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“Always do what you are afraid to do.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today is a big day for my blogging buddy Sean Ogle at Location180.com. In his newest post, “My Last Day,” he talks about quitting his job and striking out on his own. But in this post, Sean talks about something that I think we all struggle with, especially when we actually make the leap to “blaze our own paths.”

We are filled with excitement and motivation and we revel in the freedom of exploring the opportunities that come our way. But we are also filled with trepidation, fear, and anxiety and we sometimes second-guess our decision to make the leap.

I am asking for your help. I want to create a discussion in the comment section below with answers to the question, “how do YOU handle being scared shitless?”

We ALL have our fears and worries, especially when we make the leap to take control of our own path. My goal here is to generate a discussion that will help those of us who are just getting started or who are on the brink of making that jump.

I would love to hear from everyone but especially from those who have already made that leap of faith. How were YOU able to push through that fear?

Thanks, everyone, and I can’t wait for the responses!

Paul

“1% of doubt is enough to erase 99% of motivation.” – Author Unknown

I am 29 years old and I have a bogeyman. When I was younger, he would chase me through my neighborhood at night. I never saw him but I always knew when he was close. The hair on the back of my neck would stand straight up and I could feel him breathing over my shoulder. When I sensed he was near I wouldn’t stop to turn around, I would just tuck tail and run like the wind.

I was fast so it wasn’t too difficult to outrun him. He never caught me and he faded away as I got older. I just assumed he got bored and gave up trying to catch me. But he is a hell of a lot smarter, and much more insidious, than I gave him credit for – I say this because my bogeyman is back and he’s been whispering in my ear this whole time… Read the rest of this entry »

As anybody who knows me can attest, I am a huge football fan (Go Chiefs and Hook ‘Em Horns). With the college season already underway and the NFL season set to kick off next week, I wanted to pay homage to what life is really all about…football

We all know football is a game of inches. And, if football is life and life is football, it stands to reason that LIFE is a game of inches. Al Pacino does a pretty nice job of summing it all up in one of the better movie pre-game motivational speeches of all-time:

“The inches we need are everywhere around us!” Are you fighing for each inch?

Have a great weekend and THANK GOD FOR FOOTBALL!

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” -Rabindranath Tagore

If you are reading this, chances are you are either already running your own online business and are looking to take it to the next level or you haven’t yet started a business but are very much interested in doing so. Either way, we all struggle from time to time trying to figure out exactly how to get the ball rolling. So what’s the absolute FIRST step you need to take to start a successful online business?

Just jump off the cliff and get started… Read the rest of this entry »

My name is Paul Norwine. I am 29 years old and I live in Austin, Texas. Last week I was the Director of the San Antonio Sports and Social Club, a highly successful offline business that I built from scratch to one of the largest and most profitable social organizations in the country – in just a little over two years’ time. I had what most people would consider their dream job. But last week I walked away from my relatively-lucrative position in the offline world and now consider myself a full-time “Internet Marketer.”

There’s just one small problem…I haven’t made a single penny online and I don’t know what I am doing.

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