One of the finest books I have ever read.This book is an inspiring story of Lance armstrong whose story moves around triumph, tragedy and transformation. At the age of 24, he becomes a sporting legend and very soon he finds himself affected by testicular cancer. Docs say that his survival rate is 40% . The book’s primary portion covers the way in which he battles the cancer and comes back to participate the Mother of all races.

Came across a site Backpack.com, which will allows me to store all sorts of lists .It is also rss enabled. Now I can get rid of Excel sheet where I used to store my To-Do list and carry it to whichever machine I went to.. Slowly I get a feeling that day is not near where everything will be on web. delicious, flickr, backpack are just the early indicators I guess

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Duncan Cheatle, founder of the advisory body Prelude2Business has a checklist for aspiring entrepreneurs: Do it for passion not money. Things don’t happen overnight, so do something you feel passionate about. Do not start something with an exit and a fortune in mind. You’ll probably fail. This was commonplace during the dot-com era where people came up with ludicrous business ideas to be delivered by inexperienced teams. Do something you know about.

Take away : Take a look at your natural talents and do what you do best · Be honest about why you want to have your own business · Research every aspect to find out if it’s right for you before jumping in Ask the following questions and mull over them for sometime. What are you really and honestly good at? Will you find joy in the activity of doing the task involved in the business ?