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Naming Your Consulting Business. Consulting Business Names, Choosing. Zenhabits. How to Become an Expert. In any profession, most people are average performers, some are terrible, and a few are outstanding. What makes the difference? Over the past thirty years, research has examined how people attain world-class performance in sport, chess, music, medicine, science, aviation, and the military. What can these top performers teach you about how to become good at your job? It's not about talent Many people believe that it takes a special, inborn talent to become highly skilled in a particular area.

Don't 'just do it' One of the reasons that many people see 'talent' as so important is that many highly experienced professionals are not particularly good at their jobs. Why do people stop improving? Deliberate practice: The key to excellence 'Deliberate practice' is the name for the particular type of practice that will most effectively assist you to improve your performance.

Specific goals You need to pinpoint exactly what you want to improve, and how you can improve it. Orderly progression What next? Expert Enough - Just enough to be dangerous. Start a Blog that Matters — Fizzle. Fame, Fortune, Fun, Freedom… Why Do You Want to Start a Successful Blog? Note: members of the original Start a Blog that Matters course may log in here. Right now, discover the exact strategies used to start some of the biggest and most celebrated blogs on the web. New special pricing! Over 3,000 students joined this course at the original price of $97.

Now this course is included in the Fizzle training library and you can get started for just $1. Get started for just $1 now » Hundreds of millions of blogs are online today. What’s the difference between most blogs and the select few that attract huge followings? That’s a question I started asking myself long before I started my first blog.

I’ve also seen plenty of bloggers work incredibly hard on something that never takes off. By studying these differences and through the work I’ve been doing for the past four years, I’ve developed a repeatable formula for building successful blogs. I would love to also help you start a blog that matters. 5 Simple Principles for Becoming an Expert. Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Corbett Barr of Expert Enough. There aren’t shortcuts.Merely direct paths.Most people don’t take them, because they frighten us.Things that look like shortcuts are usually detours disguised as less work. -Seth Godin For the past month, I’ve been studying people who have become skilled and knowledgeable enough to be called “experts” in preparation for the launch of a new blog.

I’ve interviewed experts, spent time with them and have asked them whether shortcuts exist to becoming an expert (and received some incredible responses like the one from Seth Godin above). I’ve even read books by people who study success and expertise (expertologists?). Part of me expected to find some secret shortcuts to becoming an expert, and part of me knew better. I’m most interested in how people gain expert-level skills and knowledge on multiple subjects quickly. The good news is, becoming an expert is much like changing a habit. 1. 2. 3. 1. 4. 5.

The Secret to Living the Life You've Always Dreamed Of. ’Tis the season of setting big goals and resolutions for ourselves. But if you're like many people, doing this might not really resonate with you—or really help you live the life you want. You aim too big or too small. You don't reach the goal by the time you wanted and feel disappointed in yourself. Or you just generally feel stressed out about achieving those goals—and it's no fun.

Danielle LaPorte felt the same way—until she discovered an amazing new way to go about living the life she wanted. Instead of creating a list of things she wanted to do this week, this quarter, or in her life at large, she decided how she wanted to feel and based all of her decisions off of that. In the video below, she explains how you can go about setting your own "core desired values" and living a life with less stress and more of what you love. Photo of brain imagining courtesy of Shutterstock. 6 Ways to Make People Fall in Love With Your Brand. "People don't buy things for logical reasons," Zig Ziglar once famously said. "They buy for emotional reasons. " Which means: In order to gain customers—and keep them for life—you've got to do more than introduce them to your brand, business, or product. You've got to make them fall in love with it.

Want to see how it's done? Check out this infographic. Photo of heart courtesy of Shutterstock. Infographic courtesy of One Deep Design via Visually. DO COOL SH*T | popexpert.com. Here’s How the 10-Day Do Cool Sh*t Workshop Works: Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to make a career out of something you love? Or how to march through life with a purpose and get the most out of every second? Miki Agrawal, entrepreneur, angel investor and cool-sh*t-doer, has figured it out. In this workshop based on her best selling book, Do Cool Sh*t, she’ll share her own adventures in entrepreneurship and life, from learning to step out of her comfort zone in a foreign country to achieving her dream of playing soccer for the New York Magic to partnering with Tony Hseih of Zappos.com to launch her dream business. In this workshop, Miki shows you how to start your own business, fund it on a shoestring budget, convene the perfect group to brainstorm your business plan, test your product, get great (free) press coverage and more – all while living a life you’re proud of.

Enroll. Seth's Blog. Do Epic Shit. Is this your first time here? Welcome! Learn what we're about or check out our New Here? Page . Or just get free updates via RSS or email and figure it out on the fly. Thanks and be well! [ Pamela sent this picture to me. I love it when I can help people do their art.] This one will be a short one – as many of you know, I’m currently at SXSW . One of the panels I went to the other day was “Try Making Yourself More Interesting,” moderated by Brian Oberkirch . Many of us aren’t doing epic shit because we think we’re not big enough to do it. Everyday people do epic shit and then become epic. Okay, so you may not like “Do Epic Shit” as a mantra. What are you doing that’s epic? Rather than do something small and work like hell to build a story around it,

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