OK, gentlemen, today I am going to give it to you straight: if you want to live the playboy bachelor life—the life of the renegade who experiences all the very best that this world has to offer—then you have to start your own business. In fact, if you want to simply safeguard your future, then …
You don’t let doubt get to you, because know that the right way is to be positive. You get up early and you work hard – sometimes from 7 am to 11pm at night – because the online guru told you to ‘crush it’. You work on rote tasks you don’t particularly enjoy, because you recognise that …
Make no mistake, there is a war going on. There may be no guns firing, yet, no tanks out on the lawn, and no bombs raining down over your house… yet. But you are in a battle, no doubt. And it’s only going to intensify. This isn’t a war over territory or national treasures. …
I remember when I was a kid my dad asking me what I wanted to do when I grew up. ‘I don’t know,’ I said. ‘Well, what are you good at?’ he asked. ‘I don’t know—writing, I guess’, I said. ‘That won’t get you very far,’ he said. Not that my dad is down on …
Jeff Goins did a great episode of The Portfolio Life podcast a while back in which he talked about so-called ‘shadow careers’. A shadow career is that line of work you go into that is ‘close’ to what you actually want to do, but not quite it. I’ve written about this before, but to recap, …
It was Sunday night—a Sunday night just like this one. But back then, things were different. In the early afternoon I’d started to feel a slight discomfort. Heart palpitations. A little sweatiness of the palms. A strange taste in my mouth. Depending on how much caffeine I drank, this could get a lot worse. On …
Arrogance is one of those traits that we are meant to hide. ‘Don’t be arrogant’, you probably got told at one time or another. ‘It makes you look like a dick. People will hate you.’ Well, yes and no. Arrogance does make a person look like a dick in one sense. But it also paints …
‘Do it or don’t do it’ Steven Pressfield, The War of Art In the end, we either do it or we don’t do it. What is it? Anything. ‘It’ is any sort of action that will create change. Any action that will help us to build something. That will see us produce more than we …
Picture the scene. The sun is beating down. You are gazing out over the clear, azure Mediterranean sea. In your hand you hold an ice-cold cocktail. Next to you, a beautiful woman—your girlfriend (for this week, anyway) reclines, exposing her smooth, beautiful skin to the rays. Beep beep! Your iPhone, a top-of-the-range model in a …
Seeing as I keep going on about the need to build a personal brand online, and since I am doing that exact thing myself, I thought it would be useful to share a few of the mistakes I’ve made so that you know what to avoid. So here we go—my top 3 clangers, and why …
