My name is Clayton McIlrath and I am an entrepreneur currently living in CO. I personally enjoy the process of learning, exploring, and doing all things creative as well as sharing my experiences with others. Being an entrepreneur and business owner, I hope that my experiences may help someone else start their own venture and find success and freedom as I have! Feel free to contact me anytime for questions or opportunities.
It’s been a year and a half since i started this blog, and it’s amazing to look at how far I’ve come. This blog started out as a playground, where my best designs were wallpapers and my experience with development was limited to mostly front-end. In those days, I was proud of my average of [...]
A question that is brought to my attention almost daily is, “how do i succeed in this rough economy?” .. well today, I’ve put together a simple article for you (which is also going to be printed in our local newspaper), which should serve as a simple reminder and nothing more. YOU have the power and tools to change your circumstances, these notes will just remind you where to start.
Everyone has opinions and advice for starting a business, but most advice tells you how to start a business with a capital investment or loan.. but when we started Chosen we didn’t want either.. we wanted to follow the same path that 37 Signals traveled by “getting real” with development and work-flow and then finding ways to have your money work for you rather than surviving on income alone. So we with little capital and a lot of heart we dove into this business head first…
I’ve been reading all sorts of literature dealing with finances and success, for the class I’m taking and one of the books I like most, is Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker. I’ve realized so many principles and character flaws that I’ve had up until now, which have hindered my success in reaching my full potential. I’m destined and plan to become a multi-millionaire, reaching my first million by 2012. I’ve grown and learned how to manage my money, grow my business, and make investments wisely. One of my motivations for success is to share what I learn freely, so that others may gain these principles. So to help you get started in becoming successful in whatever you set your hand to, check out some of my former posts on Goal Setting and Pacesetting Leadership and add to them these simple principles for defining your motivation…
Combining a poor economy with an ever changing web makes it challenging to stay on the cutting edge. With multiple web languages, platforms, and techniques it’s important to dedicate your time to being versatile and flexible while not wasting time learning skills that you won’t use. In the past 2 years I have learned and mastered many tools and techniques, and I’m here to share what has been valuable and where you can trim the fat from your day.
Learning keyboard shortcuts helps you improve efficiency and performance in any almost any program. I find this especially true for Photoshop since much of the design process is done with a mouse, it helps to train the other hand to use shortcuts and type in small amounts. In posting this, I hope to reference it myself to memorize and learn these shortcuts, and hopefully others will bookmark and reference this page as well.
