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Posts published in September 2018

24 tips and tricks to be more like me

Don’t. Just don’t. Don’t ever try to be someone else. You can learn from other people, but you must adapt that knowledge to yourself – your mission, your desires, your objectives. Now, this is not some…

What are you all doing here?

I’ve been preaching about having a mission. And a strategy, and principles, and a plan. Only way to lead is by example. Through action. So here goes mine. When I decided to take to Twitter a…

Hustle up to get out of the hustle

Growing up, 2pac was one of my favorite artists. I had all his albums. I loved the music and I deeply appreciated his savvy managing to balance his artist hustle and artistic authenticity. What he produced…

Foundations of Awareness

Mastery of Mind requires deliberate practice like any other skill you learn. Mastery of any field must be firmly rooted in mastery of the fundamentals – the boring, “obvious” and seemingly easy stuff. No trinkets, no…

Feeding the monster

I’m immensely grateful for all the emails and comments you’ve been sending in. I’d like to share an interesting response I got lately. Before we get into it, let’s be abundantly clear about something. I’m not…

Antifragility of the Mind

If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you must’ve noticed by now that your mind can be a pretty messy place. Unless, of course, you’re braindead. Or so addicted to your dumbphone and the couch-potato…

Always Be Closing

The ABC of master salesmanship is commonly misunderstood, by layman and professional alike. Many people harbor the delusion that closing a sale is about cheap tactics, distractions, funnels, filters and who knows what else. That’s how…

The three-list system

Predictable as life can be for me, I still manage to surprise myself at times. A couple of days last week brought one of those surprises. I didn’t imagine myself capable of engineering a gut-wrenching experience…