We live in a time of death, loss, and fear. The financial markets are crashing, you may have lost or will lose your job or your business is failing. This is only the beginning of the crisis… The current recession will bottom out in 6-18 months, but with the right mindset and strategies, you will […]

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Never Fear Again with Erlend Bakke

Since this interview was recorded the world has changed a lot. Learning how to master and rationalize your fears is more important now than it has been since the financial crisis of 2008. To understand why social distancing is so important I highly recommend reading this article: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca Tormod Granheim is an explorer, photographer, and […]

Fear & how to Master it in Times of Disaster with Tormod Granheim

You cannot manage what you can measure. Are you the kind of person who measures things? When you are in business, ‘numbers’ is very important, you have to understand what it means. We are in the age of artificial learning and deep learning so, if you are an entrepreneur, you ought to measure things by […]

What You Don´t Measure, You Can´t Manage

In 2017, programmers are an integral part of the business. If your competitor is building a better platform than you have, then you might be outcompeted by them. The benefit of building tech and software into your business is that you can operate more efficiently. How do you choose a good programmer? – pre-sell what […]

What Do Programmers Want?

Erlend is a big fan of the book “The One Thing”– it’s all about the one most important thing to do today to make everything else easier. And that is not just thinking about today but in the next five years. If you are an entrepreneur, your life must be creative with lots of ideas […]

The Perfect To-Do List

Do you do things on a repetitive basis? In this week’s episode, Erlend will talk about Consistency. Everyone has habits, but a few ones who have good habits, they get the best results. There is no such thing as overnight successes. It’s not rocket science. Rich people have been practicing good money habits for a […]

The Importance of Consistency

  If you have a team and working on a project, don’t have enough time to make things happen, this one technique called “The Daily Update” will save you from being bogged down with micromanagement. Erlend has been using this for 7 years and receiving weekly emails. Erlend has delegated 90% of his tasks focusing […]

The Daily Update and my Best Productivity Hack

  What I love about the book The Daily Stoic aside that it’s from Ryan Holiday is that you can just sit back and read a portion daily. The book is composed of advice from ancient Roman Stoics about life. Their philosophies are solid and work with a lot of things. It works well for […]

The Daily Stoic

Yin and Yang. I try to control things that I can influence. There is no point in worrying about the things that you can’t control. But what can you control? When I wake up, the day’s outcome should be favorable. I try not to judge whatever happens to me– may it be good or bad. You […]

Peace and Chaos

Erlend discovered Outsourcing to the Philippines when he was doing 360 photography and his arms were hurting, needed help but couldn’t afford to hire in Norway. So, he started an Ad on a Filipino website, got 30 applicants and about 5 passed. Eventually, Erlend hired 1 guy who happens to be his current business partner. He […]

Outsourcing to the Philippines

Everyone has a morning routine but only a few have an established one. Meaning to say, a morning routine that’s planned out will eventually help you in your daily life. Erlend talks about his morning routine and how he started on it in 2011. He started out just simply working every day and didn’t really […]

Morning Routine with Erlend Bakke

In this episode, Erlend talks about his life once as a Stoic. Let’s check and see! He is a big fan of Stoicism, Tim Ferris inspired him to free himself from business and travel the world. Every morning, he reads the Daily Stoic, a book by Ryan Holiday. He finds it a good way to […]

All About Stoicism

Your prosperity will sparkle as a light of expectation and motivate numbers you can’t add up to. Move individuals to get things done for themselves. Inspire individuals to have an independent mind. Our central need is somebody who will motivate us to be what we realize we could be. Magnus Walker, nicknamed the Urban Outlaw, […]

Magnus Walker Urban Outlaw

When you have that much going on, how do you stay this attached? How do you maintain the passion and drive while still being relaxed, sleeping, and being balanced among all those other things? How do you have a passion for something? We all have pretty much a little struggle on this because if you […]

Letting Go In Life and Business

A lean business is about being clever and applying the magical tool of entrepreneurship in life which is turning something into something of more value. It is about having the ability to be more innovative and using smarter tools and techniques to make things happen. The magic of entrepreneurship is when you can turn $1 […]

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