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Some advice from Chuck Berry – Red Bull Base Jumper

I am doing some spring cleaning (that is; making space on my laptop because it has almost reached capacity!) and found this question and answer from Getfrank.co.nz. They asked their readers for questions and chose one of mine: You’re clearly a guy who’s living his dreams (or at least doing cool shit your passionate about) ; how did [...]

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Perseverance, Passion, Motivation and Opportunity – Mao’s Last Dancer

Perseverance I have just read Li Cunxin’s biography “Mao’s Last Dancer”. Li Cunxin was a peasant from Qingdao, China who was picked out of a classroom at the age of 11. He left home to begin a seven-year long harsh training regime, that saw Li get up at 5.30 am and train until 9 pm, 6 [...]

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My 5 favourite Gen Y blog posts

This post was created as a challenge from the 31DBBB Problogger Challenge First I thought that I would complete a list post about my 5 favourite Generation Y blogs, but I have realised that this is kind of a cop out. The list below is my top 5 favourite blog posts to date. I havn’t ranked [...]

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Experience v Vigor

The following question is aimed at the older members of my audience those who fall into the Generation X and Baby Boomers categories, speak up tell me what you think, come on I can’t hear you! A question that I have been pondering lately; “Does 30 years experience mean 30 continuous years, or 1 year of [...]

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Travel or Buy? The New Home owners dilemma

A friend of mine asked me for some advice the other day. Their question was: “Do you think we should go travelling, or settle down and buy a house?” Where I’m from it is pretty normal to do an “OE” (Overseas Experience). Usually this entails getting a two year work Visa in the United Kingdom mainly in [...]

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