How To Stop Feeling Stuck And Get Results
Have you ever felt stuck but didn’t know why? Or worse, didn’t know how to get unstuck?
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Recently I had a stuck experience with marketing my book Paid To Be You. I want to market my book more effectively to get the word out but I felt like I needed to do some research on how to market it strategically. So I found some great resources and started to devour the topic of book marketing.
The problem is I love to research things to death. Give me a topic I’m interested in or are struggling with and I’ll hit every book, blog, and seminar available on the topic.
Long story short, I’ve decided to give my book away for free on Amazon as the next step of marketing my book. I made that decision and guess how long it took me to take action on it?
About three weeks.
Read MoreThe Secret To Staying Positive After A Bad Day At Work
If you have a job, run a business, and/or work for a living in some fashion you’ve had a bad day at some point.
Maybe you’ve had a string of bad days at work and at some point begin thinking you’re unhappy.
Here’s what I’ve found to be the secret to solving this problem.
Read MoreTake A Break
Whatever you’re working toward right now I want to encourage you to stop and take a break.
Rest.
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We weren’t designed to constantly be on the go and constantly work.
This past week I gutted the kitchen of our new house to get ready for a kitchen remodel (more to say about that later) and, I must say, I’m tired.
Read MoreHow To Stop Thinking Negatively and Start Thinking Confidently
Prior to 1954 no one in recorded history had run a mile in less than four minutes.
The “experts” told everyone the human body just wasn’t capable of doing it.
Then on May 6, 1954 Roger Bannister ran a mile in under four minutes.
Only 46 days later an Australian runner broke Bannister’s record.
Since that time numerous people have run a mile in under four minutes.
So what happened?
Read MoreHow To Get Rid of Your Lousy Job Without Quitting
When we find ourselves in a situation doing work out of alignment with who we are it can be an awful experience.
It tends to color everything else in our lives.
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However, sometimes the problem isn’t the job.
Sometimes the problem is us.
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Gary was always good at fixing things. He could take a car engine apart and put it back together. If your washing machine had broken he could fix it.
In high school Gary was always in the auto shop classroom and never in the library. He was that guy.
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However, when the time came he thought he needed to go to college in order to get a good job.
He went through college hating every minute of it, wishing he could spend more time refurbishing the 1969 Chevy pickup waiting in the garage at home.
After graduating from college with a low GPA and a headache, Gary went looking for a job.
Read MoreThe Secret of Making People Like You
There are a few people I interact with on a regular basis who inadvertently seem to drive others away in some way.
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In one case the person seems to want to have friends and relationships but has great difficulty navigating the sometimes delicate intricacies of maintaining a friendship.
Another person has lost significant connections to business contacts and forfeited potentially thousands of dollars of income as a result.
In my own life I have said and done things I know have cost me in different ways.
Read MoreHow Extraordinary Success Came to Bob Fisher
Have you ever pushed yourself to the point where you knew there was no more?
You gave it everything you had and then some?
Whether your area of performance is business, athletics, music, or art eventually there is a line you won’t be able to cross.
But have you been there?
Read MoreThe Secret to Finding Happiness
You think about it all the time.
If you had it, you know you’d be a happy and well adjusted person.
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You just know you’ll be happy when…
You get that job, find that spouse, have a child, get that car, that purse, fill in the blank.
Read More3 Reasons Why You Should Do Something You’re Scared To Do
The other day I stepped into an ice cold shower. On purpose. Why?
I had just finished reading The Flinch by Julien Smith.
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The Flinch is a book about doing things you’re scared of doing to get what you want in life. This book reminded me that sometimes avoiding pain can be costly.
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