Good intentions are not enough
[powerpress] 1. I got fired from my job in August 2013 and know it was the best thing that happened to me. 2. How do you go about handling your speaking fees and taxes? 3. I’ve been working for a…
Dan Miller
Your Application Scares Us….
I’ve seen every shape, color and creative package of resumes and job applications possible – but never one that actually scared me. But recently, emergency crews at Eastern Illinois University evacuated a building after a campus postal carrier discovered a…
Don’t wish for this “misfortune”
Joanne just picked up a couple of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, for me at a yard sale. It’s a massively big book so every night I’ve been reading through some of the short essays. Thoreau said this: “I see young men,…
I can’t afford to follow my dream – really??
I can’t afford to follow my dream…. “Dan, In a recent 48 Days Online Radio Show you said, “Choose the life you want first. Find the community where you’d like to live. As important as I think work is, I…
Try this?
[powerpress] 1. When was the last time you did something for the first time? 2. When is it wise to brand your product with your own name vs. the business? 3. How do you move from charging by the hour…
You could have lunch with Warren Buffet
The annual eBay auction for lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffet ended a few days ago with the top bid coming in from a man from Singapore named Andy Chua, at more than double last year’s bid of just over…
Broke and hungry – please help!
Artist Willie Baronet is on a 24-city, 31 day journey across the country this month, buying handmade signs from homeless people. He says it’s changed the way he sees the homeless. Willie is working on an art project he calls…
Can I buy two cows please?
It’s interesting how we see different forms of working around the world: Socialism ……… If you have two cows, you’re expected to give your neighbor one. Communism…….. If you have two cows, you give them to the government and the government…
Maybe you just need to work on that little idea
George Washington Carver was a devoutly spiritual man who looked to God for new innovation and insight. During a boll weevil plague that consumed the farmer’s cotton crops, Mr. Carver encouraged the farmers to grow peanuts because the boll weevils…
Want to be seen as a leader – try this
[powerpress] 1. Since fear holds most people back from success how do we break out of that? 2. Can you think of a better or more personal gift than an original song written and recorded for your friend or loved…