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life as a professional writer

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life as a professional writer

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How Complaining Rewires Your Brain for Negativity

By Dr. Travis Bradberry | 11/18/2016

Research shows that most people complain once a minute during a typical conversation. Complaining sometimes feels good, but it isn’t good for you.

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The Great Cardio Myth is Now Available

By Early to Rise | 11/16/2016

In his new book, The Great Cardio Myth, Craig Ballantyne and co-author Chelsea Ratcliff explain to you in detail why everything you’ve been told about exercise is wrong. For decades we’ve been told that cardio exercise is the silver bullet against weight gain and obesity and a panacea against heart…

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If You’re Going Fishing You Need Bait

By Craig Simpson | 11/16/2016

Robert Collier was a fabulously successful direct-mail marketer who ruled the field during the first half of the twentieth century. He is believed to have written sales letters that brought in upwards of one hundred million dollars during the 1920s and 1930s. In today’s dollar that would amount to a…

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How to Break the Shackles of the Financial Industry

By Mark Morgan Ford | 11/15/2016

I am not an investment professional. I have never made any money managing other people’s money. I went from rags to riches the old-fashioned way: by working hard and then investing my income as carefully as I could. Because I’d done well on my own, I never considered seeking financial…

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7 Steps for Turning Big Ideas Into Big Money

By Mark Morgan Ford | 11/9/2016

Big-money ideas are almost always new and different. As such, they are often only vaguely articulated, and therefore difficult to implement in a methodical way. You need a plan that includes specific objectives you’ve already identified… along with deadlines and designees. Above all, you need persistence. Because, despite whatever plan…

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How to Get More Done Every Day

By Bedros Keuilian | 11/8/2016

Being an entrepreneur is the greatest lifestyle in the world… but it’s not a walk in the park. Most people think there aren’t enough hours in the day to do everything that you want or need to do. As an entrepreneur, you don’t get to complain about that. In fact,…

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How to Change Your Course in Life

By Craig Ballantyne | 11/7/2016

You’re about to discover how to get more done, make more money, and still get home on time for dinner. Today you’re going to walk away with 5 personal rules for your life that will make you a better business owner and parent. But before I do that, I want…

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ETR Exclusive: ETR Founder Mark Ford

By Tara McMeekin | 11/3/2016

Mark Ford isn’t your typical success story. From an early age, he knew he wanted to become a writer — but never did he imagine he’d become one of the most sought-after entrepreneurs in the newsletter-publishing world. Mark is also an expert investor, and has started more than 100 businesses.…

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8 Reasons Your Clients Aren’t Paying You

By Early to Rise | 11/1/2016

You did the work. Actually, you did the work extremely well. In fact, not only did you do the work extremely well, you completed the entire project under budget and ahead of schedule. So why isn’t your client paying? All invoicing businesses, from freelancers to major firms, experience delinquent payers.…

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How to Transform Your Copy in 3 Steps

By Brian McCarthy | 11/1/2016

Writing copy can make you feel — as Kurt Vonnegut once said, “like an armless, legless, man with a crayon in his mouth.” Even if you’re passionate about what you do, the keyboard has a magical ability to zap your mojo. The brilliant ideas rattling in your head morph into…

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How to Find a Career in Economics

By Early to Rise | 10/21/2016

Not everyone loves numbers and the study of economics, but for the many that do, the study of production and consumption could not be more invigorating. In fact, considering the fascinating insight economics can provide into the human psyche ― how economics works to disassemble and understand human behavior to…

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What Facebook Did Right With Employees

By Craig Ballantyne | 10/21/2016

On a cold winter’s day in February of 2004, in a Harvard dorm room, a 19-year old Mark Zuckerberg officially launched TheFacebook.com (Facebook’s original digital home). Membership was originally limited to Harvard College but soon spread to other Ivy League schools, and eventually to the world. Facebook grew rapidly, and…

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