BLOG 30 Day Blog Challenge Day Four What does it take to really be location independent? Don't get attached? I have a suspicion it has something to do with mindset? Can I answer it like this? Once upon a time I lived only in the UK and always worked near town centres and shopping malls, by mistake of course. In 2004 I went to work teaching English on a language camp in the middle of a forest in Poland for five weeks. When I came back I stood for nearly an hour in the middle of the shopping and gasped - of course I did not gasp
BLOG Let the record show I just could not get my head around it... I been waiting for for my "Bernie Blog" URL to be back up and running so I could write about this. I have to write about this. Last week the inside of my brain started to melt. Of course it did not really start to melt but that is what it felt like. Then I felt like I had been given a frontal lobotomy - I have not had one of those either but I guess that is what it feels like. A few weeks ago my Doctor doubled my medication dosage. THAT medication - t
BLOG Hospitals, blood tests and blogging So here I am having a blood test, I hate needles and can never understand why. It has taken me three months and lots of stern looks form our Doctor to get me here, in fact the only thing that has really got me here is because the surgery has been relocated inside the hospital and you have to walk through the blood test centre to get to the Doctor. I am sitting here pondering how to address this next point, why is it we procrastinate on getting help? (I kind of know the answer) Getting the bloo
Audio Your connected eco system Here are 10 links to app and other resources that will impact how you work. All of these things use and apply myself! Citrix talk from Engaging People
BLOG Learning to be a Dad.... As you will know I am a big fan of my son #babybernie - in fact "Bernie the Dad" is the most comfortable version of myself that I have ever been. When I think back to previous relationships when I was younger and some near misses with being a Dad I wonder how I would have coped, well I don't actually - it would have been a mess. It is amazing the velocity with which you grow up with another human being who has no concept of your time, workload or agenda. You are not able to bargain with them, re
BLOG 8 Groovy Blogs you Should follow! Most of my blogging over the last two years has been writing stuff for company blogs. This buys me hair gel, nappies and recharges my oyster card but, er, um, well it’s very boring, it seems people who pay you to do this have no clue how to really cause trouble and make a ruckus. Since the end of last year I focused on my own writing and I am a better person for it. The most rewarding bit is the stuff money can never ever ever buy like serendipity, learning and conversations both on and off lin
Audio Hells Teeth! I should have told you this sooner... One of the best-kept secrets to being connected is co-working, the next best-kept secret is your tribe. I have found getting out of your "space" to co-work is brilliant for both your productivity and your soul. This is whether you work for a big shiny corporate or are a freelancer like me. In their respective books Mitch Joel and Lisa Gansky, who are way smarter than me talk about the “friction” and “collision” of ideas between people that end up being called things like “Kickstarter” “Ai
BLOG Sod meeting Seth! I just heard Doug from Velocity talking CRAP at #b2bhuddle Sod meeting Seth! I just heard Doug from Velocity talking CRAP at #b2bhuddle, a photo by Bernie J Mitchell on Flickr. No matter how many times you say the word "crap" Doug's take on stuff certainly is not. In fact it is very realistic and, dare I say inspirational!
