• Podcast on Rules for life

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    12 Rules for Life The big takeaway here is that the little things add up. If you’re laying around making excuses, that’s what it adding up. If you’re kicking ass, or trying to, that’s what’s adding up. If you’re taking a step on the path towards kicking ass. That’s what is adding up.

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  • You Have to Finish Something First

    You Have to Finish Something First

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    After Brendon Burchard’s first book didn’t do as well as he hoped, he started interviewing bestselling authors to see what made them bestselling authors. He describes his findings from these authors in High Performance Habits on page 199. The first point is the crucial one: Finish writing a good book. Until that’s done, nothing else…

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  • What I Want in Invoicing – yup it’s a pipe dream

    What I Want in Invoicing – yup it’s a pipe dream

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    I’ve been looking at freelance invoicing and billing software again after about three years with 17Hats. I’ll be digging into options for the next number of weeks seeing if I can find exactly what I want. Of course, that means first I need to define what I want. Solve a problem I’ve said a few…

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  • Self Care Challenge at Bullet Journal

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    We don’t do enough self care. Bullet Journal is trying to help you do more.

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  • Are You Measuring The Gain or the Gap?

    Are You Measuring The Gain or the Gap?

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    I just finished reading Michael Hyatt’s, Your Best Year Ever. Yup the review is coming. Today I want to talk about one of the ideas in that book. Most times we measure the gap. The distance we have to go till we reach…success…or whatever we’re striving for. Till we match the success of someone we…

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  • Resolve Conflicts by Playing Nice in Your Sandbox

    Resolve Conflicts by Playing Nice in Your Sandbox

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    Nothing ever goes as smoothly as we’d like. There is always conflict at home and work, and we have to deal with it. Few of us have effective strategies to deal with the conflict though. You can find an audio version of this. Make sure you subscribe to Should I Read It so you don’t…

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  • Is Your Mind Prepared?

    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…

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  • 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…

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  • Can I niche my freelance business around a technology

    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…

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  • 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.

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