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May 2013
- The Real Truth About Creating Freedom in Life and Work
- The One "Boring" Habit You Need to Create Predictable Freedom Income
- How to Harness the Power of Undeterrable Commitment
April 2013
- Seven Trailblazers to Watch Out for in 2013
- The One Thing That Holds Everyone Back From Quitting
- Win an Official Paid to Exist Backpack!
- Seven Counterintuitive Ways to Be Insanely Productive
March 2013
- Four Things You Need to Know About
- Are You Getting High on Self Help?
- How to Save 12 Months of Living Expenses to Fund Your Freedom
- The Number One Life Killer: Preparing to Live
February 2013
- How to Win Your Inner Creative Battles and Reclaim Ownership of Your Mind
- How to Get a Lifetime Membership to Everything We Ever Create
- Free Guide: The Freedom Funding Kit
- How to Create Your Own Annual Visionary Quest
January 2013
- How to Negotiate Asking to Work From Home (While Working Less and Getting Paid More)
- It's Time to Make Your Great Escape
- How to Win a Free Copy of the Job Escape Kit
- Lessons and Greatest Moments of 2012
December 2012
- End of the Year Pay What You Can Sale!
- How to Create Predictable Income Doing What You Love
- Finding the Pro Within You (waiting to burst out)
November 2012
- If This Doesn't Guarantee You'll Quit Your Job, Nothing Else Will
- What You've Been Waiting For: The Job Escape Preparedness Kit
- What Finally Caused Me to Become a Man
- My Great-Grandfather Would Disown Me For This
- Basic Training: How to Start Your Business (Before You Start Your Business)
October 2012
- The Call to Adventure
- How to Get Paid to Explore the World
- Why You Need to Start Now [Infographic]
- Why Most People are Afraid of Picking Themselves
September 2012
- Reports from the Road on Uncovering Your Passion
- How to Play the Corporate Game and Launch a Business Simultaneously
- The Passion vs. Hobby Test
- How Do I Find My Passion? The Missing "Recovery" Method
- The Four Steps to Unshakeable Commitment with Any Goal
August 2012
- The 40 Step Checklist for a Highly Successful Launch
- The Cure For Launch Freakout
- The Fears That Hold You Back (And How To Fight Them)
- How I Quit My Job, Doubled My Pay and Cut My Hours in Half
July 2012
- The Ultimate Guide to Building Your Tribe
- Welcome to the All-New Paid to Exist
- The Biggest Announcement in Illuminated Mind History
June 2012
- How to Stay Hungry and See Your Goal Through to the End
- How to Get a Lifetime Membership to Everything We Ever Create (or Win a Free One)
- How to Create a Business for $100 or Less
- How I Used My Day Job to Fund My Freedom Business
May 2012
- Help us Stop Complacency
- ATTN: Stop Putting Off Your Great Work
- When to Quit your Passion and Change Course
- Are You Undervaluing Yourself? 7 Pitfalls for Getting Paid What You're Really Worth
- The #1 Reason You Will Never Quit Your Job
- What's Keeping You From Your Great Work?
April 2012
- Money = Freedom?
- Are You Riding Waves or Creating Them?
- The #1 Reason You Second-Guess Your Value (and how to stop it)
March 2012
- Start Something: How to Successfully Fund Your Passion Project on Kickstarter
- Build Your Own Ladder
- What to Do When You Fall Out of Love With Your Work
- Crafting Adventure (or Change is the Real Treasure)
February 2012
- How I Stay Productive and Get Massive Amounts of Shit Done
- Is Technology Doing You More Harm Than Good?
- How to Overcome Distractions
- If You Want to Finish More, Do This
- And... we have lift off. Trailblazer is LIVE.
January 2012
- Why Choosing a Niche is Pretty Dumb (and Why You Should Create One Instead)
- Win a Free Membership to Trailblazer
- Help me choose the new Trailblazer logo
- How to Prevent Your Passion from Blowing Up in Your Face
- 10 Trailblazers to Watch in 2012
- The Secret to Attracting 1,000 True Fans
December 2011
- How to Give Up a "Sure Thing" and End Up in Antarctica
- We made a short film!
