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The Three Month Vacation Podcast — 611 episodes

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1

The Adventures in Greece: Part 1

2

The Trip to Thailand: Part 2

3

The Monsoon Trip to Thailand (and the relaunch of The Brain Audit)- Part 1

4

The importance of "normal speed" in learning

5

Why Most Storytelling Is Terrible (And Why Clutter Plays a Huge Role)

6

How I used AI for my Article (And what it did to my writing)

7

How to Sidestep Perfection—And How to Use "Quantity" to Your Advantage

8

1% Better Every Day: What Does It Even Mean?

9

The Roundabout Principle: Why Self-Management Actually Works (And How to Make It Stick)

10

Why We Struggle To Acquire Skills (And How The Mindset Of The Teacher Is The Root Cause)

11

Why Understanding The Faces Of Overwhelm Helps You Sidestep Frustration

12

Eternal Sales Page Dilemma-How to choose the precise headline to get clients interested.

13

Test How Your Audience Will React To Your Story

14

Three Ways To Motivate Yourself Again (And Restart What You Want To Do)

15

Charlie Brown Moments: Why We Choke Under Pressure (And How To Practice Under Lucy Moments)

16

Intense Story: Why Starting With The "Stuck Point" Creates Intense Stories

17

The Art of Less: Why the Best Professionals Work with a Smaller Palette

18

Storytelling: Misdirection

19

Storytelling: Why the Ending Matters Most of All When You're Crafting a Story

20

How to Overcome the Obvious Fears of Group Consulting — Part 2

21

How to Go from One-on-One to Group Consulting (and Have More Time for Yourself)

22

Free or Paid? How to Know in Advance if Someone Will Pay — Part 2

23

Free or Paid? How to Know in Advance if Someone Will Pay — Part 1

24

Why going backwards is often a good sign of progress

25

How to Make Additional Time Out of Thin Air.

26

Why Self-Study Works for Some People and Fails Miserably for Others

27

Why all the productivity in the world may not matter after all

28

Why Feedback Barely Helps Progress (And Why "Instant Feedback" is Crucial, Instead).

29

Why Habits Fail Consistently (And Why You Need a Habit System Instead)

30

Why Habit-Change Is Almost Always Temporary (And How to Create Lasting Habits)

31

How to speed up answering e-mail—and everyday messages as well

32

Re-Run 007 Why Willpower is Weak (And How Numbers Help You Stay on Track Instead)

33

Re-run 06 How To Become More Productive (While Reducing Overwhelm)

34

Re-run 05 How To Calm Your Nerves Before A Speaking Opportunity

35

Re-run 004 Why Business Philosophy Creates A Uniqueness Factor (Even When Clients Don't Know You At All)

36

Re-Run 003 Why Negotiation Consistently Fails In Real-World Scenario

37

Re-Run 002 "Why You Need To Get Off The Internet – And Meet Real People Instead"

38

Re-run 01 Why Would They Choose Me? Getting Past A Mental Block

39

How a slight "problem-change" can dramatically make a massive difference to your business model.

40

How to explain concepts elegantly (and keep the attention of your audience)

41

Why Habits Can Be Temporary and Environment Matters More, Instead.

42

How to Use Grumpy People to Find Your Uniqueness

43

Why Learning Is So Tiresome (And How to Identify and Overcome The Barriers)

44

The Dropout Factor: How to reduce dropout when teaching or learning

45

How to Outsmart Procrastination with the 9/10 Principle

46

Why "distraction" isn't usually the reason you can't focus

47

Re-run 07 Sales Page

48

Re-run 06 U-turns: Why Almost Every Article Needs One To Create Drama

49

Re-run 05 Why Writing Down What Delights You Can Help With Anxiety and Stress

50

Re-run 04 Storytelling:Why Storytelling Needs The Thumpty-Thum-Thump-Thump

51

Re-run 03 How to Win Friends: The Hug, Hear, Help Method

52

Re-run 02 Pricing Strategy: How to Increase Prices from Left to Right (or Right to Left)

53

Re-run 01 The Elegant Strategy

54

How I Overcame My Three Fears

55

How to stay calm when the world is falling apart around you

56

Why We Write—Part 2

57

Why We Write: Part 1

58

Why Every Day Learning Matters More Than We Think

59

25 years of writing: Simple advice that will improve your articles

60

The Four Tyrannical Arms of Perfection: A Deeper Insight

61

The Concept of Take Off-Speed (And How it Enables You to Manage Many Things All At Once)

62

The Five-Year Lease Concept (And How It Builds Resilience)

63

Travel stories through India – another rollercoaster trip.

64

How to become smarter by utilising the "Database Concept"

65

Stories of travel through India, Singapore and France

66

How to get clients: An open secret

67

Burnout: Why friends and family are more likely to be early warning systems to avoid overwork

68

How to get free of your phone addiction without software

69

How do you manage everything? Part 1

70

Re-run 07 The Five "Psychological Stages" of Entrepreneurship—And One That's More Scary Than The Rest

71

Re-Run 06 Why You Have to Keep Writing Articles (Even If You Have Written Articles for 20 Years)

72

Re-run05 Why does learning seem to take forever? The surprising reasons behind slow learning

73

Re-run 04 Why is Storytelling so Important in Marketing (and how to use it in your marketing)

74

Re-run 03 The Art of Praise (How to Give Genuine Praise)

75

Re-run 02 Three "Slightly Boring" Ways to Create Metaphors for Your Articles

76

Re-run 01 - How to stay on track with you goals, guest appearance by Keira Menon

77

How To Avoid Jet Lag

78

Why Random, Tiny Projects are the Key to Future Business Growth

79

The Power of Analogies (Part 3): How to transform analogies from tired to fresh

80

The Power of Analogies (Part 2): How to use everyday life to create stunning analogies

81

The Power of Analogies (Part 1): Working Backwards

82

Why we lose motivation (and how a "base level of success" is crucial to keep going)

83

Why sequences are crucial for your business and how to go about implementing it.

