Dare to be bold by Matt Cheuvront Our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion, we have not chosen, but society has chosen for us. We are parlour soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate, where strength is born. – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Next to Resistance, rational thought is the artist or entrepreneurs worst enemy. [...]
You don't have to give up your phone number when you end your cell phone contract, or move from where your landline is located. Google Voice can save you. Sign up for a free Google Voice account at www.google.com/voice. You will need to sign in with your Gmail / Google account. Select 'I want to [...]
Social Media is intimidating. Many people fear their Twitter account, because it seems like you have to be online all the time. You don't. You can still maintain a constant social media presence by scheduling your posts in advance. When you are working at optimum efficiency, you are batching your tasks in groups. Using a few technical tools, [...]
One Strong Belief by Buster Benson It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance The world is [...]
Today by Liz Danzico Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks,’ then it is more genuine to be present today than [...]
According to the rules of the #trust30 writing prompts, this is my first day (out of 30) of trusting myself, and writing what needs to be written. Todays prompt: We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. – Ralph [...]
One of the biggest difficulties in maintaining a blog presence is the output of regular content. There are three ways to fill up your RSS feed and keep your readers engaged: Publish multiple authors on your blog Hire a ghostwriter to write your posts for you Schedule future posts and do all of your writing [...]
The mindset of Western and European people is fundamentally influenced by our crappy weather. When I want to take my kids out of doors, we have to hunt for a large list of essential clothing: Coats Shoes Socks Baby Legs (but my 5 year old insists we call them “leggings,” and if I call [...]
Like many Americans, I have gone bankrupt because of our for-profit health insurance system. Unlike most Americans, I am leaving the system altogether, and coming to Costa Rica. International moves are expensive, but the cost of repatriation dwarfs the risk of becoming financially crippled for simply getting sick. My daughter has a pre-existing condition. She is four years old. There is a cyst on [...]
Today, I had the good fortune of working on two separate editing projects Writing -Editing: a nonfiction book proposal Video - Editing: a 30 minute multicamera interview and I learned a valuable insight. Editing is the process of removing the fluff that helps us tell our stories. This fluff, consisting of ums, false [...]