Making Bank

FLOW - Fulfilling Life by Optimizing Work with Guest James Nowlin: MakingBank S2E18


Listen Later

MAKING BANK is now a weekly YouTube TV show / iTunes Podcast full of #Success and #Business with Josh.


Subscribe to the Podcast MP3: bit.ly/TumblrSubscribe


Subscribe to iTunes: bit.ly/JoshF_Itunes


SUBSCRIBE for weekly episodes and bonuses: bit.ly/JoshFSubscribe


=== SUMMARY ===


Many entrepreneurs build successful businesses simply by focusing on their greatest strength—the one thing they do better than anyone else.


But how many entrepreneurs build successful businesses by focusing on their greatest weakness?


And that’s what makes today’s guest on Making Bank, Chandler Bolt, so interesting—he decided to go against the grain and build a business with his greatest weakness—writing.


A lifetime “C” English student and college dropout, Chandler overcame his hatred of writing to write five, best-selling books including The Productive Person, Book Launch, and Published.


He then went on to start the Self-Publishing School, a business that’s helped thousands of people write and publish their own books. The school did $3.2 MILLION in revenue during its first year of operation, and is today considered the #1 online resource for first-time authors.


Tune-in as Chandler demystifies the book writing process and discusses...


  • The importance of learning by doing

  • Why you need to crunch the timeline for writing

  • The 3 stages of writing a book: mind map, outline, write

  • The danger of tying your self-worth to your business

  • The importance of daily success rituals

  • How to work through the struggles of writing a book Few things are as unhelpful or as destructive to the entrepreneur as an interruption—those events and occurrences that jar you from your flow-state, and completely throw off your momentum.

  • An unexpected phone call...An untimely resignation....An unresponsive third-party contractor...A complaint from a client...


    Interruptions like these aren’t just disruptive, they’re discouraging. They sap you of your energy, and poison your otherwise positive working attitude.


    And what does that lead to? Nothing short of a total drop in productivity.


    But the thing that’s most frustrating about interruptions is this:


    ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store

    Making BankBy Josh Felber

    • 5
    • 5
    • 5
    • 5
    • 5

    5

    305 ratings