Do your highest leverage tasks first. In the morning, right when you get started.
If you read The Four Hour Work Week or any other tome on personal effectiveness, then you know this. It’s how you build up momentum for the rest of the day. It’s when you’re most energized and alert.
Write first, check email later, [...]
When I started Mementum, it took about 14 weeks to score my first piece of work. It was for about $250.
But then 2 weeks after that I landed a real project… which led to another… and another… and now I (very luckily) have almost as much work flow as I can handle, without a real [...]
Copywriting is won or lost in the research phase. When you listen to mp3’s for the purpose of learning, time is saved by speeding them up.
This is the premise under which I sought to listen to mp3’s at a faster rate. Here’s how I do it via Quicktime (bonus: script included for batching). Hark! Now [...]
I’ll finish 2008 with the exact piece of paper I started it with.
On this piece of notebook scrap are the goals I set for myself for 2008. This is the first time this has happened.
I guess it’s the first time I took my life truly serious.
It feels pretty good. I can see significant success, rally [...]
Alfredo challenged my tactic for using daily goals as a source of motivation, and got me thinking about how these interact with your long-term, performance based goals.
First, a caveat: this is targeted at those of us working alone for extended periods of time on something hard.
Chugging on a long, difficult project without anyone else to [...]
When I was in high school, I used (what I thought was) a special study technique the day of crucial tests, especially where memorization was key.
I’d (usually) study hard a night or two before, but when success was supremely crucial, I always blocked out extra time the morning before the test for 1 more run [...]
In college, I tried to read many of the classic business books. I could never finish them.
Late last year as I was getting our new Hookah site and sales copy off the ground, I ripped through Seth Godin’s Permission Marketing and Ben Mack’s Think Two Products ahead, followed shortly by Tim Feriss’ Four Hour Work [...]
Relentlessly seek out intense experiences.
This relates to lesson #3 of Monday’s lessons and might stem from my natural fear of comfort.
The final moment of your day should never conclude without one of these 2 thoughts striking your mind:
Damn that was awesome
Damn that sucked ass
A dark, heavy cloud rolls through my conscious any time I realize [...]
Today was my last Monday working for MindValley, where I am currently an email marketer for MindValley Labs products.
As my last week closes, each night I’m going to try to capture some of the key personal and professional learnings over this past year.
You might find them useful.
Lesson #1 No matter how exciting, work is not [...]