Project:NOMAD

I have come up with a pretty cool idea in my personal idea generator this morning (aka my shower ) ) I am going to brainstorm it with some friends and see if it is feasble, but I think it has potential…I love this part of the process!

Posted on April 30th, 2010 under Inspiration, creativity. Tags: creativity, ideas. Comments: None

Today is my 50th birthday!

I tell my wife that, mentally I still feel I’m about 28, and physically, about 35.

I have done a lot in my lifetime so far, but the really cool thing is the feeling I have that I can accomplish so much more in the next decade of my life than I [...]

Posted on February 26th, 2010 under Inspiration, Life, Motivation. Tags: Birthday, Life. Comments: None

As I am typing this, I am watching “The Replacements” on TNT. One of my favorite scenes of the movie deals with Fear, and it is something that can stop entrepreneurs dead in their tracks.
Here is the scene, it starts out funny, but gets very deep (it ends at 5:40; you can continue watching [...]

Posted on November 7th, 2009 under Entrepreneur, Inspiration, Motivation. Tags: Entrepreneurship, Fear. Comments: None

Something happened yesterday that illustrates four important lessons that I have learned and lived by for a good portion of my life, and I wanted to write about it.
First the story, then the lessons…
A friend that I follow on twitter is a writer of erotic short stories. Late one night a couple of days [...]

Posted on June 3rd, 2009 under Inspiration, Life. Tags: Inspiration, Life. Comments: None

Please forgive the detour I took on my blog with this post.
Those of you who follow me regularly on Twitter may have noticed my absence for the last few days. The picture above explains it quite nicely (Not a great one of me, but the wife and kids look fantastic).
The last couple of [...]

Posted on May 27th, 2009 under Inspiration, Life, Parenting. Tags: Inspiration, Life, Parenting. Comments: 3

I have often though that certain traditions can be a destructive force to productivity. The engineer in me cringes whenever I hear the phrase “Well…that’s they way we’ve always done it…”; blindly following the traditional way of doing things, without questioning why, should always raise a red flag.
Something happened to me recently that caused me [...]

Posted on April 8th, 2009 under Inspiration, Motivation, Productivity. Tags: Inspiration, Motivation, Productivity. Comments: 1

Yes, I am still alive…I have taken a few months off to research some social media stuff (especially Twitter) and how to leverage it for Marketing products, and my Real Estate concerns.
So here is the gameplan for 2009:
1) Posting the series I had planned on how I got my first rental property.
2) Posting my progress [...]

Posted on January 1st, 2009 under 4HWW, Entrepreneur, Freelancing, Inspiration, Internet marketing, Lifehacks. Tags: Entrepreneur, Freelancing, Internet marketing, Lifestyle Design. Comments: None

In my post entitled “On risk, and the fear thereof…” I ask the reader to enter “+Skype +English” into Google to show that there are people out there who sell their expertise translating documents or by teaching a foreign language. This got me thinking, are there other sites or services out there that expedite the [...]

Posted on September 4th, 2008 under 4HWW, Entrepreneur, Freelancing, Inspiration, Lifestyle Design, Motivation. Tags: 4HWW, Entrepreneur, Freelancing, Inspiration, Motivation. Comments: None

On April 7 of this year, I stepped on the scale and my heart sunk; I was 236 lbs. Factoring in my height, if you calculated my BMI, I was 1/100 point off of the start of obesity. I was the stereotypical couch potato geek, who’s only form of exercise was typing.
Why, you may ask, [...]

Posted on September 2nd, 2008 under Inspiration, Life, Motivation. Tags: Inspiration, motivation life. Comments: None