Planning

A Few Words On No Goals

A few weeks back, I was writing a post in reply to Leo’s discussion of No Goals. I found myself referencing many versions of the Tao Te Ching to show missing pieces that weren’t in his discussion. As I reflected on the essential tenets of the Tao, I saw that what little I had to [...]

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Clear the Deck Before You Deck the Halls

Managing yourself, your business, and the holidays can be a tricky balancing act. There’s only so much of you at the same time that there are a lot of places you need to be. With all this going on, I’ve got a challenge for you: find the 1-3 projects that would feel the best to [...]

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The Hidden Economics of the Mega Launch Strategy

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you may need to click through to watch the video.] Launching is a big deal for many business, but especially so for internet marketing and online businesses. While there’s a lot of talk about the “how” of it, what’s less often discussed is the economics of it. [...]

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Get Over $4k of Online Business Products for $500

I’m excited to announce – and contribute to – this year’s Only72 Sale. It starts today and ends Thursday, December 1st at 12pm ET. This year’s theme is on online business and the Only72 team has outdone themselves with the TWO packs they’ve put together. The first pack – “The Business Launcher” package – has [...]

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The Premium Planners for 2012 Are Available

The premium planners for 2012 are now available for purchase! Thanks for all the encouragement and nudging to go ahead and get these done – they’re coming out later this year and the interest has been even more fervent than last year. If you’re planning ahead – YAY! – and want to pick them up [...]

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Be Prepared To Make Bad Decisions

I’ve been thinking a lot about planning, decision-making, and execution lately. Okay, I always think a lot about those topics, but I’ve been thinking about them even more intently than usual. You’ve no doubt heard someone – maybe me or Seth or other tributes to failure – encourage you to fail fast and fail often if you [...]

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Adding to the Heap Won’t Help You Work Through It

If you’ve already got too much to do, adding more to the heap won’t help you work through the heap. This is obvious at a conceptual level. Yet, in our daily practices, we often continue to take more on than we can do without even considering the heap we already have. There are really only [...]

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Decisions, Decisions… Are You Planning or Stalling?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Al Pittampalli of The Modern Meeting Standard. What do you do when faced with an important decision? Whether it’s deciding to launch a new product, whether or not to apply to graduate school, or to design your blog using Tumblr or WordPress, what’s your approach? Do you [...]

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3 Questions To Ask Before You Hit Reset On Your Business

During today’s open teleclass for our Lift Off Retreat, Pam and I talked about how to press reset on your business. Because we’ve been working with each other for so long, she rightly guessed that I had a framework for how to make those decisions – and she would probably also guess right that I [...]

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