Bruce Johnson The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century Thomas Friedman Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means Albert-Laszlo Barabasi The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Sam Harris Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond
David Getting Things Done David Allen A Plain Life Scott Savage Plain and Simple Sue Bender Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson
jspad The Truth About Stories Thomas King Children of God Mary Doria Russell

Remember you don’t necessarily have to know HOW you are going to get there, you just need to know WHERE you want to go and follow the opportunities which are congruent with your goals when they appear to you. | | My New Year Resolutions | | I have a few resolutions for the new year but I’ll focus on my business and blogging ones here. | | | | | | I want to build up to a consistent $25,000 per month in gross revenue online.

The first problem you need to solve is determining which problem consumers face and how you can build a viable business model around solving that problem. This is where the fun begins and you?ll want to strangle your business partner from time to time. And I say,?You failed.? Entrepreneurship is a full-time commitment full of sacrifice and sometimes even despair, but at the end of the day the fulfillment that you?ll feel from seeing it through is worth a thousand bankruptcies and a thousand sleepless nights wondering how you can gain more customers, more revenue, more clout, more breadth.

A lot has been said regarding "global new media network" b5media taking on $2 million in funding, but for me the most level-headed opinions always come from those totally disconnected with the investment or the company. Weblogs, Inc. was purchased (essentially) for Engadget and Autoblog even though WIN has dozens of other blogs besides those but AOL wanted to individual brands since they are the most valuable. b5media could take their funding and build out some of their more popular blogs into their own verticals, similar to what Om is doing with his GigaOm Network.

Making the jump:
Fire your Boss! The Successful Home Freelancer's Guide Starts with a questionnaire to see if you're ready, followed by tips for making it work if so.
10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed A few more great tips for after make the jump.
Ready to Start your Own Business?
(It's worth noting that I jumped without any of this introspection. It's (ahem) also probably worth noting that I ran up $30K in credit card debt in the first 2 years before I turned the corner a split second before completely crashing and burning.)

The first problem you need to solve is determining which problem consumers face and how you can build a viable business model around solving that problem. This is where the fun begins and you?ll want to strangle your business partner from time to time. And I say,?You failed.? Entrepreneurship is a full-time commitment full of sacrifice and sometimes even despair, but at the end of the day the fulfillment that you?ll feel from seeing it through is worth a thousand bankruptcies and a thousand sleepless nights wondering how you can gain more customers, more revenue, more clout, more breadth.

You may not have realized, but BlogExplosion, went back up for sale, this time with via the SitePoint Marketplace. BlogExplosion is the largest blogger community site based around a blog traffic exchange service. So yes, basically everyone at that site is interested in increasing their blog traffic. In case you haven’t heard, I’m the Blog Traffic King and I have a Blog Traffic Course coming out very soon. It would have made very sound sense for the Blog Traffic King to purchase the largest blog traffic exchange and community site - the synergies are obvious.

I?ve written about this previously in my blog here: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/07/how-selfish-are-you/ Certain individuals have a tendency to favor either STS or STO, but if you favor one side at the cost of the other, your life becomes unbalanced. If you base your life around genuine service to the highest good of all, then serving your own self interest also serves the highest good. If you devote your life to serving to the highest good of all, then enjoying abundance in your own life will become an equally honorable pursuit. 10.

I never considered legitimate debt consolidation to be very harmful to debtors but after reading this article by the WSJ I have begun to think twice about the topic. So when debt consolidation services offer “one low payment” many are tricked into thinking their troubles are over and slip back into the same pattern of overspending that got them into debt in the first place. This problem is made even worse by those who think that a home equity line of credit will save them. There are legitimate debt consolidation services available, but be sure to do your homework before using one.