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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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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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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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By the Ocean Cloudy 74 Degrees 5:22 a.m. Almost no one will pay you $7,000 for an hour’s work. So the only way you can charge $7,000 per hour is by never again charging for your time. Charging for your time is a prison. Only you have the key. No one can force you to…
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By the Ocean Sunny 76 Degrees 8:20 a.m. You didn’t come to fit in a “box,” but the Matrix has trained people that things (and people) belong in boxes. Without knowing how to classify you or your business, the human brain gets uncomfortable. And uncomfortable people don’t buy anything. So you step in a “box”…
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By the Ocean Cloudy 74 Degrees 6:37 a.m. In martial arts, the more tension you hold, the less effective you become. Tension equals locked energy. Locked energy is weak, slow, immovable. Hold your arms out in front of you and make a fist. Ask someone to push your arms towards the floor by applying downward…
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By the Ocean Cloudy and Rain 73 Degrees 5:42 a.m. I’ve been staring at the same piece of paper for the past 14 years. It’s the jumble of shapes, colors and numbers that form my Human Design Bodygraph. When I first discovered how Human Design worked, I used the knowledge to reconfigure how I was…
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By the Ocean Cloudy 72 Degrees 5:44 a.m. Most of the work I do is one-on-one. It’s fun, it’s lucrative, it fills me with energy. And apart from copywriting, which is about creating resources and tools that show the world just how amazing and valuable a business (or owner) truly is, it is really some…
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By the Ocean Sunny 74 Degrees 8:31 a.m. We can learn a lot about business from nature. Not about how business is done, but about how it COULD be done. Business is just a specific form of energetic flow. Nature seems to be pretty good at that. So let’s take a look at the natural…
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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.…