Reinventing Yourself From the Outside In
One day, in my mid-twenties, I woke up and realized I was living someone else’s life. I didn’t like what I was doing and I knew I needed to make a change. I had a faint idea of what that change was supposed to be—I had a fuzzy picture of…
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The “Dark Side” of Becoming a Leader
There’s a dark side of becoming a leader. It’s something I’ve never heard anyone talk about. And it’s something that I only discovered when I began to earn the trust of a large group of people. To be frank, I wasn’t prepared for it. And because of that, I went…
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How to Find the Courage to Take that First Step
It was 9:30am on a Wednesday. And I was sitting in a bathroom stall in an office building in Ottawa writing Communist slogans on the toilet paper. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t a Communist by any possible stretch of the imagination. I was doing this in an effort to…
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The Power of Doing This Daily
It has been my favorite book of 2013. Full of amazing stories, out-of-this-world characters, and vivid details, you might mistake it for the latest Stephen King novel. But it’s not about haunted houses or demon-possessed cars. Instead, this new book opens a window into the history of the world’s greatest…
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3 Secrets to Being a Better Leader
“Those are my principles. And, if you don’t like them…I have others.” — Groucho Marx “Aberrant Behavior breaks trust. True leaders make decisions based on their principles. This creates consistent behavior & trust.” Those are words of wisdom from my friend, Art Jonak. Let’s first look at the quote itself…
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Your Secret Weapon for Achieving Your Dreams
On the cold, clear morning of December 27th, 2010, I had to rush my mom to the hospital. She had been experiencing chest pain for a couple of days, she later told me, and things were getting worse. As I waited in the Emergency Room to hear from the doctors,…
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Relationship secrets from Frank Kern
While Frank Kern claims to have retired from Internet Marketing, there are still a ton of lessons we can learn if we look back to his final List Control Launch in 2009. So let’s go over to Doc Brown’s house, find some plutonium, fire up the DeLorean, get ‘er up…
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The Harsh Reality About Your Time
Having recently had another birthday click over on the odometer, time is on my mind. It’s never far from it in my work-cave, because I have strategically placed more than a dozen clocks around the room and can’t look in any direction without seeing one. As I describe in my…
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How To Identify Opportunity
I’m always disappointed when great marketers like Frank Kern and John Reese stop writing emails. But I can’t blame them. They’ve found easier ways to make money without all the headaches that come from being an IM superstar (then again, they are often to blame for those headaches…). Back when…
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Interview With Larry Winget – America’s Pitbull of Personal Development
Larry Winget is the trademarked Pitbull of Personal Development and is a five time New York Times/Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author. He was the star of A&E’s Big Spender, has been featured in national radio and television commercials and can currently be seen as a regular on many television news…
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Proof that WHO you know matters more
“Who you know matters more than what you know, because when you know the right who, they will teach you the right what.” – Dr. Ballanseuss Today, proof, directly from a Virtual Mastermind Success Story. – Craig *********** Lessons Of Connection By Nick Pineault It’s still hard for me to…
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Success QnA is back
So the other morning, while in Denver, my business partner Matt Smith waves a flyer in the air excitedly. “It’s back,” he says with great enthusiasm. I look closely. I groan. The McRib is back in Denver. LOL. No thanks. But, I do have good news. Internet Independence QnA…
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