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Sam Carpenter (@workthesystem / Blog) is a consummate entrepreneur, business owner, and author of Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less, winner of the prestigious Best Non-Fiction of [...]
If you’re anything like me, whenever you see someone quoted or featured on a major media outlet or publication, you stop and say “How did they get in there?”, or more often than not, “Um. I could have said that…”. In January, I contributed to an Entrepreneur feature on outsourcing – the result of sending one reply [...]
Because it’s a fresh new year, and free is a beautiful word…
To celebrate the close of a year and welcoming of a new, let’s all toast to designing lifestyles worth living. As a thank you for the tremendous support of what we’re doing on Muselife, and to share some of what I’ve learned along the [...]
Going mobile can be either the most liberating experience of your life, or a masochistic, cash-sucking international nightmare that will have leave you trembling in the fetal position, smiling only as you think about returning to your safe, comfortable desk back home. Let’s make sure you it’s not like that for you.
As a traveler, you [...]
Our boy Jay-Z says it better than I ever could: “You’re not a business man – you’re a business, man!” If you want to be a small player, make just enough money to “get by”, report to a boss and spend your whole life working entirely too hard – keep calling yourself a freelancer. Treating [...]
If you haven’t been following Robert Granholm (@robgranholm) over at The Life Design Project, you are missing one of the few down-to-earth, practical voices on lifestyle design. No fluff, no “maybe someday”, no hesitation – pure execution. His experiments are entirely systematic, methodical and empirical, and he’s seeing the results of the ridiculous amount of [...]
This one’s a little different as we sit down with Craig Krisulevicz (or Craig K. once you get tired of misspelling it) to profile his muse-in-progress built around a thriving, ultra niche community: heavy metal guitar players, or shredders for those in the know.
Though it might look a bit sparse right now, Metal Shredder TV will [...]
This video hits on something I’m really passionate about – going big. Just because you are creating something that seems simple doesn’t give you an excuse not to max out your vision and plan ahead for something bigger. You will never quit your job and fuel an extraordinary lifestyle with some tiny idea.
Taking something to [...]
Finding your niche – the space you can absolutely own and monetize endlessly – is where a lot of people get tripped up. It’s less often about finding something you love, and more about deciding which passion is worth pursuing. Let’s get a discussion going on this and see if we can get past that [...]
Enough of this polished, text-only blogging. It’s time for raw content and constant discussion around all things in the lifestyle design and muse creation world. Let’s get this started with some outsourcing thoughts.
You’ll notice a new face with me in some of these videos. Seth Hosko (@shosko) has been working with me for years and [...]