April was a busy month for me. I set myself two seriously ambitious goals: Exercise almost every day (by starting two different exercise programs) Earn $10,000 from the website Did I achieve either of those goals? Nope. With the exercise I was so out-of-shape that I sprained my butt and didn’t know it. With the…
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Fear, success, and uncertainty
I think it’s delightful that creating this resource about fear management has involved so many practical lessons for myself. I’ve added a number of new sections of fears I’ve uncovered, or rediscovered, during this process. An example? Why of course. I decided that it would be great to have a few interviews with people who…
Manage your fears and get more awesome
I’m in favour of awesomeness. (No, really?) I’ve been pushing myself hard these last few months: getting up at 4:30am to chat, writing and studying every spare moment, abandoning a number of my favourite hobbies, working 14-hour days… you know, stuff I thought I couldn’t do, stuff that was Too Hard for the likes of…
Create an awesome resource, part 3
We made the plan to create an awesome resource. Then we checked the plan for adequate levels of ass-kickery. Now it’s time to create and promote it. Create your awesome resource! Before you start creating the content you need two things: 1. A clear vision of what you want to accomplish (check!) 2. Buckets of…
Create an awesome resource, part 2
Last time we started the process of creating an awesome resource by planning the result, the message, the audience, the medium and the content. Did we get the planning right first time? Time to ask the tough questions Handcuff your planned awesome resource to a chair, shine a bright light in its eyes and ask…
Create an awesome resource, part 1
Do you have an awesome resource? Something on your website that is so unique, remarkable, useful, meaningful or beautiful that people can’t stop talking about it? Screw the professional talk about a “valuable resource”. Do you have a resource on your website that’s spectacular. Fantastic. Magnificent. AWESOME? No? Let’s make one! This will take a…
Awesome April: time to set some big-ass goals
It’s a new month. Time to set some goals! I’ll go first. What’s a small accomplishment I could achieve this April? In regards to my finances and my health I could: Earn $100 this month Exercise three times How much effect would those goals have? A tiny bit, but nothing noticeable. It’s easy. Boring. Let’s…
Website heresy: Do something uncomfortable
Yesterday’s video post about why you should give up perfection and start aiming for awesome got some great comments and emails. Thanks! What I learned from shooting the video I’d been planning to make the video for two months. I wrote a mind-map of the points I wanted to make. I bought a new video…
Website heresy: Forget perfect, start being awesome
I love awesome. I hate perfect. Perfect is a creepy abusive boyfriend: he stalks my friends, messes with their creative processes, makes them doubt themselves, trashes their favourite projects and leaves them powerless and afraid. I want to drag perfect out into the parking lot, pick up a aluminium baseball bat, and teach perfect a…
Website heresy: Make yourself obsolete
As part of the website heresy month, I wanted to talk about a heresy that’s related to the workplace, and to how you help your customers. It’s the principle that you should never make the job you do obsolete. I suspect (and hope) I’m not alone in thinking that making yourself obsolete – working yourself…