It’s the first workweek of 2012. As you head back to whatever it is you do, are you happy? Think about everything you do in your job or business. Break it down into pieces. Do you enjoy it all?

Instead of focusing on what you don’t like, make a list of everything you enjoy. Can you do more of that in 2012 and less of what’s dragging you down? It might be a simplified solution, but one many people never think to do.

I love what I do, but still don’t enjoy everything. Lately, I’ve been cutting the bad parts out like fat from a steak; carving out the small pieces that aren’t fun and outsourcing or stopping them completely.

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What percentage of your job do you enjoy? I’m at 95% and getting better every day.

Blog to grow your business
At Need a Topic you’ll get topics, tips, & techniques three times a week to help you stand out from the crowd and actually make money from your time blogging. I cover writing, audio, and video to help you become profitable. Try the 7 day free trial.

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Show Topics:

• A challenge to do impossible things
• How to stop living a normal life
• The importance of professional photos for your website

Joel Runyon is challenging you to do impossible things, and join him as he travels and does the same.

Joel was tired of living the “normal life” so he decided to do something about it. He create the impossible list, then set out to do it.

Joel graduated, couldn’t find a job, then settled for working at UPS. Fast forward to today, he recently quit his job and has no idea what he’s going to do next. Sound fun?

The rest of the story…

Each morning I scour through many blog posts in my RSS reader and share out the most interesting and helpful ones on twitter. To avoid overwhelming my followers, I’ve begun using bufferapp to spread my tweets over a predetermined schedule throughout the day.

Blog to grow your business
At Need a Topic you’ll get topics, tips, & techniques three times a week to help you stand out from the crowd and actually make money from your time blogging. I cover writing, audio, and video to help you become profitable. Try the 7 day free trial.

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Show Topics:

• Colorado move update
• Getting the support of your wife when going full time

My wife, Christine, joins me to talk about doing business spouseless. As always, she tells the truth, maybe even on the dirty side. You’ve got to respect that though.

We talk about our updates after moving from North Carolina to Colorado. Christine really didn’t want to move, but now is glad we did. I asked her how to had the guts to do something she wasn’t crazy about.

Our advice to getting your spouse on board:

• Ask for a chance
• Prove it
• Forecast
• Dream together

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2012 may be your year; it is for me. Put down the computer and make it happen.

More Trail Talk videos.

One year into the show, with a kids & money theme.

The sun was shining through a beautiful blue sky as I made my way down a deserted interstate. It was 8:30 on a Saturday morning and I was on the way to host my very first show on AM 1030 in Raleigh, NC.

I remember suddenly becoming scared when I saw an NHL Hurricanes bill board. The bill board had little to do with my feeling of dread; that was most certainly due to the fact I had never hosted a show in my life and I realized I had no clue what I was doing. I kept driving.

No Going Back

People in Raleigh, NC were counting on me. Well, at least my friends and family in the know were counting on me. They knew I had been working hard to launch a local show and they were all listening. How many radio show hosts have you ever met in real life? I promise you, it sounds cooler than it actually is.

The parking lot was empty except for one car. Jeff was my new producer and he waited for me by the front door. I grabbed my stuff, which mainly consisted of five pages of notes and made my way across the parking lot.

This is one of the instances where you look back and remember things to be much bigger than they really were. That building was huge in my mind; an everest of sorts. There was a problem though – Jeff forgot to bring the key to the building. Since it was a Saturday, there was no one there to let us in.

Locked Out

The rest of the story…

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Show Topics:

• Adding humor and yourself to a professional website
• Putting it on the line and hosting a big conference
• Creating a membership site for revenue
• Creating a business while continuing to work full time

Bryan Allain is a blog coach who ads a splash of humor. Not afraid to add a bit of his true self into his work, he does it all from from his home in Lancaster county, PA.

Bryan starting blogging in 2001, when it was much harder to update a site like today’s current blogs. His blog started with personal, family stuff, and has grown into a side business.

I first ran into Bryan when he released a book called 31 Days to Finding Your Blogging Mojo at the end of 2011. Since then, he’s been working on building and launching things like Killer Tribes, a site for his 1-on-1 and group coaching, and My Killer Tribe, a community of people learning how to blog and relying on each other for help.

The rest of the story…

Today I talked with two personal clients and two corporate clients. One corporate client is one of Canada’s largest companies, and the other is a venture backed company launching in the U.S. How I take notes and keep track of each is different.

I don’t have a great reason why I use separate systems for personal vs. bigger clients, so I’ll lay both out here and let you decide what to use.
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