Life hacking is great and all, but too often it boils down to having a tidy desk and making lots of lists. Practical magic is like life hacking except that you’re cheating. Which is fine. You worked for that cheat. Note that you don’t have to deploy actual spell casting for it to be...
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It is possible that I am giving you the impression that my family is some kind of mini-Antipodean-Illuminati but my brother has just spent the last four days in the hallway of a hospital in rural Malaysia, dropping in and out of consciousness from a bout of severe meningitis. His insurance company has finally...
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Perhaps I should elaborate on my comment on Jason’s post about the 4HWW. Because I suspect we’re talking across purposes here. In fact, I know we are. I have time for Tim. Let me say that. But he’s not the first person I would recommend when it comes to personal wealth creation. There are...
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There are a number of times in the year when it’s quite possible to ‘checkers’ yourself forward a few notches in your career. In the Northern Hemisphere, coming back out of summer is just one of those times. Budgets have been reset, everyone settles in for the race to the end of the year...
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For most of us, our primary income stream is tied to our perpetual state of wage slavery. Of course, this means that the workplace is one of our key theatres of conflict when it comes to prosperity magic. And this theatre comes with its own specific risks. I’m not just talking about the fact...
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As part of my continuing quest to make up for never paying attention in math class as a child, I’m reading another book on randomness and irrationality. And it’s awesome. It’s called The Black Swan and it’s based -funnily enough- on Black Swan Dynamics. Here’s why I think it applies to the practice of...
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