Your Scarce Resource
We can all earn more money… When my daughter was just five years old, she asked for some toy that I wasn't interested in buying her. The conversation was completely predictable. “No way kiddo, that costs a lot of money.”“Why ...
The Future of the Success of WordPress
I want to share with you some insights (or my take) on the future of the success of WordPress, but to do that, I think I need to tell you three stories first. These stories shape my perspective and will ...
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 ...
Let’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 ...
Want 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 ...
The 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 ...
I 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 ...
How 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 ...
Are 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 ...
How 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 ...