• Becoming Mediocre Intolerant

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    By the Ocean Clear 74 Degrees 5:45 a.m. Mediocre is everywhere. Look around, it’s what most people are doing pretty much all of the time. The Matrix calls it normal, reasonable, practical, good enough. You’re never going to change that. That doesn’t mean there are no options though. Your power is in the choice to

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  • How to Be a Good Deal

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    By the Ocean Partly Sunny 73 Degrees 6:51 a.m. Being a “good deal” has nothing to do with what you charge and everything to do with the ratio between what you charge and how valuable you are. If your buyers can realize this true value you represent without you mentioning it, everything gets easier. This

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  • Something That Works

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    By the Ocean Cloudy 72 Degrees 5:04 a.m. If you want to solve a problem in the marketplace, and you create something that “works,” people will tend to buy it. It took me a long time to figure out how to get something that “works.” At first, I was dumb enough to attempt to defy

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  • The Feeling of FREEDOM

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    By the Ocean Clear 68 Degrees 4:24 a.m. If you’re looking for permission to follow the beat of your own drum, you’re never going to find it. No one in the system will give it to you. The harder you look, the more elusive it will be. Permission is something you must grant to yourself.

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  • Finding Your People

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    By the Ocean Clear 68 Degrees 5:38 a.m. When I started in business, I just couldn’t get excited about finding a need in the market and filling it. I tried, but I found it boring. As best I can explain, the reason is because it had no connection to something deeper inside of me that

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  • The One Day a Week Business

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    By the Ocean Clear 73 Degrees 5:54 a.m. A few years ago, I helped a business owner reconfigure the way he was working so it was more closely aligned with who he is. I call my approach for doing this: Do What You Love and Prosper. Despite what I was taught in school, I was

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  • The Art of Surrender

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    By the Ocean Clear 73 Degrees 5:54 a.m. You don’t hear too many business gurus talking about the art of surrender. It probably isn’t a smart way to sell courses, coaching or consulting from the front of the room. Due to the conditioning of the Matrix, the idea of surrender seems to be connected with

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  • The Journey to Useful

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    By the Ocean Rain 73 Degrees 6:31 a.m. The price you pay for building a business doing whatever you love to do is that you have to figure out a way to make what you love USEFUL to another human being who has money. This is very simple and completely easy to overlook. Every product

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  • The Journey to Useful

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    By the Ocean Rain 73 Degrees 6:31 a.m. The price you pay for building a business doing whatever you love to do is that you have to figure out a way to make what you love USEFUL to another human being who has money. This is very simple and completely easy to overlook. Every product

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  • Choosing Where You Live in the Mind of the Buyer

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    By the Ocean Partly Cloudy 72 Degrees 5:44 a.m. Positioning is about where you live inside the mind and body of your prospective clients and customers. If you show up as something completely unknown, you will probably be ignored. Humans know to stay away from things they can’t recognize. If you show up and make

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