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2015

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

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

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

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

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.