Contributing Back To Boy Scouts – Remotely Boy Scouts had a huge positive influence on me growing up. It gave me structure to build on outside of the grind of school. I talk about my boy scout experiences more here and here if you’re curious. And over the holidays I was contacted by my Scout Master – Bill Gervais trying …
No Way Around it…Buying A Car In Thailand (And Backstory)
Seems Must Do It – Buying A Car In Thailand (And Backstory) Been delaying this reality – but seems we must do it – buy a car here in Thailand. Moved out here in mid August last year (2018) and had the goal to get a private driver to take our kids back and forth to school each day as …
Close Call
Close Call (Daughter Put a Bead Up Her Nose) Just a normal Saturday evening at home. Reading a book to Miles and Maggie when suddenly about halfway through the book Maggie says her nose hurts. She is scratching at it a bit. Trying to figure out and she says (in Chinese) “toy”. I call Wendy over to help. Maggie explains …
Clockwork Book Review (ACDC, QBR, & 4D Systems)
Lets me spend more time with my daughter (and son) due to Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself Another great management book I will be recommending other entrepreneurs to read alongside eMyth and Work the System and Traction – how are they all different? Well I am a junkie for reading these kinds of books – but some key …
Before the Exit Book Review (Don’t Sell!)
A quick review of my buddy Dan Andrew’s book – Before The Exit: Thought Experiments For Entrepreneurs. Already put this up on Amazon as soon as I devoured it on my Kindle – but wanting to document more on the bloggity-blog here too. Makes me never want to sell! 😉 Thanks Dan for this counter-intuitive advice. I was also fortunate …
What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? Happy Children’s Day!
The coolest part about being a parent is you get to relive your childhood through your kids (and watch lots of Spiderman cartoons on Youtube!). Today is Children’s Day. Honestly I don’t remember celebrating this when I was a kid, and you might say – every day is “damn children’s day” as a parent. As we are working for the …
Rules To Teach Your Son
Browsing Facebook and found this (from Ray Costa) and want to document it for the blog. For life. For me to remind myself how I should be raising my own kid. and how maybe you can learn and be inspired on how to teach yours! Cheers and enjoy: RULES TO TEACH YOUR SON: 1. Never shake a man’s hand sitting …
Online Income Bible Book Review
So here’s my Book Review for the Online Income Bible I’ve been blogging and creating content for years and it was a great rundown of all the steps someone needs to take to do what Manuel and I have been doing for years. Like other reviews I have read on the book, Manuel tells it like it is and doesn’t …
Speaking At First Ever Taipei East Meets West Cross Border Ecommerce Summit
Speaking at the first Taiwan e-commerce summit sharing about content creation and marketing for ecommerce businesses.
My Son is Meditating!
So this just happened…. My son is meditating. So the kids are back in school, and of course there is that new stress of going to bed earlier and waking up early for getting ready for school. Wendy saw him a bit stressing out yesterday evening and took him into her meditation room (aka Buddha room). I thought she was …
Back to School
Today the kids have just gone back to school – winter break is over! Was hard waking them up this morning haha, they have gotten used to later nights and later mornings over the last few weeks on the holidays. They both really enjoy life here a lot. More outdoors and a house with a yard (not the biggest but …
The Goal Book Review
Learn Management in the form of a Story – book review of The Goal book I was expecting to read another management book broken up by non-fiction style topics and how-to format. I was pleasantly surprised when it read like a novel. Real characters, and not just office characters – but wife, kids, parents, the whole set. I was recommended …
Psycho-Cybernetics Book Review
Loved This Book – Bought Original Paperback Version I got a used copy of the original (see my photo) based on recommendations in these reviews on Amazon – I haven’t read the new version – but wow – I am blown away by this book. Highly recommend for everyone who is doing high pressure type work and wants to think …
Invest Like a Boss Meetup Field Notes
Invest Like a boss Podcast put together something much more than a meetup – I’d say a mini-conference. 5 amazing speakers came and shared in Chiang Mai, Thailand on Thursday night Jan 3, 2019 about investing stories and strategies.
Fight Club – Movie or Book, Which is better?
So I Have Watched The Movie 10+ Times – Still Enjoyed the book It is true, the book is always better than the movie. Watching this movie in 1999 in New York City Theaters and I remember how much influence on my way of thinking, to challenge the hamster wheel, just as I was starting college. Of course the book …