Here’s a gut-wrenching $40K lesson – for free
“Tyler” was earning $200,000 a year as a graphic designer. Now, $200k is nice. But in 2018, (when this story takes place) when you’re competing with cheap design sites all over the world – that is VERY nice. And very rare. Still, Tyler felt he could do better. “I should be able to get to $500,000. But…
The shortest path to new clients.
Yesterday, on a Q&A call for my private coaching clients, one member, “Frank,” mentioned that he’d finally began using an email marketing system. “That’s great,” I said. “But is that the critical 10% for you at this time?” In the world of the Alchemist Entrepreneur, we strike at the roots where everyone is hacking at…
Why Hard Work IS Smart Work and How to Work Hard Smart
Many people work 10, 12 or even 14 hour days because they don’t want to work hard. Long hours may be exhausting, but it is also the easy way out. Real hard work is done at the bottleneck. And the tightest bottleneck in your business is… you. And the tightest bottleneck in you… is…
Why we fail…
There are two types of failure: TYPE A: You try. You fail. You learn from it. You try again. This isn’t really failure. This is Learning and Growing. TYPE B: You try. You fail. You don’t learn from it. Or you learn the wrong lessons. THIS is Failure: Trying to make the unworkable work. The…
Hitting 50 – but not your potential?
He threw down the phone. Leaned back in his office chair and put his feet up on the desk. Seeing his scruffy shoes and stretched socks he threw his feet back to the floor in disgust. “We were very impressed with your proposal,” they had said, “but we decided to go with the others.” We…
Two situations where you should quit
So, how do you know if it’s time to quit? Will your hard work eventually pay off? Or are you on a path that’s doomed to fail? How can you tell if you should keep going – or cut your losses? A Plenty of Clients member asked me that on a recent coaching call. Here’s…
I know I shouldn’t – but I envy him
I read biographies of great men and women. Do you? If you admire them, you probably see some of their qualities in yourself. Your potential for similar greatness. And when you learn how they navigated the nettles in their lives, it helps you navigate your own. Take Theodore Roosevelt, for example. To me, the man…
“I keep lashing at my horses with my whip clenched in a spasm.”
If you’re over thirty, you’re accompanied daily with that feeling – life moves fast. And it gets faster with every birthday. To deal with it, most people put their heads down and work harder. And longer. But it doesn’t seem to help. Vladimir Vysotsky, an iconic Soviet-era Russian singer, poet and actor sang it like…
Rockets exploding nearby. When do you say “Enough!” in your life?
You let anything slide for too long, and sooner or later, you’ll be picking up the pieces. You push anything too far, and sooner or later you’ll pay the price. I’m sitting in my local coffee shop and writing. Neighbors who see me here so often joke and ask me if this is my office.…
“I can’t help you,” I said. He returned to his life of quiet desperation.
I talk to two kinds of entrepreneurs any given week. The first kind I can help. The second, I cannot. The first kind has a Want and you can’t shake him from it. He’s on a journey. He has an Inner Knowing that he is destined for something. He believes there’s a reason for everything…