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How I Saved A Thousand Dollars By Cancelling My Cellphone (While Keeping My Number)
I finally took the plunge and cancelled my cellphone. I’ve been using internet based telephone systems for years now,...
Slow websites suck – how I turned around my web hosting nightmare
My journey with web hosting has been nothing short of a nightmare. As I expanded my online presence to...
A simple guide to share and print your own favorite vacation photos
I’m often asked if I can print a picture someone took themselves. Understandably so: each limited edition photograph I...
How I Saved A Thousand Dollars By Cancelling My Cellphone (While Keeping My Number)
I finally took the plunge and cancelled my cellphone. I’ve been using internet based telephone systems for years now, and started using my cellphone less and less. Here’s my story of how I saved over a thousand dollars every year, while still keeping my number for now – just... Read more
Slow websites suck – how I turned around my web hosting nightmare
My journey with web hosting has been nothing short of a nightmare. As I expanded my online presence to include over 13 active domains, the hosting companies I previously relied on simply couldn’t keep up. Slow-loading websites became the bane of my existence, resulting in abandoned sites, dwindling traffic,... Read more
My Favourite Canadian Movie: One Week
One Week is one of my favorite movies. In the movie, Ben Tyler, played by Canadian actor Joshua Jackson, has been diagnosed with cancer. Foregoing his required treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto across Canada to Vancouver Island. (I took part of that inspiring... Read more
A simple guide to share and print your own favorite vacation photos
I’m often asked if I can print a picture someone took themselves. Understandably so: each limited edition photograph I sell comes on a variety of museum quality products, like metal, acrylic glass, or even bamboo. I take the motto “make your walls smile” very seriously, and the products we... Read more
Heads Up: Why I’ll Be Deleting All My Videos From YouTube
Did you notice YouTube has started putting ads on all videos now? That’s right, all of them – even if you specifically didn’t want ads before. I must have been the only one that missed that memo on Google’s changing policy (Google owns YouTube, after all). To my unpleasant... Read more
Why I Deleted My Bumble Account
I went for another run this morning and my running coach mentioned “connections”: how many people could you check in on today, outside of social media, directly in person, via phone or text? I realize that while I have a lot of “connections” – that more important list of people could... Read more
I’m Ending My Love-Hate Relationship With Social Media – And You’re Invited
One of my most important goals is to have much more direct communication with all of you, not controlled by social media bots and algorithms, but from one human being to another. To do that, I’m introducing a new way to connect – directly through text messaging. This has... Read more
Where Was This When I Created My First Online Course?
When I first started creating online courses, the process was a nightmare. I felt uncomfortable on camera, had to edit out hours of “ehms” from my recordings. And when it was all said and done, I had no idea how to get my course online. I struggled with finding... Read more
How To Read 30 Books A Month
Yes, reading 30 books a month sounds impossible, but here’s my take on it. For you book worms with little time to spare on your favorite hobby, I can relate. Being a book hoarder myself, I needed a simple and way tool to improve my ability to read and... Read more
Ditch Your Snail Mail Filing Cabinet And Go For Digital Document Storage
Confession time. As an author, my desk is always covered in paper. Lots of paper. Funny how I help my clients stay organized and optimize their processes, yet I’m a mess myself. I get bored easy, and always have several projects on the go. Someone said, “A clean desk... Read more