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HOW TO BE UNREMARKABLY AVERAGE Follow These Simple Tips for a Risk-Free Life: Accept what people tell you at face value. Surround yourself with people who think like you. Don’t stand out. Stay close to home. Get a normal job. Do things the way everyone else does, because there has to be a method to the madness. College Go to college because someone said you should get a degree, not because you want to learn anything. Take four years to finish, or maybe even five. No one’s counting. Take out student loans to “invest in yourself.” Follow the plan in your course catalog even if you hate some of the classes. Believe your advisor when she says you have to do things a certain way. Jump through hoops. Check off boxes. Personal Finance Use your credit card as your primary means of spending. Get the largest mortgage you can qualify for. Fill it with plasma TVs and expensive furniture. Buy a big, new car and complain about the cost of gas. Spend all you earn, or maybe even more t

Start. Move, make, create, ship, do. Just start. That’s what entrepreneurs do. They start. They start something. Sometimes it is something big. Sometimes it is a big failure. Either way, they get sh** done. Don’t wait for approval. Ask forgiveness, not permission. Make mistakes. Learn from it and keep moving. You don’t win by sitting on the fence. You succeed by getting your hands dirty. There are no shortcuts to progress. You can never beat the process. But you can overcome the obstacles. You want to start a business, get on with it. You want to make a significant move in your career. Make that move now! It’s never too late to make, create or do. The time has never been right. It never will. “ The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” — Seth Godin You will probably not stop thinking about it if it’s what you really want. Don’t make excuses. You are better than that. The fear of failure should not be an obstacle. You will fail. Ye

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15 Do-It-Yourself Tools to Promote Your Book By  Tony Levelle You're not a New York Times bestselling author. You don't have a publicist. And your Amazon sales numbers are awful. Should you quit writing books? Absolutely not. No matter what kind of book you've written (or plan to write) there are many ways to reach your audience. Each of the DIY tools listed here are low or no-cost, and each of them works in its own way. One or more may be perfect for you. Fifteen ideas might seem overwhelming, but remember that you only need to do one thing at a time. As one clicks and then another, you'll soon be reaching your audience. The bottom line is to practice selling your books one by one. Author and publisher Michael Wiese has been writing and marketing books successfully for over three decades. He tells all his forty-plus authors "Sell one book at a time." Instead of trying to sell your book to faceless thousands, find one person who needs and wants

Advice is worthless, except when it’s not One of my mentors once gave me a piece of advice on advice (meta-advice. Metavice™.): “My job is to give you lots of advice. Your job is to ignore 95% of it.” I sat there for a moment, deciding whether or not to point out that he had just given me advice, and if I should ignore 95% of advice, I should probably ignore what he just said. Or something. I decided not to bring it up. Instead, I asked the obvious question: “How do I decide between what’s in the 95% and what’s in the 5%?” If you’re doing something interesting, it’s probably really hard. To pull it off, you want to learn from others’ mistakes, and that means getting lots of advice and input. However, you’re probably trying to do something that’s never been done before, and that means ignoring precedent, breaking glass and trying what others have failed to do. Most of all: even smart, well-intended people  love  pontificating on things they know nothing about. So how do y

8 Terrific Leadership Books That Every Leader Must Read To Step Up Their Game Originally published at  www.lmt-lss.com . 1. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink If you think success depends on rewards, this book will prove you wrong. Daniel argues that the concept of incentive-based system for motivation is now old-school. Many incidents (such as the success of Wikipedia) prove that the true secret of fulfillment at work, school, and home is intrinsic drive — not extrinsic rewards. Which means we perform well not because of our promotion at work, but because we love the work itself — a breakthrough idea on success and motivation. 2. Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Herminia Ibarra Small changes in life can bring big, unexpected results. Through this book, Ibarra sets up a foundation of leadership that involves redefining our everyday work life. What kind of work is important? How should you invest your time

What does Elon Musk, Mark Cuban, Peter Thiel, and the most successful entrepreneurs have in the world? They read more books . The average CEO reads over  4–5 books per month , which comes out to 60 books per year. Studies have shown that reading can  prevent Alzheimer disease ,  ease depression , and most importantly,  help you make better decisions. Tim Ferriss  refers to his books as his “secret weapons” as books can act as your personal mentor for your life and business decisions. If reading is so crucial to leading a more successful and enriching life, how do we read more to double our knowledge? 1. Learn to read faster If you’re like most entrepreneurs reading this, then you probably have a backlog of books you have been putting on hold. Since the average reader reads around  250–300 words per minut e, being able to  double your reading speed  at 500–600 words will allow you read twice the number of books in the same amount of time. With that said, there are two