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Motivated to Write
When I write, I'm terrified. I want to be able to say something new. I want to say it in an entertaining way. I want to be scared to hit publish. (If I'm not scared to write it, nobody will be scared - or even shocked
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Simplicity So You Can Execute
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ~ Gustave Flaubert Consider those thoughts. It's not about productivity. It's not about tools. It's not about all the options. It's about getting the work
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Don't Let Certainty Blind You
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower When you look at most disappointments, it comes down to missed expectations. You thought something was going to happen or was supposed to happen but it didn't. It'
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Your Business Systems Are the Product
If you are an entrepreneur or investor in a business, it is so critical to heed the advice and framework that Robert Kiyosaki shares in his appeal that systems, not products, need your focus. Simply put, "Money always follows management." It's takes a special person to
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The Talent of Hiring Specialists
If you are scaling your business, there's a lot you can do with automation and technology these days. The world is at your fingertips and you can build systems, processes and platforms for growth. The exciting part of entrepreneurship and business growth is the learning, growing and work
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Rewarding Loyalty
Ever see chasers? Those people who constantly pursue others and give of themselves to people that mistreat them and others? It's pretty pathetic to watch that kind of misplaced loyalty. Giving your best to people that take from you or cost much more emotionally than other excellent people
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Being in a Band
I often think about what motivates people. And when I see the opportunities in the new economy to remain modular, independent and agile, it confuses me about why people tend to gravitate towards a band, a team per se, rather than learn to be a solopreneur who is independent. We
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Most Things Don't Matter
What if you started with that assumption that most things in life simply do not matter? It can be shocking, I know, if you are used to attending to every demand, every item and every relationship. What if you assumed that only a few projects make a real impact? Or
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Don't Torture Yourself With Work You Hate
I get it. You need to pay the bills. You may know some things because you got a degree in a subject, had your first job pushing the envelope on technical work you dread, or a host of other reasons for being where you are at. And if you have
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Find Space for Ideas
On any given day, I: * Write thousands of words in emails to drive clarity and decisions * Post thousands of words on blogs, books and social media Thinking, driving clarity, collaborating, corresponding and sharing ideas to solve problems is part of a normal day. I have to always be fresh in
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Creativity Is Still the Differentiator
I think that mentality of working harder is a comfort zone when you don't know what to do. You don't have to take ownership of your direction. You can simply, perhaps mindlessly, keep going down a path of merely working without thinking. If you are a
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Stuck in Short-term Thinking
There is a saying that, "Where there is no vision the people perish." When you think about it, the demise becomes inevitable because everything in the world is working against you. We live in a world of complete entropy. And vision is that energy and intentionality which breaks