The Story of a Man and His Pen

I am a writer and I have always been a writer. I started writing as a child. The fourth grade is the first time that I recall taking pleasure in writing. Our classes turned to creative writing and we could write about anything we wanted. Sometimes I chose my childhood fantasies of being a battleship captain or a sailing ship captain. Later in school, my writing became more academic. Reports, the effects of of the Russian winter on Napoleon’s conquest of Russia, what happened with the Spanish Armada of 1588, you know the work. Classic history. After that, it was service in they Navy, marriage, divorce, and back to figuring out what I wanted to be when I grew up. My First Montblanc I started writing again in the late 1990s. A present I received was a Montblanc Noblesse Oblige. It was the smoothest writer instrument I had ever had…

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No Turning Back

By Michael Neely | April 19, 2020

Your Commitment to Success is Sometimes All You’ve Got On March 30, 2020, I woke up at 3:27am. The Corona virus was just gearing up. I took a job as a web developer in Miami and was, in my opinion, doing well. On March 13, 2020, the “bosses” disagreed with me and let me go….

How Many Times Do You Write Your Goals Each Day?

By Michael Neely | June 6, 2017

Every personal leadership book I have ever read tells me to write my goals daily. But let’s get real. How many of us actually write our goals daily? I never wrote down my goals daily in the past. I also never achieved much either. One day, I began writing my goals. It seemed like some magical power I…

Why Getting Rich and Famous are Essential to Your Entrepreneurial Success

By Michael Neely | May 18, 2017

Getting rich and famous are almost taboo these days. Like a lot of busy solopreneurs these days, I have a few tools that are in auto-pilot on my Twitter feed @michael_neely. Yesterday, I saw the article “5 Wrong Reasons for Becoming an Entrepreneur” by Jayson Demers on my feed from Entrepreneur magazine and I had to read it. I don’t keep…