Hopefully it hasn’t escaped your attention, but I put out a ton of content. I post an article on my website every day of the week. I’ve been doing so for nearly two years. I also send out another exclusive article to my email subscriber list. 99.9% of the time I ensure this article is …
Whenever you see an article about how to be a better writer, you know it’s going to tell you two things—to read more and to write more. Well, I’m going to tell you exactly the same two things here. Not because I’m a lazy bastard (although I am, of course), but because it’s true. There …
I never expected it, but a central issue that I’m now facing in my career is working out exactly who and what I want to be. That may sound esoteric, and a first-world problem, and it really is. Nevertheless, if you build a personal brand business like I have then it is one that perhaps …
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 …
Today I got up late (I have a cold) and sat down to write. I wrote: a bunch of Tweets, and a series of emails to my subscriber list telling some cool stories as well as extolling the huge benefits of Kyle Trouble’s PRO NICHE SITE course. (Which you should definitely enrol in, by the way. …
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, …
Like modern politics, the corporate world is crammed with terms that either don’t mean what they are usually intended to mean, or mean something else entirely. An example of this is ‘creativity’. In the corporate workplace this word is chucked around with the same giddy abandon that monkey chuck feces around their enclosures at the …
Publication day for a new book is always a little strange. This is the fifth time I’ve experienced it and I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it. You see the process of writing is very solitary. Most of the time I’m holed up in a room on my own somewhere. The location doesn’t …
It is hard for me to think of an author who has had a greater influence on me throughout my life than George Orwell. When I was a kid I read Animal Farm and then all of the essays very early on. I remember wanting to read 1984 for ages, and my dad telling me that …
