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Lifestyle Design

How to Save Money In a Home Office

Working from home comes with many financial advantages including: Save money on meals out – eat at home Save money on coffee out – brew at home Save on gas, car maintenance, parking or transit passes Save on car insurance – check for discounts if you are driving leisure only Tax deductions – check this carefully as [...]

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An Account from a Mom and Online Marketer

In this post we learn from Sarah Lamb, a young mother and online marketer on how she makes a full time living online.  Take it away Sarah: Why I Turned to the Internet for Income  I lost my job as a web designer last year. My whole world tumbled down and I went into depression. [...]

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How to Get a Second Citizenship and Passport

How to Get a Second Citizenship and Passport Learn how to acquire, or uncover a second citizenship (This article is copyrighted by its original author JadeDragon. Short excerpts with links are welcomed, but please do not repost the article itself. Thanks.) Instructions Things You’ll Need Computer for Research Creativity Lots of Time There are a [...]

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Have You Secured Your Home Passively?

Earning passive income is great, and designing a lifestyle that includes the freedom to travel is fantastic but if you have not secured your home base you can not really be free.  I actually have a background that includes running a security company so it is about time that Innovative Passive Income touched on home [...]

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10 Tips for Recovering From Failure

In blogging we all fail all the time as we learn the ever changing world of online writing and SEO; but the successful blogger figures out where they went wrong and takes corrective action.  Failure, properly channeled, leads to new ideas and new solutions that improve on the status quo.  Without failure it is hard [...]

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Wild Places to Go

Living an internet lifestyle can mean travel to wild places.  For a little inspiration, here is a cluster of particularly wild attractions and events to consider. The Wildwoods on the New Jersey Shore are a popular vacation destination.  If you head out there, check out these wild attractions: Annual Baby Parade: A tradition since 1909 [...]

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Peacocks and Penguins: Which Are You?

This post is about inspiration. I always enjoy seeing the Simple Truths videos, so I thought why not share the newest one with Innovative Passive Income readers. Many organizations and teams have experienced change and even more are looking to embrace these changes as well as cultivate new ideas instead of maintaining “business as usual.” [...]

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Travel as a Side Benefit to Your Business

One of the interesting side benefits to running a small business (online or otherwise) is the ability to pay bills with a credit card that earns air miles.  The extent of this benefit depends on the type and scale of your business of course, but nearly every business involves additional spending over your personal spending. [...]

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Travel as a Goal – Cut the Cost of Travel

Many people interested in a digital lifestyle are also intrigued by travel.  Living or traveling abroad can be very effectively combined with an online business because you can build your business anywhere with internet access. I’ve been looking around for good tools that can help facilitate the digital lifestyle – and I present three of them here: Hostelworld [...]

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Attacking the Other Side: Passive Expenses

Building Passive Income up is always a great idea, but to really design your lifestyle properly requires some focus on reducing the expense side of the ledger. A dollar saved is better than a dollar earned because a dollar saved is tax free! Spending money on accommodation, food and transportation all improve lifestyle to a [...]

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Lifestyle Design the Passive Income Way

The passive income niche has some great bloggers that are so willing to share ideas.  I just want to highlight several of the blogs I personally follow in no particular order: John at Passive Family Income.com puts out some thought provoking content.  As an example, here is an excellent post on using Web 2.0 tools [...]

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What is Your Lifestyle Design Goal?

I realize that many are struggling with the unemployment situation, but consider that recessions are a time of immense wealth transfer and rearrangement of the business landscape. Many new businesses are started in tough economic times out of necessity – people have to deal with the real unemployment numbers somehow. How can you change your [...]

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How To Calm Tense Nerves

We need to be taking care of our minds and bodies and not just worrying about our financial situation. A clear mind allows for focus. Focus improves productivity, which leads to making more money. Here are a few better and lesser known ways to improve mind clarity: 1. Get outside. Walk, do yard work, swim, [...]

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Courage and Lessons Learned

Getting control of our personal lives is just as important as getting control of our financial lives.  In fact, without personal integrity, personal control and personal drive all our efforts toward financial success are likely to fail.   In that vein, I want to recommend a short free e-book I really enjoyed reading today.  I’ll give [...]

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Lifestyle Design: Be Bold

While doing some backlinking I stumbled on the story of Norman Surplus a 47-year-old who decided to make the most of his life after surviving bowel cancer.   Surplus is flying around the world in a gyroplane to raise cancer awareness and money for cancer charities.   Surplus learned to fly after his cancer treatments [...]

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Errol Kerr – the Jamaica Ski Team – Lifestyle Design

23 year old Errol Kerr has achieved lifestyle design with some serious innovation. Kerr is a rising star in the super fast sport of Ski Cross, a newer sport that incorporates elements of freestyle skiing in a head to head competitive race format. Ski Cross became an Olympic Sport for the first time in the [...]

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Retire Young: A 12 Month Quest

We all love a good story. Why? It connects us to other people and to shared human experiences. Stories are also great for learning. 2000 years ago Christ used stories called parables to teach the people important lessons. Today, television is popular because from sitcoms to dramas and from “reality” TV to the news it [...]

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Organize Passwords or Go Nuts!

If you are trying to earn residual income online you better diversify your income streams. The rough times at eHow have taught us that even the best programs sometimes stumble. With effort diversification comes more and more online accounts with logins and passwords that must be remembered. Even when I try to use the same [...]

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A Constant Content Success Story

Today I am pleased to introduce Celeste Stewart, a freelance writer who has sold over 2500 articles through the Constant Content marketplace.  Celeste is a stay at home mom who makes a full time income writing part time. Writing for the web allows Celeste to design her lifestyle the way she wants, free of office [...]

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Interview With Pat Flynn-$mart Passive Income

Today I am pleased to present an interview with Pat Flynn of $mart Passive Income fame. Pat Flynn has become somewhat of an internet celebrity over the last year. A casualty of the recession when laid off from his architecture job, Pat turned to creating a passive income online. Pat decided to chronicle his adventures [...]

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