The Lifestyle Business Plan
When is a business not a business? When it’s a lifestyle with a business built around it.
Sign Of The Times (SOTT)
There are moments in life when you notice something that stands out as a sign of the times. It can be an image, a statement or, as is often the case for me, something you notice in passing. Whatever it is it crystalises a moment in time in your mind forever. Know what I mean? …
Zoom Virtual Backgrounds
I guess it’s not surprising that in our current locked down world of most of us are desperate for a change of scene. That’s not an option for the time being but we can at least change our Zoom virtual backgrounds. We can do it on Skype too. If you haven’t played with those options…
A Productive Lockdown
I have to say that its actually been a pretty productive lockdown period for me, creatively at least. In part that’s been a result of my partner Mo being unable to work for most of that time. She has been paid 70-80% of her income as a driving instructor however so there’s been no real…
Using Garden Leave Wisely
Strikes me that furlough schemes and Covid 19 grants are a lot like Garden Leave. Both offer paid time off that should be used wisely. When I was laid off a couple of years into the 2008 recession I was given 3 months garden leave on full salary. Sounds lovely doesn’t it? Sitting in the…
Self Reliance In 2021
As I put virtual pen to virtual paper for my first blog post of 2021 I firmly belive that self reliance will be key this year. The things that defined 2020 still linger like a bad hangover and its anyone’s guess when (if) any form of normality will return. With politicians, economists, medics and journalists…
Create An Income Online
There has never been a better time to create an income online. In 2010 I was pushing 50, unemployed with a hefty mortgage to pay and very bad prospects of securing another job like the one I’d just lost. By 2012 my partner and I were living in our dream location. We’d bought a house…
Moving Into The Digital Economy
Moving into the digital economy – the internet economy – from the now desperately ill traditional one is a lot like moving house. In fact in a very real way I did both at the same time. I’d proven to myself that I could generate an income online from anywhere. That gave me the confidence…
Best Video Tools
The best video tools make the job of creating engaging videos easier. These are the video tools I use most for creating everything from talking head videos and tutorials to green screen music videos. It Starts With The Editor Since editing software is the central component for creating video lets start with that. For a…
Key Skills For The Post Covid World
I recently read an an article in Forbes about what the key skills for the post covid world are likely to be. Nobody knows exactly what that world will look like yet but we can safely bet it will be very different to the one we were used to. The world of work has already…
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