How to create a personal brand that’s so UNFORGETTABLE, it actually MAGNETIZES more business to you. Scott Ginsberg Different people inspire us to do different things. Sometimes intentionally and sometimes accidentally. Or else why would we expand our inner circle, widen our network horizons and continuously seek the human connection throughout our lives. In the [...]
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For the last 3 weeks, I have focused on little else other than the upcoming speech at Blogworld. It was an honor to be accepted, after submitting this video proposal. As with all things, however, after the excitement calms down and the dust settles, you are left with real work to do and in this [...]
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? ~ Albert Einstein. They say that geniuses do their best work amidst chaos and commotion. They say there is nothing orderly about prodigy minds and serious thinkers. I tend to believe it. I mean, have you seen the [...]
Ideas are born of your freedom to live life on your own terms, of creativity and of a desire to do things in your own way. Ideas are a proof to your independence as a thinker and a doer. Ideas fuel your self-confidence and fill up your desire to express yourself. Ideas are the seeds [...]
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Everyone has them. Things we should do; things we should stop doing. Or things we could be doing, creating, producing, changing, enhancing, trying, living, or just dreaming. It does not take a special person to think of ideas. Even little kiddies have ideas – mostly bad ones with consequence [...]
So it is December again, another year bidding us a swift goodbye when we are just starting to like the sound of it. Ready or not, like it or not, in the cold of the night (except for you lucky souls on an island or in the southern hemisphere), we switch over to a new [...]
The Happy Journey of the Classics Rudely Interrupted “I would like to read you on a complete disaster of a book and why it should be buried!!” My eccentric Scottish friend sent me these words well over a year ago – and how I have wondered if I would fulfill that request at some point. [...]
Awesome content every time. Original content with value for your readers. Perseverance and persistence. Consistency and authenticity. Those were the repeated messages from the best sessions I attended. Knowledge and information which addressed not just bloggers but writers, creators, artists, and communicators alike. If you are any one of these, this post is for you. [...]
Ironic as it may sound, after the post on micro vacations, I report live from quite the opposite – the heart of an extended vacation. Sitting here in beautiful Bali after week long visits to Toronto and Singapore, I find it nearly impossible to focus on writing this next blog post. Before embarking on this [...]
Dear Monsieur Dumas, It is the year 2010 today, nearly 166 years since you published The Count of Monte Cristo. Your contemporaries recognized it as the accomplishment it is, which is the least we can say for the treasures which have come to us from your period. It makes me immensely happy when a society [...]
Content is king (or queen if you will permit me the variation), no questions asked. The personal (in your eyes) and perceived (in the eyes of others) success in the blogging world belongs with those who can clearly articulate their thoughts, connect with the heart and mind of their readers and consistently write authentic content [...]
“You idiot” might have been one of the first phrases I learned in English. It was not necessarily directed at me. It was often directed at the little boy sitting next to me in class in Turkey and spoken loudly and clearly by our disgruntled British teacher. In that classroom, our written and spoken English [...]
This is the second contest on Prolific Living. We had heaps of fun and participation from the first contest on photography in October 2009. For me, the reward was the spirit of engaging you, my readers, and the sheer joy of giving prizes away after building so much energy and anticipation. So I decided to [...]
