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Welcome to BreakingOut.NET in 2012!

If you're visiting this site for the first time, then I'd like to welcome you to BreakingOut.NET! My name's Kevin Wells and I’m an English guy currently travelling in Europe.

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Take Control of Your TV!

Take Control of Your TV!

The other day I did something radical. I disconnected my TV from the wall socket. The cable TV wall socket that is. I've been kind of "anti-TV" for some time. I never watch much of it. Mostly I just use my TV screen to watch stuff I've downloaded from the net.

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Can You Get Rich?

I've been reading an interesting book on entrepreneurship called "How To Get Rich" by Felix Dennis Felix Dennis is the founder and chairman of Dennis Publishing, an independent producer of consumer magazines in Britain and the USA.

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When You Are Old, What Advice Would You Give Your Younger Self?

BreakingOut.NET is continually attracting more and more readers and followers. One recent newcomer is a guy called Flynn Walker.

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Why it’s Important to Cut Loose

In order to break out you need to cut loose. I was discussing this recently with someone who runs his own small business online and feels that he's not understood by those around him. He's surrounded by what he calls "factory workers" - people who just stick to the daily plod, the nine to five. Who regard that as a virtue and don't appreciate or approve of anything or anyone who is doing anything different to that.

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Happy Birthday, BreakingOut.NET!

BreakingOut.NET has now been online a full year. Looking back it's been quite an experience and things are still developing and taking shape for me in my own breaking out entrepreneurial adventure.

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The One Minute Guide on How to Break Out

If you want to break out from your job and your 9-5 routine and do more with your life, - and you want a no-bullshit guide on how to do it, then read on. What follows are my one minute instructions on how to break out for those in a hurry.

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Places You Once Lived In and Used to Hang Out in

Google Streetview is great. It's perfect for checking out places that you're interested in for whatever reason, be it to visit, or just out of curiosity, doing a bit of armchair travel on the spur of the moment. Like many people, I occasionally also use Streetview to take a look back at places where I used to hang out, places I've visited and places where I used to live and to see what they look like now and how they compare with when I used to know them.

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