The other day, I had the pleasure of hanging out with a new friend, Ramit Sethi , the author of New York Times bestselling book, I Will Teach You To Be Rich and founder of the wildly popular blog, IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com . We were spinning on all sorts of topics, from personal finance to behavioral change, the psychology of persuasion, marketing, strategy, media, publishing. All common interests we’re both passionate about.

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7 Words That Can Transform Your Business And Life

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There are millions of guitar players out there. How could anyone hope to breakthrough and make a living playing guitar? Not lead guitar in band, just straight up guitar?

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Do You Have What It Takes To Be Extraordinary?

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Just had to share this with you guys… Career Renegade was just published in Traditional Chinese, which is the main language in Taiwan and Hong Kong (from what I’m told, going on faith, here). Pretty cool, huh?

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Career Renegade Hits Taiwan

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Part of growing and evolving is intentionally testing the boundaries of an experience that’s perceived outwardly as success, but that’s begun to feel inwardly complacent. Doing that means taking a risk, both in ego and ease. It means going from being on top of your game (or, at least the perception) to potentially stumbling, falling down, not knowing which way is up.

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Taking Out The Thrash

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Guest post from Peter Shallard, the Shrink for Entrepreneurs. Check out his blog or for mini Jedi-mind-tricks, follow @PeterShallard on Twitter ++++ The idea to write this post started with a twitter conversation Jonathan kicked off with these words of wisdom: Don’t lead with “how’m I gonna make money?” Instead, ask “how’m I gonna blow people away and change lives?” Most of us can agree that this principal is spot on for entrepreneurs with big dreams. When Nathan Hangen added Sometimes internal motivators aren’t aligned with success … I knew he had put his finger on an issue I’ve personally witnessed time and time again.

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Are You Obsessed With Money, Freedom or Impact?

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  FYI – The first picture was taken in Chelsea, NYC. The other three were taken in Santa Monica, CA. Funny how the vibe changes, huh?

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4 Signs You’ll Never See in Big Corporations

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For a while now, I’ve had a section on my whiteboard wall called “Minor Commitments,” tasks, requests, small, one-time things I’d committed to doing.

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Is Your Schedule Packed With Bottom-Feeder Bait?

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“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off… They must create, must pour out creation.

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55 Quotes To Inspire Creativity, Innovation and Action

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Yesterday, my friend and insanely smart dude, Charlie O’Donnell retweeted this: And, it got me thinking. So, I tracked it back to Jonah Peretti’s original series of tweets to get a bit more context.

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Can You Build a Business Swinging For Singles?

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I’m writing this final dispatch from NYC, after very deliberating missing last week’s dispatch. There’s a reason for that… A while back I wrote post about how an increasing number of bands were getting pissed off at fans using their cell-phones to record and share their concerts in real-time .

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Bali Dispatch #5: Aussies, Freak-fests, Train-rides and Truths

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