2023

Annual Review 2023

By |2024-01-06T09:33:03+13:00December 31st, 2023|Introspection|

2023 Annual Review Table of Contents Every Annual Review that I publish on this blog contains 4 parts: What were my victories? What could have gone better? How many New Year’s Resolutions did I keep? What are my resolutions for next year? To see all of my annual reviews, click here. To use my [...]

We can win the Game of Life differently

By |2023-12-31T16:18:19+13:00October 12th, 2023|Marketing, Play, Productivity|

People feel life is meaningless when they don’t have goals, rules, and feedback. (These are the 3 attributes of games, according to Dr Jason Fox, that I describe in-depth in my short ebook Gamify Your Work.) Playing the game of life, and doing work that supports your lifestyle, is only made meaningful if we have goals to [...]

Choose Your Character in the Game of Life

By |2023-12-31T16:18:11+13:00September 28th, 2023|Blog, Play|

The singer Beyoncé Knowles has an alter-ego she calls Sasha Fierce. When she was young in her career, and nervous about a big show, she would internally decide it was not Beyoncé going onstage, it was Sasha Fierce. This character was brave, and strong, and confident. Assuming this persona allowed her to handle difficult challenges, because [...]

Breakthrough Results with a Business Coach

By |2023-12-31T16:18:05+13:00September 26th, 2023|Blog, Business, Marketing|

One of my coaching clients surpassed her revenue goal last month. She started August believing that her $30k goal was impossible, and wanted to avoid thinking about it. But every week, we reviewed that goal, and renewed her commitment to (attempting to) achieve it. A few times, she said, "There's no way I can do [...]

Internet advice goes stale. Don’t trust it.

By |2023-12-31T16:18:01+13:00September 7th, 2023|Articles, Marketing|

Internet advice goes stale, but that doesn't mean it goes away. You could be following advice that worked great 5 years ago, but it's no longer working. This is something I find frequently in my work as a marketer. Because I'm in the trenches, testing tactics, I can see what's failing during a hype cycle. [...]

📙 🎂 My book had a birthday! 🎊 🎉

By |2023-12-31T16:17:46+13:00August 17th, 2023|Articles, Content Marketing, Marketing, Stellar Platforms|

This week marks the 1-year anniversary of the publication of my first book, Marketing Yourself. Here's the replay of the Launch Party. During this 45-minute video, recorded last year, you can see: the book covers I (almost) used the 4 levels of a Personal Platform the 4 Cornerstones that elevate your platform to the next level [...]

Reward Yourself for Inbox Zero

By |2023-12-31T16:17:41+13:00August 10th, 2023|Articles, Blog, Productivity|

I was in the middle of mighty-tasking when I had a brilliant idea. This idea had nothing to do with the project I was working on. If I had stopped to tend to this idea properly, it would derail the state of flow I had achieved. I did not want to sacrifice my current project for a [...]

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