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Bernie J Mitchell

"Be the change you want to see"

My big screen on my desk at 90 Main Yard has a cute picture - "Be the change you want to see" - I would like not to be an arsehole - but I am. I’d like to see a world with fewer arseholes in it. For those of you near me I am working on this - NOT being an arsehole that is. It is very tempting to make the picture for this post an actual arsehole, but then I am sure you'd think I am even more of one. Over the last few weeks, I have been drilling my head to find the line between energy with fir

A Sentimental Journey Through Spain and Italy #1

I have not done anything all day. Quite literally I am too excited to move. Tomorrow #Babybernie and I are off to Italy to a magical little place called "The Rural Hub" for the OuiShare Summit #7. Around 70 of us from all over the world will sit around and collectively discuss, decide and vote on what the OuiShare community will focus on for the next six months. I am more in love than ever with the OuiShare community, I missed the OuiShare Fest and was a bit sad. (Mainly sad that it was not

Do the work (slight return)

What is that Publicate thing? At least three people have asked me in the last few hours. Then last week as I hurriedly threw together my newsletter for the 20th time in Publicate,I thought I'd mention it, mainly as Chris, the founder, is a mate and also is launching the paid product after getting funding and two years of being Beta / pre-revenue - or whatever you Old Street kids call it these days. I did what any dumb marketer would do and mentioned it in my newsletter without context and the

I loved this! - Linkedin Out Loud!

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Falling off the toilet.

This became funny when my mate Thom reminded me that Elvis had died on the toilet. I am never sure why toilets and dying are funny. They always make me smile and when used on direct conjunction with each other I laugh out loud. If that does not make you smile hopefully my "Iggy Pop" impression in the photo will. So where was I? I was in the bathroom and then shortly after that I was in the Accident and Emergency Room at our local hospital. I'd been driven there by Sonia and Pete in their amb

Educate, Entertain and Inspire.... #LLBS

I am so knee deep editing blog and podcast content that today's #LLBS update is running behind. I was thinking about the things that have inspired me and what the point of the whole shebang is, Bill Hicks has always made me think and there are more links to people below. This is what popped in my head right now so I dived into Publicate to drag it out and share with you here. Since I started spending more time on engagingpeople.wpengine.com I have noticed the people I really pay at

Falling Towards Argentina #01

I was air drumming to INXS 'Devil Inside' very loudly and getting worried that my trousers would not make it through the day. The September sun was pouring in the window and I was really excited as I had just been invited to join this thing called "Gmail" - Oh and I was going to marry the girl I'd met in Krakow in February and then asked her to marry me when we were in Rome in April and here we were in Buenos Aires about to leave her mother's apartment and get married. This was not how people

Whenever I feel like writing I lie down until the feeling goes away.... (NOT!)

So I have been reading and reading and reading and reading and now I know too much. So I have to be killed. Well that is how it feels in my head. I have just whipped out my ipad to write this blog as a way of getting started writing today. All that is needed is to just write then everything will be great. If I go back and clean the bathroom again or tidy the sock drawer I will end the day hating myself all over again. You could ask me to talk about the message of the three blogs I need to wri

Get Your Shit Together Mitchell.

So reader I married him. Tweet me back if you know the book that line is from. (If you are in London, I'll buy you a BulletProof coffee and you can ask me anything.) I can never decide where to start and that is the issue. I thought if I nicked someone else line it would at least get me started and it looks like it has. I had a big pile of stuff, you know interviews with Matthew MacStravic and Ali from LiftShare, Emily and even Seth Godin. I could not get the intro and the outro and Jon sai

Am I Really a Successful Blogger?

This is going somewhere, please stick with me. So doing the working out loud thing is become more solid for me. Posting what ‘one’s blog’ is making is a daring way of making it work and offering something for people to follow and hopefully collaberate and chip in with advice and comments too. I am going to work on a deeper integration with my Mailchimp email tribe this is the place I have been working on the longest and where my longest, but not always my deepest relationships are. It all st

Seven Groovy Things That Make @90Mainyard my #coworking home

I have been living at 90Mainyard for well over two years now. I found my bubble of coworking bliss via Alex Butlers Kindred HQ Meet Up and have never looked back. The peace and quiet of this place played a significant roll in me scrabbling out of depression and into embracing podcasting and blogging with enthusiasm of a sailor in a brothel with a credit card. These are a few things that make 90Mainyard the best coworking venue in London – that is by an Olympic Park and canal. 1. It has a full

It was just one of those days.

It was just one of those days. Last year, in fact for about three years I'd wake up and just could not do it. I'd set off in a whirl and hope for the best. Now I am a bit clearer where I am going and if I am sailing into uncharted territory it is by choice. (Part of me likes to think I am at the bleeding edge, inventing new paradigms and fusing things together - please allow me this fantasy.) But this day... So reader, I am screwed today. I feel like the world is going to end - it won't