Daily Journal

  • The Biggest Obstacle to Success

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    By the Ocean Sunny 68 Degrees 8:04 a.m. Business is not a race, it is a becoming. That means it is a journey of growing, where you step into a more powerful version of yourself tomorrow than you are today. YOU HAVE CONTROL OVER THIS PROCESS. That’s the good news. It is also the bad…

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  • What You See is Not What They See

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    By the Ocean Clear 73 Degrees 4:46 a.m. I am constantly surprised at exactly which parts of my approach clients find valuable. I’ll hear little bits of that truth come through on the phone, over time, from different people. What I see is not what they see. What I consider valuable is not necessarily what…

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  • The Art of Thinking

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    By the Ocean Sunrise 70 Degrees 6:59 a.m. If you can actually think, you’re going to do well in the age of “A.I.” It doesn’t matter if you use the tool or not. What matters is the quality of your thinking. This has always been true. Thinking means you can see possibilities where others see…

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  • The Cure For Discount Disease

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    By the Ocean Couple of Clouds 73 Degrees 5:23 a.m. Humans aren’t dumb. They watch. They learn. They adapt. They expect. In the world of business, today is a day the Matrix has trained buyers to expect something “special.” A frenzied race to the bottom with no meaning. Sounds like fun! In the world of…

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  • The Gift of “Selfishness”

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    By the Ocean Clear 66 Degrees 5:21 a.m. The problem isn’t that there are too many self-interested people in the world, the problem is that there aren’t enough. Here’s the definition of selfish: concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself. Sounds like a bad word doesn’t it? It sure seems to carry a connotation that doesn’t…

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  • My Failed Product

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    By the Ocean Clear 72 Degrees 5:16 a.m. We have a lot of stories we tell ourselves in business. That’s because we have a lot of stories we tell ourselves in life. Stories about good and bad, stories about how we want things to go and how we don’t want them to go. Maybe some…

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  • How to Stop Making Content

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    By the Ocean Clear 74 Degrees 4:37 a.m. YouTube, Tiktok, Facebook all want more content. They want more because they need content to survive. Since they managed to convince business owners that working for free for them is a smart thing to do, they have a lot of it coming online every day. This is…

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  • I’m Worried About You

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    By the Ocean Mostly Clear 73 Degrees 4:24 a.m. “I’m worried about you…” That’s what my relative said on the phone years ago when she found out from my mom I started a network marketing business. Talented Jason, throwing away all of his ability (not to mention his college indoctrination) and going the way of…

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  • Rewriting the “Never Enough” Story

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    By the Ocean Clear 77 Degrees 5:28 a.m. If you retrained your mind to change its story from “never enough” to “always plenty,” what do you think might happen? Well, what has happened since you started playing the “never enough” story all those years ago? Have you outrun the story? Or did it somehow keep…

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  • Price, Value and Breaking Free From the Social Media Prison

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    By the Ocean A Few Clouds 75 Degrees 4:10 a.m. Every Saturday morning, my wife has a surfing lesson with her teacher up on the North Shore of Oahu. We have to drive a bit and the lesson starts at 6:15 a.m., during which I get plenty of time to think and ponder. As a…

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