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Learning something new as often as possible is usually the advice the biggest thought leaders, gurus, and grandmas tend to pass down to generations after them when asked what changed their life and made their success possible.    This advice to keep learning your entire life can be misconstrued as a call for higher education, but in reality, it’s a call to be open-minded enough to always keep learning the new things about the world and yourself and not to close your mind or doors in the process.    Because learning new things keeps you young of mind if not...

How would you like to learn a simple strategy that not only keeps you from staring at a blank screen when you’re getting ready to write an email, but also makes you a better copywriter over time? Both can easily be accomplished with a swipe file.  A swipe file is a collection of other people’s emails and marketing message that you compile. When you come across an email message that’s grabbing your attention, save it in your swipe file. Start collecting good headlines, calls to actions and hooks. Put them all in a folder on your computer or even directly...

While the average American consumes about 22 percent of their calories in the beverages they drink, over 75 percent of Americans also walk around chronically dehydrated. Problems like fatigue, foggy memory, irritability, and more like slow metabolism are associated with chronic dehydration that you can fix simply by incorporating the daily habit of drinking enough water.    Stop Drinking Other Beverages –To start drinking more water, you’ll want to stop drinking any other beverage but water for the time being. You’ll also want to measure out the amount of water you want to drink each day so that you can...

Due to cable news and political personality shows both on cable and off cable, it’s possible to be hyper-aware of what’s happening all over the planet at any given moment, and what’s worse, you can get notified about it as it happens.  The problem with this isn’t that you’re informed but that the information is repeated so often that it starts feeling overwhelming. We either start tuning it out, or we start feeling anxious about all the horrible stuff going on.  The truth is, you really only need to watch the actual news twice a day, once in the morning...

By now you have a general plan of what you want to accomplish this month, a general idea of how often you want to mail, and the content strategy you mapped out yesterday. All of this information combined will make it easy to get through today’s task – creating a mailing calendar for yourself.  This calendar will make it easy to stay on top of your tasks. With the schedule in hand you can wake up in the morning, grab your coffee, glance at your calendar, and get to work crafting your email. Which brings up a good point. Email...