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The Only Thing That Matters is the Checkmark: A Playmaker’s Guide to Destroying Your To-Do List

Are you tired of staring at a to-do list that feels more like a novel of your failures? That endless scroll of good intentions and half-finished projects that haunts you day after day? We’re told to write down our goals, to make lists, to plan our work. But what they don’t tell you is that the list itself is worthless. It’s a graveyard of dead ambitions until you discover the earth-shattering power of two simple strokes of a pen, a single click of a mouse: ? Completed. This isn’t about making...

The Coward’s ‘Yes’: How People-Pleasing Is Destroying Your Potential and How to Stop It.

Are you letting the fear of disappointing others dictate your life and destroy your potential? The world is filled with people who will gladly waste your time, spend your money, and drain your energy if you let them. Let's get straight to the point. Every time you say "yes" when you desperately want to say "no," you are betraying yourself. You think you're being nice, agreeable, or a team player. The hard truth? You're being a coward. You're choosing the temporary comfort of avoiding a...
why grinding keeps you broke

The Hustle Lie: Why Grinding Keeps You Broke and Strategic Inaction Builds Empires.

Are you glorifying exhaustion as a badge of honor, believing that grinding 80 hours a week is the only path to success? What if I told you that this entire "hustle culture" you've been sold is the most insidious, progress-killing lie designed to keep you busy, not effective? It's a hamster wheel disguised as a ladder, and millions of aspiring achievers are running themselves to death on it, going absolutely nowhere. They trade their health, their relationships, and their mental clarity for the...
What Consumes You?

What Consumes You?

Before you ever dip your toe in the world of social media and online marketing, you'd better know what consumes you. What will you obsess over. What do you want to be doing the day you die.  I did a great seminar a couple of nights ago for a group...

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Video: Finding Your Search Engine Optimization Mojo

Video: Finding Your Search Engine Optimization Mojo

Another great video in our weekly Thursday Marketing Mojo Series.Here we cover the first steps you need to be taking to become a Search Engine Optimization ninja.  After you are done watching scroll down on the page and sign up for...

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No Email List? You Are At A Marketing Disadvantage …

No Email List? You Are At A Marketing Disadvantage …

2011 marks the thirteenth year that Focus Consulting and Training has been in business. As I look back at all the brilliant and less-than-brilliant moves I've made over the years, there is always one that sticks out.  I wish I had started my email...

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What Choices Are You Making To Be Great?

What Choices Are You Making To Be Great?

Don't read this post if you are just blazing through blog updates. This is a video that you should really stop and take the time to watch.  So, if you don't have the 8 minutes and 30 seconds to watch this video on what it takes to be great, please...

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Video: Are You Missing Free Opportunities Every Month?

Video: Are You Missing Free Opportunities Every Month?

I was a speaker at the annual Langston University Business Networking conference in June 2011. My main focus for this presentation was the financial importance of having a website and how it can affect your revenue. When you have a good website...

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Don’t Be Cheap!

Don’t Be Cheap!

One of the worst things you can do when shopping for online marketing services is making the lowest price one of your principal decision criteria. If you are a service provider one of the worst things, you can do is to try to be the least expensive...

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Online Marketing Rule 2 Of 5: You Have To Be Very Loud

Online Marketing Rule 2 Of 5: You Have To Be Very Loud

(Welcome to the 3rd post in the online marketing mindset series of 6. Click here to read the original summary post and Part 2.) Rule #2: You Have to be Very Loud I am going to have a lot of people that are going to disagree with me on this point....

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New Video: The One Where I Give Away Stuff

New Video: The One Where I Give Away Stuff

So here it is Friday afternoon right before Memorial Day weekend and I realize I have not made a video for a while. What a weasel I am. I love making the videos, and I get great feedback on them. But I've been pretty lazy and have been neglecting...

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Where I Am Going This Year. Where Are You Going?

Where I Am Going This Year. Where Are You Going?

These are not New Year's Resolutions. If you have seen my master goals list then you know I do have an aim in life. I do have direction that guides me every day. I do believe deep down in my heart in the power of setting achievement milestones (aka...

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