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Written by Taylor - 15 Comments
I’ve only taken to using Twitter as a regular thing fairly recently, so it’s entirely possible that Dave Navarro (@rockyourday) has been doing this for years and I never knew about it, but I’ve been kind of taken with the way he often starts off a morning:
“What would you work on if you only had 2 hours today? Okay, do that first.”
Combine that with a T-shirt from Woot.com that I love called Procrastinate. The shirt reads, “Because if the world ends tomorrow, you don’t have to do it.”
It’s official, you guys: I have been assimilated into the Borg. The Internet Borg.
Here’s the thing – if the world did end tomorrow, or in two hours, how would you want to go out?
If the World Ended Tomorrow
What would you want your legacy to be? Let’s pretend for the sake of argument that there’s some kind of afterlife, so you get to pass judgment on your last day on earth with a nice cogent thought process. So you’re up there on a cloud or something and some other spirit-guy, maybe your friend, comes by your cloud and says, “Hey. What was your last day like?”
Let’s pretend, furthermore, that there’s no lying in the afterlife, so you can’t get out of this one that easily. For a lot of us, this is how that conversation would go:
“Um. Well. I read some blogs. A lot of blogs, actually. I took a break and made some food and thought about getting started on that new project. You know, the one I was really excited about but never did anything with? Yeah, I didn’t do anything about that on my last day. Um. I think I called a friend, …
03/15/10 | WRITTEN BY James | 18 Comments
You network, you use social media, you’ve done a joint venture, and you work with other freelancers to handle your workload. You’re all set and teamed up with professionals, right?
Sorry, no.
The professionals who can do you the most good in the shortest period of time aren’t peers – they’re advisors. I’m talking about consultants, [...]
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03/12/10 | WRITTEN BY Taylor | 17 Comments
There are people out there that have been readers for a long time – they’re like old friends by now, and I’m always glad to see them. One of those old friends is Rebecca Laffar-Smith, who tossed me a guest post that I think carries a pretty cool message worth thinking about. Enjoy!
We’ve all heard [...]
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03/10/10 | WRITTEN BY James | 36 Comments
We recently started a side project working with people who have never had a website, a blog, or anything that requires more than opening an email – and sometimes they can’t even do that.
They’re all small business owners.
When I spoke with them about their business, they all had one common question: “Why is having a [...]
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03/8/10 | WRITTEN BY James | 49 Comments
My great-aunt passed on this winter. We thought everything would be quite simple – read the will, carry out her last wishes and move on.
Things weren’t so simple.
We found her will, and the executor named within let everyone know the details of it. He made arrangements and began carrying out my great aunt’s last [...]
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03/5/10 | WRITTEN BY James | 10 Comments
This is the fifth and final post in a special five-part series on using the magic of yes and no to earn more money, better clients and work you really love to do. Click here to read the other articles in the series:
Why you should say no to your clients
Learn how to make more money [...]
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03/4/10 | WRITTEN BY James | 19 Comments
This is the fourth post in a special five-part series on using the magic of yes and no to earn more money, better clients and work you really love to do. Click here to read more on how to say no to clients, click here to how to work less and earn more, or click [...]
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