First Drafts, Up Drafts + Down Drafts.

Writing drafts

First Drafts – these are the things that scares a writer; the things that create resistance.

Down Drafts1 – are what matters. They solely exist to get everything out of your head and down on the page.

Up Drafts – it’s only here where you think; think about what you put down, think out how it flows, think about that typo.

Forget about first drafts.
Focus on the down drafts.
Finish with the Up Drafts.

For More Instructions on Writing and Life: Read ‘Bird by Bird’

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You Don’t Have The Time

It’s an everyday, run of the mill excuse.

It gives you an out-clause, a justification for not ‘shipping’

Time is something that’s definite, not infinite – you can’t produce more time, so if you don’t have it, how can you be expected to ‘ship’, to produce that blog post, that product or even return that phone call.

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You Don’t Have The Time

If you’re on a journey … a path to shipping … a marathon.

You don’t have time time watch that TV show, you have to fit in that 30min training run.

You don’t have time to watch that cat on YouTube, you’ve got that article to write.

You don’t have time to learn that ‘next big thing’, you’re too busy implementing.

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Time Is Saying NO

Where ever and when ever you see someone who has ‘time’ it’s because they know their outcome, and they KNOW how to say NO.

Time is chewed up by saying YES.

Yes, I can do that thing you asked of me.

Yes, I have room for that new course.

Yes, I have time up my sleeve.

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Time Is A Structure

It only takes a couple of ‘times’ a week to run a marathon.

- a couple of planned, consistent, focused ‘times’ a week to run a marathon.

It only takes a couple of ‘times’ a week to build a million dollar business.

- a couple of ‘times of critical focus’ a week to build whatever you want!

It only takes a couple of ‘times’ a week to produce that product.

- a couple of ‘times of critical focus’ a week to ship that new product.

It only takes a couple of ‘times’ a week…

- a couple of ‘times of critical focus’ a week to

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James Schramko’s Fast Web Formula 2 Workshop Review

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The Problem With Web Based Businesses

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Delivering Happiness Book Review

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose By Tony Hsieh.

The visionary CEO of Zappos explains how an emphasis on corporate culture can lead to unprecedented success.

Pay new employees $2000 to quit. Make customer service the entire company, not just a department. Focus on company culture as the #1 priority. Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business. Help employees grow both personally and professionally. Seek to change the world. Oh, and make money too.

Sound crazy? It’s all standard operating procedure at Zappos.com, the online retailer that’s doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales every year.

In 1999, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million. He then joined Zappos as an adviser and investor, and eventually became CEO.

In 2009, Zappos was listed as one of Fortune magazine’s top 25 companies to work for, and was acquired by Amazon later that year in a deal valued at over $1.2 billion on the day of closing.

In his first book, Tony shares the different business lessons he learned in life, from a lemonade stand and pizza business through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. Ultimately, he shows how using happiness as a framework can produce profits, passion, and purpose both in business and in life.

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