Where do you work? I don’t mean that 9-5 you may or may not have, I mean, where do you brainstorm? Where do you mastermind and create your latest projects or grind out ideas and turn information into products? Do you roam? Do you have a home base? What does it look like? What do you listen to? What’s around you?

The video below details my physical office set up, how my moonlighting “command center” is set up, and what I surround myself with while working. As I’m working up some pillar content on how business is going at IT Arsenal, the lifestyle business connected with this project, I wanted to show you how I work in a quick 2 minute video, and ask…how do you? I’m sure there are ways to learn from each other.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOQpqU2-b6A

*The video quality sucks as I captured it with a photo camera but the audio is very clear.


While I’m creating my empire, tearing things of my own creation down or building new ideas up I’m often…

  • Listening to various instrumental music, classical to techno. Words distract me.
  • Staring at or reworking my “Board”.
  • Drinking a glass or two of “calimocho”, a cheap red wine and soda mixture popular in Spain.

What does your empire building environment look like while your hard at work?

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.”  Daniel Burnham

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