http://allisonreynolds.com/blog Ditching Corporate Life For Passive Income Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:41:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently there was a minor spat on the internet. Yes I know - fighting on the internet, who would have thought? Still this fight was a bit of a strange one. A blogger, commenting on another blogger's post, made her own post about her opinion of a certain situation. That would all ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~4/439679793" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~3/439679793/ http://allisonreynolds.com/blog/2008/11/01/like-for-like/ Time to get some bliblio-goodness and stuff it in my brain. Buying books online is like an all you can eat dessert buffet. I walk up and down several times perusing what is on offer, making mental notes of what seems better quality and more exotic, all the while knowing that ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~4/436540327" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~3/436540327/ http://allisonreynolds.com/blog/2008/10/29/booking-in/ Allison Reynolds the Movie? You might have noticed the video I have just posted ( Allison Reynolds the Movie ) and wondered "what on earth is she doing?!?!?!". To recap, I have been working to ensure that my blog ranks #1 for the Google search term Allison Reynolds. For many of you ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~4/429006826" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~3/429006826/ http://allisonreynolds.com/blog/2008/10/22/allison-reynolds-makes-the-grade/ I have this weird brain thing going on at the moment after this open letter . See I KNOW that the IM gurus are big users of NLP, and they understand that if you put two things side by side, we humans will make a connection between them. So why put ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~4/427919289" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~3/427919289/ http://allisonreynolds.com/blog/2008/10/21/get-real/ Currently I am struggling with staying focused on my day job. I have created the finish line (Dec 1 2010) and as each day brings me closer to that date, I feel less and less inclined to put in 100%.  So to make sure I am squeezing every last drop ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~4/427030617" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~3/427030617/ http://allisonreynolds.com/blog/2008/10/20/getting-to-know-you/ Blog Action Day 2008. The day when bloggers around the world write about a pressing issue. This year is poverty. Have you seen poverty? Up close? My travels in Vietnam and India took me to places that were bereft of any forms of modern comfort. A roof made from garbage, over a ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~4/422471875" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~3/422471875/ http://allisonreynolds.com/blog/2008/10/15/bad-poverty/ October 10 is World Mental Health Day and Blue Day 2008 and this post is to raise some awareness of a subject that is still pretty much taboo. I was going to write about someone close to me who has been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder.  Even though we have talked about ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~4/415693359" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~3/415693359/ http://allisonreynolds.com/blog/2008/10/09/mental-health-is-still-a-taboo-subject/ In the marketing world there is a line. They (marketers) call it the free line. Many marketers pontificate about "moving the free line" That is, providing some fabulous stuff free up first to encourage people to either sign up for something more expensive, or something that will have a recurring ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~4/413563851" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~3/413563851/ http://allisonreynolds.com/blog/2008/10/06/parting-is-such-sweet-sorrow/ There was a little girl. Sure she was a strange little girl, but she was not a bad little girl. Still her father found her strangeness an annoyance. Why couldn't his eldest child (even though she was still just a little girl) be the prettiest, fastest and smartest little girl ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~4/407038406" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~3/407038406/ http://allisonreynolds.com/blog/2008/09/29/the-little-girl/ When it comes to asking for money for one's services or goods, some people have no trouble at all, and some find it the most uncomfortable part of business processes. Lucky you if you were brought up in a culture where self worth is not tied to your bank balance. The ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~4/402346714" height="1" width="1"/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FourHourWorkWeekProject/~3/402346714/ http://allisonreynolds.com/blog/2008/09/24/cross-my-palm-with-silver/