84

Why you need to get off the Internet – and meet real people instead

85

Rerun 5 Why Willpower Is Weak (And How Numbers Help You Stay on Track Instead)

86

Rerun 4:The Results Paradox: Why We Have To Keep Searching For New Clients

87

Rerun 3 Why A "Lack Of Memory" Causes You To Be Less Talented In Life

88

Rerun 2 How To Create An Intensely Curious First Line For Your Article

89

Rerun 1: How To Get Clients To Go From "No" To "Yes" (And Why The Right Mindset Is Crucial)

90

The "Unobvious Reasons" WhyAdults Struggle With Language Learning - Part 2

91

The "Unobvious Reasons" WhyAdults Struggle With Language Learning - Part 1

92

How to increase prices from left to right (or right to left).

93

How to calm your nerves before a speaking opportunity

94

The "Pain Map of Learning": How Trainers Can Make Learning Fun Again

95

Why Catching Up Is a Poor Strategy (And Why the "Next Sunrise" Method is More Powerful)

96

Why "Prompts" Speed Up Learning (And Avoid the Boring Hard Work Syndrome)

97

A Memory Test: Are you bad with names or is it a myth?

98

The elegant strategy to overcome "information overload" (and how to do it almost overnight).

99

Re-run 7 Storytelling: Why Fairy Tale Endings Are Unnecessary for Article Writing

100

Re-run 6 Balanced Feedback: Why People Want Endless Amounts of it

101

Re-run 5 How to Systematically Generate a Uniqueness (Even If You've Struggled With It Before)

102

Re-run 4 How random pieces of advice from friends and bosses help me keep my focus

103

Re-run 3 Why We Stall—And How To Pull Out of the Mess

104

Rerun 2: Why You Should Never Trust A Silent Customer

105

Rerun 1: Why We Struggle With Writing Well (And How Your Brain Is Trying to Drive You Crazy)

106

Why Negotiation Consistently Fails In Real-World Scenarios: 3 Overlooked Stages of Negotiation

107

Why Creating a Series Gets Greater Client Involvement

108

The Five "Psychological Stages" of Entrepreneurship—And One That's More Scary Than The Rest

109

The concept of bandwidth: How to control the "uncontrollable"

110

How to Win Friends: The Hug, Hear, Help Method

111

Unexpected Impact (And Why You Shouldn't Give Up Communicating With Your Audience)

112

How to have conversations when you don't necessarily agree with the other person.

113

Three "Slightly Boring" Ways To Create Metaphors For Your Articles

114

The second best way to get out of a rut

115

How to give praise (even when it's hard to do so)

116

Rerun 07 The "Coats Of Paint" System To Break Out Of The Curse Of Perfection

117

Rerun 06 How To Write The First Line Of An Article (And Instantly Get The Reader's Attention With A Story)

118

Rerun 05 How To Avoid High Conflict – Even When You Don't Agree With The Idea

119

The Eternal Sales Page Dilemma – How To Choose The Precise Headline To Get Clients Interested On Your Sales Page

120

Rerun 03 Effective Sales Tactics: How To Create Bonuses For Your Products Or Services

121

Rerun-002 How To Get Unstuck Bit By Bit (And Why Speeding It Up Doesn't Usually Work)

122

Rerun 01 Why "A Walk In The Forest" Reinvigorates Our Busy, Stressful Lives

123

How to get clients to go from "NO" to "YES" (And why the right mindset is crucial)

124

The "Blindingly Obvious Reason" That Drives Success in Almost Any Sphere

125

The Myth of Poor Memory (And How to Overcome It Instantly)

126

How to create an intensely curious first line for your article

127

Overwhelmed with Too Much to Learn? How To Solve The Problem Once and For All

128

Why a "Lack of Memory" Causes You to be Less Talented in Life

129

The Results Paradox: Why We Have to Keep Searching for New Clients

130

The Not So Obvious Angles For Succeeding In Life

131

Why "Dribbling" is better than "Practice, Practice, Practice"

132

How to Stay on Track With Your Goals (Without Depending on Willpower): Guest appearance by Keira Menon

133

Why Willpower is Weak (And How Numbers Help You Stay on Track Instead)

134

Re-run 06 The Paradox of Motivation and Burnout (And Where To Draw the Line)

135

Re-Run 05 Why You May Be Scaring Clients Away From Your Sales Page (And How A Simple Fix Can Bring Them Back)

136

Re-run 04 Why Do Clients Sign Up? Understanding The Core Motivations That Attracts Clients

137

Rerun 3 - How To Become Fluent At Almost Any Skill In A Matter Of Weeks (And What Stops Us From Being Fluent)

138

Storytelling: How To Edit A Story (And Why "Relevance" Is The Key To Editing Any Story)

139

Feeling Overwhelmed? How to stop (And Why Some People Are Always Overwhelmed And Others Aren't)

140

Why writing down what delights you can help reduce anxiety and stress

141

How to create a stunningly good opening story for Zoom (without having to write it yourself)

142

How to re-oxygenate sales instantly (with little or no effort at all).

143

Stories from the South of Spain

144

How I used Chat GPT (and YouTube) to create a flawless transcript

145

Balanced Feedback: Why People Want Endless Amounts of it

146

How To Write a Non-Icky Blurb When Describing Your Achievements

147

Why We Struggle With Writing Well (And How Your Brain is Trying to Drive You Crazy)

148

Why Business Philosophy Creates a Uniqueness Factor (Even When Clients Don't Know You At All)

149

How to Systematically Generate a Uniqueness (Even If You've Struggled With It Before)

150

Why Clients Behave "Irrationally" and Buy Your Products (Even When They Already Have Enough).

