In October, I was a robot. I was focused on building two new habits: training BJJ, and studying Mandarin Chinese. While continuing to read everyday. I did all three of them… almost everyday in October. I was settled in Taipei, and I was grinding. Day in. Day out. The same thing. Then, November came...
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As much as I read articles and blogposts on the internet, there’s one particular type of post of that I refuse to read: the classic, and all too common “avoid these mistakes” post. Because, I don’t like people telling me what not to do, and I don’t like focusing on the negative. If you...
Read more →“These days, I make a huge mistake every day. I start off with the loop: e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, my Amazon rank, my blog stats, my blog comments. Claudia asks me, ‘Did you finish the loop yet?’ And I think it will only take a few seconds but it probably actually takes about twenty minutes....
Don’t Know When I’ll Be Back Again… A couple of years ago I made the decision to move away from the place where I’ve lived all of my life: Texas. One of the main reasons I moved out was because I wanted to read more books. I’m being serious. Well, I felt like I...
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This ain’t Friday Night Lights. You’re not Billy Bob Thorton. Forget the “perfect” shit. I once knew a girl in college who was a perfectionist. Every time she had a paper due, she had this vision of what a perfect paper would look like. She’d write a paper and if it wasn’t perfect. She’d...
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I just finished Derek Johanson’s CopyHour course. I spend most of the past two and half months waking up everyday, going to a coffee shop with my notebook – and handwriting out some of the best performing ads ever. I studied the masters – Gary Bencivenga, Gary Halbert, Jay Abraham. Everyday. For the most...
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It was starting to get to the point where it was just getting annoying. 60,000+ emails in my inbox. And, that’s just one account. My main account. I had 7 others. Logging in and logging out. Flipping from Gmail to Outlook Web, and then back to Gmail. Some addresses, I’d even forget to check...
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