Daily Journal

  • Charging More

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    By the Ocean Sunny 76 Degrees 7:49 a.m. The less you “sell” the more you can charge. Why do you want to charge more? Because humans have been so brainwashed about the value of their contribution to the world that “charging more” is how we get closer to the truth. It forces you to grow…

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  • Too Many Questions For My Own Good

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    By the Ocean Sunny 73 Degrees 7:05 a.m. The older I get, the less sure I am about most things. I’m more sure about ME. About who I am and why I’m here. But I’m less sure about everything else. If you keep learning, keep digging, keep doing your best to expand your mind, then…

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  • The Effortless Plan

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    By the Ocean Sunny 76 Degrees 7:53 a.m. Over the past 25 years, one of my biggest challenges in business has been my willingness to work hard. It hasn’t been an advantage, it’s been a huge obstacle. If you are trained by the Matrix, you know that hard work is required for success. When you…

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  • What You Charge vs. What You Want

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    By the Ocean Sunny 75 Degrees 7:21 a.m. Value is 100% subjective. I can charge one business owner $20,000 for something that another one would find worthless. This is not a problem. This is an opportunity. Unfortunately, when we’re thinking of putting a value on our work, or what we make or what we offer,…

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  • Tweaking Your Mind Diet

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    By the Ocean Mostly Sunny 74 Degrees 6:47 a.m. If you feed your body garbage, you end up feeling and looking like garbage. Same thing happens with your mind. It has a diet, it has a lifestyle, it takes in nutrients and does things with them. The difference is, your mind is “eating” ALL THE…

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  • Broke or Miserable

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    By the Ocean Partly Cloudy 69 Degrees 6:10 a.m. The Matrix gives its slaves some pretty clear choices in the game of life. You can be more of an “artist,” do something you love, and be broke… Or you can go into business, give the market what it wants, and be miserable… There’s a saying…

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  • Finding the People

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    By the Ocean Cloudy 71 Degrees 6:19 a.m. It’s pretty easy to think you totally suck in business if you’re talking to the wrong people. I can help generate millions of dollars if I’m working with someone who is selling something people want for a lot of money. The amount of value I can deliver…

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  • The Business of Being Yourself

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    By the Ocean Sunny 77 Degrees 8:19 a.m. It’s impossible to start certain types of businesses when you don’t even know they exist as a possibility for you. At the beginning of my business career, I started doing things the world could easily understand. I’ll fix your computer. I’ll design your website. I’ll write your…

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  • Getting What You Want

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    By the Ocean Sunny 78 Degrees 8:35 a.m. Most business owners spend their time thinking about how to get what they want. It’s usually more successful to spend your time thinking about what your prospects want and how to give it to them. You would think these two options would lead to the same place,…

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  • Can You Help Me?

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    By the Ocean Cloudy 73 Degrees 5:49 a.m. Can you help me? That’s what the rest of the world is asking itself about you and what you do. To the extent you can make the answer to that question OBVIOUS, your life in business will go much more smoothly. But most business owners don’t come…

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