Self Employment

Migrating a PowerPC G5 Mac to an Intel Core i7 MacBook Pro

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I am moving from my 5 year old PowerPC G5 Mac to my new Intel Core i7 MacBook Pro. Since I did not find a definitive guide on how to move your data, applications and preferences for my specific case, I am documenting here what I did for so that it might benefit someone else. [...]

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Paying the price. One way or another.

July 27, 2009

Today I was reflecting upon a common occurrence among people that I talk to with regard to their website(s). The people I talk to either want a new website or they have one and want to update/add/delete a design or function of the site. These conversations either happen through email or in person and become [...]

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I am in a Dip and I am going to Stick.

April 17, 2008

I just completed reading Seth Godin’s, “The Dip.” An interesting little read that presented mostly things that I already knew in various pieces from a variety of sources. However, it is all distilled into a simple, quick, and easy read. What I got out of this book was some clarity. I suspected I was in [...]

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Working in a Vacuum

February 16, 2008

I experienced the contrast of working in a vacuum and working in a group and saw that contrast very clearly. Yesterday I was brainstorming my projects and tasks related to using the GTD system and methodology. When working alone it was easy to crank out this lists of things I would like to do. However, [...]

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Slow Re-Start

February 15, 2008

Well this past week was an exercise in getting back to the flow. Back to the flow of the family life—making coffee for my wife in the morning, taking kids to school, changing diapers, making bottles, getting kids to bed, watching movies with my wife. And getting back to the flow of work—turning off vacation [...]

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Small Business (Non) Spender

January 28, 2008

Interesting post today on Dawud Miracle’s blog titled “Why you need to invest in your business.” For those people running a truly small business (less than $150,000 in gross receipts annually) spending money on non-tangible items can be a tricky game. Your marketing and promotion budget looks like the jar above. What I mean is [...]

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Getting Caught By Perfection

January 10, 2008

Something I am reminded of every so often is my propensity to dabble in perfectionism. I think we all do it to a certain degree it just depends on what we care about. It is in this ‘dabbling’ that I can sometimes find myself getting pulled into a time-suck–a kind of bubble of perfection. I [...]

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Measure Of Success

January 8, 2008

How do you measure your success? I am terrible at it. Personally I have a hard time believing that I’ve achieved any sort of success at all. Here are some facts: I do own my own small business I am in my third year of business Every year revenues have grown This last quarter was [...]

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