Moving Day
This blog is moving to tumblr.com! Why? Because I like to tinker with things. You can find me at my new home here. These posts will continue to remain here.
This blog is moving to tumblr.com! Why? Because I like to tinker with things. You can find me at my new home here. These posts will continue to remain here.
Nevertheless this is where I started. The great thing about that success tip is that it's easy. To quote Jim Rohn's definition, "By easy I mean something I could do. I thought if I could do it it must be easy."
There's an important key left out of that fact though. It's not enough to consume the best material in your field. It's not enough to understand the best programming paradigms, or how to diversify your investments properly. Learning these things can completely change your life, but not without action.
One of the 5 keys Jim Rohn outlines in his "Challenge To Succeed" is Action. What if eating an apple a day really did keep the doctor away? Would you do it? Before you say yes too quickly think about the easy things you know you should be doing. Exercising more? Budgeting? Spending time with your family? (Reading more?)
Unless you put a good idea into labor it works no miracle.
- Jim Rohn
Understanding that neglect is keeping me from achieving what I set out to achieve was a tough lesson in this series. How many great ideas have I learned over the last 2 years that I never got up and put into practice? How much closer to my goals could I be if I just stopped neglecting the easy activities that will get me there? You should do it. You could do it. You don't do it? That's formula for disaster.
Do what you can.
I read some amazing books in 2010 that really impacted how I work, think, communicate, and build a business. Here they are in no particular order (business, money, personal development) . The titles in bold are must reads in my opinion!
Top 5 4 (These books were head and shoulders better then the rest)
The Referral Engine - John Jantsch
Book Yourself Solid - Michael Port
Linchpin - Seth Godin
The Compound Effect - Darren Hardy
2010 Reading List:
Made To Stick (in progress): Why some ideas survive and others die - Chip Heath and Dan Heath
The Way of the Shepherd: 7 Ancient secrets to managing productive people - William Pentak
The Faith Based Millionaire - Jay Peroni
The Richest Man in Babylon - George S. Clason
Conspiracy of the Rich - Robert Kiyosaki
Purple Cow - Seth Godin
Tribes - Seth Godin
Crash Proof 2.0 - Peter Schiff
I Will Teach You To Be Rich - Ramit Sethi
The Energy of Money - Maria Nemeth
48 Days to the Work You Love - Dan Miller
Crush It - Gary Vaynerchuck
Everyone Communicates, Few Connect - John Maxwell
The Paleo Diet - Loren Cordain
The Complete Financial Guide for Young Couples - Larry Burkett
Decoding the New Mortgage Market - David Reed
The Insurance Maze - Kimberly Lankford
What are your must reads?
Just testing a screen cast. Pay no attention to the DEMO watermark...
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I'm not normally one to share web deals because frankly they're everywhere, all the time. This one is one I'm excited about though because it enables you to do so much.
Tomorrow (11/26/2010) only HostGator is having a huge sale on all their web hosting plans. I'm excited about this because you can do SO much with a hosting account.
One thing I love about these plans is that they're unlimited. Unlimited domains. Unlimited space. Unlimited bandwidth. So while I use mine to host my business website/blog, I'm only a few clicks away from launching a completely different website to test my latest idea or start building a new niche.
Here are the details:
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Photo: Jens Voigt descends the Peyresourde Pass on a loaner bike after a crash shattered his own (Robin Wilmott)
In the 2009 Tour de France Jens Voigt suffered a horrific crash going nearly 50mph. There were sparks flying off the bike and he was sliding forever (video below).
"After they stitched me up at the French hospital I decided that's not the end. I'm not going to quit like that. I don't want the last thing people remember to be a stupid crash. I want to be remembered as a good bike rider and to go out like that" Jens told Versus.
Yesterday Jens crashed again when his front tire blew out during a steep descent.
"I thought, “Oh God,” and I went down. Just one year after my horrible crash, and there I was tumbling on another mountain descent." - Jens Voigt (bicycling.com)
With no teammates around him and the team car tailing Andy Schleck (currently 2nd overall) Jens was left stranded without a bike and a severe case or road rash. Getting in the officials car would've been the easy thing to do, and after all, how do you finish a bike race without a bike?. "No Way! I'm going to Paris this year. I'm going to Paris" (where the Tour finishes). The race organizers found him a bike, but it was a junior bike three sizes too small with old fashioned toe-clip pedals (picture above)! Jens had to ride it for 15-20 kilometers before he was able to get another bike from his team car.
Now that's tenacity! With all the more then legitimate reasons to take it easy Jens said "No Way!" Who could've blamed him for getting in the car and calling it a day. Yet bike-less and bleeding Jens was still determined to reach his goal.
What's standing in the way of your goal? And is it enough to keep you from reaching it?
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action
- Orison Swett Marden [1850-1924]
There was an awesome article in the June 2010 issue of Success Magazine about Orison Marden. He had a tumultuous childhood losing both his parents and being constantly reminded of his inferiority by his guardians. He believed strongly that your attitude and your outlook on life determines your destiny rather then your circumstances. Marden went on to author some of the first self-improvement books in America and later founded Success Magazine. Pretty awesome legacy!
This is a really cool video of the Crossfit Dallas Central crew at the South Central Regionals:
