If there is one thing I have learned in my 41 years life, is that authenticity is the ultimate path to success. Yes, it does yield financial freedom. But, it yields so much more than that. Authenticity means you don’t need to fake anything. Authenticity means you can be unabashedly true to who and what [...]
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I just interviewed my thousandth entrepreneur. Mind you, this is not a conclusion from formal tracking. I myself have been an entrepreneur almost twenty years now. From day one, I have tried to learn from every entrepreneur and business owner that I met. This past week was likely my thousandth interview and I asked this [...]
Read more“Your idea is stupid.” Has anyone ever told you that your business idea won’t make it? That your idea is too odd, too unique or too different? That you need to stick with what is proven? Here is the dealio, your entrepreneurial success is almost exclusively determined by following your passion, servicing the living hell [...]
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A hobby is like a meal. It satisfies a hunger pang. But you can only eat so much before you get sick. A hobby brings satisfaction and pleasure, but it fades after an hour, or after a day, or after a few weeks. Only when you become hungry again, do you enjoy your hobby. A [...]
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Andrew Mason, 32, the charismatic, but controversial CEO of Groupon, has been fired. After a rocky leadership, profanity laced memos to the SEC, fuzzy accounting practices, SEC investigations, and a whopping 77 percent decline in the company’s share price, Mason now joins the ranks of the unemployed. The firing wasn’t a surprise. It came a [...]
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Before we get started here, I want to make sure we agree on something. Every hour of our life is an hour closer to our death. In other words each hour we spend, regardless of how we spend it, is a life unit. Okay? Okay. So here is my question for you: How many life [...]
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If your customers feel someone or something is superior to them, they will envy it. And if you are that “superior” thing, envy is not good. When customers envy something, they will try to pull it down. For example, if you envy Donald Trump (you shouldn’t) you may try to pull him down by saying [...]
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Should you have a Plan B? The answer seems obvious: Hell yes! But it isn’t that cut and dry. The real answer, the right answer is “sort of.” Just so we are on the same page, Plan B is the action you intend to take should Plan A (what you are doing now) doesn’t [...]
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Failure is an extraordinary enemy. It plays unfairly. It gets in your mind. Failure is notorious for its stealthy ability to get lock you into a downward death spiral. And your business failure (or success) is a direct result of your failure mindset. How Failure Works You try something for the first time and fail [...]
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A picture from my “office” at the local town shelter. This is Day 7 with no power, heat, phone or beer at my house. Damn you Hurricane Sandra. Damn you!
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When You Aren’t Feelin’ It Need to work harder, but your not feelin’ it? Would you rather surf some (almost) porn pictures? Want to, once and for all, motivate yourself to work harder? Well, just read through this quick post and you will discover the one most powerful tool to motivating yourself. No outside help necessary! [...]
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Unsuccessful entrepreneurs say YES ten times more than they say NO. Successful entrepreneurs say NO ten times more than they say YES.
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Years ago, my buddy Mike Maddock told me about Larry Walters, the California truck driver who became famous when he flew to 15,000 feet… in his lawn chair. (Read the story in Maddock’s book, Free The Idea Monkey.) Walters’ eyesight kept him from his childhood dream of becoming a pilot, so he cooked up a [...]
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A simple strategy to grow a remarkable business in any field.
The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in business, even if you are at the end of your roll.