How to become a popular writer and improve your sex life

by Paul Goodchild on August 31, 2010

Writing There are 2 immediate questions that need to be asked from an article entitled such as this is.  1) Am I a “popular” writer?  I wouldn’t say so, but feedback is consistently positive and either people are trying to score points with me, or my writing is decent.  So I’m going to talk about how I write what I write.  Second, does becoming a popular writer improve your sex life?  I have no idea, but I live in hope!

So why the title then?  Two reasons – one, a little experiment and a bit of fun – does ‘sex‘ really ‘sell’?  And two, I hope to be able to refer back here long after this post was written (when I’ve become a “popular” writer) and answer the question definitively. :D

Word count: approx. ~1100; Image credit: here.

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How to reclaim your time with Google Reader!

by Paul Goodchild on July 29, 2010

RSS / Atom Feed icon I’m not the most productive person in the world sometimes, but I hate wasting my life and doing things repetitively if there’s a better, more efficient way to do it.  A while back I discovered the perfect way to “browse” all those websites through a single web page, without opening heaps of browser tabs.  And it’s simple: Google Reader.  The following 5-step how-to guide will walk you through it and it’s completely non-technical so anyone can do it and there’s no new software to install.

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Is youth the secret to happiness?

July 25, 2010

There seems to be a secret kept by our youth that so many of us seem to have forgotten. They are happy, careful and joyful, why not us grown-ups? Do we have to “grow up” and be responsible? Does it work for all of us? If not, then should we be teaching the same principles to our children…?

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Your money or your time: Put your life on a ledger

July 15, 2010

A ledger is the name given to a type of book upon which transactions, typically financial, are recorded. So how do you record your life’s transactions? Well it’s actually quite straight forward.

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Are you being specific about what you want?

July 11, 2010

Do you know what you want now? Where do you want to be, what do you want to be doing? You will never achieve them satisfactorily unless you take a few minutes to get very specific about them. It’s easy to do, and here’s how…

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Un-comfort zones point to our true fears

June 19, 2010

Very often what we think we are afraid of isn’t the actual cause of our anxieties, but rather it is just a trigger for much more deep-rooted fears we hold.

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Coffee free living – a follow up

June 9, 2010

A follow up article to outline some of the effects and withdrawal symptoms that going on a caffeine-free diet has brought about.

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Are you in control of your coffee addiction?

June 4, 2010

Do you need a coffee in the morning before you’re functional? Is your day not complete without it? Then you’re probably addicted, but breaking this habit is easy!

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Hooked on prostitution

May 27, 2010

Traveling in Southeast Asia presents you with a very distinct sex-tourism industry. Prostitution is rampant, but what drives these girls to this lifestyle choice? Is it all down to poverty? Are they trafficked? Turns out they’re not, so why do they do it?

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How goes the travelling volunteer?

April 16, 2010

Using world travel as a basic framework for volunteering is a noble pursuit, maybe, but it’s not necessarily as easy as it sounds. It’s a challenge to find work-for-nothing jobs, and that is very frustrating. However, being persistent usually pays off and sometimes all we need, often found between the covers of a great book, is a little inspiration.

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