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Effective introspection requires outside influence.
Robert G. and I have had many conversations over the past few months and, as I write this, I realize that while his words are immensely powerful he’s been rarely mentioned.
I’ve said time and time again that your responses to these emails are a necessary catalyst for the perspectives, ideas, and explorations I’m able to share with such frequency....

“Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming…” ~ Dori
Madi T. responded to yesterday’s No Silent Cheerleaders by first calling out John Acuff’s quote that stated, “Never compare your beginning to someone else’s middle.” and added:
More often than not a super successful man in his early 30s who has literally millions of dollars in the bank is telling me, “just go for your dreams and it’ll all happen!” I wish these big shot [internet marketers] would create email campaigns acknowledging...

In the darkness, even the dimmest of lights can be blinding.
After sharing Steve’s insights in yesterday’s Accepting Your Praise, I did one of these…
My brain was a bit fried from a week that was magnificent, yet draining. There are different kinds (physical, emotional, cognitive, etc.) and varying degrees of what would be described as draining. I’d say this was emotionally charging and cognitively...

Getting by with a little help from my friends.
As I kicked off the monumentally long Power of Press email, I stated “this email is going to be the ultimate humblebrag so I’m going to do my damnedest to balance it with the ultimate lesson” and after 2,419 words I asked if I’d accomplished that goal...