Hey…Have any of you guys/gals come across someone/anyone that really blows you away to the point you just can’t keep your yap shut about them? Sure there are talented folks out there… Some are extremely talented and dominate their respective fields. Entrepreneurs, athletes, celebrities, politicians and yes, even marketing “gurus.”
How many of them are be able to take a world-class act and repackage it to mentor a green-as-frog rookie?.....You’ve seen it before, unbelievably talented people that just can’t teach. They’re great at what they do, but they can’t duplicate their thought process and project that aura in a teaching environment; At least not to the point where the student is fully able to grasp it in the same way as the mentor. Sometimes lousy athletes make great coaches and great athletes can’t coach to save their life…..Know what I mean?
I think I found us a great copywriting/marketing “player” that can coach……John Carlton. He’s billed as a world-class copywriter hell-bent on being a marketing rebel and an industry “secret weapon.” Take 10 minutes outta your frenzied life and just cat-scan his newsletter “the Marketing Rebel Rant.” You can get the first 11 issues free at www.marketingrebelrant.com
I guarantee you your brain will explode as you magically absorb his mindset. You’ll experience 20 different emotions from euphoria to bein so pissed off at yourself for being a dumb-ass, you’ll think you’re gonna need a rabies shot. In Issue 1, Volume 1 your first assignment is to “put the 8 page newsletter down and go find something fun to do for five minutes.” That’s lesson #1. If you can’t come up with something “fun” to do for “five’ minutes, it will open your eyes to the fact that your life is “on the fritz.”….Yours truly failed Lesson #1 miserably.
He takes you on a wild ride as he mixes industry smarts with a “streetwise” mentality about life, love and achieving wealth that the “average joe” can relate to. There’s no rah rah “headshrinker horsesh#t” about getting motivated or whining about the cards you’ve been dealt in life. He won’t blow sunshine up your butt when you’re screwin’ up and he’ll “cyber-slap” you right in the head if you think you’ve conquered the universe.
Just take his medicine for starting, running and maintaining a successful business with his attitude about achieving success, facing failure and pluggin’ the holes in life that mess most of us up. Don’t be afraid. The pain of finding out the truth will help cure the “anti-success” disease that paralyzes us into doing nothing. You’ll be saying to yourself, “holy sh#t he’s right, I’ve done that, I’ve neglected to do that, I’ve let other people unnecessarily influence me about that. Go ahead, check it out and then whack yourself with a rolled up newspaper, I did!
Tip of the day: What God gave us in mind and body, nature slowly takes away…Use-it-or lose-it.
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