Why are foreigners leaving? On New Year’s Eve the crew from ADV China uploaded a video about the Mass Exodus of Foreigners From China – check it out here, also embedded below
Buy Then Build: Book Review
Buy Then Build – Book Review As I prepare to go to the Invest Like a Boss podcast meetup here in Chiang Mai on Jan 3 – I felt I should catch up on some reading about investing and this one was a new one with amazing reviews so I couldn’t help myself. Buy Then Build is a book about …
Best Instagram Tools to Monetize Your Account
Expand your outreach thanks to these awesome tools The internet can seem like a humongous universe where one realizes that their success banks on ensuring through presence online on interactive social media platforms. Such a place can freak out internet marketers rather easily as they begin to feel like a speck in such a huge landscape. If you are getting …
Best Social Media Management Tools of the Year
If you are a frequent internet user, then it is inevitable that you are almost invariably going to end up building a few social media accounts. That simply is a testimony of the meteoric rise of social networking platforms across the globe. Everyone has a social media profile whether it is an organization, a professional or a hobbyist. As a …
Happy New Year – Entering 2019
I was just reading something in an old journal from the “2000s” – which doesn’t feel like that long ago. Now we are entering the last year of the “2010s” and soon will enter the “2020s”. For me, the biggest reminder of a new year is how fast we are moving in life. And how life doesn’t wait for us. …
Book Review: No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners
Buddhism, something we are surrounded with here in Thailand. Been on a reading frenzy lately – basically when I go out with the wife and kids I slip my kindle in my pocket and read while they are playing or in spare time. Been pretty effective way to get through books. The format of the book was very digestible, as …
Meditation Has Been Life Changing
How do you go about with your meditation and mindset? Mike shares insights and strategies
Merry Christmas from Thailand in 2018!
Just a quick Merry Christmas update from Chiang Mai, Thailand. Evening here (morning in USA) hope to do a call with my parents – video via Wechat pretty amazing when you think about it – you can do a free vide call to the other side of the planet. Last night – Christmas Eve – we went to a nearby …
Thinking in 5 Year Blocks
So I’m a fan of Derek Sivers (need to learn more from him) and one thing that still sticks with me is to think of your life as a series of 5 year blocks. Because so many of us are creative and hyperactive beings that we want to take over the world (right?). Yet, we had this track, this plan …
Year End Review 2018
Year In Review 2018 and Plan for 2019 Well, just under two weeks left for he year 2018 – time flies when you are having fun. Or when you have kids! These kiddies just grow up so fast it is really true what they say! So I enjoy recapping what happened this year and planning the year ahead. What was …
Just updated my Kid’s blogs for the year
Just updated my Kid’s blogs for the year I’m behind on blogging for my 2 kids – Maggie and Miles. I setup blogs for them as soon as they were born – I should be more active in updating their sites – but at least once a year I write. The weird part is that I am writing on their …
Sharing How I Wrote My First Book (Plus Free Template)
Curious what it takes to write your first book? Mike shares from beginning to end the journey of becoming a book author.
Selling Things To Simplify & Focus
Selling off various assets I have During this massive focus process I am going through and the merger with the incubator and Global From Asia – I am in the process of focusing (as discussed in a previous blog). So I will be working on finding correct suitors for various projects I have been building up (and still do have …
Birthday Letter To Mom
Sent this to my mom but thought I’d keep for the records Dear mom, Hope you are doing well. I love you and hope you had a great birthday. Id love to discuss with you how things have been going here – but I know it is hard to connect with the timezone and other things. So I hope this …
Michael Angelo
/Michaelangelo My middle name is Angelo. I used to be embarrassed to tell people that as in school the ninja turtles was a popular show and I didn’t want to be associated with a turtle. The reason I am called Michael Angelo is my grandmother was an artist. I never got to know her well, she passed away when I …