When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.” Theodore Roosevelt Far be it for me to disagree with the 26th president of the United States, but I do. I do so adamantly. I firmly believe that the road to success is finding something you love to do and then finding a …

  It wasn’t a good morning. It seemed like every direction I turned I ran into another roadblock. My frustration level was at an all-time high. I spilled coffee down the front of me, the neighbor’s bass was pounding in my head, my Internet connection was burping, and the batteries for the mouse died with a …

  So we dug ourselves a nice deep hole that we can’t seem to find our way out of and now we’re looking for advice. Is that about right? The universal advice seems to be that FIRST we must stop digging. DUH? It sounds simple enough doesn’t it? The problem with that advice is that we …

  For the last few weeks I have been watching and truly LISTENING to people. I’ve noticed something that I initially blamed on the heat wave. I was wrong. People are tired, and I don’t just mean physically. I see moms in the park watching their children play, but they look like they would rather …

We all have had times, if only for a moment, when we think about giving up on our business – times when we are certain that we are completely alone, and no one else has felt the way we are feeling. I would like to let you in on a little secret. It isn’t true. …

  Talking About It Doesn’t Work! You can talk about ways to improve your position in the search engines and increase traffic to your website until you are blue in the face, but until you take action, absolutely nothing is going to happen. We’ve all been there. It’s a little like joining the local fitness …

Balancing Work and Pleasure Online In the early days of the internet, I balanced work and pleasure by chatting a couple of hours a day on IRC and reading books in the rest of my free time. It was a great balance between learning and socializing. But I was in school then, and the internet …