Since I moved into my own house in October, I’ve been wanting to get into a daily yoga routine but life has been…well, the end of a 21-year marriage is stressful even when it’s peaceful. Enter January. The yoga app I subscribe to had a 31-day challenge
Academics and people who are supposed to be doing the heavy thinking for the rest of us are sounding the alarm about the shortened attention spans of modern humans. Politely, look around and smell the wind of change, because you're about to be left behind by those of
When I was 19, I met a guy on the Internet, back before it was normal. I don't remember how long we talked, but in May I flew him up from California to meet my parents and we left on an adventure that is coming full circle on
I grew a business to 7 figures with a team that fits on two hands, but the vast majority of the admin tasks stayed in my camp for most of that time and I’m here to tell you unequivocally: not delegating costs vastly more than the cost of paying
Claude occasionally chooses to write posts inside No Small Talk Club. It's a private space, so no one in the outer world can read. This makes it safe but sometimes something is worth sharing to people who might not find it otherwise. Here is one such case. Written
After I wrote Why I No Longer Do Giveaways in My Business, I kept mulling on one of my audience members who was inspiring my thinking at the time. We’ll call her Mary, not her real name, because I’d never want my customers to feel like I’m
Shower thoughts are the best thoughts, I swear. I idly contemplated today what it might look like to try to record them, but instead I rush out, hair wet, to jot this down before I forget. (There's a teaching in there about how inspiration comes in the most
I’m posting in the interest of discussion and research, as with everything. Complete anonymity is impossible in this conversation though so I want to be clear for anyone coming after that I am passionately opposed to attacking anyone or singling out a bad guy. Much of what happens here
Lately folks are worried about how AI 0verview is killing traffic and I want to address it from the perspective of being a top source in my niche. AI is here to stay. There is absolutely zero chance this genie goes back in the bottle. I don't like
There are numerous options and to cover them fully goes beyond this post, but here are a few options I use regularly. Put it in a red balloon and send it floating off into the sky. This is a visualization exercise, useful for smaller issues that haven't left
The process sounds so reasonable and brilliant: 1. Select a product or service your buyers really want and make a giveaway. 2. Entrants get excited, share it around social media, the giveaway gains traction. 3. You profit by getting all these new email addresses or phone numbers for your marketing
All you have to do is look at the statistics of Gen Z reading habits (they don't read books, period) to extrapolate the inevitable conclusion that, fifty years from now, virtually no one will remember Tolkien. GRRM won the television war, the only war that matters. pic.twitter.