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Friday, January 28, 2011

Lessons from "The Art of Non-Conformity"

Chris Guillebeau author of The Art of Non-Conformity is a great man. I was inspired to read is work when I stumbled across a blog post of his on Powells Books Blog. The post talked about saving the money and not going to grad school but rather go on a course of ones own self study. In his book, Guillebeau lays our a lifestyle that can be followed even by the most skeptical of us. Here are some lessons I learned.

1) It is all about choices! You do not have to be doing what you are doing. If you want to do something great in the future start  working toward it now. Set the ball rolling. If you want to travel and volunteer than skip buying a $20,000 car.

2) People will try to keep you from achieving your goals and will provide roadblocks based on the status quo. These people will prove to be pests but they don't have to stop you.

3) Depriving yourself in the now might not be as fruitful as you think.

4)You can stay at home and make money. You can do what you are passionate about!

Of course Guillebeau wrote so much more than what I just summarized so here is a To Do list.

-Read more blog posts here.
-Visit Guillebeau's website here.
-Purchase his book here.

Happy Friday!

-CCosner

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