Connecting with clients, followers, visitors, guests is difficult. There are so many ways we can do it that we often fail to do anything. We need to put in the hard work to connect and grow our audience. The only way we can grow as a business, blog, church, or organization is to develop a...
In past years, July 4th usually meant people getting together to celebrate America and our independence from England. As with the year so far, 2020 is unquestionably different. In America, we head into this weekend coming off months of quarantine and weeks of riots, looting, and shootings. Life Is Being Canceled All across this great...
I’m a spreadsheet guy. For almost three years I tinkered with my Excel file that I called “Freedom.xls” to see if I could ever become self-employed. I created the spreadsheet to face my fears and to come up with a plan before I faced them. That way, I could prepare in advance. But as Mike...
When my wife and I married I was working at a bank. It wasn’t related to my degree nor was it well-paying. It was a job that allowed me to work part-time while I went to seminary and then after finishing my first semester in seminary, it allowed me to go full-time when I realized...
I am unemployable. I love working for myself. I have tasted what it is like to work for myself and I am hard-pressed to think of what it would take for me to become an employee again. Again, I love being self-employed. That being said, there are at least 3 things about self-employment that I...
Will Rogers is credited with saying “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” One way I know to short-circuit this is by learning from other people’s bad judgments. I do this by reading. And reading A LOT. Learning hard lessons by reading how others dealt with things has...