THE ‘REST OF THE WORLD’ VERSION: The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no food [...]

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I was giving some thought to one of the business I work with when looking at the graph tracking the company results in the last 22 years. Please note that each bar on the graph represents thousands of individual stories for each year—stories of challenge, courage, resolve, determination, loyalty, and success. I would imagine that [...]

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Japanese Mission Impossible: Ski Resort spa prank This is just the funniest thing. I can just imagine being caught out by something like this myself!!

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I was reading an article by Ken Blanchard (author of  The 1 Minute Manager) and he mentioned that according to the November 16, 2006 issue of Newsweek roughly 45 million Americans (that’s 30 percent of the labor force) run their own business?  “Today roughly 45 million Americans, about 30 percent of the labor force, run their [...]

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Ty high five Originally uploaded by Michael Mather. Ty is now 12 weeks old and growing fast.

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I am sure that this is not the first time people have seen this but it made me laugh.

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If you are a car driver in the UK you need to read this report.  If you are a visitor to the UK who is going to drive over here you need to know about this as well. Britain’s booming speed camera network is at the centre of a giant ‘scam’ aimed at making ‘buckets [...]

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I have just finished watching a really interesting video on how to identify and track profitable affiliate advertisements.  This is an automated program that will help you track what adverts are placed, how often and for what product. In addition it will tell you what other keywords the advertiser is bidding on and also what [...]

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I have been toying with a new blog theme for one of my businesses and was interested in your opinion.  I have created an example based on the cutline theme by Chris Pearson at pearsonified. This is just an image at the moment so but I would appreciate your feedback… Here is a link to the page

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I was just reading the guest book of 180degrees.com and noticed that I managed to seek a message onto the book just before HRH Prince Charles! Just in case you want a better view… go here and look under “support us”

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