“Effective personal branding is owning the online space at the crossroads between when you’re doing something important and when someone that matters looks you up.”
How to Create Your Personal Brand in 14 Steps
A Recommended Newsletter for People Who Work in Startups
Get the latest tools and resources that will really help your startup.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.” — Bo Bennett
Everyone’s An Influencer, So Treat Them Like One
I’m sending my newsletter to 40,000 influencers this week.
A 12,000 Comment Discussion About the One Simple Change That Improved People’s Lives the Most
“Realizing I’m never going to be in the mood to do anything. I would literally live the life of a cat if left to my own instincts and someone would feed me. Getting things done is ignoring my instincts and getting out of my mind.”
The Artist’s Journey
“The artist’s journey comes after the hero’s journey. Everything that has happened to us up to this point is rehearsal for us to act, now, as our true self and to find and speak in our true voice. The artist’s journey is the process of self-discovery that follows. It will last as long as we’re alive, and maybe longer.”
Five Books Bill Gates Recommends You Read This Summer
“I never got to tell Hans how much I liked his book, but the world would be better if millions of people read it.”
How to Write Every Day When You Also Run a Business
“To write every day, you need to break down every barrier you have. ‘That subject is too personal.’ ‘I don’t know how they’ll react if I write about them.’ ‘I’m not sure people will even care about what I have to say.’ The fastest way to not write is to hold topics off limits. It’s saying, ‘I want to pick a niche.’ Here’s the truth: You don’t pick a niche, it picks you.”
10 Things You Don’t Know About Yourself
“People’s own theories about who they are influence how they behave. One’s self-image can therefore easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
How to Master Time Scarcity
“True mastery of the time scarcity demon only really comes from a mindset shift. We have to address the feeling rather than figure out the logistics of it all. Addressing the logistics (the hows and whats) don’t really change the feeling. The feeling will always be there, until we deal with it.”