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Once More Into the Fray
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Once more into the fray, into the last good fight I'll ever know...
3 Life-Transforming Reasons You Should Go on More Adventures
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Change Your Input, Change Your Life When’s the last time you made yourself uncomfortable? This question isn't rhetorical and it's definitely worth answering (at least to yourself). Why? Because your answer is indicative of the life you’re currently living – for better or worse. So many of us instinctively stick to what we know. We […]
Starting 101 : Get Your Project off the Ground Successfully
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I mentioned in my last blog post I've been traveling across the country to the World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon. Well, the event is over and it was pretty wild. I met a lot of great people in person and had the opportunity to listen to some great speakers. Don't worry if you missed […]
Into the Unknown
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Maybe I'm Crazy... In fact, I must be. Right now, as I write this blog post, I'm sitting outside a Starbucks in Boise, Idaho... I'm thousands of miles away from most of my friends and family... And I'm Homeless and unemployed. That's right - no job, no predictable income, no home... And I have no […]
Talents and Time Decay
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What do you do when presented with an uncertain path? Do you stick to what’s comfortable, to what’s safe? If there’s something on the line (and there always is), this would seem the prudent choice. After all, with uncertainty comes risk, and risk means danger - the reasonable choice would be to stick to what […]
Are You Paying the Iron Price?
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Face it, the majority of people don’t want new. They might want the latest (the latest car, the latest computer, the latest gadget), but not new. New, by it’s nature, is unnatural. It doesn't exist yet. It has no track record. Which means the entrepreneur has a problem. Entrepreneurs are idea insurgents - they bring new […]
Let Your Hands Go
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Back in college, my boxing coach would remind us every day of the most important thing we needed to do as fighters. It didn’t matter if it was heavy bag practice, sparring, or between rounds at an actual match, he would say over and over again: Let your hands go. The instructions were simple enough […]
How to Find the Strength to Continue When You Feel Like Quitting (a letter to those in the trenches)
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On the Pain of Creative Work Creative work is hard as hell. If you’re a writer, entrepreneur, or anyone else challenging and pushing boundaries (read: instigator), you know what I’m talking about. In fact, creative work is probably the hardest work there is – something only those bold enough to create can appreciate. But what […]
The Surprisingly Simple Way to Obliterate Procrastination
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Be honest - there are important things you (and I) ought to be doing right now… But we’re not doing them. Maybe it’s setting up a marketing campaign for your newest product, or connecting with the lead editor to read, review or plug your work, or finishing up your last few songs so you can […]
Want to be Successful? Hustle like a G (6 case studies to prove it)
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Have you ever wondered what separates success from failure? Like whether or not there's a certain attribute responsible for success, that those who fail never seemed to find or cultivate? The truth is, there are a number of attributes a person needs to really succeed in life. As unfair as it is to say it, […]