I bid on freelance projects on several websites - including elance.com. I’m also invited to bid on projects or submit proposals for projects or am flat out hired hourly.
Today I received several emails telling me, “Your rates are too high.” What they meant to say was, “I can’t afford you,” and what they really, really, really meant was, “I don’t want to pay that much.”
There’s a difference between saying “Your rates are too high,” and saying “I can’t afford that.” And that difference is VALUE. One …

Back when I had time to burn, I did. I never paid that much attention to how long something took, or the cost of doing one thing over another. I have some regrets about those days, but I don’t dwell on them. Recently however I’ve been paying more attention to my time - what it’s worth, who values it, how I spend or if I invest it. So I’ve started noticing some things - Like how little other people will value our time if we let them. It’s part …

I love serendipity. It gifts me with the most amazing people when I pay attention. I write for Airstream Life Magazine on occasion. And I recently got an email from the editor about a possible story after a photographer sent him some photos. Nice photos. Nice photographer. Great story. But then serendipity stepped in. Being insanely curious I started talking to the photographer (Alison Turner) because, well, I like to hear people’s stories. Turns out Alison likes to live out of her car just like me. She has a house, …

I noticed that people are quick to point out how “ahead of their time” so many visionaries were. They cite Edison, and Einstein, and Churchill and we all fall all over ourselves wondering where they found their insights. Yet, from time to time someone will come along and point out that even the greats and leaders in their field thought their ideas wouldn’t fly. Those foolish enough to remark on failure publicly are doomed to hear their words haunt them for eternity when the “foolishness” or “fad” becomes a social …