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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
in the trenches: an interview with Al Pittampalli
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Today I thought I’d try something a little different. Instead of writing a mindblowing and inspiring blog post (at least that’s my intention with every post I write), I decided to interview a successful entrepreneur, published author and good friend of mine, Al Pittampalli. This is the first in a series of interviews I'm doing with some […]
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"Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain." [Emerson] Or maybe not. Maybe that fear never dies. Action quells fear because it changes our focus. Instead of experiencing the terror of a hypothetical, negative future, action requires your mind to focus on the present circumstance. Action shifts our brain […]
The Enemy Defined (part 3: the Commanding General of the Enemy)
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In the first part of this series, I described the conventional forces of the Enemy – the Army of Bad Habits (the largest of Enemy forces) In the second part of this series, I explained the unconventional force of the Enemy: Negative Self-Talk Propaganda (the most insidious of Enemy forces). In this third part of the series, […]
The Enemy Defined (part 2: Negative Self-Talk Propaganda)
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This is part 2 of a 3 part series explaining the Enemy (the thing stopping us from creating our epic work). You can read part one here. If you are new, read my new book: The Art of Instigating; this article will make more sense, I promise. In the first part of this series, I […]