151

The Myth of The Oversaturated Market—And Why Even AI Doesn't Matter

152

Rerun 6: Three Unusually Zany Tips To Change Your Mindset (And Behaviour)

153

Rerun 5: Why List Building Fails (And How To Avoid The Almost Obvious Failure)

154

Rerun 4: How To Restart A Stalled Project: The Middle Of The Project Method

155

Rerun 3 Why You Should Not Write Like An Author When Writing Articles

156

Rerun 2: How To Turn An Average Elevator Pitch Into One That Gets Consistent Attention

157

Rerun 1: How To Get Clients When You Are Starting Up (With A Humble Checklist)

158

Why Does Learning Seem to Take Forever? The Surprising Reasons Behind Slow Learning

159

Why "A Walk in the Forest" Reinvigorates Our Busy, Stressful Lives

160

Will AI and ChatGPT replace you as a writer?

161

How to write non-boring metaphors in your articles (while using rather boring situations )

162

How to write non-boring metaphors (while using rather boring situations)

163

Why the smallest offline meet-up can be more beneficial than zoom or email

164

The Subtle Power of Entertainment (And Why It Keeps Clients Engaged With Your Content)

165

Bumpity-Bump Travel Stories

166

How Planning Gets Quickly Derailed (When You Don't Have a Stop-Doing List)

167

Rerun 6: Chaotic Week? How To Use The Goldilocks Method To Get Things Back On Track

168

Rerun 5: Why You Should Pay Attention To Giving (And Why Receiving Is Just as important)

169

Rerun 4: The Simple Logic of Email Frequency (And How It Helps Sustain A Business)

170

Rerun 3: Why "write every day" is seriously misunderstood (and why it prevents us from writing every day)

171

Rerun 2: Why being "late to the party" is not a crisis for your business

172

Rerun 1: How To Create Bonuses Out Of Thin Air (And Still Make Them Extremely Desirable)

173

Why Would They Choose Me? Getting Past A Mental Block

174

How "pros" practice differently than you (and therefore get superior results)

175

How to Become Fluent at Almost Any Skill in a Matter of Weeks (And What Stops Us From Being Fluent)

176

Sales Pages: How to avoid procrastinating and fix three core elements- Part 2

177

Sales Pages: How to avoid procrastinating and fix three core elements- Part 1

178

How to get in a state of play—and not be stressed all the time

179

Why Is Storytelling So Important in Marketing?

180

Why We Stall—And How To Pull Out of the Mess

181

How To Gain Momentum In Business Using The Subsets Technique (And Gain New Clients Too!)

182

Why I keep writing articles (despite having written for 22 years).

183

The 5000bc story (Part 2): When the diversion turned out to be better than the destination

184

The 5000bc story (Part 1): The ups and downs

185

Why kids seem to learn faster than adults (Part 2)

186

Why kids seem to learn faster than adults

187

Why Sales Pages Are Annoyingly Difficult To Write..

188

Why some people are always overwhelmed (and others aren't)

189

Audience Building: Three compelling concepts from David duChemin

190

The counterintuitive—yet simple strategy—to completing courses and books

191

Re-Run 6 Why Writing Is So Exhausting (And How You Can Make It Less Of A Chore)

192

Re-Run 05 Why Restricting The Numbers Of Sales Increased Profits (And Will Give You More Downtime)

193

Rerun 4: The Real Goal Of Productivity (And How it Helps You Waste More Time)

194

Rerun 3 How A Simple "Five Point Questionnaire" Helped Me Write My Sales Page (And Saved Me A Ton Of Time As Well)

195

How To Sidestep Chaos (Even When High Conflict Is Tearing Us Apart)

196

Rerun 1- How The Doorway Principle Lets You Get Started (Even When You're Not Known In Your Industry)

197

The Simple Logic of Email Frequency (And How it Helps Sustain a Business)

198

Storytelling: Why Fairy Tale Endings Are Unnecessary for Article Writing

199

Storytelling: Why "relevance" is the key to editing a story

200

Storytelling: Why starting with the "stuck point" creates intense stories

201

Why Storytelling Needs Thumpity-Thump-Thump-Thump-Thump

202

How to create a small 2-minute sales pitch

203

The Charlie Brown Moment: Why We Choke Under Pressure

204

Sandwiching: How to create a perfect crescendo for your story using a "sandwich"

205

Storytelling: How to decide which facts to keep and which ones to drop

206

The Eternal Sales Page Dilemma-How to choose the precise headline to get clients interested

207

Why being "late to the party" is not a crisis for your business

208

How a simple "five point questionnaire" helped me write my sales page (and saved me a ton of time as well).

209

U-Turn

210

How to get unstuck bit by bit (and why speeding it up doesn't usually work)

211

Free Content Vs Paid Content: Will Clients Buy If You Give Away A Lot Of Free Stuff?

212

Why Do Clients Leave Your Community

213

Three Ordinary Aspects of Writing (That We Forget To Implement Consistently) Re-Reun 05

214

Why You Should Temporarily Ignore The "1000 True Fans" Concept – If You Want To Get Ahead Re-Run 04

215

How to audit your information product in four systematic steps Re-Run 03

216

The Dual Boomerang System Of Learning (That Helps Me Get To The Finish Line) Re-Run 02

217

How to get version 1 of The Brain Audit

218

Why You Should Pay Attention To Giving (And Why Receiving Is Just as important)

219

How random pieces of advice from friends and bosses help me keep my focus

220

Why we struggle to acquire skills (and how the mindset of the teacher is the root cause)

221

Scaring Clients Away From Your Sales Page?

