It’s All About Positive Thinking

by Dave

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Quite a while ago I decided to embrace positive thinking. Not in a way that involves being over exuberant and obnoxious, but in a quiet, personal and understated way. You know, positive thinking for normal people who lead everyday lives. I would say I’m pretty much your average reserved Brit. I’m not going to be [...]

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I like a good tweak. How about you?

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I’m tweaking, I hope that’s OK with you, if not, tough! I’m doing it anyway. Tweaking isn’t for everybody but I like a good tweak. What the hell am I talking about? Am I talking about my life, my diet, my nipples, my site? You’ll never know for sure and that’s half the fun of [...]

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One a day, every day

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Hi folks! The Mona Lisa Million Project goes well!! We’ve got our first big sponsor and now we need another. And then we need another eight(!) to make sure the Top Ten list shown on the front page and also in the sidebar is full of paying sponsors. It’s important that this happens because 25% [...]

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Project 30 Days: Waking Early: Update 3

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Today I’m updating my progress on the Project 30 Days challenge: Waking Early As a stay at home parent who also trying to build a business, I’ve spent the last three years struggling to make any real inroads. The best I’ve been able to do is to lay a solid foundation. The workload that goes [...]

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A Year Ago Today: Haiti Earthquake

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Yesterday I introduced the first paid sponsor of the Mona Lisa Million Project – The very lovely Jay Mountford who runs a West Midlands Wedding Photography business, became the first person to take a paid sponsorship on the project – and I mentioned that it was a big deal to me! It’s a big deal [...]

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Great News! We Have Our First Paying Sponsor on the Mona Lisa Million Project!

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I’m delighted to announce that Jay Mountford Photography is the first paying sponsor to join the Mona Lisa Million Project. And I’ve got to tell you I’m thrilled to bits. You might think that’s an exaggeration, but I promise you it’s not. And you’ll understand why I feel this way after tomorrows post. We already [...]

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Project 30 Days: Update 2

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Project 30 Days is a great new site created my David Wright where he documents his progress in changing one bad habit each month over the course of a year. David’s first challenge is de-cluttering. My first challenge is waking early. I want to get the best out of the day and make sure I [...]

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Do one positive thing and change your life

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Do you feel like a failure? Do you feel like you’re letting yourself and your family down? Has everything you’ve done to improve your circumstances failed? Are you ready to give in and just accept your fate? Or can you access just that smallest particle of self belief that says you’re a decent human being [...]

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Your sadsack is weighing you down. Ditch it today!

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Don’t be sad. Not today. Have a day off. Get together all the stuff that’s annoying you and bringing you down and stuff it into your sadsack. Do it quickly and don’t dwell on it. Now, take that big old sad-sack and throw it in the cupboard under the stairs, or chuck it in the [...]

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Will You Be My First Customer?

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Good news!! You’re all too late, I have my first customer!! More details to follow but check out the Top 10 list in the sidebar or on the front page. On the front page of this site there’s a list of the Top 10 sites on the Mona Lisa Million. At the moment the Top [...]

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What about the Mona Lisa?

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You’re writing about positive thinking, happiness and dealing with a midlife crisis now? What about the Mona Lisa?! I got bored with her so I’m looking for a new girlfriend now. I had high hopes when we started our relationship nearly a year ago. She flashed me that enigmatic smile of hers and hinted at [...]

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Project 30 Days: Update 1

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I mentioned already that David has started a project to change 12 things about himself in 12 months, and I think it’s a fantastic idea. But between you and me, when I found out he was doing this it came as a shock because he really had me believing he was already perfect. Anyway, I’m [...]

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Hang onto your knickers, it’s going to get wild!

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I see loads of good guys all around me everywhere I look, whether online or in the flesh and blood world, but many of them (like me) have had the stuffing knocked out of them. Life has kicked them in the crotch a few times and they can’t quite bring themselves to get back to [...]

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Project 30 Days – Change your life a month at a time

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A good friend of mine from the online world has created a great new site called Project 30 Days. David Wright is definitely one of life’s good guys and just like me he’s been through some tough times over the last few years and is taking positive steps to change his life for the better. [...]

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Charity Challenge Number 1 – Raise $200

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The Charity Challenge is on hold for the moment. It will be back with an updated format. Check the blog for more information as and when it becomes available or Subscribe via RSS or Email The new focus of this site will be Positive Thinking but rest assured the Charity Challenge will live on. Welcome [...]

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Be A Top Ten Site

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Two more websites have been added to the Mona Lisa today and you can join them if you go and take a look at this page: Get A Link From The Mona Lisa. You’ll see an option to pay an extremely modest fee for sponsorship and get yourself listed in the Top Ten. The Top [...]

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It’s Mocha Beanie Mummy, I’m not Making It Up

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The snow is forecast to return to the much of the UK today and tomorrow (oh deep joy!). Thankfully there’s no sign of it yet as I look out of my kitchen window but I can tell you it’s already snowing at Mocha Beanie Mummy. If you go now you’ll see pretty snow flakes drifting [...]

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