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Heroes, Dragons, and Why You Need to Build Your Empire
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Things Break The project you’re working on; the goals you set this year; the strategy you spent months planning – all of it will break. This goes for everything tangible in this life: The factory you built: at some point in the future, time and the elements will collapse it - another will come and […]
Goal Setting and Closing Doors
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A Pause The beginning of every year starts with reflection. We reflect on the past year, on what we’ve done (or not done), on what we’re proud of (or not so proud of), and how we intend to make this year better. When we reflect, it’s common to see a multitude of failures: failure to […]
The Certain Path to Success
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One Habit When my thoughts beckon my tired body homeward I will resist the temptation to depart. I will try again. I will make one more attempt to close with victory, and if that fails I will make another. Never will I allow any day to end with a failure...I will persist until I succeed. […]
The Paradox of Creation
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Life is paradoxical We think pain and pleasure or love and hate are opposites of one another. We think of these emotions as opposite ends of the spectrum, as if each lies on either side of a single line. pain --------------------------------- pleasure love --------------------------------- hate This couldn't be further from the truth. In either […]
Sandbox
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Every person reading this has an opportunity. As humans, we’ve each been gifted several extraordinary things: Life. Obvious, but worth restating. What are the chances that you are here right now? What are the chances that you exist with the particular genetic makeup that you have, which is the result of hundreds of generations of […]
grit
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Breaking Your life will get busy. If not this week, then next week, or the week after that, or sometime in the future. It's inevitable that things will eventually unhinge, problems will occur, or something unexpected will happen: life is uncertain. And at some point in the future, your focus will shift entirely to the […]
How to Start Multiple Businesses, Blaze Your Own Path, and Instigate like a Professional: an Interview with Clay Hebert
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In the Trenches: Episode 2 Here is the 2nd episode of “In the Trenches: The Resistance Broadcast Interview Series” and today I had the honor of interviewing Clay Hebert. [Listen to the Interview by clicking this link] Clay is an entrepreneur, blogger, multitasking ninja, and all around instigator. Clay began his career at Accenture. After ten years […]
madness
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Every entrepreneur, artist, inventor, warrior and explorer must be a little mad. It takes someone just a slight bit off - someone a bit weird, unusual or odd - to lead without permission. There’s no good reason to go against the grain, to try something that might not work, or to stand up and take […]
Why Keeping Your Options Open Could Destroy Your Project
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Starting down the path to success is simple. To be successful at anything, you must commit. But committing to anything means you make a transition. When you commit, you transition from someone who dabbles to someone who goes all in; from someone who quits when things break to someone who takes it all the way; from […]
Why Most Startups Enter the Arena and Fail (and the One Thing You Can Do to Make Sure You Win)
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Creating Creating anything takes guts; I explained that in depth in my book The Art of Instigating. It takes guts because you're going to take a hit (no question about it), and taking a hit isn't pleasant. Nobody WANTS to take a hit. But the person unwilling to take a hit might as well stay […]