My physical office is about a 12 hour drive from my home.  As you might have guessed, I don’t go to the office every day.  Even so, I need to work just about every day in order to keep the wheels of commerce spinning and to keep food on my table.  That means that on most [...]

In the May issue of Inc. magazine, Jason Fried, founder of 37 Signals, has a column talking about the way that many companies present themselves to the public via the written word.  Fried makes a great point.  When you read communications from most companies, whether it’s via a sales brochure, website content, annual report, etc., [...]

The other day I heard someone say, “Lifestyle design is great if all you want to do is travel around the world, but I don’t want to travel.”  I think a lot of people have this misconception that lifestyle design equals expatriation and world travel.  But that’s just one option.  Regardless of how you want [...]

Two books that have influenced me over the past few years are The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss and Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk.  As I read both books for the first time (I’ve read each at least four times now), I was immediately attracted to the philosophy being advocated by both authors.  [...]

Yesterday, I posted the first of this two part series detailing 10 reasons you should quit your job and start your own business.  The posts were inspired by some thoughts Dan and Ian shared on their Lifestyle Business Podcast. Today, here are the other five reasons you should quit your job and start your own [...]

Last year, entrepreneurs and lifestyle philosophers Dan Andrews and his business partner Ian did a podcast they entitled 10 Unexpected Benefits to Quitting Your Job.  I liked what they did and I’d like to give my input to their list.  I’ve gone over the first five here in this post.  I’ll cover the final five [...]

Benjamin Franklin is famously quoted as saying, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”  In other words, don’t borrow nor lend money.  I’ve borrowed Franklin’s quote for the title of this post and to make another point.  What is that point?  Don’t be either an employee nor a boss. But wait, I can hear you [...]