuable financial lessons to teach us. I’ll quickly go through some of the very important points. We really don’t get taught anything about [...]

How do you get off your arse and just do something? It seems the more important the task the harder it is to start. This is because of fear. The people who relentlessly get stuck into massive projects do this because they know the fear can be controlled. “He who deliberates fully before taking a [...]

Why more people are down shifting. Folks are doing so much these days that we are at breaking point most of the time. We rush from home to work and appointments, then have no energy for house work, cooking, hobbies, family and friends at the end of the day. What are we doing and why [...]