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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, […]
What Matters
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[infopane color="1" icon="0101.png"]This is the first in a series of 3 articles I’ll release over the course of the week. Stick around to find out the formula for great work and how to create it, one step at a time.[/infopane] Are You Doing Great Work? Sure, you might be doing above average work... Or very […]
9 Dos and 2 Don'ts for Creating Success in Business (and Life)
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Every day, hundreds of thousands of blogs are started, thousands of books are published, and hundreds of businesses are created. The majority don't last. So what separates those that last from those that fail? The ones that succeed - do they do something different? Is there a common pattern, strategy or framework that successful projects […]
Do Great Work
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The Most Likely Result This is it – your project is almost complete. You took the uncertain and difficult steps from start (creating the idea) to finish (bringing the idea to life), and now you’re ready to ship. It’s tough work, creating something from scratch, but you didn’t give up. And now is the moment […]