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June 22, 2012 By Andy Traub

Still searching but enjoying the journey – A QC veteran – Quitter Conference Conversation Show 001

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A Quitter Conference veteran explains how the conference is helping her on her journey.
 
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The first episode of the Quitter Conference Conversations Show. In this episode Quitter Conference attendee Tammy H. tells us how the conference helped her on her journey.
 
 

 
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Filed Under: Quitter Conference Conversations Show, Uncategorized Tagged With: dave ramsey, jon acuff, quitter conference

March 5, 2012 By Andy Traub

How do you measure success?

Today is going to be a great day. I’m hosting and/or recording five podcasts (you can watch them live today) with some of my favorite people today. Josh Gordon from the Non-Conformist Family, Jon Acuff from StuffChristiansLike.net, Rory Vaden, author of “Take The Stairs” and Ian Morgan Cron author of “Jesus, My Father, The Cia and Me”.

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The woman who handed me my bagel this morning said, “Have a good day!”

I replied, “I’m sure I will.”

Today will be a successful day because it’s a culmination of a lot of work. Each recording is another 40 minutes of content into the world. Each conversation will undoubtably enrich my mind and heart. The listeners that contact me from all over the world will no doubt also be encouraged and blessed by those conversations.

There are so many definitions of success. Mine is simple. Success is consistently shipping great content.

I can’t control how people react to it.
I can’t control who listens to it.
I can’t control if they take the encouragement and wisdom provided and make change in their lives.
I can’t control if they pass it on or not.

But, I can ship.
I can care about the  product.
I can enjoy every minute of creating it.
I can spread the word about it.
I can interact with those who leave comments and mention it on-line.
I can improve my life from the wisdom that is shared.
I can promote the authors and personalities that give me their time.

Some things you can control. Some things you can’t. Make sure your definition of success consists of things you can control. Then do them. How will you define success?

Filed Under: Attitude, Permission, Uncategorized Tagged With: Attitude, goals, Ian Morgan Cron, jon acuff, Josh Gordon, rory vaden, success

February 29, 2012 By Andy Traub

Five proven ways to fail to achieve anything

I have a tremendous respect for Todd Henry and his company Accidental Creative. He enables thousands of creatives all over the world to create consistently and that’s no small feat. His tweet yesterday was meant to be an encouragement and it served that purpose for me. My retweet and additional commentary was meant for the majority of people who read tweets, blogs and books and yet have very little if any output. They digest but they don’t create. This is such a waste. Here are a few ways you (and I) are guilty of failing to achieve our goals.

RT @toddhenry: Morning, all! Make something great today. // or make anything which is more than u did yesterday.

— Andy Traub (@andytraub) February 28, 2012

Five proven ways to fail to achieve anything

1. Save it for later
If you have a great idea keep it in a file on your computer and wait for the perfect time to work on it. Wait for the right partner for the project, the funding, the free time and the mood to strike. If you save it for JUST the right time then you’re sure to fail. That never happens. The best post about this is written by Chris Guillebeau and is called (Never) Save It For Later.
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Filed Under: Attitude, Permission, Productivity, Uncategorized Tagged With: Charles Lee, chris guillebeau, excuses, jon acuff, Productivity, todd henry

April 19, 2011 By Andy Traub

How Jon Acuff bought his following

Ok, that’s not true. You can’t really buy a true following of fans, tribe members…whatever you want to call them. Followers can be enticed but they can’t be bought. There’s a really, really normal guy named Jon Acuff who has a killer job working for Dave Ramsey, writes great books and has about 15,000 fans on Facebook. For the record he walked by me a few weeks ago when I was in Nashville at Ramsey headquarters but I’ve never talked to the guy. Anyway, Jon is a really, really normal guy. He’s got gifts for sure but he’s a normal guy. So what makes Jon Acuff so freakin’ special that he’s got 15k fans on Facebook, has three books and a dream job at Ramsey?

Jon ships. Yup. Jon makes stuff like blog posts, videos on YouTube and books. Jon also makes change by using social media and he talks about it in this video.

I invited Jon to be on my Linchpin Podcast and I hope he can make it because he creates things. He doesn’t wait for permission. He takes initiative. Jon inspires me because he didn’t buy his following, he earned it.

You can’t buy a following but you can care. You can add your gifts to the world. I’m inspired by Jon but not in the way I’m inspired by a movie. I get inspired by movies but then I don’t do jack. Thanks for being normal and for being special and for creating things that matter. I’m doing the same in part b/c of other “normal” guys like you.

Filed Under: blogging, Interview, Permission, Social Media, Uncategorized Tagged With: dave ramsey, jon acuff, jonacuff.com, Permission, stuff christians like

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