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By the Ocean Sunny 79 Degrees 10:01 a.m. After I walked out of the world of full-time employment forever (I quit working at a bank by sending a fax!), my first contract gig was working for a computer training company. “Company” makes it sound like it was more than me, another trainer and the owner.…
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By the Ocean Cloudy 74 Degrees 6:30 a.m. Tomorrow, my wife is launching a new project on Youtube documenting her experience learning to surf as a 47 year old mother of 10 kids. It’s called Mom Goes Surfing. Despite my lack of professional experience, I somehow got hired in a combo position of babysitter, producer…
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By the Ocean Cloudy 73 Degrees 7:04 a.m. If you haven’t noticed, huge changes are happening across the world. Big things are ending, new things are beginning. For many, everything is totally “falling apart.” If your mind is in the clutches of the Matrix, this is a bad thing. Everything you knew is dissolving. The…
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By the Ocean Cloudy 74 Degrees 7:21 a.m. There’s a much more powerful way to create a successful business and life than to work hard. That’s what we were taught though. The value of hard work. Some people say that’s the path to meaning. That is has to be hard to be valuable. That’s another…
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By the Ocean Clear 68 Degrees 5:53 a.m. We’re living in a time where new inventions are making us act like business doesn’t work in the way it used to. Maybe every time was like this in some way. I don’t know. My memories of past lifetimes, which I was taught to believe didn’t exist…
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By the Ocean Partly Cloudy 74 Degrees 6:44 a.m. I went on a “ghost busting” job once for a store in Flagstaff Arizona. The shaman I was studying with got hired to usher a human spirit away from the store because the owner thought it was suppressing sales. When we got there, guess what lucky…
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By the Ocean Sunny 43 Degrees 6:16 a.m. My daughter, Deva, turned eight yesterday. She chose her birthday to ride her first real wave on her surfboard. My wife’s surfing “addiction” has been transferred to several members of the family, all of them female. I didn’t know it was a contagious thing, but I learn…
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By the Ocean Sunny 73 Degrees 7:51 a.m. It’s hard to believe in alchemy if you’ve never seen it. A few years ago I started working with a guy who had a way for (miserable) dentists to repurpose their skills treating people with sleep apnea using oral appliances. The details are complicated, but the bottom…
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By the Ocean Sunny 69 Degrees 6:46 a.m. Value doesn’t disappear, it just moves. Take the current A.I. craze. Things that used to be obstacles in business building no longer are. Writing a salesletter is a good example. I charge a lot for that service. These days, I don’t really mention it. Why? Because the…
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By the Ocean Sunny 75 Degrees 8:44 a.m. When you don’t know what else to do, figure out how to be more useful to the world tomorrow than you are today. What could that look like? How useful you are to a specific group of people means the difference between constant struggle and ever-flowing success…