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Bernie J Mitchell

Five things that are working well for me this week #101

1. Grass Fed Irish Butter in my coffee. Ok there is a little bit more to this. On Dave Asprey's BulletProof food plan your breakfast is a big mug of high grade coffee served with grass fed butter and MCT oil (High grade coconut Oil) this is all blended together to produce a delicious, rich and creamy coffee. I have found the decaf version works best for me, it seems as soon as I put more than a small amount of caffeine in my body I get cravings for sweet food and my judgemental arsehole persona

Why a Mailchimp email is better than a Facebook page

I am always getting a kick in from people about emails. I don't like WORKING in email - it is a time suck and a closed loop. Where as tools like Trello, Asana and the amazing Slack allow open and transparent collaborative communication. My point today is about email lists - I call mine my "email community" and I am clear I need them more then they need me. I refer to the big list in Mailchimp as my 'community' because 'list' feels like I am going to 'send out an email blast' which is like thr

Mile End vs Bernie World

I am on the way home and have been walking through a part of my life that I have not seen for a while. Three or four "Bernie Worlds" collided tonight in a really good way. Every time I am around the stretch of London that runs from Brick Lane to Mile End I get transported back in time. I forget for a few minutes that I have a home, a family and purpose and instead drift back to when I lived in this area and did not know where I was going the next day let alone five years time. I still don't k

Loomio

So I have been getting a bit of flack from people about my no-email post from earlier in the week. I want to explain my position in a little more detail. Tools I work with other people with are: loomio - for open collaborative decision making. Around forty of us make decisions in an open and transparent online environment. Trello / Asana / Basecamp This again is an open and transparent working environment where we can all share files, updates and ideas. In a deliciously short amount of time

I Have A Dream (Podcast)

So every so often you (I mean me) end up between a rock and a hard place. It's the old chicken and egg scenario. You have an idea and it needs funding but you can't prove the idea until you have the funding. It is at this point people with no imagination go home. Then the crazy and insane people stay around and find a way to make it work. You can be it's always going to be that way. Or you could be the one challenging the status quo. In this place it's "the ones" challenging the status quo no

Working out loud Part 6. Doubling Down On Podcasting

So Bernie where is your head for this week? 1. Blogging and Podcasting I have decided to double down even harder on ONLY podcasting - to stop fiddling around with all the other 'stuff' like breathing, eating and my family. It seems to me I spend more time thinking about my blog than I do acting on it and also I am not podcasting from it like I could - I am so scared that I won't have an audience that I don't even bother. Even though I have an audience already and then I remembered my 50 Coffe

50 #sharingeconomy coffees in London

This is the formula I have been looking for. I want to put my balls on the line in a decent way. I am no longer feeling depressed and crushed I have suddenly become a balanced and realistic human being. The last few years of depression have taught me when to say no, when to go home and what to eat turning me into an invigorated 'thing' that is loving making a ruckus in 2015. My love for my Wordpress Rainmaker FM site grows deeper every day and I am still gagging to do a little podcast on my o

So where were we Dad?

I was thinking about blogging about how shit my day has been. Who would want to read that? You would so I'll carry on. Getting a child out the house in the morning has got to be one of the hardest things in the world. Even if I put a pile of chocolate and Spiderman outside our front door #Babybernie would smell the "we need to leave the house now" vibe and turn into a creature held by a magnetic force that screamed when taken too far away from it's resting place. Until the leaving the house

That is it for email!

I have stopped email on my phone. Aren't I cool? No, really let me explain. I have been trying to pluck up the balls to stop using and relying on email for years. Of course it is a great tool etc. etc. But I just can't resist checking it every five minutes and also sharing files and getting updates from your team SUCK. It has taken years to get down to the five or so emails I find in my inbox everyday. Imagine my disappointment when I get there and only have five - what am I going to do with m

My Bulletproof #LondonMarathon 2016

So I had to admit defeat when it came to training for the London Marathon and the race itself. Rather than walk around looking like a woman on the verge of nervous breakdown for the next six weeks I bit the bullet and admitted it was not to going happen this time. I called my mate Chris, from Publicate.it to ask his opinion of the situation. Chris is one of those people that 'squeezes' in a couple of Triathlons each weekend, he was being nice but I could tell where his true advice lay. Don't.

Natalie Bennett: Daring Greatly and always in #Beta

Natalie Bennett dived on Radio yesterday so of course she can't be Prime Minister. Off with her head! She is meant to be shaping up to pitch to run the country, changing society and challenging the status quo. She can't even speak.The guy interviewing her LOVED it, his perverse radio glee was so ripe I thought I was listening to Jimmy Savile being given the keys to Great Ormond Street Hospital and asked to lock up for the night.As I paced up and down outside Senate House near Russell Square list

A day in the life of Bernie

Of course this would be much more interesting for you to read if I was mud wrestling with Hilary Clinton or had just released a new tune with Bruno Mars. My life is pretty mundane so the last thing you need to do is think I am showing off in this blog post. I enjoy the conversations I have with people about how to get things done or rather overcoming fear, pissing about and procrastinating. That is the grade of 'getting things done' that I mean - I'd hate for you to be intimidated by me mislead