Monthly Archives: October 2007

Just Ask…

You know how sometimes, something is literally on the tip of your tongue or your fingertips and you're just dying to ask someone something? Just ask! Nobody ever got anywhere without asking and if my experience in the past few weeks is anything to go by, if you don't ask, you don't get! It's how I've managed ...

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What Will You Have Done 5 Years From Now?

I wrote several months ago about one of the most effective methods for completing a project - how finishing one before starting another can make much more sense than having several on the go that you're trying to complete at the same time. There's also another train of thought which is this... If there's one big ...

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Why I Love My Clients

Confession time (if you're a client of mine, please stop reading now). ...Dammit, I knew that wouldn't work...you are still reading aren't you? Ok, here goes... On the days I have client calls, I sometimes (not always) dread them. It was the same when I was a personal trainer. I have a minor ...

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More WordPress Ramblings: WordPress Plugins

I mentioned I'd bore you more with some of the wordpress plug-ins I've installed, used and found a god-send for my all-new wordpress LIP blog...well sorry, you can't escape. Here they are: Oneclick - must-have to install themes and plug-ins with one click (funny that) without all the palaver of downloading, unzipping and then ftp'ing.

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Daily Dose of Success #26: You, Wonderful You!

Yes, today I'm celebrating and thanking "you" - my readers (who I include on my daily list of things to be grateful for anyway). Over the weekend and this morning, as a result of some of the things I've been writing on my blog recently and the fact that you've all been reading them, I have ...

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What I’ve Learned About WordPress

Ok, I'll admit it. Despite the fact that some of the frustrations in learning how to implement the all-new LIP blog on wordpress have had me tearing my hair out, I have really enjoyed getting to grips with the techy side of it all. Overcoming a new techy challenge is, to me, akin to a drug-induced ...

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A Steep WordPress-induced Learning Curve

Yes, I took the plunge yesterday and am still fighting with Wordpress at the moment. I'm planning to use it for the LIP blog going forward, once I've figured out just how to get it looking exactly how I want it and got my head around the headspin-inducing code which fortunately, isn't totally alien to me. I ...

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Techy Dilemna…Typepad or WordPress?

I've pondered this for a while now... Shall I switch the Location Independent blog from Typepad to Wordpress? Whilst I still love Typepad and will keep some of my other blogs on there, there's a couple of things I'd love to be able to do from a look/functionality perspective on the LIP blog which I can't ...

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The “No Rules” Mentality

Somebody I know is currently experiencing a bit of a crisis. They're not sure whether the life they've chosen for themselves is the one they want or whether they'd much rather be doing something else but they're struggling to let go. Hmmm, now why does that sound familiar??!? I can definitely relate to that. The unfortunate thing ...

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