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Are you telling the truth or selling the truth?

January 31, 2011

We tell the truth we want to believe It’s not that we create content with the intention of whitewashing the truth. We just tend to minimize the parts of our experiences that don’t align with our beliefs of how things should be or how we see ourselves. It seems like becoming successful would give you [...]

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Friday Menagerie: Collection #26

January 28, 2011

This week’s Menagerie spotlights: ★ Links from Naomi Niles, Lindsay Valente, Jaime Tardy, Karol Gajda, Allie Brosh, Lisa Baldwin & Margo Millure ★ Tweets from Marc & Angel, Jonathan Mead, Kyle Durand, Gwen Bell, Jana Knapp & Molly Gordon ★ And a special “Happy Birthday To My Mums” jukebox Please to enjoy! Rhythm Of My [...]

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Quantity versus Consistency

January 26, 2011

The right focus isn’t quantity versus quality. Quality is assumed. The right focus is on quantity versus consistency. Churning out a dozen top-notch articles in one week won’t do you much good if you vanish immediately thereafter and let your blog wither from neglect for the next six weeks. Your audience will be better served [...]

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Cheerleaders & Advisors

January 24, 2011

Cheerleaders are the people we count on to tell us we can do it. Advisors are the people we can count on to tell us whether we should do it. Cheerleaders applaud us for having an idea. Advisors help us examine whether it’s an idea worth pursuing. Cheerleaders use a mirror that shows us the [...]

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Friday Menagerie: Collection #25

January 21, 2011

This week’s Menagerie includes: ★ Links from Brenna Ehrlich, Henri Junttila, Willie Jackson, Formstack, David Cain, Seth Godin & Laura Roeder ★ Tweets from Josh Pais, Nathalie Lussier, Colin Beveridge, Hiro Boga, Justin Lukasavige, Danielle LaPorte & Vevice ★ And a jukebox time machine back to January, 2001. Please to enjoy! Links Don’t Cost A [...]

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Less Domination, More Tea: A Mini-Festo

January 17, 2011

I don’t really have any urge to dominate the world. Domination’s great, as long as you’re the dominator. But in order to dominate, there has to be someone being dominated. There is no dominator without a corresponding subordinate. Me Conqueror, You Subject. That isn’t how I approach my business or my life. Domination is an [...]

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Friday Menagerie: Collection 24

January 14, 2011

The â€œFriday Menagerieâ€ is a handful of links & tweets & other goodnesses from around the web that I gather throughout the week and then corral into a post. Stuff I loved, found fascinating, got a kick out of, etc. Please to enjoy! Linkything’s Possible James Clear asked a diverse group of freelancers (including me!) [...]

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The Best & Worst Things To Do When You’re Overwhelmed

January 12, 2011

The 5 Worst Things To Do When You’re Overwhelmed 1. Pick any one minute and relatively unimportant detail of any one minute and relatively unimportant task and focus on it with laser intensity as if your entire business depended on getting it perfect. Spend hours on this tiny, unimportant task, so that by the time [...]

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