5-Reps: Authenticity, personal development, and salsa is technically a fruit salad

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If You Want To Start a Business, Read This Book (YouTube)
Why Most People Suck at Personal Development (YouTube)
On Internet Fame, Authenticity, and Being Good Enough, Repeatedly (Mike Robertson's podcast)

In addition, a feature went live last week called How Jonathan Goodman generates 500–1,000 leads per month using existing content. It's the first time I've ever shared this behind-the-scenes.

Next, a few short thoughts this week.

Money

Everybody wants to be connected. Few take the time to connect. There's tremendous value, therefore, in being the one doing the connecting.

Information is knowing that fruits have seeds.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.

You gain knowledge from others, wisdom from experience. Also, salsa is technically a fruit salad.

Health

Don't wait until you have "free time" to start a fitness program. Because then when you get busy again, you'll stop. The best time to start is actually when you're busy. Learning how to fit it in when time's are tough means you'll stick with it over the long haul.

After 23 years in the gym, here's the two most important sentences I've come up with:
-Cardio helps you live longer.
-Weight training helps you live better.

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Relationships

When you set your phone down at the table, it sends a psychological message that the people you are with are not the most important people to you right now. Flipping it upside down is not more polite. Keep it in your pocket and put it on airplane mode to take away the temptation of knowing there’s a message when you hear or feel a vibration. Or, better still, put it in your bag out of sight.

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No time to think of something funny. Next baby coming any day. Maybe today. Gotta go!

-Jon

P.S. I'd have taken my backpack off

Promo

No promo today. But I did submit the final manuscript for my next book this week. More on that soon.

Jonathan Goodman
Coach. Author. World explorer. But mostly, Dad.

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