Category: Notes

How To Keep Going When You Feel Like Giving Up?

April 7th, 2011 · · Blogging, Energy, fitness, Goals, Interviews, Memorable Quotes, Notes, Procrastination, Success No comments - Tags: , ,
Written by Michael Pollock

This is the second half  of a two-part interview with business blog thought leader, Michael Pollock, creator of  The Bigger Life Blog: How to make a living online while making a difference in the world. While responding to the interview questions, Michael wrote the following post. To read more of Michael’s work, please visit  The Bigger Life Blog.

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How do you keep going when you feel like giving up?

This is a great question and a big question. In fact, assuming you buy into the notion that success in any endeavor is ultimately about persisting long enough to achieve your desired outcome, this question is THE NUMBER ONE critical question we all need to answer for ourselves.

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Mission Driven and Unstoppable: An Interview with Michael Pollock

March 28th, 2011 · · Blogging, Energy, Goals, Interviews, Memorable Quotes, Notes, Positive Emotions, Success, Writing 2 comments - Tags: , , , , , , ,

Michael D Pollock, The Bigger Life Blog

Michael D Pollock, “The Bigger Life Blog”

I learned about Michael Pollock when I was researching online thought leaders. Michael has several interviews with a variety of thought leaders, located on his blog, The Bigger Life Blog: How to make a living online while making a difference in the world. Michael left a lucrative career to focus on purpose driven work, and created another equally successful business financially and emotionally. He is as forthright, practical, and humble as he is savvy. His interview is divided into two posts. This section talks about how he makes a living at making a difference, and how he manages his energy to keep it going. The second posting (tomorrow) will be 7 specific steps on “How to keep going when you feel like giving up.”  

red bullet Did you ever work at a job without consciously connecting it to your values?
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The Walkstation Magic Bullet that Tripled My Productivity

March 23rd, 2011 · · Books, Energy, fitness, Goals, Notes, Positive Emotions, Procrastination, Success, The Brain, Time Management, Writing 2 comments - Tags: , , , , , ,

The karmic backlash when you write about excuses is they retaliate en mass. For a person already plagued by them  (I’m a writer, remember?), dealing with a galvanized frontal assault is pretty wild. Here’s how it happened…

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Writing My Blog While The World Suffers

March 15th, 2011 · · Blogging, Dealing with Disaster, Energy, Essays, Goals, Notes, Positive Emotions, Success, Time Management, Writing 4 comments - Tags: , , , , ,

news websiteI’m sitting in Starbucks attempting to update my blog. How can I possibly think about adding to the Making Excuses series while the world continually teeters on the brink of collapse? I take a sip of coffee and try again.

Nope, can’t do it.

Writing helps me make sense of things. So on my third effort, I write about galvanizing a heartfelt, proper response to a disaster halfway across the world, without simultaneously devaluing my own modest efforts and personal concerns.

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#1 “I Can’t Decide.” (Stop the Excuses)

March 4th, 2011 · · Blogging, Energy, Goals, Notes, Positive Emotions, Procrastination, Success, Time Management, Writing One comment - Tags: , , , , ,

I’m writing a series about the validity of excuses. Last week we opened with excuses in general. This week’s we’re focusing on:

I Can’t Decide What To Do

Which one? Which one?

Some folks have so many interests its hard to settle down. They tend to jump from project to project. Others are more like firefighters. Everything feels urgent. Do they go for the fire on the second floor or put out the blaze in the back yard?

No matter how you cloak it, being undecided is a decision to do NOTHING.

6 Ways to Handle “I Can’t Decide What To Do”

Time to push yourself off the fence — here’s how:  

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