Ellis Benus - Web Designer Columbia MO

Columbia College’s new Brand

Ellis Benus — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:01:47 +0000

Columbia College launched it’s new brand today, and with it, the new website look.

As a proud member of Columbia College’s Web Team, I greatly enjoyed being able to participate in this new look and feel to Columbia College!

Humility is the secret of the wise

Ellis Benus — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:46:19 +0000

“Humility is the secret of the wise.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ellis Benus — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:44:38 +0000

“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

1100 days from 30 years old

Ellis Benus — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 05:14:46 +0000

Recently, I received notification I was 1100 days from turning 30.

The email asked me the same thing it always does: “What have you done with today?”

For the first time in 770 days, I can say, “All I wanted to.”

Don’t show Words can Cut

Ellis Benus — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:46:24 +0000

“Let them see that their words can cut you, and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.”

Bastard Armor

Ellis Benus — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:08:45 +0000

“Let me give you some counsel, bastard,” Lannister said. “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”

Don’t Hope for Economic Change. Accept This as the New Normal.

Ellis Benus — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:18:29 +0000

I just read yet another article about riding out the economic storm, and hoping for consumer spending to rise in the near future, etc…

The reasons we are currently in a recession are vast and varied, but one common trait is unanimously prevalent:

American’s Spend Beyond Their Means and Don’t Save!

Credit card debt is out of control
People purchase houses they can’t afford
The cheapest new car you can purchase is $10,000 or higher
(that’s more than my grandparents paid for their house)
The entitlement mentality is rampant!

Japan Can’t Get their people to Spend Money

Japan is having the opposite problem we are. Japanese people have a habit of saving far more money than they spend, thus their economy is sub-par according the article I was reading.

Spending below ones means is far better than spending beyond it!

I Pray the Economy NEVER goes back to the “Old Normal”

Unemployment must drop, people need jobs and money to feed and clothe themselves.

But people do not need the level of decadence America has basked in since the 1950′s.

The Old is gone, thank goodness, we need to start thinking like our 1920′s Ancestors who went through the Great Depression and knew what it was like to do without.

If people and businesses alike get used to this New Normal and America does see an economic boom again, we should just keep operating under the New Normal and see any up-tick as a temporary fortune. Take that time to pad the savings account.

Accept the New Normal and Thrive

If we get used to living much sparser than we have in the past, then we will be closer to an acceptable and sustainable way of life. STUFF cannot compensate for the peace of mind that comes with living debt free or with easily sustainable payments.

Stop hoping for the economy to rebound. Settle in and enjoy the simpler things.

Robert Jordan – Minds change faster than Hearts

Ellis Benus — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:50:42 +0000

“Minds change,” Faile said, “much more quickly than hearts.” – Towers of Midnight

This is why it’s possible to be so angry at the one you love one minute, and fawning over them the next.

Indexed – Ideas & Wisdom

Ellis Benus — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:41:59 +0000

Indexed is awesome again.

Two of my favorite principles: that you should share all your ideas and that you should stay curious forever!

Limitless or Limited Resources

Rotting and Rolling

Robert Jordan – Small things, seconds, become a man’s life

Ellis Benus — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:53:40 +0000

“Seconds were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top
of one another, they became a man’s life.” – Androl and Dedicated Ashaman from Towers of Midnight