Employers need to embrace flextime, telecommuting and remote workers. Otherwise, they'll find themselves competing with millennial-owned companies that do. All that's needed is an understanding of the needs of both parties, and an agreement that helps both get what they want.
You don't have to kill yourself to be successful. You don't have to look, think or behave like anyone else. Your version of success is perfect - for you.
Being told what to do is easier, but that's not what you want. You want to be a kid again - creating, failing and triumphing. You want to explore life on your terms.
Time and energy are two of the most valuable and limited resources you have. Commuting kills both of them. When you stop commuting, you can finally start chasing your dreams.
If you work from home or another remote location, you know what a huge blessing it is. For me, few things are more valuable than my time, and the decision to work from home has added years to my life. Literally, years. The truth is, most of us waste hours every day; acting as though we have an endless supply of them. So, if you’re one of those who do (or can, but haven’t crossed over, yet), here are my top three habits that make working remotely more productive and enjoyable....
When you wake up feeling like crap, there's no shortage of suitable culprits. Your job, finances, spouse, or boss. But what if it's none of those?
Whether you’re a 16-year-old girl, a 39-year-old executive or a 62-year-old divorcee who’s fighting with the bottle, this is probably your most persistent question: What is the meaning of life? Like me, you’ve no doubt asked it at various low-points in your life, but your subconscious is asking it every hour of every day. With each decision, each interaction, every little fork in the road, it’s looking for its purpose. A point to it all. Meaning.
The life you want comes down to two decisions and two actions. You can argue that it's thousands of decisions and actions, but it's not. It's two of each.
If you can work from home but keep your day job, you get the best of both worlds - certainty with enough flexibility to live a bit more. A win-win.
In my early twenties, I did what millions of others did - I succumbed to the lure of easy money with an MLM company. Sadly, my dream of Mai Tais on a beach seven days a week died when I realised it wasn't nearly as easy as they made out. Fast-forward a few years, and the company went broke - so it was never gonna happen, anyway. Ironically, I still managed to fulfil the most compelling dream sold by MLM companies - without joining one.
Comparing yourself to others, especially when the variables are so complex and therefore impossible to replicate, only creates stress, anxiety and disruption to your own journey.
Sick of leaving home each day for a place you don't like, to do work you don't enjoy? What if you could work from a home office? Here are 5 important rules.
Learn how to get from stressed-out, commute-hating, office-bound, corporate slave...to human again. Here are 6 steps to working and living on your terms.
There are plenty of reasons to develop a side-hustle, and only one of them is about money. This week I share another four that are just as important - one of them even more so. We're living in an amazing time in history. The opportunities we face today are greater than ever before, and as I've said many times, we have it better than our parents ever did!. Learn why in this week's episode.
This episode covers five things I've done to increase my available time and my energy levels so that I can pursue a few side hustles and diversify my income. Finding the time & energy for a side hustle is hard when you work full-time. If you have a family or you commute long distances to work, it’s REALLY hard. For me, these practices made all the difference.
Businesses big and small are frequently dying or consolidating, meaning our jobs today are far from certain. Freelancing might be the answer you're looking for.
Thanks to the Internet, cloud-based software & easy access to knowledge, we really can work from almost anywhere. Here are the tools & practices to help you do it.
I value working from home more than money, prestige or a fancy job title. That’s because it’s given me something far more important – the freedom and control to live on my terms. But what kind of freedom am I talking about, and why is it so important to me? To explain, let me share a typical day with you. This one happened last autumn, and while it might seem exceptional, it happens like this more often than you’d suppose.
I once had a boss who was a dead ringer for Bill Lumberg from the movie, Office Space, except instead of the braces and tie, she wore a stiff grey power suit. I still remember the daily rounds where she'd sidle up to each desk with, "Whaaat's happening...?" I also remember the smell of synthetic carpet, chosen more for its longevity under heavy foot traffic than its calm-inducing properties. I remember the acronyms and corporate platitudes that filled our conversations; the gentle hum of fluores...
Figuring out what you want out of life can be hard. I know - I worked at it for decades. But now that I have most of the things I want (many of which aren't actually 'things'), I can honestly say I got them because of what I share in this episode and in this post . Most of the best lessons in life are simple, and I promise you, this is one of them. It's all thanks to 30 years of mentoring, personal experience and failed experiments....
You don't need to quit your job or start a business to live life on your terms. Twenty years ago, working from anywhere you want was all but impossible. Today, thanks to cheap technology and fast Internet, it's rapidly becoming the new norm for many industries and professions. In this episode, I explain why I chose it, how it's impacting employees and employers, and why you might want to join me and millions of others who do it.
Changing jobs or careers isn't only about skills, passion or money. Unless you follow a structured process, you might wind up regretting your choice. This is the last episode of this podcast - at least for a while. Right now, my son needs me to hang out with him more, and since my most important job title is 'dad', he gets priority. So thank you for listening. I'll return once my schedule allows it - hopefully in 2019. To keep up with what I'm creating, go to officeanywhere.co. Thanks for listen...
Our bodies aren't designed to live in a perpetual state of fight or flight, yet that's exactly how many of us live. It isn't enough to be depressed about our past, we need to be anxious about the future, too. Running late for everything creates stress, shortens your lifespan and stifles relationships. Here's how to fix it.
These days, mums and dads both have careers. And the assumption is that bigger must be better. More must be better. More money, more status, more recognition, more of whatever’s on offer. But 'more’ isn’t always better. Only ‘better’ is better. And our kids don't care if we make $60k or $160k; not if the second option means they never see us - or when they do, we're too stressed to pay attention.
Rich people have a whole lot more going for them than just 'more money' – particularly if they've earned it. On this episode, I give you a couple of quick and dirty lists of the beliefs and habits most rich people share - gleaned from thirty years of experience and association.
When you finally realise no one cares whether you’re ‘living the good life’ or not; when you understand that life is a very fleeting gift, you approach it differently. You begin to live on your terms. I once envied people who were well-known, wealthy and revered. Today, I envy no one. I thought my job title determined my social status in society. Today, I know it’s self-defined. And society’s perception is irrelevant. Ultimately, I valued the wrong things, and I measured my success the wrong way...
You've heard over and over that money alone doesn't buy happiness – at least not beyond our basic needs. What seems to work is pursuing a longterm project that feels good, helps others, and challenges us a little. From my experience, it offers a much better ROI than searching for happiness.
My sister is back with another romp down memory lane – specifically, how BAD we had it when we were young. Next time your teenagers bitch and moan about their boring lives, send them this. Or Snapchat it to them or whatever they're on this week…
It's only through repeated failure and re-evaluation that we learn how to function with intention. Only through missteps do we seem to build the emotional intelligence to call bullsh*t on the signals we've succumbed to for so long.
Today, midlife is a road with a hundred forks in it, all leading to exciting adventures. The rules have changed, and it means there's never been a better time to be a mid-lifer. Our parents might have had it simpler, but I don't believe they had it better.
