Tag: Ayn Rand

Before You Pitch Me, Read This

Excerpt: Fifty lazy pitches don’t beat one thoughtful one. Before you hit send, learn how research, specificity, and value turn cold outreach into a pitch worth reading.

Skills Aren’t Enough

Your business grows when you do. Discover how limiting beliefs shape your pricing, leadership, and results, and how to build wealth without sacrificing your health or relationships. Focus keyword: limiting beliefs in business

Your Biz Is Not the Prison. Your Mind Is.

Your business can’t outgrow the mindset of the person running it. Discover seven mental models and two essential disciplines to break through limiting beliefs, stop self-sabotage, and build a business that supports real prosperity.

Build a Better Mousetrap and Stay Broke

You don’t need a better mousetrap. You need a Signal the market can’t ignore and a self-identity strong enough to carry it. When your message finally matches your value, you stop competing in a crowded category and become the category.
Top 10 Books to Transform Your Life

Top 10 Books to Transform Your Life

There’s no way to know what books will mean the most to you. But I humbly share the ones that meant the most to me – in the hope that they will add real value to your life as well.
selfishness

Please Be More Selfish

believe selfishness is your moral prerogative.  Not just your prerogative, but your sacred responsibility.  But if you’re like most people, the word itself makes you feel guilty.  Ayn Rand wrote a collection of essays in a book titled, The Virtue of Selfishness.  When asked why she chose to use a word that threatened so many people, she replied, “For the reason that makes you afraid of it.”  It’s been more than 50 years since then, but people still react the same way.
philosophy

A Life Worth Living

Last week a podcast host asked me about the books that have impacted my life the most. As usual, I mentioned Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, because it crystalized my revelation that in order to become happy, you must live by a congruent philosophy.