Posts by Craig Ballantyne
Obama and Building Businesses
The other week Obama said, “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.” He was right. It’s true. No one succeeds on their own. Everyone – including you – will benefit from having a mentor and building a network of connections. Now don’t get me wrong…he’s still clueless about what it takes…
Read MoreHow to Sell
I was livid. It was a Friday afternoon and during our weekly sales review, one of my publishing partners gave me an invalid excuse for poor performance. “Sales are down because it’s a slow time of the year, so don’t worry about it.” Grrrr. This is WRONG thing to say to me. Because I don’t…
Read MoreNew Workout Schedule
The sun rises here in Vilnius, Lithuania before 4:30am. It didn’t set until after 10pm last night (I took a photo of the ‘old town’ and posted it for you on Facebook here.) So at 5:15am (Vilnius time) I was up and answering some questions on the TT blog (while it was 10pm back in…
Read MoreHow to Make Money on Facebook without ads
By the time you get this I should be stumbling off a plane in Vilnius, Lithuania. Hopefully Simon Black will be there to greet me. Or else it’s going to be very, very awkward. And then later this week we’re off to the BlackSmith camp with 50 future world-changers. It’s going to be amazing. But…
Read MoreMy New Daily Diet
By the time you read this, I’ll be off on a journey that is going to challenge my eating habits. First to a rustic resort in the woods near Vilnius, Lithuania, where the cuisine is “interesting” to say the least. And then to Norway, where things shouldn’t be too difficult, but we’ll be hiking and…
Read MoreBodyweight Workout to Build Muscle and Burn Fat at the SAME Time
If I had a quarter (American or Canadian, doesn’t matter much these days) for every time a faithful TT reader asked me if they could gain muscle and/or lose fat with just bodyweight exercises, I’d be able to pay all of Bally the Dog’s vet bills in quarters. (His lil’ paw is infected, again.) The…
Read MoreWhy We Really Do What We Do
In high school, I spent most of my time getting around on my bicycle. I rode it to school and then to my daily 2-hour shift at the local garden center. After that it was a short bike ride home for dinner before heading back into town to lift weights at the local YMCA. During…
Read MoreObama is WRONG about success
Two weekends ago, President Obama told an audience: “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” He’s wrong, you know. Totally wrong. It wasn’t somebody else. It wasn’t the government. Because well, success is all LUCK, you know. Whether you see yourself as having good luck or bad…
Read MoreTest Reveals Gluten Sensitivity
I was shocked. These were not the results I was expecting. In late May, I invested in a genetic testing kit, mostly out of curiosity, to see if I was gluten sensitive. It never felt like I had any problems with these foods, like bread, pasta, oatmeal, or anything that contained flour. That’s why the…
Read MorePotentiation for Fat Loss
You’re going to get a little more power and a lot more fat loss when you use this workout technique. It’s called “power potentiation“, and research shows it works to give you a little boost. I first discovered it back in my legendary 4th year neuro- muscular physiology class in 1998. This is where I…
Read MoreHow to Make Sales and Create Upsells
This is so juvenile, but I laugh at it every time I hear it. My buddy Frank Kern calls my friend Bedros, “Bedrofe”. It amuses me to no end. Like when I put peanut butter on the top of Bally the Dog’s nose just a tiny bit out of reach of his tongue. You get…
Read MoreThe Chair
The chair is where my father sat, On sunny summer days, Beer in hand, shirt undone, The paper had his gaze. The grass was never greener, Than in my memory, The shade was always coolest, On the days he sat with me. The Willow tree kept him in comfort, It wept in gentle breeze, We’d…
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