Self-Help
Extracted from Scrivener backup: Self-Help.bak2019-01-07T20-13
Draft
What is the niche going to be
What is the niche going to be?
Laissez-Faire
Not to be the best, but to be better than average.
Idea: How to work every job ever created - Good idea
I.e. How to introduce yourself like a stand-up comic, how to plan like an astronaut, how to party like a rockstar, how to lie like a spy, how to think like a grandmaster, how to care like a doctor.
Now, how does this idea get turned into a snappy title? Ideas: Step One’s to the right career. Doctor for a day.
Modern Renaissance Man(person). Jack of all trades, master of none. Polymath
Dabbler. Do every job once.
Learn Like It’s The Renaissance.
The core of each calling
Gist of each job
Be a pilot who can’t fly. Learn the transferable skills without learning the specialized ones.
Be a Pilot with no plane.
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Idea: How Hip-hop can teach you to live. - Requires hefty licensing. Don’t do.
i.e. Dorian - to stand up for something, you need to lose something else., Heads Down (how to make love), U Don’t Know - celebrate your accomplishments.
The Plan…
The Plan: Blogs are dying. Podcasts and vlogs are rising
Mantra: Blogs need focus
I need to release short excerpts of content in a fairly frequent manner. I need feedback in order to keep going. Otherwise I falter.
Focus on my skills:
Writing
Self-Help
Corporate World
Travel
Wants:
Fiction writing at some point
Making money
Language learning
Learning new skills
Working out and eating healthy
All of this ties into a lifestyle/person driven blog space. The persona driven stuff will help split off into fiction once I need I to. That is a problem for another time.
Products I can sell:
My book
Other people’s books
Profesional clothing and accessories
Grooming supplies
Study supplies
Energy food/coffee
Outsourcing services like personal shoppers and virtual asisstants
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Careers
Care like a nurse
Work (Grind) like a doctor (long hours)
Think like a scientist (scientific method)
Train like a pilot (Sully)
Plan like a farmer
Dream like an architect
Party like a music star
Communicate like a teacher
Introduce yourself like a stand-up comic
Teamwork like an engineer
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3 More Reps, errr Reasons to Brave the Resolutioners at theGym\
Its the first business week of 2019 here in Montreal. That means the roads are ragier, the metros are one again occupied with snot-nosed teens who dont instinctively relinquish their seats for grannies, and the gyms are full of ever-dreaded resolutioners.
This week marks a full year since I signed up for my first membership, and naturally, Ive joined the ranks of the scoffers annoyed at all the new jacks clad in boxing week Jordans, lined up five deep for the pec-fly nautilus machine.
Its rational to want to skip a few weeks at your regular gym and scratch your fitness itch elsewhere. Unfortunately for me this would mean either running, (while dodging falling icicles, construction pylons somehow leftover from the fall, and those aforementioned rage-drivers,) or boring myself into a coma with the one dumbbell and skipping rope I have provisioned in my apartement.
Instead, I dug deep and jury-rigged enough justifications to keep swimming uphill through the turnstiles at my local Econofitness. Lets hope Im not setting the bar too high (hah).\
- Explore new equipment\
We all fall into routines at the gym. Even if you vary up muscle groups throughout the week, there could be something youre leaving underdeveloped. Or maybe youll discover an exciting, new way to work up a sweat. Youre still getting clowned for not knowing what a shwarma was last month. Dont let your culinary rubishness bleed over into your active life.
Why not attempt a couple of sets at that machine youve so far sworn off as being the sole domain of a different gender, or those with thighs that could be structural beams for a patio?
I havent walked as funny as after the time I ernestly tried out that abductor contraption all of the chicks rotate through. Renaissance jock, I may be.\
- Make newfriends\
Nobody looks fondly on that guy that makes you pluck out your headphones or weeze out a reply to some inane icebreaker, when all youre trying to do is rise above 20 pounds on the chest press.
Well if youre that guy, and youre reading this, nows your chance!
As soon as February hits, even the newbies know enough to feel like everyone else is just in their way.
If you see someone unsure of how to rack their weights, doing their best to lift towards a broken back, or not knowing how to set the treadmill to run, kindly gesture an offer to help. Who knows, they may be the person youll vent with weekly about that one lady who keeps microwaving fish in the breakroom.
If all else fails, remark to someone about how you cant find a locker these days, and how you look forward to a few weeks from now. You just might share a sensible chuckle with a comrade, tinged with a hint of neither of you being sure if youll be able to make the habit stick.\
- How about working out some goddamn patience, huh?\
I mean, why are you surprised?
If youve been at this gym for enough of time to justify getting mad, you shouldve known this was coming a kilometre away. If youre new then youre part of the problem, so shut up. (P.S. thanks for subsidizing my membership rate with your two pumps and done schtick. Much appreciated!)
Back to the regulars. Youve all been new and awful at something before. Be kind.
In a month, the meek will be swearing it off for another year, and the strong will be chiselling out the 5th and 6th of the proverbial pack.
Etiher way, itll all be over soon.
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