222

Why "write every day" is seriously misunderstood (and why it prevents us from writing every day)

223

How To Get Clients Comfortable On Zoom

224

The Paradox of Motivation and Burnout (And Where To Draw the Line)

225

Chaotic Week? How To Use The Goldilocks Method To Get Things Back On Track

226

The Real Goal of Productivity (And How it Helps You Waste More Time)

227

Why restricting the numbers of sales increased profits (and gave us more downtime)

228

Why do clients sign up? Understanding the core motivations that attracts clients.

229

How the doorway principle lets you get started (even when you're not known in your industry)

230

How to get re-started (when you've been blown off course)

231

Why High Conflict is Tearing Us Apart (And How To Sidestep the Chaos)

232

How To Create Bonuses Out Of Thin Air (And Still Make Them Extremely Desirable): Part 2

233

How To Create Bonuses For Your Products Or Services: Part 1

234

Why You Should Never Trust A Silent Customer

235

Why We Do What We Do Ay Psychotactics: Origin Stories

236

Why We Do What We Do At Psychotactics: Origin Story Series

237

What I Learned From Children (And How It Lowered My Stress Levels)

238

How To Avoid High Conflict—Even When You Don't Agree WIth The Idea

239

How To Get Your Foot In The Door (With A Humble Checklist)

240

The "Coats of Paint" system to break out of the curse of perfection

241

Why Happiness Eludes Us (And Why It's Been Around All The Time)

242

The Power of Deflection (Why It's a Crucial Strategy On An Interview).

243

Why Understanding The Faces of Overwhelm Helps You Sidestep Frustration

244

Three Unusually Zany Tips to Change Your Mindset

245

Re-Run: Why You Don't Need Clickbait Headlines To Get Clients (The Power Of Normal Headlines)

246

Re-Run: The Contrarian Mindset (How To Think Differently Under Normal Business Circumstances)

247

Re-Run: How To Systematically Manage The Pre-Sell Of Your Product or Service

248

Re-Run: The Mastermind Mindset (How To Harness It Across Your Business)

249

Re-Run: Three Bizarre Learning Principles (And Why We Struggle With Learning)

250

Re-run: How To Be A Source Of Inspiration To Others

251

Three Ordinary Aspects of Writing (That We Forget To Implement Consistently).

252

How Subsets Help You Gain Momentum In Business (And Gain New Clients Too!)

253

Free vs Paid Content: Will clients buy if you give away a lot of free stuff?

254

Why unnecessary obstacles make writing so exhausting

255

How to audit your information product in four systematic steps

256

Why list-building fails (and how to avoid the almost obvious failure): Part 2

257

Why list-building fails (and how to avoid the almost obvious failure): Part 1

258

The Middle of the Project method: Where to restart a stalled activity

259

Part 2. What Makes Articles Dull? The Curse of Writing Like an Author

260

What Makes Articles Dull? The Curse of Writing Like an Author

261

The Dual Boomerang system of learning (that helps me get to the finish line).

262

Why clients leave—and why lack of community is one of the big problems.

263

Why you should temporarily ignore the "1000 True Fans" concept—if you want to get ahead

264

How to turn an average elevator pitch into one that gets consistent attention

265

Rerun: How to use "accidental research" to speed up your article writing

266

Rerun: Scientific Advertising: Why a hundred year old book matters more today than ever before

267

Rerun: Mindset vs Skillset: Which one slows you down?

268

Rerun: You Need To Start a Project—Not a Business

269

Rerun: How to avoid mastery (and use 5-minute learning to get to fluency, instead)

270

Rerun: Longevity secrets: How to consistently write newsletters for 20 years in a row

271

How to motivate and inspire (even when things are going wrong)

272

How to use group consulting to increase earning (and learning).

273

Why we enter fields with less competition (and why that's a dangerous strategy)

274

April Fools Day: The Mad Genius of Renuka

275

How to publish fixed prices on your website (even if you run a service).

276

Dread writing your newsletter? How to overcome that frustration in four easy steps

277

Why Success Benchmarks are Misleading (And How We Set Benchmarks for Success)

278

Planning on starting a membership site? How to decide which one is for you (Part 2)

279

Planning on starting a membership site? How to decide which one is for you (Part 1)

280

Why sales and self-promotion seems yucky (and how to quickly overcome it)

281

How to recalibrate your life's priorities (despite the unending torrent of work)

282

How to avoid duds and time-wasters when hiring or outsourcing staff

283

How to create a pricing ecosystem that helps increase revenue and free time)

284

How to extend or reduce article length by using the power of examples

285

3 Pesky Things That Bug Us at Psychotactics (And How We Overcame Them)

286

Why "Normal Headlines" are more powerful than "Clickbait Headlines"

287

How to give contrarian advice to clients (without a ton of proof and research)

288

How to reframe your business with a contrarian system (and make it stand out)

289

How To Use a Contrarian Mindset to Your Advantage

290

Why You Need To Start a Project—Not a Business

291

Quick Tips: 3 Speedy Methods to Get Great Testimonials

292

Rerun 6: Info-product Creation Part 2: Double Your Sales With Versions and Satellite Products

293

Rerun 5: How To Avoid Overwhelm (And Systematically Complete Projects)

294

Rerun 4: Why Success Is Hindered By The Lack of the Tolerance Effect

295

Rerun 3: How To Validate Your Business Idea (And Overcome Self-Doubt)

296

Rerun 2: How a Lack of Energy, Not Time, Causes Writers to Stall and Crash

297

Rerun 1: Are You Tempted To Use Hype? How To Avoid Hype And Still Get Clients

298

How to harness the Mastermind Mindset (and use it across your business)

299

Lockdown Gratitude from New Zealand

300

How to use "accidental research" to speed up your article writing

301

Mindset vs Skillset: Which one slows you down?

