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Life Putty - Life Is What You Shape It

My business partner and I started doing a weekly podcast on our experience with web development, online marketing and general entrepreneurial pursuits. So we started another blog to house the podcast.

There is very little on the site at this time, but here is a excerpt from a recent post on Knowing Your Faults

I hate to be put into a box. Being categorized, labeled and predefined , not my thing. Which is precisely what every personality profile I have ever taken says.

I thrive on change, and solving problems. I love to look at products and try to make them better, to look at a process and make it more efficient or a challenge and find the solution.

Innovator, Inventor, these are words I like to self ascribe. And most people would agree. Nothing wrong with that, right?

So am I Mr. Wonderful, perfect? NO, in-fact I am far from it.

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So You Want To Be A Blogger?

November 22nd 2009 21:20

It can be a dream come true, but just like any dream made reality it takes more than desire, it takes hard work.

Recently I have been asked to create a series of E-Learning courses on SEO, web promotion/marketing and blogging for Savvy-U.com. None are live yet, still in development but they are coming soon. While scripting this series of courses I came to a realization, Blogging as a job is no different than any other business. I think too many people see blogging as a dream job, of working an hour a day promoting themselves as some sort of minor celebrity with riches and fame only a short effortless step away. All you need to do is build a blog and the rest will come

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Abject Failure

October 5th 2009 18:27

Failure is a mindset, and in my opinion it is the common one held by the vast majority of people. I often find myself looking at the negative aspects of a change, event or individual. This looking at the negative is exactly what I am talking about. Looking for the negative is looking for failure.

If you dwell on the faults of anything it becomes difficult if not impossible to see the way to success. this can be in relationships, business or even in planning for the future

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Success as a Mindset

August 20th 2009 18:01

"Never say die!" To say these are words to live by, feels cheesy. However, there are two strong reasons that it is precisely what you should do.

First, to never view any situation as hopeless, is wise indeed. Once you dispair, you have given away all chance of recovery. You have given up. You can never, ever allow yourself to surrender hope

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A Proper Introduction

July 6th 2009 22:51

I don't think we have been properly introduced. I am a Serial Entrepreneur. I enjoy starting companies. And I am an artist (check out amateurartist.net and c-hammer.com).

Last year, after taking a few years off, (i.e. working for other people), I formed a company with several other partners. Originally this company was going to produce a single newspaper and then franchise the distribution/retail of the paper. typical of me, as the rest of the US runs from newspapers I rushed in. There is nothing inherently wrong with papers, it was the content at issue and business model. A newspaper is old news by the time it is printed. So we don't do news. With the success of the first paper we started a related but different paper. Both are growing well and survived their first year even in the worst economy in half a century. While our huge competitors began to declare bankruptcy we thrive

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Want to Make a Million?

July 6th 2009 20:10

A million what? Right. A million Yen, a million dollars or a million nose hairs. The context sets the value. Without it we have no real idea what we are actually speaking of. I hate to belabor the point, but it seems most people don't understand what "success" means to them. Even less well defined is the idea of being rich. Once this concept is defined it is then of paramount importance that the goal we have just made concrete is attainable through a plan of action.

Why am I on about the definition again? Well, projects have goals to attain success the same that an individual should. However when the goal is poorly defined, the path to said goal is a circuitous route. I like the journey nearly as much as the destination, however I hate having to retrace my steps to find the path because the end goal is shifting due to a lack of context. In my opinion this is the major reason projects fail

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One More Day

June 30th 2009 15:38

Go live can be quite an exciting time. There is much anticipation and hope that the product you've spent months developing will be a smashing success right out of the gate. Dreams of fat paychecks and a life of luxury float through your head, thousands of naked woman chanting your name... Or that could be the complete lack of sleep. It is hard to tell, what with the sleeplessness and all.

From a technologists point of view go-live for a software or web-app is nerve-racking. You know you did it right, all the code is pure and simple,glorious and beautiful not full of ugly hacks and potentially crushing bugs. But then again did you double check that bug 247 has been resolved? Did I get to that issue or that one? Is it just a hacked kludge? Having not slept in days you start to wonder which reality to accept. As the deadline approaches the paranoia mounts and you begin to panic of issues that in effect are irrelevant

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The Success Ladder

June 22nd 2009 17:30

A career for most people involves working for a series of companies climbing a ladder of promotions. From intern to entry level, through management, to Director, VP or CEO. I personally chose not to climb that ladder, I built my own. It starts at the bottom rung but you've got to have the rails laid out to have a ladder that will eventually lead somewhere.

First off I need to explain a little something about myself. I have tons of ideas, always coming up with new ones, and they catch my full attention easily. My wife says I have the attention span of a bird, Ooh bright and shiny object! This is very true, and I am naturally not very organized, somewhat of a chaos in motion. BUT, I enforce structure on this chaos to keep a path clear through all the distractions and mess that would otherwise overwhelm me. What I have found is that by writing down ideas in a notebook as they occur, allows me to put them aside to look at when I have free time. I also now schedule my time very strictly. I even have things like practice the guitar on my schedule. Without this strict structure I would waste time watching TV or spend hours screwing around with ideas that are far from the most pressing concerns

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No Excuses

June 22nd 2009 16:26

A common theme I have noticed when talking to failed entrepreneurs is the excuse factory. What is the excuse factory? Well it is the part of our brains that tries to justify anything we do, usually in relationship to failures. I'm sure everyone reading this post at one time or another has justified some self failing, whether it is the inability to keep your News Years Resolutions or why a diet failed. What I have found is that the successful entrepreneurs make no excuses. If they fail they learn from the mistake and move on, but they always accept the full responsibility and never, ever put the blame on anything or anyone else.

I recently had an apprentice who failed to meet a very important goal by deadline. Sometimes these things happen, though successful entrepreneurs rarely let it occur, it is inevitable you will fail at some point to meet a goal. His response to missing the deadline told me if he would succeed at being the self reliant self employed person he is trying to become. His response when I asked him why the goal was not met; "I failed to back up my work, next time I will have it on at least one other drive." His Hard drive had failed. It happens, and he learned a valuable lesson from it. His response was good; he screwed up, should have had a back-up and is working on catching back up (no pun intended

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Planning for Success

June 13th 2009 20:49

The first part of any plan is defining your goal. In the first part of this series I talked about the definition of success. For each individual this will be unique. But before a plan can be devised you must take the time to determine what success for you is.

I have talked to many people on this subject. Most people have no idea what success means to them and definitely don't have any way of getting there mapped out. If pressured most would say something like "A million dollars in the bank" or a "5000 square foot house" or something else quite meaningless

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