Archive for February, 2010

Okay, after the longest blog title in the history of the world, I bring you one of the shortest blogs I’ve ever written. If you’re confused by the title, and why this is “Part 2″, go check out “Part 1” first.

Here Amy and I are discussing decision making and procrastination. I put this series together because there seems to be a great level of mystery behind what goes into running a business, how one knows what to do everyday, and how to motivate yourself to do what is best for YOU, not everyone else.

This series was born from several requests from clients and friends who wanted to know how I do what I do (not what I think they should do!). You asked, so here you go:

Mr. Dean Dwyer

Welcome to the first ever guest blog at my365degrees.com! How excited am I that it’s from someone who does very cool work, is an awesome writer, and has a great story to share? His name is Dean Dwyer, and I met him in New York back in January. He’s from Toronto and is just as much of a fan of Seth as I am because he made the trip just for his book launch. Dean’s blog is The Quit List and the concept is “addition by subtraction”. Basically, quit doing the things that are holding you back and start doing the things that make you happy, successful, <fill in the blank>. His blog is insightful, funny, and you’ll probably find yourself thinking about what he wrote days later.

I wanted to include his story here because it fits in nicely with the main message in my book and, well, all the work I do! If you have a story like his or know someone who does, encourage him/her/you to send it to me to be featured here! I want more stories like this one!

Enjoy his story!

(And no, this isn’t just another way for me to get out of writing a blog…although it did cross my mind).

Oh, and yes, the series I started a few weeks ago will be back soon, promise.

The Courage to Quit

By Dean Dwyer

We all have moments of epiphany; a moment where we see the writing on the wall.  A moment where we realize the work we are doing is not in line with who we are.  A moment where we realize if we don’t change, we might just end up riding the out the remainder of our life wondering, “What if?”

While I would like to say that we all act on our epiphanies, our visions of a better more amazing future, the reality is most don’t.

The question to ask is, “Why don’t they?”
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