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To finish off my mini-series of blog posts about print-on-demand (POD) companies, I thought I would offer you a selection of useful websites on Squidoo that give further, more detailed information about some of these companies. Some also offer advice on how to make these POD companies a success financially, and in others the authors offer their personal views on each of the PODs and compare and contrast them… Continue reading

In my last blog post about escaping the rat race, I said there is a difference in mindset between entrepreneurs and employees. If you want to break out of the rat race you must ditch employee thinking – this may be a challenge for people who have got used to receiving a paycheck every month.

Employee thinking steers people to become obsessed by status. The motivating drivers… Continue reading

“Is it right for me?” you ask. The simple answer is that it depends on you. Even using a term such as ‘rat race’ implies that being in salaried employment is a bad thing. I don’t necessarily believe that working for somebody else in gainful employment is the wrong way to go. It simply means you don’t get any benefits of leverage.

For example, if you deliver a million-dollar… Continue reading

As we grow up we are all taught that we need to get a good education. We are told this will help us to get a decent well-paid job. In other words, we are systematically conditioned to understand that getting an education is ‘good’; and that this will enable us to get a job, which is also ‘good’. The alternative, not getting an education, will supposedly plunge us into poverty… Continue reading