So you’ve stopped making excuses, and set yourself up for success. Now what? Did you do all of this so you could watch more episodes of Live! with LT and Kelly Ripa? Freedom can be dangerous if you don’t use it well. So do something. A few ideas: …
Read moreLocation Independence, Part 2 – Logistics
Getting permission to be location independent is the easy part. Being good at it is much, much harder. People have all kinds of strategies for making it work, here’s what works for me: Leverage technology – Conference calls suck, emails suck. I us…
Read moreAdventures in Entrepreneurship – 3 Years In
Last year I formalized a few lessons I would have relayed to myself as I was starting my adventures in entrepreneurship back in early 2009. Now that I’m at my third anniversary of self-employment, I thought I’d take a look back again and add in an…
Read moreAnnual Review 2011 Part 3 – Bring It 2012
Nice to meet you 2012. I’m Neil. I’ve got big plans for us, I hope you don’t mind. (Provided you decide against that whole 2012 end of the world thing that is.) Overall, 2011 had a ton of successes but also a few failures, and I’m hoping that putt…
Read moreAnnual Review 2011 Part 2: Success.
As I mentioned in my post on 5 things I’d tell my self while starting a business, It is natural for me to feel like as an entrepreneur that I need to be tied to my work. For the first time I was able to allow myself to feel like it was OK with tak…
Read more2011 Annual Review Part 1 – FAIL City.
First off, hat tip to Chris of The Art of Non-Conformity for the idea of doing a personal “annual review” at the conclusion of each year. Basically the concept is to evaluate your last year; where you kicked ass and where you fell flat. As I didn’…
Read moreUnverifiable Truth # 13 – Normal Sucks.
But not in a hipster/granola, “every person is a butterfly”, “we’re all a uniquie kind of beautiful” kind of way. Normal people aren’t the problem. The normal lives of those people, now that is really scary. For example normal in the U.S means you…
Read more6 lessons I’d relay to myself – 2 years in
On March 2nd of 2009, I formally filed paperwork with the state of Virginia incorporating my small business as an LLC. Roughly a month before the interactive agency I worked for, Erickson Barnett, decided to close its doors after 10+ years. Thinki…
Read morePhoto Recap: 2010
A quick stroll through my favorite shots of 2010. Most shot on my Panasonic Lumix TS2 (yep, thats a point and shoot), a few on my mobile, and one shot by others. (whitewater)
Read more2010 Micro-Resolutions Recap
Instead of the traditional year-long resolutions, I decided in 2010 I’d do 12 1-month “micro-resolutions”. This allowed me to try some things that I either had no ability (or interest) in doing for 12 Months straight. Each month I’d give up, or fo…
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