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Get Your Tech In Check - by Nathan P. Womack

If dealing with the tech side of your service-based business -- from cell phones and computers to everything web -- creates confusion and slows you down from doing what you DO in your business, keep reading!

For many of us, technology is the one area where we feel the most confused, time-drained and annoyed.
It feels like a sea of never-ending new things to learn and complicated decisions to make, without an understanding of what effects they have.

Weren’t computers supposed to make our lives easier so we can just create and serve our clients?

 It is time to let them make your life easier and cut your learning curve exponentially by signing up for Nathan Womack’s “Get Your Tech In Check” tele-seminar:
 

Get Your Tech In Check - Teleseminar:

Top Five Steps For You To Take NOW to Make Strategic Decisions in Planning and Implementing Your Technology

 [plus specific bonus info on cheap or FREE software you don’t know about that you MUST have for maximum efficiency!]
 

DATE: Wednesday, June 17th

5pm PST, 6pm MDT, 7pm CST, 8pm EST

DURATION: 75 Minutes

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How I got "started" as a writer/author...

Here's a request...and, below, my response...

I see your post on the articles you are submitting. Would you mind sharing how you are able to do this? How did you get your start? Thanks!

I won't charge down the path of telling you the whole, long, story...In a nutshell...

 In the early part of 2000, a mentor introduced me to Lou Tice's work in Seattle...The Pacific Institute. There, Lou had been teaching/talking about the concept of "mindset, self-talk, and affirmations" going back 20+ years as a high-school football coach. Seems he connected a few things together...

1. How someone thinks.
2. How someone acts.
3. How someone talks.
4. How someone thinks.

The way I understand it, it's a big, huge cycle. So, if I want to change how I act...I gotta change how I talk. If wanna change how I talk...I gotta change how I think.

There's a point, I promise.

In April, 2000, I decided to "think of myself" as a writer. I did "writer-like" things. I started filling up journals. I subscribed to writer's magazines. I bought books on writing. I talked to writers, and I went to conferences on "how to be a writer."

Weeks after this process started, quite serendipitously, I met an editor of the Los Angeles times. Within a month, my first article was published, within 3 months, 5 articles total had been placed.

Since then, I continue to do things that "writers" do, and...Lo and behold...I'm looked to as one of them!

The next milestone...A book! Yes, my father, Craig P. Womack, and I are co-authoring a book and we'd love you to visit the site and sign up to receive news as we approach our publication date! You find find out all about it here: www.ThePromiseDoctrine.com.

Do you EVER type the same thing...more than once?

In a typical day, I type the "same" thing 10-20 times a day into emails to clients, colleagues and editors.

Ever since I met with Buzz Bruggeman (www.ActiveWords.com) I have been a fan of this idea: Program keystrokes to do more than just the keystroke! (Watch this short video, and let your imagination roll...)

Two products I recommend are:
www.ActiveWords.com (PC)
www.TypeIt4Me.com (Mac)

www.KIVA.org - a way to be your own bank! (And, help the world, one person at a time...)

So, if you're a late-comer to the game - as I was - and haven't heard of KIVA.org, here is a 2 minute 30 second overview of what I think about it...Enjoy, and please pass on to just one person!

Please Click anywhere in the black area below to get started...

Do you Twitter?

Have you been wondering about Twitter? (Do you even know what that IS?)

Here is a quote from an article from one of the Los Angeles Times blogs:

"So we looked in the dictionary for words around it, and we came across the word "twitter," and it was just perfect. The definition was "a short burst of inconsequential information," and "chirps from birds." And that’s exactly what the product was."

The article is titled, "Twitter creator Jack Dorsey illuminates the site's founding document."

I have been "on Twitter" for a while now. My "addresses" are: @JasonWomack, @FitAndEffective and @PromiseDoctrine.

Up until recently I thought Twitter was "interesting," and then I started noticing it more and more. How about this: Volcano Watch in places like Alaska! Go ahead, do your own "Twitter search." Pick a topic, type it in, and see what other people are saying right now!

Clever little video explaining Social Networking

We're getting ready to send out our newsletter in the morning, which focuses on the business value of creating social networks using Linked In, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. It's an intro to the topic, and I'm finding many people don't know how or where to start.

So, I thought I'd post a link to this very clever (and short) YouTube video explaining Social Networking.

What are you looking at, in your move forward (Part 2)

Collectively, we're entering a new era of opportunity, possibility and work/ilfe engagement.


Upon receipt of this video (as an E-mail link from a mentor), I sat down and watched it 3 times...there was that much good stuff to see and listen to!

Her book, Beyond Trapezes, is all about "flying." From her website, her purpose for her work is to, "... enable people to thrive on change and master the art of self-reinvention in this unpredictable and insecure world."



Of her few points, the two that stand out to me as the most significant are:



1. Let go...what used to work, might not work anymore. What didn't work before - and you think you tested it - may be exactly what you need to bring back into play now.

2. Create and align with a vision of what could be.



So, as you're heading into the new year, what's on your "to stop doing" list? And, how can you clarify and grab on to the vision of what your life, work, and world could look like 12 months from now.

24 hours of commercial airline flights in the USA

So, I've been flying to get to work pretty much once every 5-10 days over the past 9 years. Seeing this "mini-movie" makes my own brain storm with memories of landing on the "right" coast in the early morning (around :15 seconds into the video, watch as the east coast lights up!).

Enjoy!

10-minutes with Matt Cornell - talkin' experimentation

Matt Cornell is one of those engineering guys that ya gotta know!

A self-described "NASA geek," he is currently writing a book, "Think, Try, Learn: A Scientific Method for Discovering Happiness."

Here, he talks about living and working experimentally. it's less than 10-minutes long, and great to listen to for some ideas on experimenting with life AND work. Also, here's a link to his blog...

Click here to listen to our conversation...

Joe Bruzzese (of Thinking-Forward) asks, "How are you?"

Show #30 - "Overwhelmed by your child's activities? Find the balance between parenting and personal growth"

If you have 3 and a half minutes to listen to something that I found thought-provoking...cruise on over to the Thinking-Forward website for Friday's "Big Show."

Tags: Thinking-Forward, Joe Bruzzese