Episode Details

What if there was a way to cut through the fluff, the chaos, confusion, and just flat out fix your business? Well, there is.

Today,  I'll explain how you can stop worrying, start living, and learned to love discipline. By the time were done, you will have discovered:

• Why you do stuff you don't want to do, and don't do stuff you do want to do.
• How to stop that.
•  How to use your laptop's power cable to increase your productivity.
• The key to releasing power into the lives of others.
• And of course, five specific ways discipline will make you rich.

Announcements:

• Answer the reader's poll, and be blessed in return.
• I am updating my copywriting course… stay tuned for more details coming soon.
• The coming comment contest, and why you should start commenting now.

Conferences where I will be attending and/or speaking:

• NMX, Jan 4-6, 2014, Las Vegas, NV
• Strategic Influence Jan 14-16, 2014, Phoenix, AZ
• NAMS 11 February 7-9, 2014, Atlanta, GA
• Social Media Marketing World, March 26-28, 2014, San Diego, CA
• "Permission to Prosper" April 8-10, 2014, Spokane, WA

Tip Of The Week

How can your laptop's power cord increase your productivity? In the podcast audio, I reveal this arcane secret…

Spiritual Foundations

If what you are saying does not impart grace to the people listening,  it's better to be silent.

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give cgrace to those who hear."
Ephesians 4:29

We can do terrible damage with what we say, or we can bring life. Speak only life, and watch what happens.

Feature Segment: 5 Ways Discipline Will Make You Rich

Wikipedia says "Discipline is a course of actions leading to a greater goal than the satisfaction of the immediate. A disciplined person is one that has established a goal and is willing to achieve that goal at the expense of his or her immediate comfort."

Add this book to your list of must-reads: The Ultimate Sales Machine, by Chet Holmes.

If you haven't read it, move it to the top of your list.

If you have read it and haven't yet implemented every single strategy inside its covers, read it now. Again.

Probably my favorite passage from Chet's masterful business work is one that most people read without understanding its import. In the early pages of the book, Chet points out that most people will read his book, agree with its precepts, and still not do them. He says this is the "reverse psychology" section of the book, in which he attempts to prod the reader into doing what needs to be done. In Chet's words, "I'm goading you into applying a powerful force for creating success from what you're going to learn… and that force, my friends, is pigheaded discipline and determination."

Pigheaded discipline is the subject of this post for very good, and simple, reason. That reason being the fact that this is the most-lacked skill in over 90% of