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Do you have just 17-short-minutes to listen to a podcast which could change your life forever? Then go to here, listen to the podcast, and immediately improve your life: You Are The Only One Standing in YOUR Way (Chasing Your Dreams).

Improve Your Life Immediately

You're probably thinking: How could my life improve immediately? 

• Answer: Sometimes the right attitude and mind-set are all you need to positively affect your life. 
  • But if you want to take more time and follow all of the solutions offered in the podcast then you can do that too... and reap even more benefits.  Just do it! (as Nike says).

The Wisdom of Life and Business Success - in just 17 minutes!

In this podcast social media guru, C.C. Chapman, succinctly gives his life wisdom and business success secrets.  As I mentioned in my comment to his podcast blog:

...summarizing much of Life’s wisdom into this...podcast which every human being should hear.

Not to mention being like the brief audiobook version of Guy Kawasaki’s bible of business/marketing success tips in: “Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition” as well.

I commented on C.C.'s Managing the Gray blog because in his podcast he lamented that people are more likely to tweet/post on social networks rather than on blogs these days. Of course that’s true, since I had just tweeted some quotes from his podcast on Twitter as well.

But since Twitter tweets aren't archived and can disappear from search results after a short period of time I'm showing a series of tweets highlighting the important potentially life-changing information in C.C. Chapman's podcast below (as well as some info I didn't tweet on).

Highlights of "You Are The Only One Standing in YOUR Way" podcast

  - Note: Twitter tweets have time & date at end:

Best short podcast for improving your life by @cc_chapman: You Are The Only One Standing in YOUR Way. http://su.pr/2YrsH9 #iopnews. 5:44 PM Sep 1st from Su.pr

Chasing your dreams & how to reach your total potential: Great podcast by @cc_chapman: http://su.pr/2YrsH9 #iopnews. 5:47 PM Sep 1st from Su.pr

No-one's holding you back...but you. (00:44 of podcast) by @cc_chapman: http://bit.ly/BSAgO.

If something's in your way, it's probably you! (e.g., like "gate jumping" in the country). (02:00 of podcast) by @cc_chapman: http://bit.ly/BSAgO.

How to Speak at a Conference (04:20 of podcast) by @cc_chapman: http://bit.ly/BSAgO #iopnews. 5:52 PM Sep 1st from bit.ly

 How to write/publish a book...Write it! (07:39 of podcast) by @cc_chapman: http://bit.ly/BSAgO #iopnews. 5:55 PM Sep 1st from bit.ly

*Make* it a great day...*not* "have a great day" (06:30 of podcast) by @cc_chapman: http://bit.ly/BSAgO #iopnews. 5:57 PM Sep 1st from bit.ly

You can do anything - Barriers are gone - Rules are gone...Do it! --> Podcast by @cc_chapman: http://bit.ly/BSAgO #iopnews. 6:00 PM Sep 1st from bit.ly

Focus on the goal & work tail off to get there - don't focus on the negatives (09:40/podcast) by @cc_chapman: http://bit.ly/BSAgO #iopnews. 6:04 PM Sep 1st from bit.ly

Don't give up on your goals...talk to your friends. (09:50/podcast) by @cc_chapman: http://bit.ly/BSAgO.

Chasing dreams is what Life's all about. (10:40/podcast) by @cc_chapman: http://bit.ly/BSAgO.

Go back and review your goals. (10:50 of podcast) by @cc_chapman: http://bit.ly/BSAgO

Focus on your goals, share them. Put them out there & be held accountable (10:50 of podcast) by @cc_chapman: http://bit.ly/BSAgO #iopnews. 6:06 PM Sep 1st from bit.ly

When need help, don't be afraid to ask. Friends will help you. (13:15 of podcast) by @cc_chapman: http://bit.ly/BSAgO #iopnews. 6:08 PM Sep 1st from bit.ly

Test your social media/networking contacts and ask them for help (13:15 of podcast) by @cc_chapman: http://bit.ly/BSAgO #iopnews. 6:09 PM Sep 1st from bit.ly

Why are the points above shown as tweets, instead of bullets?

Answer: See my next blog post on: "How Podcasts can Save (Every Person in) the World."

Bottom Line

"*Make* a great day!" - This is what CC would say...and it's what my business partner, Rick Henkin, and I try to do every day at IncreaseOnlineProfits.com. Also, if you're doing what's fun (and what you have a passion for), then it's not work!

Comments?

