My Latest Project: Cloud Living

Since being self employed at the start of this year, my life has changed in a number of ways. Perhaps the most important change, for me, is that I now work around life, instead of living around work. Anyone in a typical job seems to do their ‘living’ whenever we’re not scheduled for another shift (for most people, that means weekends). We book our holidays whenever leave is available, attend family events when we’re not on ‘lates,’ and try to fit our social life somewhere in between.

These days, my work (which I love) fits around my life. Even as I type this I’m in a brand new city for the week and enjoying a new environment. If I had a boss to answer to, I would have begged for this time off and had to wait until next year to get the ‘time back’.

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11 Comments / July 2nd, 2009 / PluginID

Expression Not Impression

If how we live each day ultimately becomes how we live our lives, then it’s probably a good idea, now and then, to zoom in on the things we do on a daily basis. One such thing could be the actions that we take in terms of goal achievement and advancing in certain areas of our life.

In the average person, our actions are a mix of both expression and impression. Expression simply being sharing your true feelings with the world and doing things for you. Impression being changing yourself and what you do in order to get other people to like you or think highly of you in some regard.

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42 Comments / June 29th, 2009 / Uncategorized

How Much Of Life Are You Actually Living?

Earlier today I took some time out from my usual tasks and started work on organising my finances. I’m moving to Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in a few months so wanted to make sure I have enough money in place to cover my expenses. I’m going there for three months with one of my best friends, partly so I can enjoy a different culture and partly because we have some ideas for PluginID. Mind-blowing ideas.

It’s nice to see that I already have enough money for the trip, so now I’m working towards other expenses like purchasing a Macbook and my planned trips to India and Argentina. As you would expect, just thinking about the future is making me ridiculously excited (people say that, honest) and this excitement is actually the inspiration for this post.

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87 Comments / June 24th, 2009 / Life

My Biggest Fear (and How to Overcome It)

Right now, I’m fairly happy with my life situation. I work for myself, I run online communities which provide value to thousands of people, and I’m about to embark on a journey that will take me to some awesome countries for at least 6 months. Yet, although this is the case, I still don’t feel anywhere near like I’ve ‘made it’ or that I’m living up to my potential.

A common misconception people have about those who write on the subject of Personal Development is that their lives must be perfect. They must wake up at 6am, exercise daily, eat a balanced diet, remain positive in all situations and never judge people. That may be the case for some, but definitely not me.

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61 Comments / June 22nd, 2009 / Identity

BloggingBlueprint: Your Free Guide to Blogging Success

Note from Glen: This is not a typical PluginID post so if you have no interest in how I managed to grow this blog or how you could start one of your own, feel free to skip this entry. To everyone else, I have a nice treat in store for you today.

For the last few weeks I have been working hard on a blogging eBook which, I’m very happy to announce, is now available to download. This isn’t your typical blogging guide, it includes solid advice but also has quite a few personal stories amidst its 69 pages of free content.

To top it all off, I don’t even want your email in order to send you a copy. In fact, for those of you who can’t wait to give it a look, you can click here to get your free copy right now (opens as a PDF).

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88 Comments / June 15th, 2009 / PluginID