Tag Archives: New Orleans

Start a Blog. Change Your Life.

Back in 2003 I launched a website about my favorite basketball team from an apartment in Ireland. This was before I’d ever heard of the word blog, and I was pretty clueless about this whole writing dealio. I had a vague dream of finding an audience online, and maybe someday moving to the USA and [...]

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My grand experiment in lifestyle design: The middle

Can’t see the video? Click here. A little over a year ago I posted an article on this here blog entitled My grand experiment in lifestyle design: the beginning, in which I announced that I’d soon be leaving 9-to-5 and striking out on my own. As I wrote then… I’ll set up my own business. [...]

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Move to create (and a free business idea)

Can’t see the video? Click here. Last July I asked a bunch of my favorite bloggers a question: Is there something you do every day — something most people don’t do — that helps you be at your best? I collected their answers in a well-received post called The daily habits of highly effective people. [...]

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A lesson I learned from Fucked Up Chuck

“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures.  So I did ten times more work.” – George Bernard Shaw About two years ago I spent a night in the French Quarter with a guy named Chuck. I had met him at a friend’s house party the previous [...]

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Why I don’t look back

RSS and e-mail readers, please click here to watch the video that accompanies this post. Since I returned to Ireland from my life-changing three-year stint in New Orleans, I’ve had several people ask me the same question: “Do you miss it?” Everyone knows I loved it over there. I got to live my basketball dream [...]

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