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Clock is ticking – Are you working hard or working smart

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Image Source: Petoskey Clock Tower

Few days ago, a friend of mine named Mark Hayward, posted a great question on his blog at “The Cat Is Outta The Bag – How Top Bloggers Divide Their Time For Maximum Exposure.” The post contains few high profile bloggers, including me, with one question to ask.

How do you divide your time between search engine optimization (SEO), social media, and interacting with readers?

Thank Mark for considering me as one of the high profile blogger. This question got me thinking about how I divide my time on blogging and my online business. It’s also a great question for everyone to think about the time we spent in our life.

Does the time we spent on do any good to our dream and life?

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Do you work like an entrepreneur or a dreamer?

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Image Source: Uluwatu Temple, Bali

Are you an entrepreneur or dream catcher? Do you ever dream to build a vacation house on the top of the cliff facing the ocean? Do you want to drink your hot coffee in the morning while enjoying the beautiful view? Do you feel that you have to work harder and save your money for retirement?

I felt the same as you do almost two years ago until I quit my job and working on my own. Now I realize that I am still working 14 hours everyday. Nothing has changed, except working at different location and boss. That doesn’t make my life easier as my own boss. My dream is still far away from reality. I post “2007 Yearly Review – Is my success predictable?” few days ago. I set my goals to work harder and smarter. I guess I was wrong.

Work smarter, but not harder! I want to work only 4 hours a week and spend the rest of week enjoy life like a billionaire. I don’t have to be rich, but I want to live like a richer.

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A must read book for small business owners and entrepreneurs

This is a very good book for every small business and entrepreneurs to read. I bought this book after I interviewed with a marketing company in California. It’s a book about how to make a take a good company to a great company. It tells me about level 5 leadership, and the step to become a good leader. It summarize the brutal facts in each chapter and give you the encouragement by real examples.I have dreamed to take my small business into a corporation, so I have read through the entire book and digest the concept. It totally changed the way I am thinking about being a good leadership. It’s about Who first and than What. It also talk about the brutal fact that a level 5 leader sees, but the failure leader don’t. After reading this book, I have changed the ways I operator my business and pass on the idea to my partners. It’s a great book that need to read. A research from those top companies which have gone from good to great.

It’s a book that inspires me about what I can do to be the best in the world and find the best person to make that happen. You can find it on Amazon.com here.

RORY’S STORY – by Ryan Seek

After writting Divine Witness, Ryan Seek’s first book, Ryan surprises me with this interesting book. Rory’s Story. You can read sample chapters on his web site here.

Do the Spirits Speak to You?

Nineteen-year-old Rory Fisher is all but orphaned and alone in the world. Her only remaining loved one is her Yavapai grandfather, a once proud Indian, who is stricken with a diseased mind and confined to a nursing home in Twin Falls, Idaho.

In a rare moment of clarity the old Yavapai suddenly informs his granddaughter that the Spirits have spoken to him and the message is clear. She must leave immediately, on this very day, back to the land of his people in the red-walled canyons of Arizona.

The true purpose of the journey remains a mystery as Rory embarks on her quest to a place called Vortex Canyon, located in the wilderness just north of Sedona. She travels with only the promise of her grandfather; the promise that his Spirits will guide and protect her.

But will the Spirits speak to Rory, a Caucasian girl adopted by an Indian family, and not of true Yavapai blood? Was the training her grandfather gave to her as a child enough to reach out to the Spirit World in adulthood?

Only Rory’s Story will tell?

You can order his book from his web sites or the following links.
To order Rory’s Story:
At iUniverse, click here
At Amazon, click here
At B&N, click here

DIVINE WITNESS – by Ryan Seek

Divine Witness – A book written by a friend of mine Ryan Seek . He has been a Nascar fan for many many years. He starts writting the novals many years ago. Divine Witness is a intersting story book and worth to read.

You can go to Divine Witness‘s page to read the sample chapters. Here is what the books is about.

At first, Nick Morrison and Trevor Devane believe that solving a thirty-year-old mystery should be easy; even for two twelve-year-old boys.

Using Nick’s psychic visions of the crime, they decide to piece together enough clues to identify the killer and capture the $10,000 reward. It soon becomes apparent that the boys are digging up bones that others would prefer remain buried. The harassment begins slowly with members of the local police force and quickly escalates into a serious threat to the young boys’ investigation…and their lives!

As the boys dodge their pursuers and continue to gather clues, they begin to realize that the mystery may go much deeper than just the local police force. It appears there are even more powerful people trying to keep the past right where it is…buried and forgotten.

You can order his book from his web sites or the following links.
To order Divine Witness:
At iUniverse, click here
At Amazon, click here
At B&N, click here

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