Joshua Gordon is a close friend and someone I’ve learned a lot about injecting personality into my writing. He make s a great case here for putting yourself into your content. Here’s Josh.

You need to inject more of YOU into your business and blog in order to make a lasting difference in the world. Here’s what I mean:

Long ago, I was in college, and I was very, very poor. I started finding bags of groceries outside my dormroom door. Awesome! I never saw who left ‘em, and I never found out who left ‘em. All I knew was that some Mysterious Presence was giving me what I needed. Interestingly enough, when I got a job, the groceries stopped coming.

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Show Topics:

• Update on my Board of Directors groups
• Working nights and weekends
• How to create a financial forecast
• Get interviewed on a podcast
• Shortening a URL and QR codes

A friend and client recently went full time and asked me what to do about someone who wanted to work with him on Mondays. He usually reserves those days for family and other projects. I told him he needs to rearrange his schedule to meet with the guy.

Jason: It’s hard to pin down a good financial estimate for non-traditional businesses.  Even your coaching model, it’s almost like speculation or panning for Gold.  But Free Agent Academy HAD to have had a financial model in order to recruit good talent, so there must be a way of estimating these kinds of endeavors.  How to go about it?  Customer surveys? Experience?  Demand?

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Too many of us are focused on the next thing and don’t live for the now.

“I just need to make x dollars.”

“Just two more clients and I’ll relax.”

“Two more trips and I’ll spend time with family.”

“One more promotion and then I’ll build a business.”

The goals are great, but many time we don’t follow through after we reach them. We make ‘x’ dollars, then we want more. We find two more clients, but we want just a few more. We never spend more time with family. We never build the business that we know will change the world.

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Show Topics:

• Walking 3,400 miles across America
• Following a dream
• Name your own price for Nate’s book

Nate Damm seems like a normal guy, until you learn he just walked 3,400 miles across the United States. The Atlantic to the Pacific. Delaware to California.

Why?  Well, Nate wanted to see America and do it in a slow way. He also wanted to inspire people to pursue big dreams of their own.

Before the trip, Nate had a girlfriend, a job, pets, and an apartment. Listen to hear how how he planned his trip and just went for it.

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Nathalie Lussier told me something I realized I’ve been doing for years. Isn’t it great to find you’ve been doing the right thing all along?

She said, “If you only have $100 per month to spend on marketing, spend it going to live events and meeting people.”

Wow.

Are you doing that? I’ve been doing it for the past five years. I had no clue in the first year of my business, but quickly figured it out. Before I became a leader, I attended every single Free Agent Academy event that was offered, traveling to both Nashville and the mountains of Colorado where I now live.

I’ve been to Atlanta, Portland, OR, California, St. Louis, and more, in the past 18 months.

Let’s do the math: $100 * 12 months = $1,200. Depending on where you live, that’s a lot of events or just one.

Some of the events I traveled too were $200 and some were $2,500. But they were all worth it.

What events are you going to in 2012?

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My friend, Donavon, just got back from a 40 day break from all things social media. Could you do it? Heck, could I do it?

If it came down to it, I suppose I could, especially if I felt I had to in order to change or get better at something. But I certainly don’t want to. And it wouldn’t it be easy.

Donavon is back and yesterday he told me (on twitter, nonetheless): “Greatest Learning: the social space is about being social not just spouting off my own personal musings.”

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Show Topics:

• Podcasting for those who can’t monologue
• What should my website call-to-action be
• Why my vision keeps changing
• Blogging on a music school website

Clint: The podcast is intimidating to me for some reason. I’ve ran through a couple of trial recordings of just doing a straight forward podcast. I think I might switch to more of a Q&A format.

Ivan: What should website calls-to-action be?

Marta: I was listening to your interview with Josh Gordon for his 1 Month to $1k Challenge and something really caught my attention this time. You were talking about vision and how that if the vision changes – change it. So how do you know when to change or how do you know the vision is not a fly-by-night or trendy vision that has caught your attention for a brief time (something I am prone to do) and does not pass the longevity test. 

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Most people wonder how I get so much done every day. It’s no secret that I work a three day workweek, but I guarantee I get more done on those three days than most people get done in five.

You had the opportunity yesterday to grab an extra hour. Did you take it?

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