Tag: Overcoming Fear
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Professional Blogging for Real Results, Not Flawless Ones
I wrote an entire ebook to avoid starting a blog. That’s not a joke. That’s a confession from someone who once believed that a finished, bound, never-to-be-touched-again document was safer than an open-ended commitment to publish regularly. The blog felt like exposure. The ebook felt like control. Here’s what I know now that I didn’t…
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Do You Have the Guts to Create Bold Content?
In January 2006, I launched a blog with the tagline “How to sell with blogs.” Within weeks, prominent bloggers were calling me pond scum. Publicly. By name. With genuine contempt. And here’s the part most people don’t believe: that was the plan. I knew that tagline would offend the old guard of blogging, the purists…
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Is F.E.A.R. Holding You Back?
I sat on a draft for nine months. Not because I didn’t know what to say, I knew exactly what to say. I sat on it because I was afraid of what people would think when I said it. Nine months. Enough time to grow a human being. When I finally published it, nothing bad…