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The Real Cost of Buying Stuff

I’ve been living a frugal life for some time now. One reason was because I wanted to embrace a more minimalist lifestyle. The main reason was because I wanted to leave my corporate job to become a full time freelance writer/blogger. I understood starting a business in a highly competitive field and one I was completely [...]

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12 Ways Travel Can Change Your Life

A couple of months ago, I toyed with the idea of starting a second blog. To be specific, I thought about starting a travel blog. It only dawned on me recently that I didn’t need to, travel is already a key element of my existing theme here at Write Change Grow. After all travel can [...]

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What Do You Want in 2012?

In my two earlier posts, 6 Challenging questions to ask yourself right now and Reflecting on Success and Failure in 2011, we had a look at where we are at the present moment and reflected on our successes and failures in 2011. To finish off this end of year/New Year roundup, today we are looking at what [...]

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Reflecting on Success and Failure in 2011

As mentioned in my last post, 6 Challenging Questions to Ask Yourself Right Now, it’s the time of year where we look at where we are positioned now, reflect on what did and didn’t work during 2011 and get a clear understanding of what it is we want to achieve in 2012. This post will be reflecting [...]

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6 Challenging Questions to Ask Yourself Right Now

With 2011 nearly at an end and 2012 just around the corner, it’s the perfect time for a series of posts focused on where we stand right now in 2011, reflecting on our successes and failures in 2011 and working out exactly what we want to achieve in 2012. Let’s look at where we stand [...]

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The Shocking Truth about Christmas

My parents got divorced in 1993. I was 28 years old at the time. Even though I was an adult when they divorced, Christmas has never been the same since. For families affected by divorce, Christmas can be a difficult time of the year and with the divorce rate what it is, that can work [...]

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8 More Motivational Songs

This week (and it’s only Wednesday!) has been challenging here at Write Change Grow. I started having problems with my laptop on Sunday. Consequently, I’ve spent the last four days working tirelessly on getting it up and running properly. To be honest, it has been a stressful, frustrating couple of days. There was definitely a [...]

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Your Greatest Resource – Energy

When I first started working from home at the beginning of 2011, my main concern wasn’t a lack of time as you might suspect, but lack of energy. While your age doesn’t necessarily define how much energy you have, there are not too many people who have the same amount of get up and go [...]

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In a Rut? 8 Ways to Get Unstuck

In September 2010, I did a post titled Are you growing as a person? The truth is, if you’re not growing, you are standing still or worse stagnating. You could even be stuck in a rut. Here are a couple of questions to ask yourself. Are you making the same old mistakes? Are you unhappy [...]