paulmacp Profile
Join Date:
2010-02-06
Blogs Owned
1 - Two Hour Blog
the blog of paul macpherson's experiments in a location independent life style.
Other Tags: lifestyle design, entrepreneurship, location independence, internet branding, freelance
Latest Blog Posts
- two steps backward… one step forward.I have just about completed my business plan. Unfortunately the plan highlighted that this website is in no way in alignment with it. Which I guess is a good thing to learn now, as opposed to later. This blog and it’s concept leaned toward the...
- The Cart Before The Horse: Lifehacking vs. Lifestyle DesignLifestyle design is as old as personal development itself. Lifehacking — a recently-coined word to refer to tips and tricks that lead to productivity gains— focuses on a approach of managing the input of work rather than the works goals and pri...
- The resonating lie that is Tim Ferris’s book “The Four Hour Work Week”… but who is lying to who?When most people read the Four Hour Week, they tell themselves a lie. A very resonating lie. It is not a mean spirited lie, more of a lie in a fish story category. One made in the context of what Seth Godin speaks of in his book “All Marketers Are...
- Score Card — Day 0I soft launched this website on January 25th. That was the day I registered the domain, and started constructing the blog. I have commented here and there on other blogs, but I have more or less stayed to myself. Now the fun begins, regular posting a...
- Score Card — Day 0I soft launched this website on January 25th. That was the day I registered the domain, and started constructing the blog. I have commented here and there on other blogs, but I have more or less stayed to myself. Now the fun begins, regular posting a...
- Blogger Ethics:responsibility and restraintWhile I have been watching the winter Olympics on TV, I have spent the time between events to do on again off again research on “Blogger Ethics” . Most posts I have found center around the new FTC rules around disclosure and blogging. T...
- Blogger Ethics:responsibility and restraintWhile I have been watching the winter Olympics on TV, I have spent the time between events to do on again off again research on “Blogger Ethics” . Most posts I have found center around the new FTC rules around disclosure and blogging. T...
- The New Rich: A moment of definition.The New Rich: A phrase you may have heard before, but many have not. It is a phrase possibly coined by Tim Ferris in his best selling book “The 4 Hour Workweek”. If you have read the book, then you know exactly what I am referring to. If you have...
- The New Rich: A moment of definition.The New Rich: A phrase you may have heard before, but many have not. It is a phrase possibly coined by Tim Ferris in his best selling book “The 4 Hour Workweek”. If you have read the book, then you know exactly what I am referring to. If you have...
- Five Simple Questions: No Simple Answerson Feb 12, 2010 in lifestyle design planning simplicity life planning paul macpherson personal prioritizingI read a guest post today on Man vs Debt by Flexo from Consumerism Commentary, Simplifying Simplicity With Five Simple Questions. Reading his post started me on a introspective tour of the current state of my own personal value system. I began asking...
- Five Simple Questions: No Simple Answerson Feb 12, 2010 in lifestyle design planning simplicity life planning paul macpherson personal prioritizingI read a guest post today on Man vs Debt by Flexo from Consumerism Commentary, Simplifying Simplicity With Five Simple Questions. Reading his post started me on a introspective tour of the current state of my own personal value system. I began asking...
- Reality Check: My Blog Is Not A BusinessI was reading a post today by David Risley (Reality Check: A Blog Is Not A Business). It left me reacting to why I blog on the twohourblog.com. My business is not my blog. My blog is my platform; my blog is my calling card; my blog is my sales force;...
- Reality Check: My Blog Is Not A BusinessI was reading a post today by David Risley (Reality Check: A Blog Is Not A Business). It left me reacting to why I blog on the twohourblog.com. My business is not my blog. My blog is my platform; my blog is my calling card; my blog is my sales force;...
- 80:20 rule at workI was reading a post (Perfecting the Art of Being Imperfect) today at “Dream into Action“, the personal blog of Mark Cancellieri. His post talked about the negative aspects of perfectionism and how it can lead to all things… procras...
- 29 Debates Bloggers Have about BloggingI obviously have a blog and this blog is a new blog, but I have been blogging off and on for almost 9 years now. I was blogging even before it was called blogging (my first real website was what they once called an E&N – everything and nothing...
- 80:20 rule at workI was reading a post (Perfecting the Art of Being Imperfect) today at “Dream into Action“, the personal blog of Mark Cancellieri. His post talked about the negative aspects of perfectionism and how it can lead to all things… procras...
- 29 Debates Bloggers Have about BloggingI obviously have a blog and this blog is a new blog, but I have been blogging off and on for almost 9 years now. I was blogging even before it was called blogging (my first real website was what they once called an E&N – everything and nothing...
- Journey Update – Sunday Feb/07/10on Feb 7, 2010 in diary the journeyThe end of week two for the two hour blog and its subordinate projects (muses). I have spent a great deal of time spinning my wheels this week over what to focus on and have allowed myself to become very distracted. I typically don’t do any pro...
- Journey Update – Sunday Feb/07/10on Feb 7, 2010 in diary the journeyThe end of week two for the two hour blog and its subordinate projects (muses). I have spent a great deal of time spinning my wheels this week over what to focus on and have allowed myself to become very distracted. I typically don’t do any pro...
- My Personal Brand – Paul MacPherson Version 3.0The concept of personal branding (according to Wikipedia) has been around since 1980 and was introduced in the book: “Positioning: The Battle for your Mind”, by Al Ries and Jack Trout. Specifically in “Chapter 23. Positioning Yourse...