How to turn Brexit panic into personal magic
June 27, 2016 It is Monday following the UK’s vote for “Brexit” – to exit the EU. The pound has fallen, close to 10%. The politicians are in shock. And the media are predicting and promoting worry and fear. What’s the Reality? The Reality is: — As always, there is uncertainty. — And as always there…
The “Run uphill into gunfire and dive naked into icy waters” client attraction method
So as you may have figured out, the ‘strange’ boy I wrote you about the other day was the great Theodore Roosevelt. And the quote is from his exceptional biographer, Edmond Morris, in “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.” One of TR’s greatest strengths was that he really didn’t care what anyone else thought about him.…
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…
Ontario barbers forced to learn women’s styling techniques
“We’re barbers, we’re not neurosurgeons,” said Frank Olszynko to CBS News recently. “Why do we have to go through this?” While in years past it was the barbers who did the surgeries, Frank is right. Those professions have long ago been separated. (Whew.) But now in Ontario, the government decided that barbers should be classified…
When you can no longer ignore the feeling that it’s time for a change…
Some call it the seven year itch. Others call it a mid-life crisis. Still others call it getting “mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!” Whatever you call it, it’s going to come. And the question will be: Will the uncertainty fuel you – or beat you into submission? Several weeks…
Important message from George Washington to today’s entrepreneurs
2.5 million people. That was the population of the United States at the time of the Revolutionary War in 1776. During that first year of the war, the citizens of the new country were excited, patriotic and strongly supported the war. But that didn’t last very long. When it became apparent that the war would…
“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…
The high price you pay for naivety – in business and in life.
Clear thinking is your most valuable work. Period. This means lots of things. But at it’s most basic, it means you must see things as they are, not as you wish them to be. Self-delusion makes life and business painful and frustrating. And when deluded people are in power, they create pain and frustration for…
“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…
A single change that draws ideal clients to you
High school memories can be painful. I was not one of the popular kids. I distinctly remember wondering “Why is it that when Cool Dude cracks a joke everyone laughs? Even when it’s not funny. But if I would crack the same joke, they’d roll their eyes and snort.” One day I had a sudden…