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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.
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By the Ocean Breezy 77 Degrees 7:12 a.m. The Matrix conditions you to want success without forcing you to figure out what that means for you. Success is a word we throw around without forcing it to identify itself before we give it our energy. Give me all the money in the world but no
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By the Ocean Cloudy 75 Degrees 5:50 a.m. You don’t need to be popular to be effective. Popular requires the permission of others. Effective does not. Hubris tells you to invest energy trying to change what is beyond your control. Wisdom tells you that is not worthy of your life. In business, the Matrix presents