Are They Actually Doing Your Ecourse?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Tara Sophia Mohr from Wise Living. Several times in the past few months, I received notes from my customers that said something like this: “I love your course, but any suggestions on how to make time and space for it? I’m super busy and I’m struggling with [...]

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Flee or Grab: How Do You React to New Technology?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Ali Luke. Think back twelve years: 1999, the end of the last century. What did your life look like then? I’m guessing it was pretty different from your life today. In 1999, I was fourteen. We’d had dial-up internet at home for a year or so, a [...]

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Focus On The People Keeping Your Lights On

10% or less of the people who interact with your business actively support your business by buying from you. If you have an online business, it’s probably closer to 1%, with the other 9% making some positive contribution via comments, social media sharing, and so on. We could talk a lot about the other 90% [...]

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Eyes Forward

When you’re looking at a successful entrepreneur, remember that you’re looking at someone who has made a lot of mistakes in their time. They’ve bought the crap. They’ve bought into the crap. They’ve gambled. And lost. They’ve groped in the darkness and stubbed their toes a few times. They’ve reworked, reiterated, reframed, restarted, and revised. [...]

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The Free Planners for July 2011 Are Available

Here are the free planners for July 2011. Remember when I said June was a transition month last month? It was a transition to summer, but the change isn’t just the season – as our environments change, so does our moods and temperaments. What does productivity look like for you in July? Is it different [...]

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Build From the Red Line, Not The Deadline

Imagine that during a normal week, you set goals and deadlines that assume you’ll be able to do, say, 10 units of creative work. And that, during a normal week, you actually get 4 units of creative work done. Imagine that during light weeks, you set goals and deadlines that you’ll be able to do, [...]

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Get More Done By Limiting White Space

An aside from Dan Ariely’s latest piece in Wired got me thinking. Here’s a quick excerpt: Think how differently we’d interact with our calendars if the default was for time slots not to be empty—if, instead, they were prepopulated with tasks like thinking, writing, and planning. We’d be far less likely to neglect the opportunity [...]

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Soft Costs Are Real Costs

People will spend an inordinate amount of time to save a few dollars. There’s often a lightbulb moment that happens when you ask them to calculate their time-dollar value. Take a second to think about it. If you spend 3 hours avoiding paying $12 for something – or researching whether you should – yes, you’ve [...]

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Getting Results Takes Time

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. – Douglas Hofstader People often ask what they’re doing wrong when they’re not getting the results they want. They usually haven’t considered that it’s not their work that they’re doing wrong, but rather the goals they’ve set that’s [...]

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