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I know that a single salary is never enough for a person to get a real and satisfying life. Unfortunately all good things on the Earth are not free and you got to have cash in order to live your dreams.

But what if you still want to taste the life but you are working 9-5 and have only one small stupid salary? Basically you have the following options:

• Find another job with greater salary.
• Work hard and get promotion.
• Quit work and start your own business.
• Marry a wealthy person.
• Winn the Lottery (or break some Las Vegas casinos).

May be you are not comfortable with these options? May be you feel that a better way should exist? You are right. There IS a smarter way to make more money and double your salary as a start.

First, let’s clear things out - why do you need to double your salary? Here are my suggestions - you will be happy to double your salary, because:

• You will have more money available (that was simple, wasn’t it?).
• You could buy more things.
• You could save more money.
• You could invest and secure your future.
• You could pave your way to financial freedom.

A year ago I started a research. I investigated and generalized my entire experience. I read a lot of books. I’ve been talking with a lot of people. And as a result I wrote a book.

This is a book about personal success and getting financially free. It reveals in step-by-step manner how to boost your career, how to double your salary and how to start your own business just as I did. The book describes the only smooth way to achieve financial freedom. The title of the book is “One Job Two Salaries. How to Double Your Salary In One Day And Not Even Tell Your Boss“.

When I wrote this book, I packed it with three very useful templates, added a set of 22 inspiring articles and put four additional free books on making money. I call this set of information materials - One Job Two Salaries Instant Success Kit.

This kit could help you to achieve your dreams. Double Salary System is not a get-rich-quick scheme or other usual crap. This system is focused on one thing - to tell you how to double your salary in three simple smooth steps:

1. Become a smart worker. Forget being a hard worker and find the ropes of smart working.
2. Start a side business WHILE you are working on your 9-5 job.
3. Get your side business make for you an additional salary. Keep that status for at least 6 months in order to be sure that your income streams are secure and stable enough. Then, with no stress, you can fire your boss and live your own life.

One Job Two Salaries book is written to give you all necessary detailed descriptions on how to pass through these three steps smoothly and - finally - how to double your salary. So, enjoy the book and double your salary. Good luck!

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If you want to learn more about Double Salary System, please read the additional information on the topic here - http://isk.onejobtwosalaries.com/.

A few days ago I’ve found an interesting link while I was browsing through Jarkko’s blog. It’s about a book. A very cute book actually, with the strange name - “Todoodlist. Technology is great. Pencils are better“.

As the price was decent - only $14 - I bought it and start reading. And I surprised for good.

First, the book is beautiful - very good print design, I like it. I’ve started my career as a graphical designer and I always consider design at first place.

The other think that I liked with this book was the idea. I have a very busy day-to-day life and organizing my tasks have been always an issue for me. I’ve been using a lot of personal/time management systems and even have created some by myself. So, as I started to read the book I was pleased to discover that the techniques and strategies are simple to use and powerful. They are fun, too.

In the book are included:

• 7 fun essays exploring our complex lives - I’d loved them.
• 5 awesome ideas to be more productive with paper. Includes the Todoodlist, a deliciously low-tech fun approach to keeping a to-do list. That’s the core of the system and it can liberate yourself from the PDA’s and stupid and huge smartphones.
• A simple 5-step system to reduce complexity in your life that you can put into practice today and get results straight away.
• A no-nonsense, indispensable blueprint for starting new projects to help you launch faster, hit your targets and achieve your dreams.

Actually I am still reading the book and I am going to apply the methods listed in it. Then I will be ready to post a fully-featured review about the book and its subject in action. At this point, at a first glance, I think the “Todoodlist” is a cute, fun and pretty focused on productivity e-book. I recommend it for reading and, please, have in mind that no affiliate links are involved here :-).

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You can buy the Todoodlist here - http://todoodlist.com/.

I was taking my daily reading time at Entrepreneur.com when I’ve saw their Hot 100 List - the list of fastest growing companies in United States. I was just curious to find who is the hot internet business company and I’ve checked that industry section.

It was interesting for me to know that my payment operator - 2checkout.com - is the hottest e-commerce company of Entrepreneur Magazine.

You can read the full profile of the company or visit their website.

This finding made me feel good that I am using the cutting edge payment solution at the moment. Actually I work with 2checkout since 2004 when I’ve set up my first account with them. They have made a lot of improvements since then and I am glad to find that they already support accepting PayPal payments.

I know that the most popular payment operators among bloggers and internet marketers are ClickBank and PayPal, but I like 2checkout for their flexibility and customization features.

And… aaa, yeah,  they are paying me weekly with wire transfer directly to my bank account.

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Doesn’t matter which payment processor you are using at the moment, I’d recommend you to consider the 2checkout’s features and opportunities they offer… They have a cute - awarded, by the way - website, though.

Dan Schawbel, the owner and editor of Personal Branding Magazine made available today the 4-th issue of his cool online magazine about personal branding.

The cover story is “Job Hunting in a Brand YOU World” with an exclusive interview with Robert McGovern.

There are 25 articles included and interviews with:

• Joel Cheesman, Blogger, Cheezhead.com
• Chris Russell, Founder, Jobs in Pods
• Ben Yoskovitz, Founder, Standout Jobs
• Paul Forster, CEO & Co-Founder, Indeed
• Phillip Merrick, Co-Founder and Chairman, VisualCV
• Jim Ambras, CEO and Founder, Notchup.com
• Sam Blum, Founder and CEO, Razume LLC
• Alex Rudloff, CEO and Co-Founder, Emurse.com
• Sanjay Sathe, Founder, RiseSmart

Also, in there you can read my article about the future of recruiting.

You can subscribe for the magazine here (released on May 1) - http://www.personalbrandingmag.com/ or get a free sample here - http://www.personalbrandingsample.com/.

I think the magazine is worth every penny. There is so much quality content in it. When I read it I am going to post a review, though.

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Personal branding is one of the key elements of One Job Two Salaries lifestyle and Dan has much to say about it. Go for his magazine and read it from cover to cover.

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I believe that everyone of us in some way wants to be financially free. We don’t want to have bosses, working hours and stupid colleagues. We wish to live free, manage our own time, do what we want and when we want it.

It is easy to want to have freedom, the hard part of the equation is to achieve it. There are thousands of examples for successes and failures. Each person chases for the freedom his/her own way, but there are three main roads you can follow in order to arrive to the land of Financial Freedom. These roads are - The Rush, The Luck and The Transformation.

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The core of your personal brand is… you! That looks obvious but not too many of us know it. Your personal brand is as any other brand - you have to found it and to build it. Strong brands win, weak - lose. So if you want to achieve whatever you’d like, you have to build a strong personal brand.

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If you’ve read my book, maybe you already know that splitting your day is one of the most powerful techniques to double your salary and fire your boss. I used to split my day with a plain sheet of paper, but you may prefer to use the cutting edge technologies - Google, for example - to do that.

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