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The Re-launch of my Weekly Newsletter – Habits of Excellence
Writing a newsletter can be very rewarding, stressful, introspective, lucrative, and ineffective. My weekly newsletter habit has been inconstant over the past ten years, and has gone through a lot of incarnations. This is what I've learned so far: The regularity of writing every week keeps your writing polished. It is only through regular exercise that any craft is kept in good practice; whenever I neglected to publish a newsletter regularly, I noticed my writing skills suffered from lack of [...]
“Heck yeah!” My WDS Experience in 2015
This was the last big year. Starting in 2016, the World Domination Summit will limit ticket sales to 1000 people, instead of the 3000 people it's been for each of the 3 years I attended. Photo courtesy of Armosa Studios and Chris Guillebeau My friends organized themselves into 3 groups of people this year: Ticket holders Ambassadors Un-conferencers There were so many peripheral events happening around WDS, many people chose to "un-conference" and attend these meetups and academies, without getting [...]
Stacking Habits of Gratitude
“Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.” - Jack Canfield Without gratitude, life is just bleak. You can be rich or poor, healthy or sick, lonely or loved, but only appreciation will assign value to that which you possess. James Clear, an expert on making habits, uses the power of small habits to cultivate gratitude every day of his life. His habit is so simple, it can't fail to work. Each time he sites [...]
The Forge of Failure
One of the best things you can do to improve yourself is to fail at something new. The first time you rode a bike, you failed. Repeatedly. And if you were willing to get up and try again, and again, you learned a new skill. Failure was the price you paid to learn. Becoming Friends with Failure Recently I went to a flips class at a Portland parkour training facility. They were working on side flips, and I had never tried a side [...]
Projects of Passion
Have you ever had that one project you could never put down? A passion that haunts you, and won’t let you go, no matter how many failures you encounter along the way? That’s how treasure hunts have been for me. When I’m making a treasure hunt, walking through a city looking for hidden locations in plain sight, I’m making my dreams come true. It surprised me to realize that I have spent five years actively trying to get these treasure hunts to [...]
How To Make Blog Post Digests with List.ly
If you write a lot of blog posts, getting them all into one place can be really useful. Having a digest of sequential blog post can streamline your promotion strategies on social media, and also serve as an easy reference tool for when you need links in the future. Case study: The Aware Show The Aware Show publishes summits every couple of months, 10-day series of interviews around a specific topic. Lisa Garr, the host of The Aware Show, interviews bestselling authors [...]