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Today's Sponsors: Income Machine, Podcast Crusher and Make a Product\n"You are rewarded in public for the things you practice in private." -- Tony Robbins\n\n\nCatchphrase of the Week: Content Piggy Bank: What Would It Take For You to Record Just One Quick Video Per Day?\nResource of Week: X-Mirage to mirror iphone/ipad and record it on your computer\nQuote of the Week: "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." -- Napoleon Hill\nQuote of the Week #2: "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out." -- Robert Collier\nQuote of the Week #3: "Don't wish it was easier. Wish you were better." -- Jim Rohn\nBecome Better: 30 minutes to say something that could be said in 1 minute?\n\nSystem & Routine\n\n1. Small goals: 10-minute spurts or 500-word days. Create a sense of urgency to avoid Parkinson's Law (and possibly run a countdown timer)\n2. Update an editorial calendar so you know what you're writing each day (Seinfeld productivity where you want to "avoid the broken chain of events")\n3. Use writer's block to perform more research\n4. Wake up an hour earlier (Elmore Leonard)\nTools & Mechanics\n5. Delegate transcription and speak it out instead (MakeAProduct.com)\n6. Use Google image search to find relevant images (don't forget to source them)\n7. Grab a YouTube video and explain your reaction to it (before or against)\n8. Break down pages into paragraphs, into talking points + time\nMind Hacks\n9. Read a lot\n10. Unplug distractions\n11. Write your chapter/article titles as questions and paragraphs as questions, then delete the questions later (record yourself and send questions and answers to yourself via instant messenger)\n12. Use a daily prompt\n13. Break up your monotonous routine: go for a drive, walk, swim, run\n14. Combine a task you don't like to do with one you do like to do, i.e. Write a quick blog post by the pool\n15. Set a fake meeting schedule on your calendar and use the time for yourself\nBonus: Toughen Up That Writing\n\n \tAvoid "ing"... say "set" instead of "setting"\n \tRepetitions: remove "click here" every 2 sentences. "Please" every 2 sentences.\n \tWords to stop using: Try, start -- Trick, loophole, hacked -> secret -- Work, learn -> discover, uncover\n \tTone down these words: Money-back/refund\n \tWords to use: System, formula, roadmap, blueprint, Machine, Push button, Secret weapon, Magic bullet