HUSBAND. FATHER. DISCIPLE OF JESUS CHRIST.
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7 years ago my son started selling dirt bikes.  He imports them from china (I helped him initially) and sells them locally. He doesn't do a lot of sales.  It's small. But last year it wasn't as small.  Early this year it wasn't as small. But then he got...

To complement our family's active cycling lifestyle, we throw in weights workouts twice a week. Today's session was a mix of Bulgarian Split Squats and Russian Twists but there are days where we alternate Turkish Get Ups and Romanian Deadlifts into the sessions. A lot...

Oh wouldn't it be nice to hire someone and just say "Hey, go do my SEO for me." Generally, that's not how it works. So let me tell you how I usually do this. I've been working on a new project for you. I'm creating SOPs and trainings which you can hand off to your...

Whenever my kids come home from school, I ask them "How was school?"  My 3 older kids, they're all teens, always say "BORING", while my 2 younger ones in elementary school always answer with "Good" or.... "BORING." It's the same thing every time. Today, my...

I need design or video editing work, there's Elijah or Mark. I need social media posts, there's Julia. I need customer support to attend to concerns, there's Jess or Jocelyn. I need programming, there's Vincent or Nino or Raymond.  I need ads, there's Louis. I...

Sometimes a good retail consumer... other times I'm a really bad retail consumer. Once I went to a doctor because I heard he was a good doctor, even though I wasn't feeling anything wrong with me. I wanted to support. Good retail consumer. Recently I bought some bike...

In 2007 when I found the right screen recording software, it changed VAs for me. See, with screen recording software, there are a couple small things which make all the difference on how much you'll use it. 1. It needs to do both video captures and image captures2. It...

Someone asked me today "how much time do you spend riding your bike each week...or, how much time in the sun?" If I had to guess...I'd guess 8-10 hours/week.  Last week it was more like 25 hours. Between riding bikes, running, skiing, or maybe things that aren't in...

A couple weeks ago, my wife went out of town. I was left alone managing everything at home, including tending to my 5 kids.  I got the kids to school, did some yoga, and took care of morning chores.At 3pm, I rushed home from the bike shop and started to make...

No, seriously...is there anything good that has come out of COVID for you? For me there has.  - My kids have spent a ton of time at home.  I love it. - We've gotten to go camping together a ton. - We've been able to ride our bikes almost every day.  -...

As thanksgiving approaches our thoughts turn to gratitude (as they should...more often). Yesterday I texted a post for social media to one of my VAs.  I don't make any social media posts.  I send raw photos/videos/text to her and she pretties it up and posts...

The White Rim Trail outside Moab, Utah is a good metaphor for life. It's beautiful. It changes unexpectedly. It has high highs and low lows. And sometimes you're on the edge of a cliff where little changes make a big difference. Everyone starts off super...

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...