Prioritizing Your Calendar by Project Type

There are an almost infinite amount of ways to manage organizing one's self. Personally, I've been using the "schedule of tasks per day" method, where I simply take an item or two from a big "To-Do" list, add it to my calendar, and that is what I expect to accomplish...

Asking the right questions…to the wrong people

It was just an acquaintance asking the general populace what kind of new computer they should buy. Having an appreciable understanding of computers, I jumped into the gaggle of responses and added my own to the mix. My feedback was simple, keeping my reply under a...

We’re all working for ourselves

I've slung around the term "entrepreneur" for most of my life. My parents owned a grocery store before I was born, then they owned a meat packing plant too. Then they owned a farm, a pawn shop, a natural remedy store, and currently a furniture and appliance retail...

Writing for higher education

I was writing an assignment for my English class this afternoon. It should probably be noted that I find it almost impossibly difficult to take this class seriously. Aside from that, I feel like I take the type of stance on most things that might be...

At what point can I look at you and say “Hey, what are you doing?”

Recently I asked, publicly, when it is acceptable to look at another person and say:  "Hey, you're wrong." Since I was the person asking the question, I felt it was safe to assume that I wasn't the best person to answer the question. So, I listened to several other...

Prioritizing Your Calendar by Project Type

There are an almost infinite amount of ways to manage organizing one's self. Personally, I've been using the "schedule of tasks per day" method, where I simply take an item or two from a big "To-Do" list, add it to my calendar, and that is what I expect to accomplish...

Asking the right questions…to the wrong people

It was just an acquaintance asking the general populace what kind of new computer they should buy. Having an appreciable understanding of computers, I jumped into the gaggle of responses and added my own to the mix. My feedback was simple, keeping my reply under a...

We’re all working for ourselves

I've slung around the term "entrepreneur" for most of my life. My parents owned a grocery store before I was born, then they owned a meat packing plant too. Then they owned a farm, a pawn shop, a natural remedy store, and currently a furniture and appliance retail...

Writing for higher education

I was writing an assignment for my English class this afternoon. It should probably be noted that I find it almost impossibly difficult to take this class seriously. Aside from that, I feel like I take the type of stance on most things that might be...

When is ok to correct someone?

I don't know when to correct people, and when not to. I have a lot of knowledge stored up in my brain. Now, I say "a lot", but of course that's relative, because compared to someone perhaps ten years older than I, it is a tiny amount of information; however, compared...

Definitions of Government types

I spent most of my life ignoring the greater political world, and realistically I've spent most of my life ignoring even the smaller political world. Or at least, I've pretended to spend a large portion of my life ignoring politics, but really, I've been a player in...

When there’s snow all over, just shut it down.

There are a lot of things I'm not particularly fond of which seem to be gaining popularity. A little bit earlier this year we had "Black Friday", (Something I'm already not a fan of) only this year it pretty broadly encroached on Thanksgiving; that holiday being...

Habits for future us

I don't have children. This shouldn't come as a shocker to anyone who knows me even one iota. It's not that I don't like kids, although they do make me nervous for reasons I won't go in to right now; it's that I simply have not had them yet. Having said that, I think...

Approaching for a man-date

There is something intrinsically terrifying about approaching someone of the opposite gender. It's strange, the fear and anxiety you must overcome as you tell yourself to go over there and talk to them. I'm sure everyone has experienced this at some point or another,...

Asking the right questions to the wrong people

Recently I read a post on Facebook, (gasp, murmur, shock) It was just an acquaintance asking the general populace what kind of new computer they should buy. Having an appreciable understanding of computers, I jumped into the gaggle of responses and added my own to the...

Why I stop early

I start a lot of things that I don't get very far in before I give them up. I'm usually pretty good at things right from the beginning, so it's usually not because I'm struggling. As I've thought about this over the years, I've become frustrated at finding that what I...

The simple complexity of writing

Have ideas. A few things about writing: Being a good writer is entirely dependent on someone saying you are. Luckily that someone can be anyone, including yourself. You: "I'm a really excellent writer." Them: "Oh really?" You: "Yes." The end. When you have reached the...

Disregarding Customization

I was looking at my blog just now, and from the very beginning (which was just a few days ago) I decided to disregard any association with frivolities. I would not set my page up with photos, backgrounds, layouts, links, follow buttons, ads, or plugs. I would write,...

The struggle of creation

I have said all these things: "I wish I had something focused to write about, and that I was good at writing it." "I think if I picked something to write about, I'd be good at it." "Maybe not like professional level, not right at first...but pretty quickly."...

Gutpunch Workout Game

What is GutPunch? Gutpunch is a fitness RPG mobile app. I'll break those things themselves down: Gutpunch is a silly name that I came up with on a whim. I think it needs changed to something that sounds cooler. Fitness is anything that you're doing to get...

Starting new company ideas

A Company that just provides startup and organization Have an idea or a thought of how to do something. Make sure it serves a need. Figure out who can do it and how it needs to be supported. Get people on board. It's not rocket science, it's just filling...

Where are the Processes?

It's the digital age, where almost all information is available at the tips of our fingers. Has there been a time when we could more easily collaborate to create? To share ideas? To easily distill massive amounts of information down into something that helps us...

It’s all the same except the method

We talk about disruption all day. The world is moving at an incredible rate, things are changing every day, advances in technology, forward thinking, progression... but nothing is really changing. "People" is what we are. As people, we have some innate needs and...

I’m not original and that’s ok

If you're reading this, you should know that it's not original. Oh, I wrote it myself. Everything I'm saying does come from my own observations. What I write about are usually patterns I notice as I do business, and am immersed in the lifestyle of that. I especially...

We are players in their stories

This morning, my daughter was born. As I waited there in the hospital room, hoping that my presence was somehow encouraging to my wife, and receiving the flood of texts from supportive friends, I remembered for the thousandth time along this journey: I am just a...

The 3 Step Iteration Model

About a year ago I listed a house on Craigslist that I was renting and living in at the time with my wife. We didn't own the house, our lease was pretty long, and we needed to move...so we needed someone else to come rent it as soon as possible. I decided to use a...

Wait for it…

Have you experienced that moment when you suddenly have the perfect new idea that will grow your business? You're excited now, you don't know why you haven't thought of this before. Of course that's what you should be doing! You're pumped! you need to get to work on...

Template everything you can

Last week I talked about Marketing Plans and how they’re really easy. Part of the reason they’re easy is because we now have a template for how to make marketing plans. There are a bunch of other things that are pretty easy for us here at Turnkey, some examples would...

You can’t improve on nothing

In order to improve, there must be something to improve upon. How many first impressions do you get with someone? Of course, just one. So it has to be perfect, right? We just talked about templating things and how building from an existing foundation allows you to...

The crumbling of the Job – a rant on Innovation

I just spent an hour reading, in various ways, about Uber. I read about the "gig economy" and how the "uberization" of everything isn't actually working out. I read about how Uber is working out...and how a lot of people are furious about it. Namely, the drivers. In...