If you and I were to meet somewhere, I’d be the guy either in the corner of the room sitting down by myself or I’d be the guy standing next to the extrovert who was attracting a crowd. If you were to ask me what I like to talk about, 3 things would jump out...
One of the many useful pieces of information that we are not taught in school is the way to create wealth and life a meaningful life. In the past 100+ years of public education, we have been trained to be obedient cogs in the industrial machine. According to Seth Godin’s “Stop Stealing Dreams” (free PDF),...
Slow growth is better than no growth or an infinitesimal decline. My wife is the math wiz in my house. Yet even I know that if you improve 1% a day, the results over the next year will be massive because of the power of compounding. The great news for those that are self-employed, we...
There is a long-standing way to capture monkeys. As the video below shows, it is relatively easy to trap a monkey in a simple trap. All the hunters need to do is find a calabash, gourd, coconut, etc. that can be hollowed out. They then make the opening wide enough that a monkey’s hand can...
How do you redeem the time? Especially when you are unable to leave your home. If you are like my wife and daughters, you spend time doing every jigsaw puzzle in our house. While I am not a fan of jigsaw puzzles, I read an email from Dan Miller that inspired me to think more...
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...