Written By Loren Woirhaye, September 27th, 2010
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes
(part 1 of 5)
(If your mom is crazy or mean, you may have good reasons not to listen to her, but my mom is a cool, peace-loving person, so her advice tends to be constructive.)
When I was in college my mother reminded me to “do your reading” from time to time. I was more interesting in having the kind of fun that didn’t involve books. You (probably don’t) know the catch tune by the Scottish band the Proclaimers:
“Come on nature, I don’t want to read a book or talk about the world
Come on nature, I just want to spend some time being boy to the girl”
Well, those randy Scottish lads just wanted to get busy in the clover. While the group is still active and probably making money, the lads are in their late 40s now and I bet are a bit more interested in books than chasing girls.
In any case, in college I majored in English for some odd reason I’ve forgotten. I had a lot of reading to do, and much of it was long, tedious 19th century novels. To be fair, I did get exposed to some excellent old-fashioned literature but it 
Written By Loren Woirhaye, September 15th, 2010
Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes
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Sooner or later, you may come to the conclusion that I am not a safe-n-sane online marketing-expert dude, but really some sort of crazy freak. That’s ok – because from my point of view non-freaky people are a bit dull. If you were to become a client or friend of mine you’d find out sooner or later, so I might as well admit it.
While not in the class of freaky, the truth is I prefer playing guitar and reading fiction to the fussy business of how you make money with all this crazy website stuff, but we all have to make a living, don’t we?
Photo by Lululemon Athletica
Before 4 or 5 years years ago making a lot of money was not high on my priority list at all. Even though I’d been selling on Ebay since 1999, I treated it mostly as a hobby, not a career. It wasn’t that I saw making money as being un-spiritual or bad – I was just involved in stuff where money wasn’t the big criteria.
I was involved in yoga, music, shamanistic “healing work” between the ages of 23 and 35. In fact, I lived in Malibu,
