Business Insider Pat Flynn on Becoming Location Independent and Travel | Love Affair Travel He’s a huge inspiration to the online blogging community He shares his location independent finances openly for everyone to see He’s the proud father of 2 children And the champion behind Smart Passive Income It’s time for the legendary Pat Flynn Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed “Life beings at the end of your comfort zone” – Pat Flynn (click to tweet) Travel Topics: How we’re all powerful elephants held down by a small chainThe big risk mentality and tools that Pat uses to fight the resistanceThe importance of doing work that helps you achieve your goals rather than “busy work”How travel and new environments help Pat to think creativelyBreaking down the details of why a location independent business model is such an enjoyable lifestylePat’s specific plan for building a location independent businessHe shares a story of failure he hasn’t share anywhere elseMagical stories of Pat’s life Lovely Links: Music Credits: Green Onions by Brooker T. and the MG’sGüero Canelo by Calexico
Freetech4Teachers This page is where you can find resources related to my presentations about creating effective blogs and websites to complement instruction. How to create a Blogger blog. How to turn on comment moderation in Blogger. How to add or subtract contributors to your Blogger blog. How to create an Edublogs blog. How to create a Wordpress.com blog. How to create a Posterous blog. The Basics of Creating and Editing a Wikispaces Wiki.More, including a video tutorial, about using Wikispaces. Creating a Google Sites website. Ten Options for Creating Websites. Yola (formerly Synthasite) is the tool that I am currently using to build websites for my department and other departments in my high school. Webs (formerly Free Webs) is another service that I have first-hand experience with in a school setting because my girlfriend (a teacher in another school district) uses it for her classes. Snap Pages provides a free service as well as a premium service for creating your custom website.
10 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs | The Educated Entrepreneur's Blog A fellow entrepreneur gave me a slight nudge today that motivated me to post today’s blog. I think you will certainly find value in it as it incorporates some of the best minds of the 21st century. Remember….. The secret to learning as an entrepreneur is to mix equal parts of inspiration and perspiration. Hard work without a vision is futile, while a great idea without execution is similarly worthless. Seth Godin on Standing Out: What makes you so special? Like this: Like Loading...
How to Travel Around the World for $418. “I have to tell you sir, this is easily the most ridiculous itinerary I’ve ever put together,” said the American Airlines operator the other night as I finalized plans for a worldwide adventure that would make Marco Polo blush. “Welp, that makes two of us!” I replied. And just like that, I had committed myself to almost nine months of international travel. Yes, that picture above is my actual itinerary. Beginning this January, I’ll start an epic journey that will take me across four continents, through at least nine countries, and into more than fifteen cities. Oh, and all of these flights are costing me a grand total of $418.36. Warning: I’m totally going to geek out on travel-hacking with this post, so if you have no interest in learning how to travel the world and visit awesome places for dirt cheap, check back in on Monday. This post is also quite lengthy at over 2500 words: grab some coffee, get comfortable, and let me show you how deep the rabbit hole of travel hacking goes. -Steve
How to Break into a Field That Seems Un-break-into-able Good Life Project is a weekly web show that features in-depth interviews with acclaimed artists, entrepreneurs, creators, and world-shakers. To receive the mp3 version of our shows, please sign up here. How many people dream of traveling the world, photographing everything, from fashion models to passion causes, and being extraordinarily compensated for the work? I’m guessing more than a few…million! And, okay, even I confess to occasionally letting my Instragam-fueled shooting frenzies lure me into the occasional daydream of becoming a globetrotting professional photographer. For graphic designer turned highly sought after commercial photographer, Nick Onken, though, that fantasy became a reality. Instead, he just went out and did it. “I was thinking about my next tattoo and what I would get. In this in-depth conversation, we’ll explore: “I would do it for free. Now, here’s my question for you: What’s your dream career? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Travel Planner Powered by Locals | Vayable Curated News and Advice for Entrepreneurs » CLASS OF 2013: Here’s What Billionaires Want You Graduates to Know About Success, Wealth and Happiness Forbes has laid out a list of the best graduation advice ever given — BY BILLIONAIRES! There are of course a few of the normal platitudes – “Live each day as if it’s your last,” says Steve Jobs, which was actually probably the only cliche part in an otherwise stellar Stanford commencement speech in 2005 . But we’ve compiled some of the best — occasionally contrarian — advice below, with links to as many of the actual speeches as we could find. Happy graduation, Class of 2013! And just because we love you — check out Business Insider’s list of graduation advice from leaders like Maria Shriver, Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington and T. Oprah Winfrey to Duke Class of 2009: REINVENT YOURSELF “People love makeovers, because the physical results are always so astonishing. Michael Dell to the University of Texas at Austin Class of 2003: NEVER BE THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE ROOM “Try never to be the smartest person in the room. J.K. “So why do I talk about the benefits of failure?
Build a Location-Independent Lifestyle Business with Digital Nomad Community Reid Hoffman's 10 Sites For The Best Airfare Deals There's not much that can evoke thoughts of both work and play like buying airfare. You're either trying to find a last-minute ticket to make it in time for a meeting, or hoping to get to a remote island as cheaply as possible. Some trips are regular, essential and planned far in advance, like visiting the family for Christmas; while other trips — spending time with that long-distance significant other — are flexible on dates, but can break your wallet if not purchased strategically. For whatever your airfare needs may be, there is a growing corral of consumer portals for searching available flights and getting deals. Some make the experience less stress-inducing; others make it feel like a game. What site do you use to find the perfect flight price? 1. You might have used Hotwire to book a room at a mystery hotel in your destination, but now GetGoing raises the stakes and applies the psychology to flights — except this time, you pick not one but two locations. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Out of Sight, Till Now, and Giving Away Billions Rumpled by habit, limping on old knees, smiling faintly after a night of celebration, Chuck Feeney stepped out of a building on Park Avenue Monday night and vanished, carried away on a river of passing strangers who knew nothing about him. Perfectly disguised as an ordinary man, Mr. Feeney, one of the most generous and secretive philanthropists of modern times, had dropped from sight once again. Last year, the foundation Mr. Despite this record, Mr. Now, however, Mr. As told by Mr. In 1987, he turned over virtually all his holdings to the foundation, winding up with a personal net worth of less than $5 million. Mr. Over lunch on Manhattan’s East Side, Mr. “I feel it’s my life,” Mr. DRESSED in a Hawaiian shirt and blue blazer, he looked away for a moment when asked why he had chosen to reveal himself. “A lot of wealthy people, they don’t realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good,” he said. In 1993, Mr. When Ms.