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Hi, I'm Erica Douglass. I sold my business and "temporarily retired" at age 26. I write here about investing, setting goals, and entrepreneurship. Most importantly, I share lessons I have learned that can help you on your quest for financial freedom!
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Archive for the 'Deep Thoughts' Category

How to Be a (Successful, Inspirational) Woman

This is a blog response to Steve Pavlina’s blog How to Be a Man.
As with Steve’s blog post, I don’t believe this advice all applies only to women. Steve picked the theme, so I am sticking to it.
Throughout the post, I will also share examples of women who have been personally inspirational to me. [...]

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How Can You Have That Perfect “Flow State” More Often?

I am sure you have had those perfect, amazing moments where everything just seems to work. Often called “flow states” or “peak experiences”, we produce some of our most amazing work during those times, and experience a breadth and depth of humanity that is not often seen. This is my journey from being burned out [...]

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Realization: “Temporarily Retired” Doesn’t Fit Me Any More

I think it started with my recent post about business cards, actually. But I really noticed it when I logged in to my LinkedIn account recently.
Encouraged by Seth, I am slowly getting into the habit of typing all the names and email addresses of people I meet at conferences into LinkedIn. After going to BarCampBank [...]

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My 7-Day “No Complaining” Wrapup, or “How to Acknowledge Yourself 101″

I’ve had “write the results of my ‘no complaining’ week” on my to-do list for a few days now, since it officially ended midnight between Tuesday and Wednesday. Today is Thursday, so I’m a bit behind in writing it. I knew there was a reason I hadn’t written it yet, and now I know why [...]

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I Accept The Millionaire Mind Challenge: I Will Not Complain For 7 Days

One of the great bonuses of “temporarily retiring” is that I have had a lot of time to think about where I want to be in life, where I am now, and how to get from here to there.
Really, I wouldn’t trade this period of reflection for anything. I have come up with great business [...]

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