The Break Diving Personal & Business Success Blog
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by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder & Exec. Dir., Break Diving, Inc.
If you’re a rails user, awesome news: there’s an amazing gem that takes less than 5 minutes to install, and voila, you’ve got a beautiful admin backend to handle all of your users. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Man, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder & Exec. Dir., Break Diving, Inc.
If you ever do a search for software online, I’m sure you often end up on Capterra.com. It’s the Yelp for computer BUSINESS software and apps, and it allows users to rate software.… Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder & Exec. Dir., Break Diving, Inc.
If you want an awesome online database program to keep track of people in your life, the projects you are working on, the books in your library, or whatever, I recommend obvibase.com… Read More
This is a simple list of US States and World Countries for your memorization and/or copying for use on another website. I am tired of google searching for an easy cut/paste list (because they are hard to find), so I created it myself.… Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Exec. Dir., Break Diving, Inc.
Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a book called, The Theatrical Juggernaut – The Psych of the Star (now in it’s 2nd edition). It was the first book I ever wrote, and it’s hard to believe I wrote it back when I was 22!… Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder & Exec. Dir., Break Diving, Inc.
“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” – Romans 8:18
I read this Bible verse today from an email sent from Steven Furtick Ministries (www.stevenfurtick.com).… Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, ME, LLM, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
Wake up people! You could die tomorrow! Heck, you could die TODAY!
I hear so many people talking about what they are going to do one day, or what they are going to have one day, but if I ask them what they are doing to reach that goal today, they have a million excuses.… Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
Note: although I am a lawyer, the following is not legal advice, but rather, just some helpful tips to point you in the right direction as you get your own 501(c)(3) not-for-profit up and running. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder and Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
and… Ruby on Rails web developer
This is a short post to help you coders remember all of the parts required when adding a new page using an MVC framework.… Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
Yes, you can quit! But… in most cases, the reason you’re quitting is not acceptable.
You see, as far as I’m concerned, 99 out of 100 times, quitting is not allowed. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA
Founder & Exec. Dir., Break Diving, Inc.
and… Ruby on Rails Developer
What follows is a list of Ruby on Rails resources, which I will update from time to time as I find worthy additions. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
& Producer, Co-Writer, Co-Director, & Co-Star of the feature film, “You Can’t Kill Stephen King”, a film I produced with Ronnie Khalil
Filmmaking, I now realize, is like a pirate ship. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
& Producer, Co-Writer, Co-Director, & Co-Star of the feature film, “You Can’t Kill Stephen King”, a film I produced with Ronnie Khalil
Why I Am Writing This
This is an amusing, but serious, account of the lessons I learned from 2008 – 2015 during the entire process of creating the feature film You Can’t Kill Stephen King, from conception, screenwriting, and fund raising to production, editing, Cannes!,… Read More
Book Review: Zen & the Art of Making a Living — A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design by Laurence G. Boldt
A review by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
This book has been with me for years. … Read More
By Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc & The Fluency Project
Here at the Break Diving Fluency Project, Anki is one of the wonderful tools we use to help our students turbocharge their vocabulary building and retention.… Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, ME, LLM
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc. (& The Fluency Project)
Here at the Break Diving Fluency Project, we recognize what most language schools do not: one of the biggest reasons you can’t fully communicate in the foreign language you are studying is because you have a terrible level of vocabulary–wholly deficient. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, MBA, Esq, LLM
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
(c) 2017 by Monroe Mann
Chapter 1. Why Finding Potential Investors Is So Difficult
Great news! You already know the investors for your next project!
It’s true. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, ME
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
T.R.U.S.T. is an acronym that I developed after first failing to raise money for a big project, and then six years later, successfully raising money for a big project. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
If you have a big decision to make, don’t just make it on a hunch.
Instead, use something I created called “The Big Decision Matrix”. It only takes about 5 – 10 minutes to set up, and when you’re done, you will be able to make a decision having considered all the possibilities.… Read More