By Mike-the-Pharmacist (Michael J. Ilardo RPH) Do you know someone in your family battling an addiction? Do you know someone in your family who died of an overdose? Do you know someone who’s marriage was destroyed, lost their kids to foster care, lost a job, or served time in prison or youth detention due to…Read more
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Can you HELP a One-Trick Pony?
By Michael J. Ilardo AKA Mike-the-Pharmacist I will save you hours of reading. I am a one-trick pony – I know how to write. Need long winded material? That’s me. Need endless rabbit trails? ME. I have been a writer since 1st grade, when I wrote my first political poem – the famous “Ronnie Rap.”…Read more
Help with your At Home Business
Working from Home can be a Walk in the Park. Jurassic Park. And it can feel like you are dropped in the middle of nowhere, in the rugged mountains. Granted the view is beautiful, but if you don’t figure out how to find a way out, you will soon starve. Or chased by bears back…Read more
A Way to Fund your Ministry IDEA
In 2006 I had this idea – if you had 12 fully funded evangelists at your disposal, you could change the world. In Jesus day, he was able to provide for 12 employees. Granted he just needed a few fishes and loaves and miracles did the rest. It was around that time that the vision…Read more
Prepare or Perish
Hey! Mike-the-Pharmacist here. I want to lay a foundation to see if this would be something you want to invest some time into learning more about. Are you open to prepare before the next storm hits? My joke is I complimented my boss on his new Lamborghini and he said, “If you work super hard…Read more
All or None. All the Time
Anyone else have the struggle with an all-or-none mindset that seems to drive your results and motivation? And I am talking about this inner drive sort of thing. There are times – and I can’t schedule for this or plan for it – but I seem to wake up ready to work and take on…Read more
Priorities
by Mike-the-Pharmacist (Michael J. Ilardo RPh) Think of how this works. The average person will spend $100 for a dinner out. If you have a family of 6 you will go to the OG (the famous Italian American chain) and drop $150 for $25 worth of pasta. And $10 for a piece of cheese cake….Read more
Perilous Times
by Michael J. Ilardo Nothing is easy. The path of least resistance is going to end with us in a ditch or maybe worse. Life today is not harder than say during the dark ages or during the Depression. But it sure seems like it. One reason I think life feels so hard for the…Read more
Laugh or Cry
How to Blog And Work From Home and Not Go Insane by Mike-the-Pharmacist Someone asked on a business group a question that made me chuckle out loud. COL. It’s like LOL but more of a chuckle or chortle. How do you balance being an entrepreneur and a parent? That is supposed to be one of…Read more
Butterflies
This post was birthed simply by all the challenges I have been facing. Real pain seems to create real posts. It is for sure an ENCOURAGEMENT to see what the DISCOURAGEMENTS of life can produce- like how rainbows come after the storms of life. I saw a good observation on butterflies. People talk about this…Read more