The Real Secret of RSS Reading

Here’s the secret: if you change RSS to mean “Reading Simplified for Success” you can effectively use it to steer your success. A bit odd, I know, but consider the wisdom that says “you become the people you surround yourself with” or “if you want to be successful, surround yourself with successful people.” Do you see where this is going?

Limit Your Reading

In this age of content free-for-all, it takes an incredible amount of care and discipline to limit and filter our reading. Take an inventory of your RSS subscriptions—are you personally attuned and captivated by the content? Does it add qualitative value to your personal version of success? [Read more...]

11 Unconventional Reasons to Motivate Your Writing

Does writing come natural to you or do you make clichéd excuses and watered-down reasons why you’re not doing it everyday? For this post, let’s throw your writing a curveball. Here are some not-so-typical reasons why it’s worth the daily discipline and persistence:
  1. Producing feels better than consuming. Writing is an act of production, and while it’s not as easy to do, it certainly feels more rewarding to give than to take. Be a word philanthropist!
  2. Words command attention. Do it good and the world will listen to you. Do it right and they will act.
  3. Teach yourself something new everyday. Unlike “ordinary” thinking, writing actually connects the disparate ideas in your head into something concrete, useful, portable and public. [Read more...]