Subversive tip – Key skills for success

What are the key practical skills that allow someone to live a happy, healthy, prosperous and free life?

Its  not only attitudes and behaviours that are important, but also key skills.  You might have the right thoughts, but without certain life skills it is difficult to be effective as an individual.

Read on to find out more about these critical skills and how you can gain them.

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Subversive tip – Understand wealth

Its fashionable to disdain wealth, but wealth gives you options and freedom and removes the constraints on life imposed by working.  Wealth is the antidote to many restrictions on your life.  The subversive person understands wealth.

But what is wealth and how do you get it?  The nature of wealth is known to few people.  Read on to find out more.

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Subversive tip – How to avoid networking

Have you ever attended a conference and noticed that there are always a few people working the floor afterwards, insincere smiles plastered all over their faces, approaching people with cards and trying to get cards in return.  Most people avoid them at any cost.  If you become a victim of them, you are sure to get proposals of little benefit to you.

You, the insightful reader of Subversive Tips, surely want to avoid being a sleazy “networker” like that.  At the same time you want to build real networks and valuable relationships.  Read on to find out more about doing this.

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Subversive tip – Grow food with aeroponics

Recently I wrote about growing your own food at home.  This is an option to break out of society’s assumption that your role is to sell your time to earn money and spending it, without being able to produce anything yourself.

Sure, you can grow food in a pot full of soil, but aeroponics is a way of growing that allows you to get the most rapid growing vegetables in the smallest possible space.  With aeroponics, you can grow all your vegetables, even if you have a small home or apartment.  Read on to find out more.

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Subversive tip – Digital fabrication from home

Generally the system has things cut and dried – you sell your labour and spend the money you earn to buy other things.  But how about if you could break out of the mould and become a producer?  We’ve already discussed growing your own food (more on that to come soon), but how about manufacturing too?  Read on to find out more about digital fabrication.

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Subversive tip – Become a risk taker

You can try to avoid every risk, or you can take measured risks and experience the rewards.  Taking on risk is a characteristic of successful and happy people.  Read on to find out how to take the right types of risks, in your financial and personal worlds.

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Subversive tip – Build wealth

Having wealth really helps when you want to be free.  Imagine the feeling of no financial pressures and being able to do whatever work you like.  So how do you build wealth when you are just a regular subversive person?  Read on to find out how.

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Subversive tip – Listen to New Order

Just give me one more wish
I can’t get enough of this
When it gets to be alive
And not just still survive
To hit and not to miss
I can’t get enough of this

Slow Jam from Get Ready by New Order

Listen for these deep and edgy lyrics in the following cool song by New Order:

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Subversive tip – Build an emergency survival kit

What would you do if there was an emergency?  Would you be another of the many people standing helplessly in the middle of the street, or would you be able to look after yourself and your family, and even help others?  The key is preparation.  Read on to find out how to make your own emergency survival kit.
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Subversive tip – Watch a foreign movie

By a foreign movie, I mean one that is made outside of your own culture.  For most readers of this blog, that means a movie that is made outside of Hollywood.  Find out about what is available in world cinema and how watching foreign movies can enrich your life and open up your awareness of the world.

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