302

How to rapidly transition from task to task (and avoid getting distracted in the switchover)

303

Why Optimists Die of a Broken Heart: The Stockdale Paradox

304

Three Hearthwarming Travel Stories Just for you

305

What I learned in 2019 (and have to keep reminding myself all year)

306

Why Creating "Rubbish—Lots of Rubbish" is the key to outstanding work

307

Scientific Advertising Part 2: Why a hundred year old book matters more today than ever before

308

Scientific Advertising Part 1: Why a hundred year old book matters more today than ever before

309

How to use simple stories to pre-sell your products and services

310

Why the Psychotactics Planning Starts with "Beer"

311

How to wring the curiosity out of the first-line of your article

312

3 ½ Nifty Tips We've Learned On Our Travels

313

Learning Strategy Tweaks: How I Use Slightly-Odd Ways to Ramp Up Learning

314

Longevity secrets: How to consistenly write newsletters for 20 years in a row.

315

How to avoid mastery (and use 5-minute learning to get to fluency, instead)

316

Rerun 6: How to Craft Interesting Stories and Analogies (For Articles and Sales Letters)

317

Rerun 5: How to Validate Your Uniqueness with Testimonials

318

Rerun 4: Why "Elegance" not "Information" Creates an Addictive Business Model

319

Rerun 3: The crazy philosophy of Psychotactics (and why it may help you in your business)

320

Rerun 2: Want to get paid a lot in advance? 3 Methods to get paid earlier than ever before

321

Rerun 1: The Overwhelm Virus: How To Get It Out of Your Daily Routine

322

Back to the Future: Why the 2020 strategy is a lot like 2000

323

Why Mundane Topics Get You Noticed by Clients (And How to Exploit the Power of Mundanity)

324

The Myth of the Saturated Market—And Why You Should Not Let "Saturation" Intimidate You

325

How to use contrast to prevent headlines from going flat (and other questions)

326

Why "work for free" is a powerful strategy to get ahead as a startup business

327

Why Three Precise Fixes Can Quickly Improve Your About-Us Page

328

Three Bizarre Learning Principles (And Why They Constantly Surprise Me)

329

Why writing headlines can be an excellent brainstorming exercise for real articles

330

Why Random Learning is Superior (And Other Weird Learning Methods)

331

The Impostor vs The Beginner Syndrome (And Why They're Not The Same)

332

How to be a source of inspiration to others

333

The 21-Day Habit Myth (and how you can create a habit in minutes, instead)

334

Habit Change? 3 Unusual Angles on how to look at habit transformation

335

Rerun: How to Research An Article (Without Killing Your Productivity)

336

Rerun: Coaching Series: How to Start Up with a Great Niche

337

Rerun: Why You Should Ignore Your Competition

338

Rerun: Mental Barriers That Slow You Down (And Derail Your Progress)

339

Rerun: Why The "End In Mind" Principle Can Severely Impede Our Learning and Progress

340

Presell Strategy: Some Unusual Questions

341

Pre-sell Strategy: How to strategically tackle promotion of products and services

342

How I cope with my information overload (and manage to keep sane)

343

How to be a non-mediocre coach

344

Fun Ways To Get Unstuck (When Creating Content)

345

Why The Top-Half of the Sales Page Goes Wrong (And How to Fix It)

346

Why Writing a Fixed Number of Words Every Day Could Be Hindering Your Writing Progress

347

Can We Really Systemise Luck? (Or Do We Continue to Depend Upon Hard Work)

348

Hard work vs Luck: Which one is more dependable?

349

How to Create Intensely Catchy Book Names (Without Too Much of a Struggle)

350

How to avoid embarrassing time overruns when making presentations

351

Coolest Transcription Service (That Even Detects Punctuation)

352

Stories of Failure (Filos Moments)

353

How To Overcome the Impostor Syndrome (By Understanding The Psychology of How it Works)

354

How to De-Stress with the "Second-Last-Minute Deadline"

355

The Magic of Set Up: Why Some Courses Are Better Than Others

356

How to Accelerate Client Learning (And The Suprising Power of Fun) Part 2

357

How to Accelerate Client Learning (Using Spaced Repetition) Part 1

358

How To Use Contrast To Create Your Uniqueness In Seconds

359

How to Stop "Perfectionist" Clients From Sabotaging Their Own Success

360

How do you incentivise clients to finish a course?

361

How to Validate Your Uniqueness with Testimonials

362

Company of One: Why Staying Small Is Smart, Book Review, Part 2

363

Why Staying Small is Probably A Smarter Move, Book Review, Part 1

364

How WhatsApp Helped Fill The Munich Workshop

365

Announcement: Frankfurt Meetup Details - May 2019

366

Are You Tempted to Use Hype? How to Avoid Hype and Still Get Clients

367

When Quitting Is the Smarter Option (Instead of Just Hanging On)

368

The Philosophy of Psychotactics - Part Two

369

The Crazy Philosophy Of Psychotactics (And Why It May Help You In Your Business) - Part One

370

How To Sell A Product When There's No Scarcity Factor

371

Persistent Myths of Pricing (And How To Overcome Them) - Part One

372

Mental Barriers That Slow You Down (And Derail Your Progress)

373

How To Thrive and Succeed In The Midst Of Chaos

374

How To Achieve A Lot—The Three Part Formula

375

Three Steps To Getting Your Uniqueness Recognised

376

How to Avoid Gaping Holes in Your Article Writing (and How Objections Fill Those Gaps)

