Things are jumping along at PassingThru Enterprises! Although Pete has always kept meticulous and insightful statistical performance data on our online stores, we’re going to start reporting our business progress on a quarterly basis. We hope this is more than just a way to hold ourselves accountable. Instead, we think this idea will lead to lots [...]
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Career Goals: Side Hustle Your Way Into Independence
An athlete needs good hustle. Your successful side hustle needs good hustle, too, whether it’s intended to earn extra money, achieve secondary career goals, or transition into a main gig for greater independence. When Pete and I decided to embark on our Plan “B” career goals, we set up several side hustles. Our previous work experience hadn’t [...]
Conventional Wisdom: Ignore It
Most of us rely upon conventional wisdom when we’re making decisions. We’re comforted by doing what we think we’re supposed to do. We’ll use “rule of thumb” benchmarks to assess, check and balance our actions. We’ll consult widely-accepted sources of information, particularly the media, for guidance and justification regarding our decisions. But using conventional wisdom [...]
Life Skills: You Don’t Have to Explain Certain Things
You don’t have to stop and explain everything. Just get on with things. Not everyone is going to understand you. Most of the people who don’t will not even try. In this context, explaining yourself can be one big waste of time. When you realize you don’t have to explain certain things, this breakthrough moment [...]
Keeping Your Options Open Will Cost You
Keeping your options open will cost you more than you may realize. Whether it’s personal relationships or business decisions, more choices can actually work against you. This seems paradoxical, but it’s true. When we give ourselves more choices, we’re actually lessening the possibility that we’ll decide on which one would lead to a desired outcome, [...]
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Peter and Betsy Wuebker are location-independent professionals who share what they know about travel, simplicity and integrating work with life. 