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Brute Force It
Sometimes you just have to brute force your way out of confusion and failure into knowledge and success. Don’t know how to XX? Just hurl yourself at the problem–iterating hundreds and thousands of time. We are talking countless hours, weeks’ and months’
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What To Do When You Are Stuck?
What should you do when you are stuck? I have a simple answer for you: take the next step. What’s the next step? Simple. What can you do? Right now. Today. Can you create a webpage for your venture? Make a blog post? Call a contact? Outline a strategy or vision? Read a book that […]
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How You Get from Here To There? #2
The trick is you have to just go through the motions for quite a while when you don’t know what you are doing. This is stressful. But it’s how you get from here to there…. See lesson #1, here.
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Are You In The “Suck Phase?”
I love the suck phase. Why? Because you might as well. What’s the suck phase? It’s that period when you first start any venture when your enthusiasm and hopes get you going, and then you crash into the reality that you suck. You have no idea what you are doing, and any degree of competence […]
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Books For The Way Ahead
Faith. Dying To Be Me. Technique. So Good They Can’t Ignore You. Positivity. The Promise of a Pencil. Deliberate small steps daily. Persistence. The Slight Edge. Habits. The Power of Habit. Focus. The One Thing. Money. See these five books….
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Courage is Key, But ….
Courage is key. Unless you are a bodhisattva or utterly oblivious, as you move towards your deepest goals and dreams, fear will get in the way. It’s an odd fact of life. The more we care about something, oftentimes the more we will get into our own way. I don’t know what this is the […]
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When You Are Truly In The Zone….
When you are truly truly truly in the zone and doing exactly what you are meant to be doing, time does seem to slow down significantly. One of the great blessings of this fact is that your life will be less likely to pass by in the blink of an eye. You will savor it […]
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