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You Are Worth More Than You Think: Overcoming The Key Reason Entrepreneurs Fail
If you have ever said, “I just don’t have enough time to do [an activity I love]“, this advice is for you. Be prepared: This post is designed to get you thinking differently about your business and your life. Your ego is guaranteed to raise objections to this type of thinking. As those objections surface, write them down, and consider how you can overcome them as you give this advice a try. Read the rest of this entry »
When Should You Buy Real Estate — And When Is It Better to Rent?
Combing through the questions you — my fabulous readers — ask me, I find one common thread. I write a lot of posts on real estate, but you want fewer esoteric graphs and articles and more common-sense advice. Fair enough. By the time you’re done reading this, you’ll have an excellent idea of exactly when higher-priced houses will fall in price, and you’ll have an armload of data to assist you in determining when a house is priced correctly — no matter where it is or what its price. Read the rest of this entry »
Changing Your Perspective About Work: The 2-Hour Work Day
I had a revelation today: I don’t really like working.
I suspect you’re grinning by now. If not, you should be. I bet you’re thinking: “This is a revelation? Seriously?”
Well, yes. No matter how much we love what we do, we have those days where we really don’t want to be there. It’s a beautiful day outside, and we’re sitting here in front of the computer. What are we doing? Why are we letting our lives waste away at work? Read the rest of this entry »
My 2008 Goals Update - June, 2008
I posted my goals for 2008 in December, 2007. My primary goal was to launch my new website, Inspiring Innovators, in January.
I missed that deadline, but for a good reason. Read the rest of this entry »
Programming
(written by me 6/6/2002 - shared for the first time here on erica.biz)
Do you know that moment when you are programming something that really pushes the limits of the language you’re working in, and you just sit there and wonder, “Is this going to work?” And you draw out 50 possibilities and narrow it down to the one that uses the least amount of code, and suddenly everything just seems to click? You look up and it’s 30 minutes later and all of a sudden you dare to test it and it WORKS.
And it hits you that this minute, this instant, this moment when it all fits together, is why you are a programmer. Read the rest of this entry »
