Freelance Switch — A community of freelance professionals from around the world, spanning all manner of fields. www.freelanceswitch.com
Freelance Folder — Freelance Tools, Advice and Resources
Elance — Freelance listings where you can bid to get jobs against other workers www.elance.com
The forums at Digital Point — More than just how to blog. Search ‘WTB’ to find what jobs people need done. Forums.digitalpoint.com
Problogger.net Jobboards — Freelance jobs for blogger and writers
Small Business and Education Resources:
IttyBiz — small business blog (focusing on marketing)
Entrepreneur’s Journey — online business blog by Yaro Stark
Coursera — Free courses in everything you can imagine
Motivational Resources:
Steve Pavlina — Personal development resources
Lifehacker — How to make things and change your life
Seth Godin — Pure genius motivational stuff
Zen Habits — Ways to make yourself better, faster, stronger, richer
Blogger Resources:
ProBlogger — the must‐read blog for anyone wanting to make money blogging. Darren’s enthusiasm and gentle spirit shines through his writing, and there’s a huge amount of in‐depth free content.
Daily Blog Tips — more focus on the technology of blogging. High‐quality information from Daniel Scocco, who runs a number of online businesses. www.dailyblogtips.com
JohnChow.com — John Chow is one of the most successful bloggers in the world and he doesn’t mind sharing what he does or trying to sell you his products www.johnchow.com
Book Resources:
4 Hour Workweek — Timothy Ferriss
How to work for just four hours a week and live your life the rest of the time.
Career Renegade — Jonathan Fields
How to find your passion and make a living from it.
No More Mondays — Dan Miller
If you want to find your true calling, this book will help you. Inspiring and encouraging with great cartoons too.
How to Make Your Dreams Come True — Mark Forster
To-do lists and how to pull instead of push
The Success Principles — Jack Canfield 25 principles to make you succeed. Very motivational. Canfield became a millionaire with Chicken Soup for the ___ Soul.
Personal Development for Smart People — Steve Pavlina
Sometimes profound, sometimes maddening. Well worth the time it takes to read it
Get Everything Done (And Still Have Time to Play) — Mark Forster
How to cut commitments, stay focused, and get everything done.
APPENDIX 5: MY 2000 ANARCHIST MANIFESTO
I wrote this anarchist manifesto August 6, 2000. It was shortly before I bought the bus and moved into it. Shortly before my world changed by embracing Rough Living. I thought it might be interesting for you to read.
The following is an approximate summation of my beliefs as an anarchist and a human being. My system of beliefs is constantly evolving and so it is impossible for me to put down on paper anything more than the basic premises that define my overall worldview. I do not write this to have anyone agree with me. Chances are that at some future point, I will not agree with everything contained herein.
This is not a picture of a future anarchist society. There are no examples of ways individuals or collectives can solve problems. There are no guidelines for bringing the revolution to a head. This document simply defines the way that I have chosen to structure my life as an anarchist. I encourage you to read what I have to say, adapt the parts you like to your own worldview and to e-mail me with comments and ideas so that I can continue to evolve as a human being.
I heartily discourage you from adopting my (or anyone else’s) ideas in whole without spending sufficient time thinking, researching, questioning, discussing, and changing them to fit with the definition of what you believe.
There are plenty of historical, scholarly, and scientific definitions of anarchism. Enough so that I feel comfortable jumping straight to my personal definition:
Anarchism — a political system composed of non-system wherein the adherents are enabled to be complete human beings and exercise free will to the extent that other human beings are not restricted in their own exercise of free will, a non-system where individuals are allowed to work out their own destiny (karma) and organize individual and community ideals of living both alone and together.
There are of contradictions in this definition i.e. a system which is a non system. The truth is that contradictions are normal. Look for them and they exist everywhere.
I believe that each person is responsible for creating his or her own set of rules to live by (10 commandments, code of conduct, etc.) As stated above, I also believe that each individual is responsible to personalize their rules…i.e. take the 10 commandments and make them your own. (Thanks to Robert Heinlein for introducing this concept in Time Enough for Love )
The following are my 10 commandments, they form the basis of who I am (right now.)
1. You’re not the boss of me, I’m not the boss of you. — this rule goes back to childhood when we were all equal. Remember when one kid would start acting like the boss, we’d always say “You’re not the boss of me,” kids are born anarchists and it takes years of conditioning to create whatever it is our society turns them into. I’ve added the second part to remind me that I too am conditioned to “take charge” and I am not the boss of anyone else either. The truth is no one is the boss of anyone. Leadership is derived from either consent or coercion. Consensual leadership is a giving process that utilizes compassion. Coercive leadership is a taking process that utilizes fear.
2. NO-thing is SOME-thing. This rule is to remind me that a lack of anything is still something. If you create a vacuum in a bottle there is nothing in the bottle except a vacuum -that is something. If you eliminate all hierarchical systems in day to day activities there will be a vacuum of order. The vacuum of order (anarchy) is not non-existant simply because NO thing defines it.
3. Over esteem leaders and the people lose their power. Over value possessions and people begin to steal. This one is straight from the Tao Te Ching. It says to me people are people and stuff is stuff but there is something else more important so don’t put too much value on what any person (including yourself) says or has.