The Entrepreneurial Life of Stephen Mitchell
Writing About My Life, Work, Creativity, and the Daily Effort to Learn, Grow, and Live Better.
This is the easiest yet most difficult set of guidelines any of can follow. Read first, then see my explanations. Say, "No."… When they say, "Be Someone Other."Say, "No."… When they ask you to do what they won’t.Say, "No."… Unless your heart and your head say "This is Where My Feet Need to Go." While... Continue Reading →
Ah, the dreams of our youth, those moments when our imaginations were wild and our aspirations were sky-high. Remember when we were convinced that our wildest dreams could actually come true? Let's take a stroll down memory lane and revisit the top 10 jobs we all wanted to be before we grew up, shall we?... Continue Reading →
I am an ardent anti-smoker. Why is that we can be jailed/gaoled for carrying explosives, chemicals, hair-spray and other potential life-killing devices onto aircraft ... yet we can purchase cigarettes duty free at the airport and carry them in our carry-on luggage?! Doesn't anyone read the packaging - not even Airport security?I'll leave you all... Continue Reading →
Here a dozen ways you can save money for your future - without spending anymore than you do now! In fact, more often they cost you nothing at all. 1. Simply keep four extra coins to make a full dollar. [Found via getrichslowly.org] How often do you get asked "Have you got twenty cents?" ?.... Continue Reading →
Originally posted on money.cnn, this is 6 of the top 25 money saving ideas they could think of giving all of us. Some might have an immediate effect on your wallet, yet most are long term goals that you will need a lot of commitment and change on your part. 1. Return on investment Apparently... Continue Reading →
In the process of leaving a comment at the flyingsolo.com website inside a post that tells how "how a few words can change a life", I found myself writing a thousand word essay! So I decided to do a bit more research and make it a post, giving my own personal incite and experience to... Continue Reading →
I’m not going to steal Marc Hedlund’s thunder by simply copying and pasting his text to here: This post is the greatest piece of advice any entrepreneur will read, and every web-geek should already have read. This is basically a summary of a lot of great proverbs collected over his working lifetime, then gave his... Continue Reading →
1. Philip Greenspun When I found this article by Philip Greenspun talking about 'making money from your Website' earlier tonight, my head span and I really had to laugh at myself. Let me tell you why: Back then I realised quickly that my pages were getting overloaded with data, taking far too long to load,... Continue Reading →
Last year I posted on a previous journal explaining the reason why "you could not work for me". It might be cached somewhere, but I hope not. This is the follow up message: Why I could not work for some businesses. Because I am not a yes-man. Because I have initiative, and I am not... Continue Reading →
The Entrepreneurial Life of Stephen Mitchell 