Cold Shower Therapy is a strategy I've used a couple of times in the last year to help myself start doing the things I know I need to be doing (h/t to Nick Reese for getting me hooked). If you find yourself self-sabotaging with all the impossible things you want to be doing, with avoidance and procrastination, Cold Shower Therapy is the best tool I know of to help you start doing. Cold Shower Therapy Sometimes you just have to dive ...
Archives for March 2012
Do Something Impossible Or Go Home
Do Something Impossible or Go Home If you're already doing something impossible, that's great - I'm ecstatic you're here. this isn't for you. If you're not, this might make you angry - you need to hear it anyways. Fair warning. I only want people around me who can do the impossible. - Elizabeth Arden This place is a place for action. Not for wishing. Not for talking. Acting. Doing. Finishing. If you want talk, go to 99% of the rest of the world. There's ...
What To Do When There Is No Road
[tweet http://twitter.com/joelrunyon/status/182578500040011777] Everybody's got a road for you to follow. There are countless how-to-guide, ________ for idiots and the dummy's guide to everything. So many roads. You just have to pick up a road map and follow the manual. The guides work...up to a point. They'll get you to a certain level of success and help you avoid a lot of early mistakes that trip people up while starting out. But after a while, ...
Stepping Back From Work And Stepping Into Your Story
I'm back from the dead. After a good week and a half of the SxSw festivities in Austin, I'm hanging out in Dallas for the day before I'm back to Chicago. Quite a few friends have already done write-ups on SxSw so all I'll say about it is that you should come next year :). If you know me, I can tend to have workaholic tendencies and somewhere last week I was getting frustrated at trying to balance work while also trying to spend the limited amount of time ...
3 Things I’d Love Your Help With
I got into Austin late last night and kicked off SxSw this morning with a mile and a half walk in a small monsoon. Fortunately, the next few days are looking to be a lot of fun and (hopefully) a lot less wet. In the meantime, there's a few things that are happening around the blog that I'd love your help with. 3 Things I'd Love Your Help With 1. Review Impossible: The Manifesto on Amazon The manifesto has been downloaded thousands and thousands of times ...
How To Rock Your First Public Speaking Engagement
Alternatively titled: 7 Things I Learned From My First Speaking Engagement (At a Fortune 50 Company). Public speaking is consistently at the top of people's fear list, right next to and sometimes even surpassing death. That's right, lots of people would rather die than have to speak in public. Sort of dramatic, huh? But even if you don't want to die from speaking in public, a good 75% of people say they realize increased anxiety from public speaking. The ...
