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5 Essential Apps for Running a Lifestyle Business from your Laptop
Traveling around the world, you can run a lifestyle business from your laptop with just 5 apps. No matter what service you provide, you can have clients anywhere across the globe. You just need a way for money to flow from their bank to your pocket. These are the 5 apps that I use to run my web design business from Costa Rica. These apps provide all the business infrastructure I need to look professional, competent, and easy to work [...]
A Fortune Without Coin
I've got everything in the world - except money. My body is in excellent health, due to a lifetime of Yoga, juggling, and the odd bit of Parkour. My children are strong and curious. They are beautiful creatures, that I have the honor and privilege of shepherding into this world. My wife is a beauty. She is an incredible mother, and a lusty partner. I live in Costa Rica, where the weather is tropical and the people are friendly. I [...]
Commenting as a Blog Promotion Strategy
One of the most powerful, overlooked methods of blog promotion is making blogger friends. Blogs that have overlapping audiences with your own are read by people who would probably read your blog. They are also written by people who would read your blog. People who would promote your blog. If you were friendly. How do you make blogger friends? Comment. Contribute to the discussions that other bloggers create, and over a series of virtual conversations, you will create online allies [...]
We’re Gypsies. We follow the weather.
It's been nearly two years since we've started living in Costa Rica. Phase 1: Complete! Phase 2 is to live in Portland half the year (the good half) and come back to Costa Rica for another half of the year (the other good half). Portland has a long, wet winter. This may be why the residents of Portland, still in shock from nine months of rain, frolic and play in the sunshine with gusto, for it is the one brief period of the annual [...]
Costa Rica was a lie. I’m in Gresham.
EDIT: This was a prank for April Fool's Day. To everyone I have decieved, I'm sorry. After talking it over with my family, we've decided to stop living a lie. Actually, we have to, because Johanna is taking our kids downtown to panhandle three days a week, and we've started seeing people we know. We did take one vacation to Costa Rica in 2011. I got lots of photos. I've been plastering these photos all over social media for [...]
Chakra Meditation Study Guide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tecBKhzkBs Video by Caelan Huntress: Music by akshara weave Part of my morning meditation practice is to focus on each one of my chakras. By visualizing the colors and chanting the sounds associated with each of these energy centers, we can cleanse and strengthen the spirit that inhabits our mortal shell. The excellent 10-minute chakra meditation mp3 by Akshara Weave slowly moves up each chakra in turn, surrounding you with the sounds associated with each chakra. These sounds are a powerful [...]