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What Should I Buy Next? How To Hide From Real Work

What program do you use for writing?
What kind of mic do you have for podcasting?
What do you find images for your blog posts?
Where do you host your blog?
What do you use to host webinars?
What does your swipe copy say?
What day do you close cart?
What are your price points?
What’s your refund policy?
Where do you host your course?

They are all equipment questions. Anyone with money can buy equipment.

Getting ready is the popular way to avoid doing the actual work.

Getting equipment isn’t scary, it’s hiding from real work.

Getting ready doesn’t put you at risk for rejection. No one will tell you to stop equipping yourself. Equipment is a path others have taken. You look and feel so busy preparing but you’re not any closer to shipping.

Until you can be rejected, you’re nowhere near the path to clarity.

Stop equipping yourself. You’re just stalling.

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Announcing The "What Fear Says" Series

If you want the book then enter your info below:
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If you live a comfortable life at work, at home, and in your mind then you can stop reading. If you fight fear, then keep reading.

Fear doesn’t run away scared. You can defeat it, though.

What Fear Says 1000pxFear is my greatest enemy, and it attacks in many ways. That’s why I’m creating the “What Fear Says” series. This series can be read in less than an hour that will help you understand how fear works. The first topic I’m tackling is Comparison.

To be clear, I’m not lecturing you on how to defeat fear. Fear is never defeated because it never goes away. We can avoid it by hiding, but we can’t avoid it if we want to make a difference. You wish to make a difference, so you’ve got to understand and confront fear.

Fear only goes away if you’re doing something that’s unimportant.
Fear is a sign that you’re going in the right direction on your creative journey.
Fear is not a stop sign; it’s a mile marker to let you know that your trip isn’t over.

If you fight fear, then you’re doing something important. The “What Fear Says” series will help you fight back against fear.

To combat an enemy, you must understand it. That’s why I’m creating the “What Fear Says” series. The first book is about COMPARISON.

These books will be easy to digest and full of stories about how fear works. I’m giving it away as soon as it’s done (by the end of March 2016) in exchange for your email. It’ll be available in print and on Amazon soon too, but ideas spread when we uncage them, so that’s why I’m giving it away if you want it.

There’s no “course” at the end. There’s no mastermind called Fear Warriors that I’m going to convince you to join. Maybe one day I’ll have more ways to help you fight fear but right now I’m taking this project one step at a time. Today it’s about finishing the first book. I hope you’ll sign up to get it and spread the word.

If you want the book then enter your info below:
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Here is a lock screen image for your phone. (Right click and Save As to download the pic or do a hard press on your mobile phone to save it to your camera roll)  
Do it exactly like them

      Below is the cover of the book. What Fear Says 1000px  

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Crowd-sourcing ; Can it create art?

 

Crowds can create great things
  1. Someone creates something inspiring
  2. Lots of people who live nowhere near each other get inspired
  3. Those people hunger for the inspiration to continue (the original artist has done her job, now it’s up to the community to take action)
  4. Tribe leader/organizer shares a vision for a collaborative project that will add to the original work
  5. The tribe is gathered by one person (then the tribe starts to assemble itself)
  6. A shared vision is clarified by the group through collaborative effort
  7. Details, details, details
  8. The tribe benefits from being a part of the effort
  9. All future consumers of the original inspiring work benefit from the tribe’s creation
What did you think of?  Why haven’t you done it? How can I help?(I’m creating one in November.  You’ll hear it about it soon.)

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Phil Simon; The guy who beats the crap out of "the resistance" – 014 Linchpin Podcast

Author and consultant Phil Simon has navigated the world of publishing and learned to create his own path to success through crowd building and then crowd-sourcing.  We talked about publishing a lot, movies some and of course Seth Godin a bit.  He’s the author of “The New Small” an avid golfer and a pretty stinking good tennis player too.  Enjoy the show, I did.

Simplify things by making everything a project

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Running Time:

56:57

Links to Phil:

Web Site: www.philsimonsystems.com
Book: thenewsmall.com

The Fountainhead
Competition validates you Seth post
12 Monkeys
Terry Gilliam
Web site designer – www.shiridesignstudio.com
Publishing company – motionpub.com
Mitch Joel post on “Why You Should Write a Book”
Questions to ask before writing a book
– “Who’s going to buy it?”
– “What are they going to do with the information?
Look for “The new small” in the Apple app store
The New Small Manifesto

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Aaron Goldfarb; The guy who turned down a chance to work for Seth Godin and ironically the author of “How to Fail: The Self-Hurt Guide” – 013 Linchpin Podcast

How his manager talked him into applying to work with Seth Godin and why he turned it down.
What it’s like to write a book for the first time.
Aaron thought like a Linchpin and wrote a self-help book about hurting yourself.
Why his book makes some people cry.
Why his character isn’t as much of a loser as you think he is.
Why Aaron went on a bar tour instead of a book store tour to promote his book.
How his character in the book wants to be a Linchpin but might have gone too far in doing so.
Free chapter on “How to fail to at a job interview” –
Why most job interviews are lame
Why Aaron got a job for tucking in his shirt
Why “perfect” is an excuse
Aaron can help you get published on a Kindle
Lots more stuff I didn’t write down because the conversation was so good…

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Running Time:

1:16:04

Links to Aaron:

Aaron on Twitter: www.twitter.com/aarongoldfarb
Aaaron on Facebook: www.Facebook.com/aarongoldfarbhtf
Aaron Goldfarb’s Site: www.aarongoldfarb.com
Aaron’s Blog: www.aarongoldfarb.com/blog
Buy “Self-Hurt” on Amazon:
How To Fail: The Self-Hurt Guide

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– Email me at [email protected] .

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