Tag: Overcoming Fear

  • Do You Have the Guts to Create Bold Content?

    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…

  • Is F.E.A.R. Holding You Back?

    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…