How to Become an Incomparable Expert (Step-By-Step How-To)

Becoming a “one-of-a-kind” service provider is one of those exciting business topics everyone tells you you should pursue without actually telling you how to do it. The whole idea of having a “Unique Selling Proposition” (USP) as a service provider is quite exciting… until you actually try to create one. Technically speaking, creating a USP is actually pretty simple.…

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How to Deal With Fear

I was about seven years old the first time I remember being scared to death. I was sitting in the school cafeteria with my friend Daryl eating lunch. I’m pretty sure I was eating peanut butter and jelly, unless it was during one of those “healthy” periods when my mom was sending us to school…

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Lifestyle Design With Six Kids

When I first read Tim Ferriss’ book, The 4-Hour Workweek, I was pretty sucked in. Who wouldn’t want to work for only 4 hours a week? As it turns out, I wouldn’t. I derive a lot of meaning and pleasure from working hard. For me, creating something and sharing it with others makes me feel…

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Personal Inspiration

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference…

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Why You Must Not Wait

Waiting for something to happen in your business just plain sucks. Sometimes you’re waiting to hear back from a prospect or a vendor—sometimes you’re waiting on a payment from a client or a customer. At other times, you’re waiting on someone to do something that they said they were going to do. I’ve done more…

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How to Get Out of the Rat Race

As a service professional or business owner, how do you set your product prices or rates for your services? There are more books than you’d ever want to read about this topic. I’m sure there’s good advice out there, but there’s also a ton of bad advice mixed in—especially the advice you hear for service…

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