“A bucket list can be your best friend or your worst enemy.”
Did you ever watch Wheel of Fortune when you were younger (or perhaps you still do)?  Every once in awhile they would have categories called “Before and After”, well here is my bucket list before and after.
The Before: Bucket List.
My Bucket List has been pretty much the one thing about this site that has remained fairly constant since the beginning.  Sure about 6 months back I did a bit of a remodel of it, but if there has been …

In life, the enormity of your success or the depths of your failure rely entirely on the consequences you establish for yourself.
If you set your life up in a way where consequences, both good and bad, are at the forefront of everything you do, you will be much more likely achieve your goals than if you don’t.
Think about the time you worked the hardest in your life.  A time when you spent hours and hours working on something, and never thought twice about quitting or doing something else.  That was …

Yeah, I’m talking to you.  The guy (or girl) sitting in your comfy office, with your sexy 401k plan and that fat raise you’ll be getting in July now that the economy is picking up again.
Perhaps from time to time you’ve thought about how great it would be to be working from a beach on a Tahitian island?
Maybe you just want to sit at home in nothing but your boxers and spend a whole day without having to shower.
Yeah, you aren’t cut out for this life.
While working from your laptop …

Let’s face it, making money from your blog is no easy task, and takes hours and hours of hard work.  Over the past year I’ve considered ways to monetize this site, however my primary goal is to not let that interfere with providing high quality and useful content.  So far I’ve made a little bit, perhaps enough to cover my hosting costs, but nowhere near enough to support myself full time.  However, there are people out there who have done a much better job of utilizing affiliate adds, product creation …

I’ve had a few requests over the last week from people who are curious about my interactions with Thai people while living over here.  I haven’t written about this as much as I would’ve liked for a few reasons.  Partially for the trivial reason of I have no idea how to spell half of the things I’d like to write about, but also because my interactions have been *fairly* limited.
This isn’t necessarily by choice.  With the language barrier being as difficult as it is, especially as a non-Latin language, you really have …