377

Coaching Series: Why Clients Nod But Don't Call - Part Three

378

Coaching Series: How Niches Can Easily Be Found in Recurring Client Problems - Part Two

379

Coaching Series: How To Start Up With A Great Niche - Part One

380

Writer's Block Series: How a Lack of Energy, Not Time, Causes Writers to Stall and Crash - Part Four

381

Writer's Block Series: Why Discussion and Feedback Are A Writer's Secret Weapon (And How Professionals Use it to Their Advantage) - Part Three

382

Writer's Block Series: Why Cross Pollination of Ideas, Media and Styles Are Crucial (And Avoids Shutdowns When Writing) - Part Two

383

Writer's Block Series : Why the Lack of Outlines Even Stops Professional Writers In Their Tracks - Part One

384

Want To Get Paid A Lot In Advance? Three Methods To Get Paid Earlier

385

Why Unfamiliarity With Your Research Stories Will Make Them Worthless

386

Fritoons Announcement

387

How To Research An Article (Without Killing Your Productivity)

388

How to Use "Transition Techniques" to keep your reader locked into your article

389

The story of why the Psychotactics Website took three long years—and a month—to complete

390

The Cannibalisation Strategy: Why You Need to Make Your Products (And Services) Redundant

391

Why You Should Ignore Your Competition

392

"Pit Stop" Testimonials: How to Ensure Testimonials (even when your product or service isn't quite ready)

393

Why The "End In Mind" Principle Can Severely Impede Our Learning and Progress

394

How to Ramp up Curiosity Using a Controversial Topic - Part Two

395

How to Ramp Up Curiosity (Even When Using a Controversial Topic) - Part One

396

Why "Elegance" not "Information" Creates an Addictive Business Model

397

The Overwhelm Virus: How To Get It Out of Your Daily Routine

398

Why Onboarding is Crucial (And Most Companies Ignore It)

399

Four Recurring Testimonial Mysteries (And How To Solve Them)

400

Why Giving is Rushed (And How to Make Gifting More Deliberate)

401

How To Work With Chaos (and Succeed)

402

Can You Successfully Defend Your Work Against Criticism? (Lessons from Malcolm Gladwell - Part Three)

403

How To Choose Evocative Titles for your Book (Lessons from Malcolm Gladwell - Part Two)

404

How to Get Precise Feedback for your Articles (Lessons from Malcolm Gladwell - Part One)

405

How To Use Momentum To Your Advantage

406

Demystifying the 4am Routine

407

Why Clients Shy Away From Giving Feedback Despite Liking Your Products and Services

408

How To Create A Uniqueness That's Difficult For Competition To Replicate

409

Why Smaller Lists Work Just As Well As Big Ones - Part Three

410

Why Smaller Lists Work Just As Well As Big Ones - Part Two

411

Why Smaller Lists Work Just As Well As Big Ones (And Often, Even Better) - Part One

412

How to Overcome Perfection With Speedy Revisions

413

Why Good Habits Fail While Bad Habits Thrive (and How to Flip Things Around)

414

How to Craft Interesting Stories and Analogies (For Articles and Sales Letters)

415

Why Clients Leave - Part One

416

Why Waiting Lists Fail-Part Two

417

Smart Waiting Lists: 3 Elements That Create Waiting Lists that Work

418

How to Become An Overnight Success

419

Why Calibrated Questions Enable You to Win Your Negotiation Battle

420

How to Negotiate (And Win) When the Odds Are Against You

421

How To Increase Product Sales using The Brain Audit

422

How to have enduring sales after the launch of a product

423

Four Super-Cool Travel Tips (That Save a Lot of Bother)

424

Rerun - Why Contrast Ramps Interest in Article Writing

425

Replay- How To Instantly Get Your Audience's Attention

426

Rerun - How To Slow Down (Even Under Crazy Conditions)

427

Rerun - When Landing Pages Go Bad

428

Replay - Why Energy Management Is Far Superior to Time Management

429

Surprise Christmas Gift - The Brain Audit

430

Rerun- How To Instantly Get Your Audience's Attention

431

Rerun - How to Get Smart and Stay Smart

432

Rerun- How to Validate Your Idea (Even When It's Brand New)

433

Replay-How To Write Stunning Headlines With And, Even and Without

434

The Intense Power of Kindness (And How It Has Nothing To Do With Business)

435

How To Speed Up Client-Learning With The Incredible Power of Infotainment

436

How Managed Procrastination Works to Your Advantage

437

How To Transform A Miserable Day Into A Happy One, In Under 30 Minutes

438

How to Get Clients To Return To An Offline Event

439

Why You Need An Offline Event to Boost Your Chances of Success

440

One-Buttock Passion (How a Simple Redefinition Can Help You Move Forward)

441

Why You Should Stop Looking for Your Passion (And Let it Find You Instead)

442

Mental Barriers That Slow You Down (And Derail Your Progress) - Part Two

443

How To Overcome Mental Blocks That Derail Your Progress - Part One

444

How To Avoid Overwhelm (And Systematically Complete Projects)

445

Three Ways To Write A Stunning Report Overnight

446

Why Selling Strategies to Competition Is A Smart Idea

447

Passion Projects: How They Can Completely Change Your Business Part Two

448

The Five Competing Forces of Business - Part Two

449

How To Write Enthusiastically (And Why It's Important To Do So)

450

Unusual Methods to Find Outstanding Coaches

451

Rerun- How I Write 4000 Word Articles Without Getting Exhausted

452

Rerun- The Talent Journey and How to Get There

453

ReRun - How To Deal With Envy In Business

454

ReRun- How To Make the Leap from a Job into Entrepreneurship

455

ReRun - How To Name Your Information Product

456

ReRun - Why Kicking Angels Help Create Momentum in Business

457

Info-product Creation Part 2: Double Your Sales With Versions and Satellite Products

