Month: June 2016

Everyone is in sales

Chicken Egg balance on it's end
Rumor is you can only do this on Spring Equinox. It worked. Imagine if we could only trust ourselves once or twice a year. We often live like it.

 

In sales…

Trust is more important than how good you are.

In midlife, you need to sell yourself (to yourself) on your worth, your value, and your dreams.

Take steps to earn your own trust – so that what you hope for is worth burning the ships for.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

The best way to succeed

Glacier National Park
Know what inspires you and build it into your life.

 

The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.
– Unknown

Responsibility is the price for freedom.

  • Don’t quit your day job
  • Being better, different, or both is the only way
  • It’s easier to be different than it is to be better
  • Find and exploit your unique selling proposition
  • Publish your first book
  • Become a category of one
  • Charge a premium for your art

This is tip of the iceberg advice.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

The guaranteed antidote to regrets

Blurry photo
Life goes by in a blur.

 

Is procrastination to blame for my regrets?

Is it to blame for yours?

Yes and yes.

Consider this guaranteed antidote – a deadline.

If we want to have a better future (healthier, wealthier, smarter, more content, etc) we create wonderful dreams in our minds about how we’re going to change.

But we fail to attach a deadline, thus enabling procrastination to never feel compelled to end.

The reason we avoid deadlines is two-fold:

  1. We think we have forever
  2. A deadline is too much pressure for something we don’t need right now

Long-term procrastination makes us a spectator in our own life.

The frustration is severe because it wasn’t that we never finished our dream, it’s that we never got started in the first place.

Deep regret.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

World record telephone call yesterday

Fearless sign
University of Maryland airport advertisement a few days ago.

 

It started while i was biking (for an hour) home from the gym.

It morphed into a world record telephone call yesterday.

Five hours.

With whom?

A college roommate from 1978-79.

i was a sophomore and Larry was a Junior.

Obviously we talked about many things…and while i explained the gist of my book, this gem surfaced as i revealed how having a 10-year deadline changed everything. A definitive deadline…

Neutralizes excuses. Accelerates decisions.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

The day began like the day before

Marriott room art
Just above my hotel room desk, a picture of an “old-time” writer setup.

 

Courtyard Marriott room
Yesterday morning 6am…Baltimore, MD. Below the picture (above), the writer’s modern day equivalent,  a Mac.

 

The day began like the day before…

Like every morning, yesterday’s began with the same two-hour writing investment. Five differently-themed blogs on five separate websites.

i write so prolifically, not because i have to, or feel a need to have followers, but simply because i enjoy writing and and because it makes me a more intentional, more focused thinker and doer.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.