Paul McCartney once said to John Lennon before writing a new song: “Let’s write a swimming pool!” What he meant is that as talented song artists they could decide in advance to easily generate enough money to build a swimming pool, buy a car, take a dream vacation, or pretty much anything else they…
DetailsAs a former career coach, author on career clarity and life planning expert under the name Rob Clinton at 180 Career Coaching, Robert de Brus story is a story of redemption. Having gone through many challenging transitions and life upsets, from business crashes, failed relationships, financial hardships, and circumstance after circumstance that he doesn’t wish on anyone he is…
DetailsThe story is told that one night when Jim Carrey was a struggling young comic trying to make his way in Los Angeles, he drove his old beat-up Toyota to the top of a hill. This was in 1990. While sitting there broke, looking down over the city and dreaming of his future, he wrote…
DetailsI’ve got a free checklist for all you writers out there. “Can I make money as an introverted writer?” This question comes up so often – thus, I asked Marianne if I could share her question here: “Dan, My desire is to help others live victorious lives by teaching them the Word of God. I don’t…
DetailsLast week the founder of Leads Magazine (www.leadsmagazine.co edit: 072417, link no longer valid) asked me: What is ONE big inspiration or tactic you can share with entrepreneurs and small businesses about being more successful? My One big inspiration tactic for being more successful is I treat the 168 hours we have each week as…
DetailsHere’s a question from a reader – an accountant. (We’ll call her Angela) “I’m at a job that I hate mainly because I feel like every day I’m set up to fail. There’s no job satisfaction. I go to work and try my best but the bosses and organization demand excellence in everything that we…
DetailsThis is a guest post by Joanne Miller. She is my wife and affectionately known as Queen Mother in the 48Days community. She writes, serves the needs of others and spends time with her grandchildren. She doesn’t use Twitter or Facebook but has more connections than anyone I know. If you’d like to guest post on this…
DetailsIn the first few moments of the movie Collateral, the taxi driver, played by Jamie Foxx, tells Tom Cruise’s character: “I’m not in this for the long haul. This is just filling in—I’m putting some things together—I’m going to open my own limo service.” Cruise asks him, “How long you been doing this?” To which…
DetailsI recently worked with a physician, a high level specialist who is respected nationally. Yet his description of his situation is summed up in – “I’m at the top of my game and I have no life.” Yes, working 100 hours a week will culminate in that unfortunate end result, no matter how excellent your…
DetailsTwo weeks ago my podcast theme was Stay Away From Negative Friends. I talked about my 3-hour rule where I’ll spend 3 hours a year with negative friends but certainly not 3 days or 3 weeks on a vacation. Well, I knew there was the elephant in the room and didn’t address it fully. I…
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