HUSBAND. FATHER. DISCIPLE OF JESUS CHRIST.
ENTREPRENEUR. MEDIOCRE GOLFER.

Over the past year or so my wife and I have felt more and more frustrated with needing to nag our kids about doing their chores. With Covid-19 in the mix, that became more obvious since the kids are home all the time and the house is messier and messier. I attended a...

I have mercury poisoning.   Tests came back that I was in the 99th percentile of mercury poisoning. Too much tuna. Silly mercury fillings. No wonder I can't remember anything.No wonder I don't concentrate well.No wonder my body is freaking out. I found out about...

I recently spent 6 days in Northern Minnesota boundary waters- the northern border between US and Canada- canoeing.  Everyday we would canoe, paddle across the lake, carry our canoe and all our gears to another lake, and canoe... and get out, and another lake. Repeat...

You have to be the CEO of the company - you have to know the what and the why and the how… AND THEN DON’T DO IT.  This is where our stupid culture of over-work and “the grind” is so messed up. You shouldn’t be doing all the work. You should teach someone ELSE how...

Short and sweet today. Typhoon Vamco just hit the Philippines. https://apnews.com/article/typhoons-philippines-storms-typhoon-goni-manila-fbbcbba92c2f5f6eed8047c6a0ec07c4 Ask your VAs if they're ok. Typhoons hitting the Philippines is normal.  2 typhoons in one...

Many conventional outsourcing experts will tell you that you can only delegate mindless and repetitive tasks to VAs. My experience proves that Filipino VAs are capable of so much more. After the revelation I had with my first two VAs when I realized just how capable...

In my last email, I started telling you about the time I totally abandoned my online business.  My wife was on bedrest with life-threatening pregnancy complications. She needed constant care. There was no way I was going to risk losing her or the baby. So I...

I was sick. I was completely out of my mind. The swelling in my throat began to sabotage my breath. I blinked back the moisture that threatened my eyes.I grabbed for something stable as the room spun and my vision closed in. There’s a good chance that nobody in the...

Picking up where I left off -- John Bresee from backcountry.com told me to go to the Philippines with my outsourcing.This was a new idea...at least to me.He referred me to a hiring agency in the Philippines. They promised to match me with a Filipino VA who met...

One day while attending a local networking meetup I had a conversation with the late John Bresee, the creative mind behind backcountry.com. I was airing out some of my frustrations and failures. As the conversation proceeded he said:When you’re ready to start...

Welcome back to my crazy outsourcing origin story. Let me catch you up to speed. At the end of my last email, I - was working as a computer programmer - was moonlighting as an online entrepreneur- just got double-crossed by my first employee- was desperately...

This is a story about a painful failure, and a different failure, and yet another excruciating failure…you get the idea. And then, finally, incredible success. I attempted my first online business back in 2003, back when making money on the internet was still a...

Hey - it’s John again. Wherever you are on your outsourcing journey, I’ve been there. In fact, I bet we have a lot in common. I can understand what you may be feeling as you weigh the risks against the possibilities of outsourcing. Whether it’s curiosity, hesitation,...

One of the misconceptions of people when hiring virtual assistants is that either it has to be perfect, or it's gonna be perfect. But that's not always the case. Let me give you an example of how I work with my team: I recently hired a virtual assistant to write...

Typhoons are a part of life in the Philippines.  Every year they get hit by some major storms that wipe out cities.  It's terrible destruction. Right now Typhoon Goni is bearing down on the northern central part of the Philippines....

Often people will say to me in the middle of a conversation"Tell us how you really feel"because I'm not one to hold back.   I'm "passionate" they say. And halloween is one of those things (notice not a capital 'H' - it's NOT a holiday!!!) I know most of you...

My teenage son has a girlfriend, and today my wife and I suggested that he should take his younger brother with them on their date. They were getting smoothies from Roxberry. And his 6-year old brother would love to go with them. Of course, that did not sound amusing...

I get emailed almost every day by people telling me how they got more free time by hiring a virtual assistant from OnlineJobs.PH.Super often they say "I just wish I had done this sooner!" or "Why didn't someone tell me this would be so good!". I tried!!! One notable...

One of my family's favorite hobbies is going out to ride our bikes. We do it daily as a way to also hang out and spend time together.  Earlier today, my daughter, Addie, and I were riding our bikes as usual and came to an area with a broken trail. I went ahead to...

Remember back in the day when we used to play video games all day as teens until our parents scolded us? And then when cheat codes became a more common thing, all the more we weren't stopping at 10pm to sleep. My sister used to play Tony Hawk's Pro Skater on...