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“Hello, my name is Eric and I’m a people pleaser.”

By far the most popular post I’ve ever written on this blog and the one that seems to deeply connect with the most people is:

Is People Pleasing Keeping You From Pleasing The Right People?

In this post I lay out some of the key signs of being a people pleaser and then offer some tips to help overcome this terrible and self destructive personality trait.

What I found interesting, though, was just how many people could clearly associate with being a people pleaser.  If you read through some of the comments you’ll see that many had no problem laying out their life story knowing that they were among fellow pleasing addicts.  And those who really got the message had a tone of relief as if a heavy burden had been lifted from their shoulders. Read more »

Please Note: The Following is a guest post by Bamboo Forest of Pun Intended.

How often do we make choices that are valueless?

Truth is we do it all the time, mostly because we’re not aware we’re compromising our life.

No sane person throws money away. But many of us throw time away. Are you using the currency of your life, time, to generate the greatest value possible? Read more »

In this video interview with Darren Rowse of Problogger.net, we continue this series of conversations about how to making a living online.  This video interview follows two previous interviews.  One with Leo Babauta and one with John Chow.

Darren has been blogging professionally for a very long time and has a wealth of valuable information on the subject of actually making a full time income on the Internet.  He was very helpful to me in the early stages of my online development and anyone who knows him would agree when I say that he is one of the nicest guys in the Cloud.  So I hope you enjoy our conversation and are able to take away some useful tidbits regarding online income and the value and freedom it provides.

Also, be sure to check out his awesome Twitter blog (Twitip.com), Digital Photography site (digital-photography-school.com) and follow him on Twitter (if you’re not already).

In this video interview with John Chow of JohnChow.com we continue the conversation from the previous video interview with Leo Babauta about making a full time income online.

John has been making a living online for many years and has a wealth of information to share to those who are interested in either taking the leap into the cloud or just refining their current ventures to get the most out of their hard work.  So be sure to check out our conversation and learn more about how both John and I bring home the bacon online.

In this video interview with Leo Babauta of zenhabits.net we talk about making a full time income online.  Both Leo and I have been supporting our families with our online incomes for some time now and we hope this discussion is useful to some who are working hard to do the same.

Also, if you’re a fan of zenhabits and you like the super minimalist design of Leo’s blog, you need to check out the free zenhabits Skin (this skin requires the Frugal Theme) over at the Frugal Theme Skin Store!