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A simple habit that has a profound impact. One of the things that I’ve been able to do since taking my entrepreneurial sabbatical is to ...| 🌐 Justin's Blog
A simple habit that has a profound impact. One of the things that I’ve been able to do since taking my entrepreneurial sabbatical is to ...| 🌐 Justin's Blog
Sometimes we carry a lot simply out of habit, and it prevents us from true happiness. We all have baggage, it's part of the human experi...| 🌐 Justin's Blog
p class="subtitle"Married for four years, but it feels like more. Four years is not a very long time, but I've come to see that it's not the number of years but the memories within those years that make that ultimately makes it feel short or long. Lorena and I got married four years ago today on a somewhat humid, rainy day in Austin, Texas. It was right in the middle of the pandemic, so the wedding itself was a "micro-wedding" (at least that's what the venue sold it to us as). I think there w...| 🌐 Justin's Blog
Alcohol and entrepreneurship often go hand-in-hand, but they don't have to. Last year, I wrote a post about how I was cutting back on my...| 🌐 Justin's Blog
p class="subtitle"Your sandbox demo site is not helping./p I'm aging myself here, but I remember a time in WordPress when product demos weren’t even a thing. All you had to do was show some screenshots of your settings, a screenshot or two of the frontend, and that was enough for the buyer. Ah, the good old days. Alas, things have changed, and in today’s WordPress business landscape, product companies need to “wow” a prospective customer. One way people are choosing to do this is by p...| 🌐 Justin's Blog
p class="subtitle"Using AI creates trust issues with potential clients./p img class="fw-img" src="https://i.snap.as/s0RA58jT.jpg" / I wasn't even sure if I was going to write this one, given that there are so many articles out there already talking about AI and its impact on marketing. However, I wanted to touch on it specifically in the context of entrepreneurship. It's tempting to use AI, and many new businesses are using it currently to add rocket fuel to their blogging efforts. Seriously,...| 🌐 Justin's Blog
p class="subtitle"What worked, and what didn't, and what I learned while growing LearnDash. /p I recently gave a quite revealing "behind the scenes" interview into the LearnDash story to WPBeginner where I chat about what I did to drive the growth of LearnDash from a side-hustle to a multi-million dollar company. For example, did you know that I made the official decision to finally quit my consulting job after making $690 in a single day? That was life changing for me back in 2013. I also di...| 🌐 Justin's Blog
p class="subtitle"You always have a choice for peace./p Perception is reality, and our perception is often dominated by our emotions. If we are centered and aware of our emotions in any given moment, then in turn we are in control of our perception, and as such, our reality. If you're someone that is often stressed (as I used to be), then please know that it doesn't have to be that way. In fact, I would say you need to stop choosing stress. Because that's the truth: you have a choice. You can...| 🌐 Justin's Blog
p class="subtitle"Aggressively doing nothing./p My entire life, I've been doing something. Brainstorming new business ideas Creating offerings Developing marketing strategies Researching markets Implementing Networking This way of living has been my default for so long that it's just my normal operating mode. But as I prepared to walk away from coaching, I realized that I was again starting to think about the next thing. This time, though, I stopped myself. It occurred to me that my pattern o...| 🌐 Justin's Blog
p class="subtitle"For the first time ever, I'm doing nothing./p Since the start of this year, I've been struggling with motivation for my coaching service. This is natural, so I didn't dwell on it. In fact, it has happened to me in the past. Typically, I take a vacation or change up my routine in some way and that makes it better. This time it feels different. In 2023 and 2024, I hustled to get clients. I had countless free calls, met tons of great people, and landed 20 clients in a short amo...| 🌐 Justin's Blog
p class="subtitle"It simply lacks interaction, unless you only want to talk about politics./p The day that Elon threw out two Nazi salutes was the day I closed my Twitter account and went all-in on Bluesky. Honestly, to hell with that guy. At first, things at Bluesky seemed encouraging. I noticed a lot of my contacts on Twitter were joining as well. There was a buzz of activity and a skyrocket of growth. It also didn't feel as toxic as Twitter, which was a welcome change. But as time went on,...| 🌐 Justin's Blog
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I don’t know when it happened, but sometime within the past three to five years, “lifetime deals” (LTD) for software really started to ...| 🌐 Justin's Blog
