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By the Ocean Cloudy 75 Degrees 8:29 a.m. While it’s easy to find exciting and inspiring stories of “overnight success” in business, that doesn’t seem to be how it plays out for the majority of people. Instead, the journey to business success is a steady stream of learning experiences and course corrections. There is a
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By the Ocean Cloudy 74 Degrees 6:46 a.m. What happens if you stop choosing from the pre-selected list of options presented to you and create THE one that is right for your desired outcomes? Social media is a great example of a pre-selected list of options. You have Platform X, Platform Y, Platform Z. “Choose
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By the Ocean Rain 71 Degrees 6:49 a.m. Humans don’t scale. That’s why they retain their value. If you have something that CAN scale, it’s a very different situation. The more of the thing you make, the greater the number of those things that exist, the more available they become, the less valuable and less
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By the Ocean Partly Cloudy 72 Degrees 6:39 a.m. If you can’t connect with another human, you’re going to have a hard time in business. While that seems obvious, for the past 25 years, it looked like it might no longer be necessary. Who needs the “messy” human stuff when you can just click a
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By the Ocean Partly Sunny 73 Degrees 7:19 a.m. The best way to make them want you is to stop trying to make them want you and set your sights on achieving a much bigger goal. That goal is to: Be somebody who does something and is going somewhere. What does that mean for you?
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By the Ocean Cloudy 76 Degrees 8:43 a.m. You’ll never attract if you’re not willing to repel. Attraction and repulsion are equal and opposite forces that balance each other. Without the one, you can’t have the other. This means that, if you’re not attracting enough business, it’s because you’re not repelling enough. The Matrix doesn’t
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By the Ocean Mostly Clear 72 Degrees 7:09 a.m. Very little of my suffering in business ever came from things I didn’t do. Virtually all of it came from things I did do that I should have stopped doing. Everyone gets all excited about the new stuff coming for their business in this next year.
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By the Ocean Well Before Sunrise 74 Degrees 4:19 a.m. Humans do a great job of transferring their internal angst and need for control into external things that can be managed. Take diets. Or as they should probably be named: eating disorders. I eat this. I don’t eat that. This is good, that is bad.
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By the Ocean Sunny 73 Degrees 7:49 a.m. You can tell them what you do, you can tell them what they get. Most business owners focus on the former and completely overlook the latter. This is not so much a one-time mistake as it is a continual habit. If you walk around viewing the world
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By the Ocean Sunrise 74 Degrees 7:01 a.m. During my wife’s afternoon surfing session yesterday, I was sitting on the beach with the mini-poodle (if you’re single and you want attention, get a mini-poodle!) listening to a podcast by a well-known, widely-respected and very successful business man who will remain nameless. The podcast was different.