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“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 »

“The most important shot in golf is the next one.” – Ben Hogan

Last Friday, a friend and I hit the links. The day began as a conscious decision to peel myself away from the computer to enjoy a beautiful day outdoors, one of our first sub-100 degree days in months. As we hacked our way around the course (and I do mean hacked), I couldn’t help but notice the similarities between a successful golf game and online business success. Just as these 3 attributes are paramount for anybody looking to improve their golf game, the same attributes will also help anyone looking to build their online businesses:

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“I got a hundred dolla bill, y’all!” -Ice Cube

I have “officially” been playing this online business game for a little under two months now. I know what you are thinking – “two months is almost an eternity, Paul. By now, you should have made enough money online to purchase your own island!” Alas, I am here to confess I have yet to make my millions. Actually, I have yet to even make my thousands. Truth be told, I have yet to even make my FIRST thousand.

I’ve heard it said there are a million ways to make a million dollars online. While there may be some truth to this statement, the vast majority of us are just starting out and are primarily concerned with finding ways to make our FIRST dollar online. And though it may seem virtually impossible to jump over that initial hurdle, I’m telling you it’s not only possible, but it’s easier than you think. That’s because I have actually made my first $100 online… Read the rest of this entry »

“The master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his labor and his leisure…to himself, he is always doing both.” -James Michener

My video review of the Zero Hour Workweek: Get Paid to be You, the new e-book by Illuminated Mind’s Jonathan Mead, and the concept of the work / life balance.

Shoot over to Illuminated Mind and download your free copy of the book by clicking here. Jonathan has a great site with a ton of resources for people who are not content to spend their lives in the cage of conformity.

Please comment on what you thought of the video – both the content and the actual presentation itself. Keep in mind this is only the second video I have ever created so don’t be too harsh in your critiques – on second thought, I would greatly appreciate any and ALL feedback so as not to make an even greater fool of myself in the future Thanks!

Paul

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The Moronic Graduate

Okay, quick story about this picture. This is me on graduation day from the University of Texas (Master’s Sport Management) in 2006. After let’s just say a bit of a rough night (finally stumbled home as the sun was coming up), I shot out of bed at 8:35am realizing that I was supposed to be graduating…in 25 MINUTES! I grabbed my graduation gown which was still in the bag and I was just coherent enough to get it out of said bag when I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to put my arms through the sleeves. Seriously. I slipped my arms through the sleeves only to find them sewn shut at the ends.

So, like any enterprising individual who is so hung over it doesn’t yet hurt, I grabbed the scissors and began to cut open some hand holes. It wasn’t until after I caused a mini-uproar on stage in front of my closest 3,000 friends and their families that I realized the arm slots were already cut…in the SIDES of the gown. Everybody else had nice, flowing sleeves and I looked like I was wearing Larry the Cable Guy’s graduation gown. To this day, my family likes to call me the “dumbest grad school graduate of all-time” (all in good fun, of course). Okay, now back to the review.

It has been a little over a month since my first ever blog post, “I Have Yet to Make a Single Dollar Online and I Just Quit My Job.” Over the course of this last month, I have…moved to a different city (again), moved in with a girl for the first time (it’s okay, she has a ring. It’s not my ring but…just kidding), left a job most people would kill for, and started my own online business with absolutely no past experience or realistic expectations of success. I have also been planning a destination wedding in Jamaica, a co-bachelor party in Vegas, and have been enrolled in two separate mentor / coaching programs. To say the last month has been a whirlwind is a bit of an understatement… Read the rest of this entry »

“The most important thing about having goals is having ONE!” -Albert Geoffrey

Assuming you read my last post (Goal Setting for Dummies Part One – a Top Gun Analogy), you know I have struggled with a vicious cycle of setting tons of goals, following through with some but not ALL of them, and then getting down on myself for failing (again) to live up to the personal “rules” and high standards I set for myself…but then I would find myself jumping right back in to the same old habit of doing it to myself all over again. I knew this pattern SUCKED and I needed to change it but I had a difficult time finding and sticking with something that worked. But then I came across an old post from Leo at Zen Habits that inspired me to review and restructure the way I set goals for myself… Read the rest of this entry »

“I’ll take you right into the Danger Zone.” -Kenny Loggins from the Top Gun soundtrack

We all know the importance of setting goals and establishing priorities. Most successful people will tell you that you have to know where you want to go if you ever want to get there and you have to have a plan to succeed. But, if you are anything like me, you have struggled following through with all of your goals.

Do you set goals which empower and motivate you in the short-term only to lose focus and determination and fail to see them through to completion? Do you set up specific action plans to achieve those goals only to wake up in the morning to a vague sense of anxiety about how productive you need to be and how much shit you need to get done each day to reach those goals? Do you ever feel as though you are spread too thin, that you are pulled in too many directions, that there isn’t enough time in the day to get everything done? And, finally, do you ever stress yourself out to the point of inaction…and then feel guilty or upset that you weren’t as productive as you should have been that day?

Yes? Good! No offense, but it’s comforting to know I am not alone in this. It’s a vicious cycle – setting tons of goals, following through with some but not ALL of them, and then getting down on myself for failing (again) to live up to the personal “rules” and high standards I set for myself…but then I jump right back in there and do it to myself all over again. And it SUCKS! 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!