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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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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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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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Voicemail Greetings Are First Impressions

A voicemail greeting is a first impression – one which can either set you up for future opportunities or shut the door before it’s even open all the way. Last week, I spent a little time calling clients and customers out of the blue to see how they were doing. I was already prepared to [...]

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How to Limit The Busyness In Your Business

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Ever notice that the thing you most want to do in your business is the thing that’s the hardest to find time to do? It’s easy for the busyness of business to take over and make it such that every day, it seems like you’re getting further and further from the core of your [...]

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My Second Run At Being A Captain

I found myself missing being in the Army last week. When Angela found out about it, she didn’t find herself missing us being in the Army, so a constructive and transformative conversation followed. To explain what I was missing, though, I’ll have to give you some background. My last two positions in the Army were [...]

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