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Comments for C.C. Chapman re: his podcast? - I know that CC would be very happy if you'd leave a comment on his Managing the Gray blog.

A blog post by Sarah Perez about a recent Forrester report on Baby Boomersreminded me that only about 21% of the population are Creators - people who create content on the web like blogs, videos, podcasts, etc.  While Boomers are clearly improving in their use of Social Media, only 15-16% of them are creating content.

How to Reach/Attract Your People

By the way, if you haven't figured out how to reach "your people" with Social Media yet you need to play with the Technographics Profile Toolon Groundswell's site. This will allow you to choose from several demographic elements (age, country, gender) so you can see how your people like to be connected with (and how you can attract them).

Adults & Letting Go

Clearly Adults need some help with creating content. One major factor which might be holding adults back from pouring their individual wisdom, insights, etc. into the public domain (or the hyper-accelerated version of it, the Web) for all to see might be an unwillingess to Let Go.

Lessons from the Past

My Grandfather wrote a draft of a book on speed reading but never published it. My Mother felt like she had "The Great American Novel" in her, but never wrote it (unless you collectively count the wonderful letters she wrote during her lifetime).

Web Publishing = New Opportunities

Given the newer methods of Publishing on the web, most notably blogs, we can all publish our content in one form or another. Just remember that a number of blog posts can end-up being a real dead-tree book or eBook.

Make It So

So to the end of helping a number of people realize their dreams or potential I'd like to offer you a way to "make it so" (in the immortal words of fictional Star Trek character, Jean-Luc Picard).

First Release Yourself From All Constraints

First, let's start by releasing ourselves from any rules or constraints to worry about. Certainly then any one of us could just let it go and let out the words and ideas which are trapped within us. Writings generated in this way would most likely be incredibly free-form like the thoughts we have all of the time. To put a literary term to it, we'd be writing "stream of consciousness" content.

Stream of Consciousness

Stream of consciousness is great if you're great at it,like podcasters C.C. Chapman (Managing the Gray) or Mitch Joel (Six Pixels of Separation), but it would probably drive us crazy if it was used excessively for writing blogs or website content. Note that you don't see that many stream of consciousness novels around these days, although there were some isolated great ones, mainly because the authors were great, e.g., James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Some Structure Necessary

That said, some structure is necessary and certainly some grammar and puctuation helps.* But don't obsess about finding the "perfect word", or sentence, or blog post, or content for your website.  Just get it down, clean it up some, polish it a bit...and you're done.  Now let it go. 
* Should that be "help" singular or "helps" plural? - I could spend the time to go look up the rule for agreement, but I won't just to make the point.

Publishing = Opportunities

It's more important to have it up on the web than sitting in your head, on a sheet of paper, or on your screen - unpublished, than out there in public being read, commented on, and indexed by Google and the other search engines.

Value vs. Rubbish & Perfectionists vs. Slackers

That said, I'm not suggesting that you should just write (or say)...worthless rubbish. Have something good, something valuable to say...and say it. So this isn't a call for "Slackers Unite!", but more of: Slackers should take it up a notch and perfectionists should take it down a notch. Ok, for real perfectionists, take it down a half-notch (or you never would, and you know who you are!).

Is it done yet? - The 87-13 Rule

My Wife, Milen, is infinitely practical about things like this. Since I was an information researcher for many years, there's always a point in every project when you have a draw a line in the sand and ask yourself, "Is it done yet?", since research in-and-of-itself could go on forever (especially with the web and new information being produced all the time). Her advice was much like the Pareto principle (the 80-20 rule), only she would ask, "Is the research at least 87% done? And if the answer was, "Yes", then she'd say, "Fine, then your client will probably be fine with the results."

Form Over Substance

The reasoning is that the questions have been answered, but there can always be some additional information which could be obtained, or documented, or the format could be polished, or a chart could be inserted, etc.  But these things are more "form over substance" versus the conclusions which were already made (and substantiated).

What's Necessary vs. Gingerbread

And more importantly, these are things which are in your head and weren't

Let Go & Make It So

In any case, I hope this gives you a rationale for Letting Go.

Now "make it so".

Comments?

Have a comment or question? Know a better way to let go so your web publishing can flow? If so, let me know.

Footnotes: I originally heard about the blog post by Sarah Perez about a recent Forrester report on Baby Boomers on the For Immediate Release (FIR) Podcast: The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #425: February 23, 2009. The part of the podcast mentioned above can be heard at EveryZing.