September 8th, 2008 by Jarkko
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Do you know why it’s so hard for a sushi cook to start a new restaurant that mixes sushi with Russian blinis? According to The Medici Effect, it’s mostly because of association barriers inside the chef’s mind: he is just too used to looking at the world through his specialized sushi master eyes to see the opportunity.
It could also be that sushi and blinis don’t match. But that’s a different story.
July 14th, 2008 by Jarkko
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Summer is a hard time for maintaining habits. It’s hard to stay on a strict diet on a barbecue weather. It’s hard to keep waking up early when you don’t have to get to work in the morning. There are other times like this too (Christmas for example), but none of them can quite compete at the same level of habit-destructiveness with summer.
June 6th, 2008 by Jarkko
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Having a big dream is exciting. You treasure your dream, make plans on how to get to it, work hard to implement the plans. The dream consumes you.
But when the dream starts to rule your life, you start missing on things: you live in the future, so things happening in today’s world don’t mean anything to you.
April 3rd, 2008 by Jarkko
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I have written about dreams. I have written about goals. Soon I am going to write about actions. But there’s one thing I have avoided all the while: sharing the details for the one dream and goal that drives me to all the side business activities I write about.
I want to be a stay-at-home dad.
March 31st, 2008 by Jarkko
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On the Friday morning before Easter at six A.M. our plane left for Costa del Sol, Spain. It was a relaxing week of sun, warmth, singing together with our Church Choir, and away from the online world.
Now, I’m back, and trying to find my place on the blogosphere again.
February 27th, 2008 by Jarkko
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Some of my most popular posts so far date all the way back to August, when I wrote a five article series on securing your finances with a side business. It was an amazing coincidence that just when I was planning to start my second series looking at the same topic from a different angle, both Naomi from IttyBiz and Skellie from Anywired linked to one of the posts in the original series: The Seven Deadly Sins of a Side Business Entrepreneur.
The new series starts today.
February 20th, 2008 by Jarkko
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“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” said John Lennon. While that’s true to every one of us, adding more people to your family brings the truth in those thirteen words to all new dimensions.
It’s time for a real life story. You decide if there is a lesson to be learn from it or not.
February 12th, 2008 by Jarkko
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Being a great dad is something that every father out there is (or should be) striving for. But what exactly is a great dad?
Steve Caplin and Simon Rose think they have it figured out: a dad should be a hero that provides the fun and the spice that makes life entertaining and enjoyable.