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The Deactivation Of Unlock The Door

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln I will say this as simply as I can – Unlock The Door is making way for a new beginning. You may have already guessed from the recent events (a new website, less posts here), but I believe it’s now time to make this official. This (unless future events say otherwise) will be the last post at Unlock The Door. I have already told my newsletter subscribers about this, and know it’s time to tell the rest of the world. This is a decision that I have thought long

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What Chris Garrett Taught Me About Candles And Lasers

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“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.” – Euripides Last night, I was fortunate enough to have a conversation with Chris Garrett for an hour. If you don’t know who Chris is, he’s the co-author of the ProBlogger Book with Darren Rowse, and he’s an ‘online business consultant, teacher, coach, new media industry commentator, writer, speaker, and all-round web geek.’ His website, Chrisg.com, has over 25,000 RSS subscribers, and he’s well-known and referred to by some of the biggest names in blogging including Darren Rowse, Chris Brogan, Brian Clark, and Leo Babauta. In a nutshell, he’s someone worth listening to. So I

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A Blog Is For Life, Not Just For Christmas

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*NOTE: I have a guest post published at Erica Allison’s blog. Let me know what you think!* “When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.” – Wayne Dyer There are millions and millions of blogs in the world today, but how many of them are worth it? How many of these blogs are generating any income for the blogger, or providing the blogger with some form of satisfaction in their life, or even still active? Unfortunately, the majority of blogs don’t fill these categories. The majority of blogs are left by the wayside, too

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The Last Ever UTD Post of 2011

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“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” – T.S. Eliot It has been a remarkable 12 months for Unlock The Door. From creating, compiling, and publishing the Value 101 series and it’s corresponding eBook to landing a guest post on ProBlogger, and from deciding to bare all to you to celebrating this website’s 1st birthday, it’s been a very interesting, engaging, and enlightening 2011. As is blogging custom, I present this round-up post of 2011 to you, but I also present this because, to me at least, it feels like the end of a chapter here at Unlock The Door. I

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On The 7 Links Challenge

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“The goal is to unite bloggers (from all sectors) in a joint endeavour to share lessons learned and create a bank of long but not forgotten blog posts that deserve to see the light of day again.” – Tripbaseblog OK, I finally started paying attention. I’ve decided to contribute my blog towards The 7 Links Challenge, and go against my natural impulse of not giving much thought to a ‘Best Of’ post. Not that I thought there was anything wrong with them, but they just never really got my interest. I prefer posts which dive into a topic and wade in deep, rather than a collection of links and mentions.

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Unlock The Door: One Year Old

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It’s Unlock The Door’s 1st birthday! That’s right, exactly one year ago today, I published the very first post for this blog. Before you read on, if you wish to read the first post and see where it all began, please do so here. I can assure you it won’t take long to read. I was thinking about waffling on and talking about how UTD came to fruition, where I got my inspiration from, why I decided to use WordPress, and so on, but after a while I would start boring you, and then I’d even start boring myself. So I won’t do any of that. Instead, what I would

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How I Write A Blog Post

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“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” – Ernest Hemingway I’m off to the South of France soon. That’s right – Sam (my ever beautiful girlfriend) and I will be flying down to Nice on the Mediterranean coast on Sunday 4th. It’s a gorgeous place, full of sun, sea, sand, stones, and more sun. We’re both looking forward to it. Unfortunately, that means that I’ll be away from Unlock The Door for a few days, until Monday 12th at the earliest. So by all means, please leave a blog comment and share this post amongst your social media platforms – I just won’t

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15 Bloggers Who Deserve Some Love

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“Love one another and you will be happy; it is as simple and as difficult as that.” – Michael Leunig I’m feeling some love today. I usually feel this way anyway, but today I feel like I want to give some ‘link love’ to people. 15 of them in fact. I feel that these bloggers deserve some attention and recognition for their efforts and their endeavours, and for the sheer amount of time they spend on their blogs in the first place. They work hard, and deserve reward. Some of these bloggers have had a rough ride, others are just naturally loving people and so deserve love back, and others

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