Personal Insights
Starting Out as a Creator? The Real Work is to Stand Out
The work to stand out is harder than ever If you're just starting out as a creator – writing, blogging, shooting video, and posting on social – the real work is figuring out how you stand out. I wrote you…
Read MoreLet’s Talk About WordPress Affiliate Marketing
There are a lot of perspectives to consider when we're talking about WordPress affiliate marketing You can't really spend much time on Twitter, Facebook Groups, or reading some blogs to hear the strongly opinionated take that people doing WordPress affiliate…
Read MoreWant to increase your chance of success?
I spent the last four days inside a hotel suite with 8 other folks. We had all-day meetings together. We ate together. It was exhausting – and I'm an extrovert. So today was the first day in 161 days where…
Read MoreThe Mentoring Roles You Need In Your Life
Some assumptions about getting mentoring Let's start with some assumptions I'm making. Everyone is busy. Few people walk around with signs on them that say, “I mentor.” No one knows what you need. It's not like you walk around with…
Read MoreI Bought A New Pair of Headphones. Why Should You Care?
Sometimes my Sunday posts don't sound and feel like the rest… I write daily. And Sundays is always such a relaxing day that I think I'm in a different headspace than any of the other days of the week. But…
Read MoreHow Chris Lema uses ZipMessage for Coaching
Coaches should use ZipMessage There are a lot of cool products that are getting developed every day. Most of them feel cool for other people. I look. I like. But then I don't do much with them because they don't…
Read MoreAre You Trying To Win? Or Just Not Lose?
I used to run a yearly innovation conference Years ago I worked for a company where, every year, we invited the top 20-30 employees (from about 120 folks) to a conference center for an innovation conference. I would spend months…
Read MoreHow to Develop Curiosity
One of the things that people often ask is whether I have a trick for writing daily. I have three tricks, and today I'll share all of them with you. Two of them will take no time at all. But…
Read MoreThere’s a Voice in Your Head…
Not my normal kind of post, but if you don't dig it, you can delete the email or skip reading it and I'll have another post that I hope is more helpful for you tomorrow. Last night I woke up…
Read MoreThe Value of Flexible Thinking
Have you heard of the Mann Gulch Fire? In the mountains of Montana there was a wild fire. In those days every fire was put out. Every fire was worked on. So naturally, firefighters were sent to put out the…
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