How to Quit Your Job and Start Your Own Business
In: Lifestyle| Psychology
13 Jun 2009I don’t do posts about my personal life that often, but I thought this one might help some people.
DSPS is a sleeping disorder (Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome) and while I only found out it had a name years later, I started experiencing it around the time I entered high school (13 years old).
Here is a [...]
In: Psychology| Updates
15 Mar 2009Right after I get done telling people how bad TV is, they go and prove me right.
E! decided to produce a show called Hot Girls In Scary Places.
Yes, you guessed it…this is literally a show where some cute girls go into haunted houses carrying pink flashlights. And….well, they film it.
Somebody actually had to pitch this [...]
In: Psychology
25 Feb 2009Great article out today by Joel Spoelsky on the emotional management necessary for entrepreneurship. The reason why startups fail is simple: the founder gets tired of “playing with the dials” and gives up before finding the right combination.
This is what it’s like when you’re creating a business. There’s the initial burst of excitement when [...]
In: Psychology
7 Nov 2008I have a file always on my desktop titled “Why I Must”.
Inside it, I’ve written down (over the last year or so) the reasons why I must become financially independent working for myself.
There are about 20 reasons (some of them personal), but for example, I know that I can never really contribute to the world [...]
In: Advice| Psychology
25 Oct 2008Instead, start asking how you can create value.
Most people get it backwards. They come up with a way to make money first, and then try to add the value in as an afterthought.
Do you see why this is putting the cart before the horse:
I want to sell subscriptions to the “premium” content of my [...]
In: Advice| How To| Psychology
18 Oct 2008An anonymous poster asked this great question on the Breaking Free forum…
Who have you taken advice from and why does their advice work for your specific type of business? It is important to figure out what exactly works for you and why, so that we can find the right path for each of us.
Here are [...]
In: Psychology
12 Sep 2008I though ya’ll might enjoy this article I wrote for LifeHack.org about how to connect with people.
Life is full of little situations that you encounter regularly. Some people don’t see these for the opportunities that they are: a chance to stand out, be different, and be memorable.
They’re a way to quickly built rapport with [...]
In: Psychology| Wealth
3 Sep 2008Yesterday I went rock climbing with my friend James.
About half way up the last run I hit what looked like a dead end. The next handhold above me was WAY out of reach. The piece of rock I was holding onto with my hands was right around my waist…but I couldn’t reach anything [...]
In: Advice| Psychology
1 Aug 2008Check out another guest post I did which appeared on LifeHack.org today.
It’s titled “How To Take Criticism Like Donald Trump“.
Welcome LifeHack.org readers!
I’ve noticed lately that people aren’t very good at handling criticism, even when they’ve asked for it.
Our natural tendency when given advice or criticism is to become defensive and upset. We try to convince [...]
In: Advice| Lifestyle| Psychology
24 Jul 2008To date, the most popular post on this blog has been How To Stop Letting Little Things In Life Piss You Off, which is interesting because…well, it has nothing to do with how to start a business ;)
But that’s ok. Today I thought I’d share a similar tip. It is utterly simple, I [...]
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