458

Info-product Creation Part 1: When to Leave The Clients Out (And When to Include Them In)

459

How to Make Your Uniqueness Stick In The Client's Brain-Part 2

460

How To Quickly Create Your Uniqueness

461

How Giveaways Increase Sales of InfoProducts

462

How To Achieve A Lot (Even As You Switch Tasks All Day)

463

Validating Your Idea: How To Beat Analysis-Paralysis

464

How To Validate Your Idea (And Overcome Self-Doubt) - Part One

465

Why Success Is Hindered By The Lack of the Tolerance Effect

466

How to increase energy (even in the midst of chaos)

467

When Things Went Wrong at Psychotactics (And What We Learned From Our Mistakes)

468

Outlining Your Book: Three Crucial Steps

469

Landing Pages: Why We Fail to Attract the Right Clients

470

How To Speed Up Learning with Deconstruction

471

How To Slow Down (Without Losing Momentum)

472

The Insider Story of Psychotactics: Working With A Partner/Spouse-Part Two

473

The Insider Story of Psychotactics (Working With A Partner)-Part One

474

What I Learned in 2016—And How It Made Me Calmer As A Result

475

How To Get Smart (And Stay Smart)

476

[Re-Release]: How To Write A Sales Page From The Bottom Up

477

[Re-release] Why Persevere Even When Failure is Certain (And When Not To)

478

[Re-Release]The Resistance Game Part One - Can Resistance be Beaten

479

[Re-Release] Good to Great - How To Take Your Small Business To Greatness

480

[Re-Release] How Gentle Productivity Gets Astounding Results

481

[Re-Release] Risk - How To Overcome The Hesitation Factor

482

[Re-Release] Teacher vs Preacher - Why Learning a New Skill is So Difficult

483

How To Get Stunning Names For Your Information Products and Courses

484

Rapid Talent (How To Get There and What Holds Us Back)

485

Rapid Talent (How To Get There and What Holds Us Back)

486

How To Instantly Get Your Readers Attention-The First Fifty Words

487

How To Get $2500 Worth of Goodies (Absolutely Free)

488

How To Fight Envy (And Stay Motivated Instead)

489

How To Write Intensely Curious Headlines—Even If A Deadline Is Looming

490

How To Create A Superpower That Instantly Attracts Clients

491

Why AirBNB Struggled To Get Off The Ground (And How The "Biggest Problem" Helped Them Take Off Finally).

492

Part One- How To Stand Out When The Competition Is Already Outstanding

493

How Kicking Angels Help To Jumpstart Your Business

494

How To Write Extremely Detailed Articles Without Getting Exhausted

495

How I Write 4000 Word Articles Without Getting Exhausted - Part One

496

How To Make The Leap From A Job To A Business - Part Two

497

How To Make The Mental Leap From a Job into Entrepreneurship - Part One

498

The Unlikely Bestseller (And Why It Sold 2 Million Copies) - Part Two

499

The Unlikely Bestseller (And Why It Sold 2 Million Copies) - Part One

500

How To Write A Sales Page Using The Bottom-Up Method

501

How To Thrive and Succeed In The Midst of Chaos

502

What I Learned On My Super-Unusual Vacation

503

[Re-Release] Why Doug Hitchcock's Unusual Goal-Setting Plan Will Help You Get Rid of Chaos

504

[Re-Release] Three Myths That Can Destroy Your Sanity (And How To Avoid Falling in a Trap)

505

#[Re-Release] How To Make Products and Services Incredibly Irresistible to Your Client

506

[Re-Release] How to use a simple "Pebble System" to write amazing sales pages

507

[Re-Release] A Meaning of Life? Or a life of Meaning?

508

[Re-Release] Free vs. Paid Product: Which One Works Better?

509

Article Writing Advice Writers Don't Want To Hear

510

How To Create A Profitable Product (Three Core Questions)

511

Three Disaster Stories (And How We Recovered and Soldiered On)

512

The 17 Question Testimonial: How To Ensure You Get an Amazing Client Response

513

How Gentle Productivity Gets Astounding Results

514

How To Avoid Painful Clients (And Find Amazing Ones Instead)

515

Why Clients Dropout From Courses (And How To Avoid The Dropout Curse)

516

The Myths of Pricing - Part Two

517

The Myths of Pricing - Part One

518

Why Persevere Even When Failure is Certain (And When Not To)

519

Why Inspiration Can Be The Key To Winning The Resistance Game - Part Three

520

How To Beat Inertia And Why Logic Doesn't Work: The Resistance Game - Part Two

521

The Resistance Game: Can Resistance be Beaten? - Part One

522

Feedback: The Secret of How To Get Clients To Keep Coming Back Repeatedly - Part Two

523

The Secret of How To Get Clients To Keep Coming Back Repeatedly - Part One

524

Biggest Landing Page Mistake And How To Fix It - Part Two

525

How To Design A Successful Sequential Landing Page - Part One

526

[Re-edit] Three Interesting Things I Know About Writing - Part Two

527

[Re-edit] Three Interesting Things I Know About Writing - Part One

528

The Untold Backstory of Psychotactics Courses and Products

529

Why Clients Hesitate Like Crazy - Part Two

530

The Risk Syndrome: Why Clients Hesitate (And How To Overcome the Hesitation) - Part One

531

Good to Great: How To Escalate The Path To Greatness - Part Two

532

Good to Great: How To Take Your Small Business To Greatness - Part One

533

[Re-release] How to Stop Clients In Their Tracks With Riveting Business Storytelling

