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Annual Report 2011: Serve | Aspire | Transcend
Every December, I reflect upon what went right, what went wrong, what took me by surprise, what I can learn from these awakenings, and how I’ll change what I’m doing next year. I do this by writing an...
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How a Mad Rant Turned Into a Real Business
It started with my own frustration. I’d just signed my first book deal, and being a maven and a marketer, began to devour everything I could find about book marketing. Over the next year and a half,...
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Ask JF: How Do I Get Attention In a Crowded Field?
I’ve been asked this question by everyone from bloggers to actors, artists to entrepreneurs and corporate aspirants to movement makers. How do I make a mark when it seems everything that can be...
View ArticleThis is it
Today’s not a warm-up. It’s not a dress-rehearsal. There is no second act. What you do with it. Where you take it. Who you bring. These things matter. No do-overs. No tomorrows. No gimmes or...
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Good Life Project: The Upside of Stuttering
One of my goals with Good Life Project™ is to shine equal light on the journeys of extraordinary women. This week’s guest really blew me away, in part because because of her incredible courage in...
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Maven Envy, Maker Mode and Great Work
I’m jealous. I spent the last week out in Boulder, Colorado. Part vacation and part biz. Toward the end of the week, my director of photography for the Good Life Project™ (GLP) web show, Eric Michael...
View Article10 Things To Do When Your Audience Goes On Vacation
It happens every August… First year, it freaked me out. Second year, still. Third year, I knew the drill. Strange as it sounds, the interwebs tend to go on vacation from about August 15 to September...
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Five Ways Optimism Can Crush Your Launch
Today’s guest contributor is Original Impulse founder, novelist and coach to writers, artists and entrepreneurs, Cynthia Morris. +++ Entrepreneurs, by our nature, are optimists. If we didn’t embrace a...
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When Do You Know Enough To Teach?
I’ve had this conversation so many times. Maybe you have too… To make money, I’ve been told, you must position yourself as the wizard. The all-knowing sage who doth bestow knowledge upon the poor...
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What If I Choose Wrong?
Man, I’ve heard that excuse soooo many times. You’ve got multiple interests, ideas, projects, passions, products, job offers, blah, blah, blah. They all sound cool. All have serious potential, pluses,...
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Revisiting the F-Bomb
We’ve had this conversation here once before… I was recording a skype conversation with my friend Julien Smith a few years back and, during the conversation, we got into this whole thing about when...
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Can I Feel Your Soul Through Your Work?
Ever wonder “who am I to…?” Write a book, start a business, lead a movement, make art, stake a claim, land a role or anything that matters AND has a long history of kick-ass players and achievements...
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