Joshua Sheats @JoshuaSheats: How does one to be an early riser? Nothing has ever worked for me. ANSWER: There is only one trick to getting up early: going to sleep early. We all feel like we can’t go to sleep early. We might miss something. Often night is the time we can read. Or socialize. […] Read On…
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HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH REGRET?
John Pearson @JohnPearson555: How do you get past regret ? I can’t get past this and have been wasting more compounding months and months. Answer: When the web first started I quickly became comfortable with all the programming tools available to make websites. I had the tools in front of me to program many different […] Read On…
HOW CAN ONE BE MORE CREATIVE?
anhoff @ivanhoff: Is there a correlation between creativity and trying new things (visiting new places, meeting different people, etc). Answer: Tomorrow is Labor Day and I assume I will be busy doing Labor Day things. Then this week I’m going to try a new thing. I’m going to go to LA on Wednesday (after three […] Read On…
How do you get new inspiratioon for your blog?
Robin Heinen @RobinHeinen1986: How do you get NEW inspiratioon for your blog? I try to bleed on http://robinheinen.blogspot.com , but some days, inspiration is gone… Answer: In June 2002 I was very depressed. I had no money. I couldn’t sell the apartment I was trying to sell. It was only a few blocks from Ground […] Read On…
What If You Never Improve?
I’m so depressed now. I log onto Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, whatever and I’m just inundated with pictures of self-help aphorisms written by everyone from Lao Tzu to Mein Kampf and re-posted, re-pasted, photshopped, imaged, throw in a cute cat, or someone doing acrobatics, and life is great. C’mon, cheer up! Failure is good. In order […] Read On…
What I Am Grateful For
About a week ago I wrote in a newsletter that I was grateful for my daughter’s nightmares and I explained why. I then asked the readers to do me a favor. I’ve been trying to differentiate the newsletters by giving specific exercises that I think would be interesting. So after divulging my fetish on my […] Read On…
Ask James: How to Change Careers, How to Disappoint, Do I Follow My Own Advice, Is the Market Rigged, and More
WHAT MADE YOU THE PERSON YOU ARE TODAY? ALHolm @holm__: can u pinpoint an event that changed you into the person you are today? ANSWER: Yes. I was depressed because I had just spent twenty years or more trying to make everyone happy. My friends, my family, my bosses, my investors, my colleagues, my employees, […] Read On…