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Month: January 2018
Is Your Mind Prepared?
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If you’re not continually preparing your mind to accept new information and ideas, you’ll just become an old dried-up field full of weeds. – The Success Grower So many people I talk to get tired of programming. They don’t want to do client work. They are not up to date on the latest languages and…
Trying to Measure the Artistic Gain
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Because instead of comparing me with me, I was comparing me with da Vinci, with my friend the professional illustrator, with all the artists who’d inspired me to want to start to draw. The first bar was way too high. I’d just started to jog and was beating myself up for not running a marathon…
Can I niche my freelance business around a technology
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Reader Stephen asked: I’ve been reading a lot about finding you niche (I have a copy of your book) and positioning, and a lot of what I’ve read seems to suggest working within an industry sector, but I don’t have a industry I like working in. I’ve built web apps for many different types of…
Does your product fit the market?
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Great primer in product market fit from my friend AJ. I’m just in the middle of digging into this idea to improve my positioning and marketing. It will be my reading focus for much of the year.
You’re Building People not Robots
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Countless numbers of leaders gain much of their education from on-the-job training, where they watch and mimic the behaviors of others. This has its merits, but the serious downside is that the leaders in the making aren’t necessarily learning how their mentoring leader thinks. – Paid To Think When I was landscaping the one issue,…
That Ideal Day
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I love this article detailing the ideal day where everything went right. I love it because some of it is achievable every day. You can go to bed earlier and get the rest you need. You can decide to bury your phone in your backpack, or even leave it at home, and spend time talking…
Are you refining
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Thoughtful post from Scott on the process of creating taking time. I was just talking to some of my coaching students today about some new thinking told and strategies I’ve been using that have been helpful. Old Curtis would just have launched something about it. This time I’ll work through it with my clients a…
151 – Avoiding Hardship
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Too many people avoid any sense of hardship in their lives. They fear they can’t handle it or that they’ll be judged or rejected. – High Performance Habits …and… Our culture today is obsessively focused on unrealistically positive expectations: Be happier. Be healthier. Be the best, better than the rest. – The Subtle Art of…
Another Great Review of So Good They Can’t Ignore You
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I loved So Good They Can’t Ignore you. You can read my review of it here. Well, here is another good review of the book. Like the author, I love Deep Work and this book and almost everything Newport writes.
How You can Become a Linchpin in your Field
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023 – Linchpin While not all of us aspire to being some famous person that holds the keys to success in an industry, we all dream of being indispensable. Of being someone that is a leader in a small field. Even if that niche is obscure, being the person that is the “go to” in…
