BornEntrepreneur

7 Key Tenets to an Experiential Life

A little background first: I wrote this while I was backpacking in Australia during December 2008 and January 2009.  I had been traveling alone for the last 2-3 weeks of my trip and had been forced to acclimate myself to a foreign world and culture. Although Australia is far from atypical America, there are some [...]

Zen Anger Management

damaging your adventurous spirit with a secure future

So many people live within un-happy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism , all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a [...]

Manage your online reputation

For older entrepreneurs, the vastness of the Internet may seem daunting, and rightfully so. Since almost anybody can disseminate anything to an audience, monitoring your online reputation is more important than ever. Online reputation management means keeping close watch of public commentary and opinion regarding your product, services and brand. Mitigating negative reviews or slanderous [...]

Workflow challenges and changes while traveling abroad

It’s 4:35AM in Australia and while everyone else (my sister, her roommate, & my girlfriend) are asleep, but my internal clock was aching me to ‘get the hell outta bed!” So here I am sipping tea and writing a blog post. Before my travels to Sydney I purchased the super tiny Asus eeePC 901 series. [...]

Love as a means to measure success

Sometimes it takes hearing something that takes your breath away to make you second guess yourself about how you measure success. I encourage you to reevaluate what you’re trying to do in life by looking at the end goal of it all. Is your end goal really money? Or is it simply just happiness and [...]

Communication from your front line workers

Willie, a delivery guy from Dean Foods, comes to Mozarts Coffee in Austin TX every day at 12noon and goes through the same process. With a huge cart on wheels stacked with gallons of milk, he clumsily navigates his way down 7 stairs and then up 3 stairs. I wonder if anyone has ever thought [...]

Deep, Meaningful SMALL Talk

Why is it that when people talk with someone else they discuss events, rather than feelings? Yesterday this happened, and then we did this, and it was cool, and then we went here, etc, etc. Are we so secretive as a species that it is a faux pas to mention feelings in conversation with an [...]