534

[Re-Release] How To Create Incredibly Magnetic Reports—And Attract Truckloads of Clients

535

[Re-Release] Why Happiness Eludes Us: 3 Obstacles That We Need To Overcome

536

[Re-Release]: How To Acquire Talent in Fewer Than 1000 Hours (And Why The 10,000 Hour Principle Falls Apart)

537

The Psychotactics Story: Why We Stopped The Hugely Profitable Protege Program - Part Two

538

The Psychotactics Story: The Craziness of The Very First US Workshop - Part One

539

How To Stop Sounding Unprofessional When Speaking (An End to"Ums" and "Ahs" in 15 Minutes)

540

How "Doug Hitchcock's" Goal Setting Worked Wonders—And Why We Successfully Use It Year After Year

541

Three Incredibly Silly Business Myths (And Why They're Driving Us Crazy)

542

The Irresistibility Factor: A Complete Summary

543

How A 5-Step Pre-Sell Creates Irresistibility- Part Three

544

The Twin-Irresistibility Factor: How To Create Exclusivity - Part Two

545

How To Make Your Product/Service Irresistible (Using Buffet or Specialty Techniques) - Part One

546

Re-Release-How To Avoid Blindspots In Your Business: The Rip Van Winkle Effect

547

[Re-Release]: Is The Four-Hour Work Week A Waste Of Time?

548

How To Use The Pebble System To Create Extremely Focused Sales Pages

549

Preacher or Teacher? Why Our Clients Struggle To Learn Skills Quickly

550

Why Free Products Need To Be Better Than Paid Products or Services

551

What Does It Take To Be Super-Human? A Deep Dive Into The Reality of Business

552

The Meaning Of Life? Or A Life of Meaning? How To Solve This Eternal Problem

553

The Star Trek Method—And Other Ways To Get Over Article-Writing Barriers

554

Why Stories Are Less Effective Without Catalysts

555

Time-Crunching Software: How To Save Enormous Amounts of Time At Work

556

Three Unknown Secrets of Riveting Storytelling

557

How To Double Your Writing Speed (And Overcome The Outline-Barrier

558

Deconstructing Why Bad Habits Succeed (And Good Habits Fail)

559

The "Next Step" Mystery: ThreeSuccessful Ways To Creating The Next Step Using Articles

560

Accelerated Learning: How To Incredibly Speed Up Your Skill Acquisition

561

How Long Do You Work on Vacation?

562

The Early Years-Psychotactics-Moving to New Zealand

563

How To Get Better, Higher-Paying Clients With Testimonials

564

How To Build A Cult-Like Following By Using An Adjective In Your Branding

565

How We Sold $20,000 On Stage (In Under An Hour)

566

Why Identity Helps You Surge Ahead In Work (And Life)

567

The Secret To Getting Your Report Read (From Start To Finish)

568

[Re-release]: The Power of Enough

569

How To Plan An Ideal Vacation—And Avoid "Re-Entry Burnout"

570

The Crazy, Amazing Trip From FREE to FEE

571

How To Save Two Zillion Hours in Research (Using Cool Techniques with Evernote)

572

How Success Causes A Blind Spot (And Creates A Rip Van Winkle Effect)

573

Why "Infotainment" Creates Binge-Consumption in Readers and Listeners

574

How To Avoid Boring Testimonials (And Get 1000-1500 Word Stories Instead)

575

How To Smother Perfectionism—With A Timer!

576

Three Incredibly Precise Steps To Get "Advance Testimonials" From Clients

577

Why "Anti-Fragility" Breeds Success (And How Nature Focuses On It)

578

Is "How-NOT-To" More Powerful Than How To?

579

How To Prevent Competitors From Copying Your System

580

Sales Pages?The Problem With The First Few Paragraphs

581

The Safe Zone-How To Dramatically Improve Your Courses

582

How To Use The "Problem" To Get Attention (Without Being Negative)

583

The Amazing Power of the Challenge (And How To Fire Up Your Audience)

584

Three Obstacles To Happiness (And How To Overcome Them)

585

How To Get Ideas When Writing Articles

586

What's the Opposite of Success? It's Not Failure!

587

Book Recommendation: The Talent Code

588

[Re-Edit]: Two Precise Steps To Getting Attention

589

The Number One Deal Killer (When Making A Sale)

590

Why We Sell Less: The Root of Confidence

591

The Secret Ingredient To Writing

592

How To Get Expertise In A Lot Fewer Than 10,000 Hours

593

The 70% Principle: Why It Knocks Procrastination Out of the Ball Park

594

How To Win Over Skeptical Clients (In Three Quick Steps)

595

How To Slow Down (Even In The Midst of Chaos)

596

The Key To Avoiding Crappy Clients: The Riot Act

597

Why You Lose Control in Your Business (And How To Get It Back)

598

Getting Things Done: The Trigger

599

Why Uniqueness Stories Are Better Than Slogans

600

How To Succeed (Even In A Crowded Marketplace)

601

Strategies vs. Tactics: Which One Is Superior?

602

Six Steps to Getting Amazing Response From Clients

603

The Bikini Principle: Why It's A Cool Attraction Factor

604

The Power of Enough—And Why It's Critical To Your Sanity

605

Stories That Cause Clients To Instantly Sit Up And Take Notice - Part Three

606

Craft Amazing Stories For Business - Part Two

607

How To Craft Amazing Stories For Business - Part One

608

Create Immense Power With A "True Personality"

609

Unusual Time Management Ideas

610

How To Craft A 100-Year Business Plan: The Three-Prong System

611

Is The Four-Hour Work Week A Waste Of Time?