Archive for the year 2019

How To Grow Your Business By Becoming A Published Author

A book is a container of refined thoughts on a topic or theme.
You can write one quickly by scheduling time to write and review.
A lot of people (want to) write a book to get famous. Sure, you can…

Write A Better Book, Fast!

Earlier today, I was helping a friend with her book.
She incidentally was among the early customers of my guided author program that I started as an extension of my day-long workshop for first-time authors.
Her book took a…

Mastery Over Language

It is more important than we think it is.
This combined with a strong value proposition can help us build a solid career or a solid business.
This is why parents should spend time making sure that kids have mastery …

Whose Baby It Is?

Being a founder can be frustrating.
A big founder frustration is that employees or in some cases co-founders do not care as much as them.
This frustration is unrealistic because no one can love a baby more than her mother…

Life Is A Race

There are two forces at play here.
Agility and persistence.
Agility and strength make us go fast. Persistence gets us to play long.
There are those among us who can go fast. There are others who can play long.
But…

Don’t Set Arbitrary Goals

We often set arbitrary goals.
Such goals are random and usually based on a personal whim, and there is no reason or logic to why we set them except that these goals seem right and get us excited.
One arbitrary…

Designing Your Life

We should think about designing your life as much or more as we think about our boss, career and job. In this article you can read more on how to go about without sacrificing your ambitions or relationships.

Success Hates Complexity

If you learn to break anything complex into simple steps, you'll find success more often. In this article, the author discusses the idea further.

To Create Is The Only Way Forward

Creator need to create even after they find success because success is fleeting but you can experience joy of creation often.

Stillness and Inertia

One is quality.
Other is a tendency to not move or do nothing.
Stillness brings serenity.
Inertia and inaction breed anxiety and fear.
Stillness is worth cultivating and practicing.
Inaction is something to avoid and abhor.
Stillness becomes easy…

Dream 100: A Tried and Tested Approach To Winning Customers and Growing Your Business

If you work in B2B the Dream 100 is an awesome approach to winning new business. I first learn of this approach in Chet Holmes' The Ultimate Sales Machine and since have been fascinated by it.

Getting Your Dream Job: Nothing Else Matters Except These Three Things

Most of the advice that you find online about how to find your dream job or getting a job comes from people who haven’t been in the kind of jobs you are looking for.
That’s why they give advice like…

Cold Emails For Warm Connections

Reaching out and building connections is a powerful way to grow. Cold emailing people you admire and want to work with is one the best tactics to put this strategy to work. Learn more in this post how I used cold emails to build connections and grow my business.

Watch Out for Bouts of Procrastination

A procrastinator is a person who habitually puts off doing things. There is a procrastinator is all of us because of how we have evolved. In this article I take a deeper look at how we can win this battle of logic over instinct if only for a smart part of the day.

The Business Of Quotes: Should We Use Them To Guide Our Life?

A quote is the thought of one person at a given time. It is based on that person's circumstances and emotional state at that time. That's why we should explore more before we take it as gospel.