Bernie J Mitchell
Why You Need A New Mindset for 2021
How is your 2021 so far? I read the First rule of 2021 is not to dwell on what went wrong in 2020. I’m always up for reflection, journaling and review - but I’m finding bitching about 2020 is a full-time job for some people. I wrote a lot over December, but it was confusing and weird, which would be fine if I was Lady Gaga or Andy Warhol writing to you but, well you know. Something I found out over the holidays was I needed to stop. But at the same time I could not wait to get back to work.
The simple life changing decision I accomplished this week
I decided to stop whining this week. I mean no one was listening, so I’m already saving time. Now I have all this spare time on my hands so I wrote down what to do in 2021, the next 12-Week Year is looming at the beginning of January, and I am mad for it! How and when to make a JFDI decision I've been part of a UK based group of freelancer content marketers for around five years now. It is very accurate to say we've all grown together by having online calls and 90 Day Writing challenges
SEO Plugin Match-Off: Yoast vs Rank Math
I’ve been writing on and off for years, professionally and personally. The thing is, I haven’t got a clue about Search Engine Optimization when I started. Being a content writer and copywriter, SEO is one of the important skills that you need to master when you really want to let the World Wide Web know your blog, your product or your service and get it out in the world. SEO ranking is kinda a big deal when you’re a business trying to get the people to know all about your products or services o
All Markets Are Conversations. Unless You Are My Salesforce Account Manager.
Look I don’t mean to write ‘I don’t know how you can’ because I know how you can. But I don’t know how you can hope to gain anything by acting like this with people. Before I got to our company, someone who has now left signed us up for six seats on Salesforce, the popular CRM started by Marc Benioff in 1999. I inherited Salesforce and I now feel like Dr Dre when he wanted to leave Death Row records and could not. Half our company ended up using HubSpot which everyone quickly got to gri
My "Mother Of All 12 Week Year Plans"
Look, I hate to sound sorry for myself amid all this good fortune, but it is a lot to take in. And I wonder Part of me does wonder what I need. When will I be satisfied? When I was depressed, and nothing seemed to be working, I have panic attacks, hate myself and walk around in a daze. When everything is working amazingly, I have panic attacks and walk around in a daze. I love myself, in a healthy self-worth kind of way these days. The third week in Next week is my third week as Cheif
It Was The Best Of Times It Was The Worst Of Times
Holy snails balls Batman! I've only been at the Coworking space near my home for a week, and my whole mental energy has shifted. It is my '15 minute city" dream come true. In the coworking community, we've been talking about shared workspaces in local towns; now everyone has a different outlook on the commute. Read "What if everyone could walk to work?" PDF download by Town Square here. By Town Square Somehow I've gone from hanging on by the skin of my teeth to, okay "bitches, what's nex
My Fear Of Letting Go And Escape Velocity
So I stalled out for a few weeks writing here. There has been a massive positive change in my life and work. BUT I feel like I'm balanced on the edge of a cliff. And I know that instead of falling, I'm going to jump off and fly, but I'm having fear of letting go. I am so scared of letting go even though the new work direction is a brilliant gift. BUT — 50% of start up's fail. If it does not work, of course, it will be a kick in the teeth. But I'll learn so much, and I'll go back to what
I have a new role! — is that enough of a headline?
So, reader, last week moved at 100 miles an hour. European Freelancers Week hit 60 + online events including THE BIG one - Coworking and Coliving Conference (CCCSEE) which over 380 people turned up to watch. You can flick through the CCCSSE live stream here. We were also setting the up the launch campaign for my new podcast, 'How to Market Your Coworking Space the Simple Way.' Oh, and then I posted to Linkedin I'd become Cheif Operating Officer at Velvet. Wait! You are the what of what Bern
How to write some words on your website
So there I was chatting with Carmen from Urban MBA who will be writing for our London Coworking Assembly Website. And she asked me, "How do you want me to write?" So I said, you need to write as yourself. Carmen asked, what do you mean? Can you send some examples? I did not have any, so I started this post. I know what works and I've spent years reading about writing, and most of how I write has been picked up by reading so much. Yet I still have imposter syndrome; I get stopped. I still
What Coworking And Collaboration Mean To Me
So I went for a walk with my son this morning. We had to get cash out the ATM and needed to do it before David Beckham came to give our boiler its annual service. David drives a gigantic Mercedes 4X4, and you can only pay him cash. Let's go, to the end of our road. I woke up like a bear with a sore head; my world seemed a solemn place. You know, like a hangover, without the fun of being drunk the night before. #Supercoolson was not impressed that he had to leave his home at such short not