February 2012

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How Starting a Blog That Matters Can Change Your Life

February 29, 2012

If there is one thing I’ve learned over the past few years it is that each and every person already has the power to change their life for the better. To truly make a significant change they just need to take control themselves. No one is going to hand you the perfect life. You need to reach out and take it.

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Why Success Always Starts With Failure

February 16, 2012

Tim Hartford, author of Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure, was interviewed on the 99 percent about the four big lessons you need to learn about why failure leads to more success. In this post we’ll dive into how you should deal with failure.

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The 4 Crucial Steps Every Aspiring Cubicle Renegade Needs to Take

February 14, 2012

Note from Caleb: I’m honored today to feature a guest essay from my friend Natalie Sisson of The Suitcase Entrepreneur. I met Natalie last year at the World Domination Summit, featured her here as one of the top cubicle renegades to watch this year. Natalie has been traveling the world non-stop since 2006 while running her [...]

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How To Be Successful (Even If You Hate Networking)

February 10, 2012

Which five people are you the average of? Recently I’ve been hearing a lot about a theory made famous by a quote from Jim Rohn (a personal development guru, motivational speaker, and mentor to Tony Robbins). “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn In today’s [...]

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20 Must-Read Books: The Cubicle Renegade’s Essential Library

February 8, 2012

Some books you finish reading and you say, “Hmmm, that was interesting” and move on with your life. Other books you highlight the crap out of, write down copious amounts of notes in the margins, and recommend to all your friends. This post is full of the latter.

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Ask the Readers: Should you focus more on earning or saving money?

February 6, 2012

Today we have another ask the readers segment and I’m to looking forward to reading all the answers to this one. Do you focus more on earning or saving money? In other words, do you spend your time and energy looking for where you can cut back or how you can make more money? I’d [...]

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The Top 10 Best Reasons to Quit Your Job and Travel the World

February 2, 2012

Quitting your job to travel the world is a pipe dream to most people. They set exotic beach scenes as the desktop background on their work computer and daydream about where they’d want to go first. But very few people actually do it.

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