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Top 8 Signs You Should Leave Your Job

I now have a guest post up at Jonny Gibaud’s lifestyle design blog, thelifething.com. He wrote “Discovering Hidden Gems” which I published a couple of weeks ago. Here is an excerpt from my post on Jonny’s website:

Maybe you’re sitting in your cubicle asking yourself, “Should I stay or should I go?” Here [...]

Live Richly Round-Up #2

photo courtesy of www.thepioneerwoman.com

This is the second installment of my series which spotlights thought-provoking content from around the web. These links are listed in no particular order. I hope they help you to live a little more richly!

1. A Little Questionable…Yep, a Guatemalan Drug Bust – Shannon almost spent [...]

How to Take College Classes for Free

You can take Harvard classes online for free.

This is an excerpt from the May 2010 issue of Global Asset Strategist.

What would you do if you could audit first-class college courses from around the world for free? How would that change your life? Thanks to a recent movement to open up [...]

Eat Locally, Wherever You Are

This is an excerpt from the April 2010 issue of Global Asset Strategist.

One of the joys of traveling is trying new foods. Many times, it’s something you can’t get at home, like a fruit that can’t be shipped far or a fish that’s known only to the locals. Other times it’s just [...]

Discovering Hidden Gems

photo by Michael Shake

This a guest post from Jonny Gibaud at thelifething.com.

Being in India has brought to my attention the importance of actively taking an interest in discovering the “Hidden Gems” in life; whether this be great friends, great jobs, great restaurants, great bars, great real estate deals or great [...]

Chile's Proud People

During the Spanish conquest of Chile, most of the indigenous population was wiped out except for the Mapuches, who resisted the Spanish until the 1880s. Only 4% of the population currently identify as Mapuche. About 65% of the citizens are mestizos or a mixture of indigenous and European ancestry.

Although they are small [...]

Live Richly Round-Up #1

Image courtesy www.thepioneerwoman.com

I am starting a new series where I spotlight thought-provoking content from around the web to help you to live a little more richly. These links are listed in no particular order. I hope you enjoy them!

1. Sustainable Distribution of Abundance or Why I Don’t [...]

Tigers, Tea, and Technology, Part 3

Jennifer Barry: I had read that real estate in cities like Hyderabad and Bangalore had gotten quite expensive.

Sai Balakrishna: Yes it is. Just before the real estate boom I was lucky to buy what they call a flat. A flat is a cottage so now that has doubled in value since I [...]

Chile: Land of Contrasts

This excerpt first appeared in the July 2008 issue of Global Asset Strategist.

Although it’s best known for the massive earthquake that occurred in February, Chile is more than just the site of a natural disaster. As a traveler, you can experience extreme geographic diversity within one nation. In the north, the [...]