Rules that change the rules
Following is a series dedicated to the capture of my answers to end of section questions asked in the book, 4 Hour Workweek .
Page 37, Questions & Actions:
How has being “realistic” or “responsible” kept you from the life you want?
Because I’ve tended to be overly loyal to friends and “potential” rewarding situations in life, I believe I’ve created a haven for waiting just a little longer for the life I truly desire to be living. Whether it be continually helping friends in need, or committing long periods of time, energy, and life force to working at a situation that does [...] Continue Reading…
What does your writing “habit” look like?
So, clearly, I’ve not posted right in line the next day from the previous publication in this series. Woe is me (or as I typed in absent minded fashion, initially, Whoa)!
This has prompted my thought patterns the past couple of days to ask a question of myself, “What is the best posting frequency, FOR ME? I love the Steven King school of blog posting from individuals that have all the time in the world to do nothing but wax poetically on anything and everything that forms in their swirling mass of gray matter. At the same time, I [...] Continue Reading…
Starting a new writing discipline
Have you ever just wanted to write? You know what I mean, just begin to write about whatever it is that gets you up in the morning and keeps you up at night? If you have had these types of urges, I’m feeling it with you.
Honestly! I am feeling it. And I’m working on developing the disciplined game plan that will hopefully help me to “make writing a habit”:
Write one post every morning after completing the reading ritual (you know, getting caught up on everything that has come into the feed reader since the day before)
Complete whatever the [...] Continue Reading…
Testing a theory
#test {font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;color:#ff0000;}
Will this turn out 14px, bold and red in the feed?
Scoble was erased? Ha!
Here’s my reply to Scobles, “Erased” post in the aftermath of his “debacle”. Geesh!
First off, I seriously doubt you went into all this not thinking about all the mileage you were going to be able to get out of it, regardless of getting nabbed. But that’s okay. I don’t have any negative feelings if you knew you’d be able to have $h1tloads of press/links written about the “experiment”. In fact, I applaud you for doing it, knowing that you are smart enough to have figured out the various potential results.
Plus, you’re getting ready to announce “your next move” in [...] Continue Reading…
Open Source, Product Design, and DiSo
My response to Steve Ivy’s post Open Source, Product Design, and DiSo.
You touch on the branding concepts being a part of the DiSo-verse, and at that same time, I’d argue that if you create (or worse) require any element of the process to have a certain design (the profile pages) then you are going to create resistance.
On my blog, http://boldlygoing.com, I’ve painstakingly over written the default style capabilities of the MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog and BumpZEE! widgets. Why? Because it was more important to me that their functionality fit into the overall site design.
Profile pages may be somewhat different, however I’d [...] Continue Reading…
Message to Tony Mase of Constructive Science
Following is a copy of the comment I left today on Tony Mase’s marketing blog promoting the writings of a turn of the (19th) century self help guru, Wallace D. Wattles. You can find Tony’s site at ConstructiveScience.com. I fully recommend him as a purveyor of Wattles publications as they can be hard to find.
Tony, being a blogger, reading, posting and commenting every day, I have to say how ashamed I am for you and your usage of blogging as a promotional tool for your Wattles’ products. Yes, I am absolutely a supporter of using the technology in marketing [...] Continue Reading…
Customer service should transform to self service
What the hell was I thinking? I live in Cottonwood. The only two places to get office chairs?
Wal-mart: 2 chairs way over priced no adjustable features
OfficeMax: a bunch of chairs, only one that I would have wanted. Was willing to pay the $179 to get something of relative quality and feature set. I take the ticket to the register. Dude goes to get chair. Stops to talk to chick walking in the store. Stops to help another customer. Finally, 6 minutes later brings up chair in box on dolly. Box literally looks like it had been dropped off the [...] Continue Reading…
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