The 10X Rule

So, what’s the difference between success and failure?  Action, of course.  The successful people of the world do things, while the less successful sit around watching tv and playing video games.  Hmm. The 10X Rule, like most self help books, is a great read that left me feeling as if I have finally found the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. The 10X Rule is simple, to get more, do more.  It’s also a bit scary.  Do more?  You mean, like now?  Yes, now The 10X Rule tells us. The 10X Rule also has a list of the 32…

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Evil Plans by Hugh MacLeod

Figure out what your gift is, and give it to people on a regular basis. ~Hugh MacLeod. Blogging has given us a world full of people who have a lot of mostly nothing to say and a strong desire to say it.  Successful bloggers are the ones that stick with it, get an audience, and keep giving that audience whatever it is that they liked in the first place.  This is a good deal harder than it sounds-as the countless failed blogs littering the internet can attest to.  Even if you happen to have the chutzpah to keep blogging every…

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The Inner Game of Blogging

Timothy Gallwey’s brilliance was discovering that the subconscious has a lot more to do with success in sports than most people thought.  What we think, and when we think too much, can cause our performance to decline.  The same holds true with blogging, we can spend so much time looking for something to blog about that we never actually get around to writing anything.  Just start typing. I used to take blogging pretty seriously-I was pretty active on Blogcatalog, Technorati, and Digg.  Not so much now.  But recently I got a couple of emails asking me to check out their…

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