Half way there…
18 January 2010This is day 17 of 30 (well maybe 31 if I'm feeling ambitious) on this blogging project and I thought it would be appropriate to take a quick moment and tell you all a little bit about what I've learned in this process. First off, you'd be shocked who's actually listening. In the time since I've started this I've become friends with the Ren Men, been featured on a book's website and had a well known color expert leave a comment on my blog. I've been retweeted by over a dozen people and have had some of my own beliefs regarding my writing challenged. If you're starting or restarting a blog don't be shocked if someone you never expected leaves a comment or gets pointed to your website. Remember they're only a single person away. ;) While I still find my writing to be pretty poor, it's become that much easier for me to simply write about anything which is a side effect I wasn't anticipating. I used to struggle for hours to figure out something to talk about or compile my thoughts on a book. Now because I'm constantly creating content I feel much more able to sit down with a ...
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The beginnings of my outsourced life
16 January 2010I'm currently experimenting with my life in ways that I wish I would have a few years ago. Tearing a page from Tim Ferriss' playbook I'm testing assumptions left and right. I've already chronicled the elimination of physical media. In February it's likely I'll sell my beloved big screen TV, home theater system, all my gaming systems and my AppleTV as well. I know that I couldn't have done this before now but it's interesting to think how things might be different if I had. This however is not the intention of this blog post but rather the new in-flow of products in my life. I'm beginning to believe that I can have anything physical delivered to my house. And since the start of the year it's proven remarkably easy with a little planning. Books and content are now all digital and get delivered immediately. Physical books get delivered in 2 days from Amazon but those have only been gifts for folks and not things I'm keeping. I've even shipped packages from my house without even seeing the delivery service guy. The two things that I regularly left the house for in my car were work and groceries and well the ...
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How being interested in European football (soccer) has helped me in business
11 January 2010[This is another introspective post so if you don't dig them feel free to skip this one.] Most folks in America spent the weekend watching the NFL playoffs and to be honest I watched the overtime session of the Packers and Cardinals game. Overall though I've found that my passion for European football has served me better than any other sport. I haven't always been a fan of soccer. To be honest I used to make fun of the kids who played it in high school. Little did I know that I would end up becoming a fan of the "world's game" only a few years later. I didn't jump directly from playing baseball and being obsessed with it and watching Lakers games as if I was a part of the team to the Barclay's English Premier League. Like most things it was a long and varied path. My first introduction to sports outside the US actually was the Tour de France. I became passionate about it starting in 2000. Watching a Texan win the race made this entirely foreign sport seem ok because it fit my worldview that Americans can win at anything. Cycling though isn't televised here in the ...
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Just when I thought it was over…
10 January 2010This evening I received the following tweet from my friend Chris Conrey: Truth be told, BeCovalent is a baby business of mine that I had literally decided to slow down the growth of...stunting it even to the point where I would pull down the website. It's not the business didn't achieve the goals I had set out for it. Rather it simply failed to meet my one requirement for classifying it as a business: cash flow. The deal with BeCovalent is that it's a mastermind group but in a different kind of way. I make sure the groups are small, diverse, and incredibly intimate. I build trust to the point that NDAs aren't required and that members don't even think about bringing them in. Basically, this is an excuse for me to get together once a week with people who I want to learn from. The plan was to build a few groups (which thankfully I now have) and then to bring in more businesses who met the specs and charge them a monthly fee to compensate me for my time, bringing the right group together and the additional services I ...
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The person you want to talk to is now only one person away
05 January 2010I'm working last minute to create a blog post that technically goes up before midnight to keep my blogging each day of January alive. Today has been hectic, long and emotionally trying but the opportunity presented itself for me to play the role I seem destined to for folks and that makes me genuinely happy: the role of connector. My mentor and good friend said to me a couple months back that "the person you want to talk to is now only one person away." At first I brushed him off and thought that the expanding networks through social media, blogs and real world meetups were isolated things that didn't have any real impact on who any one person really knew. Then it happened not once but three times right in front of my face in a matter of a week. People would either say to or around me that they wanted to speak to one very specific person. Through either a connection of my own or someone else in the group we were talking in we knew the person they wanted to talk to. Not in some "I met that person once" kind of way but rather the "I hung ...
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