The other day I wrote about how you can swap services to get help rather than think you have to pay people all the time. This morning I read Jacks My worst nightmare post and it made me realize how they are very related. Rather than write the post I was going to ...
Category Archives: Productivity
What Was I Thinking?
I just looked through my domain name accounts. There are over 30 unused domains in there. What on earth was I thinking? The problem is I know I will have yet another "brilliant" idea soon and do the self same thing. Get inspired, find a perfect domain name (or maybe not perfect), then sit on it for when ...
Making the Most of Your Resources
Are you a "Jack of all trades?". Very few of us are. It's rare indeed to find someone with all the skills required to do well in this game. Just check out the jobs and roles I listed in my blogging hats post. There are a lot of things involved in blogging, online marketing, and business ...
What Do You Want?
Well? What do you want? Sometimes when I work with my coaching clients, one of the things we have to do is really discuss what their actual goals are. Not what they think their goals are, what they really are. It's important because once you get going on a project you don't want to be distracted, or ...
Defeating Self-Limiting Thoughts
What would you do if you knew you could not fail? What goes through your mind, what are the words you tell yourself? How do you feel about yourself? Quietly think that over to yourself right now. Many people I speak to are constantly limiting their own performance through self doubt, lack of self respect and by ...
Motivational Quotes
One thing I like to collect in my swipe file is quotes. Quotes make you look more intelligent than you really are because you can borrow someone elses smarts and make it look like they are agreeing with you ;) I saw these positive quotes in a comment over at the Dilbert Blog last ...
Short Term Gains Versus Long Term Value
Liz and I just had a conversation that I had to write about. We were commenting how people sometimes sabotage their own efforts running after short term gains. There are obviously unethical things people do to get ahead. Things like spamming. Shady black hat tactics. Affiliate cookie stuffing. Tricks. Attacks. Then there are the less obvious ...
Forget About Perfection, Just Do It
Three times yesterday I gave the same advice. Two of those times were to consulting clients with absolutely brilliant ideas for blogs. I wish I could tell you what those ideas are, I just know a ton of you would sign up right away. What was the problem? What was my advice? The problem is the ...
Are You Working Too Hard?
Andy has a thought-provoking post over at his Tropical SEO blogThe great entrepreneur-CEO is, at his/her core, smart and lazy.Could you be working too hard? Yes have commitment, energy, drive, ambition, but do not confuse those with "hard work". Think of the old cliché "work smarter not harder". Many of the best programmers I have met ...
Turning Limitations Into Advantages
People seem to have a magnified view of their own limitations. Recently I have been putting together a blogging course and coaching program which has put me in discussions with a lot of beginning bloggers. It has also put me in touch with a bunch of people who think they couldn't blog no matter what ...
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