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How I Motivated My Lazy Ass To The $1M Mark – A Timeline

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[This was originally an email to my list (Subject: About that 1M…). Shrimpers get my best stuff. Are you one of them yet? C’mon, get on the list!] At dinner the other night, my friend Avo told my husband, Steven, “You better install Ring [security system] on your door and put cameras everywhere, because this […]

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copywriting, digital courses, email marketing, marketing, success digital course academy

How To Get Out Of A Rut: 13 Ways To Stop Feeling Like A Useless Blob And Get Back To Your Creative, Motivated Self (If That Was Ever You)

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It comes on suddenly. For months, I’m obnoxiously giddy about my life and what I get to do for a living. I’m on a roll. No, not just on a roll: I’m on fire! #Unstoppable. Until, one day, I wake up feeling…doomed. Life is relentless. I have to do this till I die? I hate […]

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b-school, business, creativity, self-help-y stuff, self-improvement, success b-school, habits, self-development, writing

How to tap your talent

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At my first job that didn’t involve cutting lemon wedges and pouring draught Beer for drunk, off-duty doormen, my father came to meet me one day for lunch.

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business, copywriting, creativity, success

DO be all "look at me!" (How to be a leader and a star)

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There’s this woman Georgia in my dance class — by that, I mean my instructor Cebo’s dance class, which I take, not teach — who’s amazing.

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business, creativity, entrepre-nerd-ville, leadership, success

Make your name by doing the unsexy work. (AKA Puff Is Pissed, AKA Grownups Eating Ice Cream And Crying)

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At the company off-site, they had tubs of ice cream waiting for us first thing in the morning. Breakfast of cry-babies.

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business, copywriting, creativity, entrepre-nerd-ville, success, work, writing

The three most boring words that come out of your mouth

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Know what I need to do? Apparently, everything. Every time I open up 750words.com, which I use as my journal, I see that I accidentally skipped a few days. I broke my streak. And I invariably start with, “I need to write more.” And then, as I continue typing, the “I need to”s multiply like Gremlins when they get […]

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creativity, life and stuff, success, work, writing

Path To Success: How To Spend Your First Summer After College (In NYC in 1991)

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Below is a transcript of the inspiring speech I will give to a graduating university class, if ever invited. In it, I lay out a step-by-step blueprint to early success based on my own first summer after college, a time that helped shape me into the adult I am today. (Note: most of it requires […]

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New York City, success, wayback

Hate Monday? Here’s how to tear it a new one.

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“You teach people how to treat you.” You’ve heard that one, right? What if you could teach Mondays how to treat you, too? If you don’t like Monday, show it who’s boss. Tear it a new one. I don’t mean “Go get ’em tiger, be an unstoppable beast.” That’s great if you can do it on […]

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business, copywriting, creativity, success

Who would you be if money didn’t matter?

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Today, an ad in my Facebook feed asks, WHO WOULD YOU BE IF MONEY DIDN’T MATTER? And then it says, FREE Video Series Will Help You Discover Your Personal Path to Financial Liberation! The image below is a woman — the actual person who’s going to teach you this path — in a thin, 1970s style halter top cut down to […]

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entrepre-nerd-ville, life and stuff, success

Why I’m not a billionaire (yet)

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Good news: I have many of the habits of billionaires. I just confirmed it. It’s that insomnia time of the month, which means I was up this morning at 4:30 am, doing all the rituals that help me get back to sleep: watch a so-so show on my iPad (Walking Dead, can’t seem to love it) get up and […]

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random personal, success

Crack, Foie Gras, and 4 Seasons: How I Lost 81 Hours of My Life

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I love fat. If no one’s looking, I will eat a pat of butter. Maybe I’ll stick a breadcrumb on it so I can call it “bread and butter” and not just “butter”. It does something to your self respect when you snack on straight butter. But for some reason, liver-flavored butter is a different […]

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success, TV

10 familiar faces who need to call it quits.

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See the lady in this photo? Keep an eye out for her. She’s going to be famous – for being the internet’s hardest-working “frustration” model.

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blogs and blogging, success, things that annoy me

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Oh, me so haw-ny! Me love you long time! Hello, I’m a comment whore.

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self-loathing, success, this blog, writing

I’m back from Funky Town.

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Hey, I’m back. Why haven’t I posted in the last month? Well, I had a metric shit-ton of work.  And allergies. They’re really bad this year, seriously – I want to scratch my eyes with a fork. And there was that ash cloud. OK, I can’t really blame the volcano in Iceland. Especially since I […]

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procrastination, self-loathing, success, this blog, TV, writing addiction, depression, success, TV

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