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4 Reasons to Start Before You're Ready
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I talk to a lot of people - a lot of people with great ideas, great vision, and tons of untapped potential. But they're stuck on 'start.' Instead of trying, attempting, and building, they wait around for the perfect opportunity, the perfect connection, and the perfect launch. News flash: perfect doesn't exist. Besides Perfect Is […]
Overcoming Fear and Disrupting the Status Quo
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The Creative Process Some days, I know exactly what to write, what to build, and what to develop. Every so often, I'm hit with a rush of ideas as I'm driving home, reading a book, or going for a long run. The ideas are clear and I know exactly what I need to say, build, or write. […]
Winning Your Inner Creative War
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The Pain of Creation Every act of artistic creation (business, blog, book or otherwise) begins in the mind. They begin as acts of love (we care about our ideas) and defiance (challenging what is with what could be). But being inside your own mind isn’t a pretty thing. It’s nasty in there; what is right […]
How to Build a Crazy Successful Blog and Get Published: an Interview With Jeff Goins
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In the Trenches: Episode 3 This is the 3rd episode of “In the Trenches: The Resistance Broadcast Interview Series” and today I had the honor of interviewing Jeff Goins. [Listen to the Interview by clicking this link] Jeff is a successful blogger, published author, and a self declared writer. Jeff Started his blog in 2010. In less than 2 […]
Why Seeking the Tribe Will Destroy You
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. [Mark Twain] The thing about writing, building, inventing, designing, or creating (essentially anything that requires leadership) is this: it’s not safe. Not only do you expose yourself to the dangers of a foreign environment (leadership by its nature takes […]
Your Reward for Taking the Road Less Traveled
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As soon as you choose to create something worthwhile, you take the first step in a long and very real journey… Like most journeys, it's not always pretty. Life will try to beat you down and break you if it can. There will come a time when things are confusing, uncertain, and perilous. And you […]
Be Bold
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The Problem With Hope "I hope they like it." "I hope it works out." "I hope they will buy it." The problem with hope isn't hope itself, but rather when we use the word hope as a replacement for "I wish someone else would take care of this problem for me." When we "'hope" […]
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 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 […]