Now that people can simply ask ChatGPT or Perplexity, should you even bother packaging your expertise as an online course? In this article, you’ll discover four qualities of great online courses that AI can’t duplicate, and get a simple quiz to tell you if what you know would make a good online course. With AI […]
The Truth about Book Publishing for Doctors
Your first (or next) book begins with your next blog post or even a simple email to your own email list. What am I talking about? Nearly every health practitioner I’ve worked with asks me if they first have to establish their authority and expertise by publishing a book. In fact, I sat across from […]
Entrepreneurship as a Path to Mastery
A few weeks ago, we talked about How to Know When to Quit, and Seth Godin’s handy little guidebook The Dip. There’s one more recommendation Seth makes in The Dip to help us know whether to move forward with a project, or quit and move on. He asks, “Can you become the best?” If you’re […]
How to Know When to Quit
If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you have a lot on your plate. Maybe you have a full-time job, and you’re building your online business on the side – and it seems to be growing too slowly – or is completely stalled. Maybe you’re looking forward to quitting your job and becoming a full-time entrepreneur. Or […]
Energizer Buddy, Super Geek, and Shiny Happy People
Have you ever compared yourself to others succeeding online and thought to yourself, “if I only had their stamina / wit / confidence / [insert your favorite here], maybe I’d be able to succeed, too?” Some people seem to be naturals: for them success appears effortless, even predestined. It’s as if they’re born with something […]
Generation Wireless: Your Flexible Future
I usually ignore subject lines that try to pull me in with the shocking, and now cliched headline, “Your Favorite Online Tool is Dead!” In the case of the demise of the traditional office job, however, there just might be something to back up such a sensational claim. And, honestly, would we really be sad […]
Is Work its Own Reward?
Workaholism is so ‘80s. It’s just not cool anymore to kill oneself working, if it ever really was. When I was coming up with the suit-and-tie crowd, being a workaholic was stylish, and killing oneself in the name of the company was expected. And 20-somethings have a lot of midnight oil to spare. Over the […]
Lightning and Thunder
In part two of this series, we discussed those “movies in our minds,” and how the brain can freeze both the images and the meaning of something into place, sometimes never to be questioned again. These “premature cognitive commitments” can and do influence our decisions today. Now, in this final installment, we get to the […]
Perception is Projection
In part one of this series, we discussed the three levels of fear and asked the question: how do we go about developing more trust in our ability to “handle things,” rather than fear and avoid them? Now, in part two, we explore the question: where did we get the idea we couldn’t handle some […]
