How to teach online: Part 4

If you are going to launch online, I think you should become a chicken entrepreneur.  This is an idea I picked up from Michael Masterson in his book, The Pledge.   What is a chicken entrepreneur?   A chicken entrepreneur is someone who keeps his full time job.  He...

Advice for an aspiring teacher

Someone asked me this week: What advice could you give me as an aspiring student to become a teacher? Here is my reply: Teaching can be a very rewarding career, but it’s often a tough way to make a living.  I struggled for years and years.  Most of my friends who...

How to teach online: Part 3

People frequently ask me, “How did you do it?  How did you figure out how to make a living online?” There are many ways I could respond, but most of it had to do with fireplaces.  And, death. Put your hands down.  I’ll explain. The Latin word for fireplace, fire pit...

Tip of the Week #214: Read

I once read that the average American reads one book a year. That statistic blows me away. If that’s true, think about this.  If you decided to read one book a month in your field, in just one or two years, you’d be light years ahead of most of your...