- The Truth About Formulas and How to Be Original
- Joy Someday vs. Joy Now (the ultimate Yes to yourself)
- Stick to the Holy Plan, or Have the Guts to Change Course Mid-Stream?
- How to Fail--Even if You Succeed at Quitting Your Job
- On A Roof (Something is Coming...)
November 2011
- Stop Asking for Permission
- Burning Brightly; How to Stop Mechanical Work and Stay Connected to Your Ultimate Why
- How to Stay Rooted in Your Purpose + My Intensive, Year-Long Mastermind
- Deciding to Climb
October 2011
- Make Success "Automatic" Resource Kit
- Environment vs. Willpower
- The Critical Part Where I Need Your Help (spoiler included)
- Being Vulnerable (not an ordinary post)
- Why Quitting Your Job Won't Solve All Your Problems
- Why Some of Us Don't Have One True Calling (and Why We're Better Off that Way)
September 2011
- How to Sell Out Your Product Before You Create It
- How to Have Unlimited Energy
- My Birthday + Pay What You Can Day
- How to Make Time For What's Important
- The Future Does Not Indicate Your Worth
August 2011
- How the World of Self Help Died (and the new era of living on your own terms)
- How to Move Beyond Fear
- You Are Not a Machine; How to Stop Compartmentalizing Your Life
- The Myth of Time Management (and the secret weapon of enthusiasm)
July 2011
- Trailblazer Returns...
- Way out of hand (and a back door?)
- The "Bane of Fuzziness," a Lie, and... You
- Your Offer to the World (and how this all got started)
- Why Passion Will Fuel Your Greatest Work
- When You Need to Stop Listening
June 2011
- 22 Life-Changing Guides For $97 (normally over $1,000)
- Meaningless Dreams
- Faith is Finally Allowing It To Happen
- The Aftermath of Trailblazer
- The Radical Implications of Showing Up Completely Alive
May 2011
- Preparing to Live
- I Need Your Help, New Header for Illuminated Mind
- Change the World by Being Who You Are
- My best-selling product for $1 (and why I'm killing it)
- Follow Your Excitement
- Your Freedom Means Nothing (burn the maps)
April 2011
- How to Create Your Own Private Cartel
- The Rise of the Anti-Authority
- Ebooks Are Dead
- Screw You, I Quit!
March 2011
- Your Dissatisfaction is a Gift
- How to Make a Guaranteed $1,000 in the Next Six Months Doing What You Love
- I Want to Hear Your Feedback
- Is Your Creativity Keeping You From Making Money?
- Passion + Profit Workbook
February 2011
- 14 Strategies for Creating a Workspace that Kicks Ass and Keeps You Creative
- How to Steal Someone's Identity
- The Seven Rules of an Irresistible Offer
- The Epic Move to Portland, and an Invitation to Meet Me in Person
January 2011
- Four Things in Business You Always Need to Be Thinking About
- How to Let Others Shine
- The Seductive Art of Paradigm Shifts
- How to Quit Your Day Job
- 2010 Review; Acomplishments & Lessons Learned
December 2010
- Why I Decided to Stop Offering Hourly Coaching
- Leave it all on the field
- Overcoming Unworthiness
- The Creative Bubble: Campfire Session with Dyana Valentine
- Why Lifestyle Design, Traveling the World and Location Independence Won't Set You Free
- When You Have Everything You Need, But Think You Don't
November 2010
- 3 Day Freedom Guide Sale
- The Number One Productivity Hack: Doing Shit
- Love and Business; 10 Reasons I Adore Working With My Wife
- Getting to Know Yourself by Looking at Outward
- The Quickest Way to Get Your Reader’s Attention? Steal It
October 2010
- Inspiration vs. Motivation
- The Revolution is Now
- Can You Create Abundance While Accepting What You Have?
- Do it Wrong
- How to Build an Incredibly Lazy (and Successful) Business
September 2010
- My 25th Birthday + Pay What You Can Day
- How to Find Life-Changing Opportunity in the Worst Situation
- The Number One Reason Bloggers Never Make Money
- If You Do What You Love, Will the Money Really Follow?
- Paid to Exist Winners + Your Questions Answered
- What’s Your Biggest Roadblock to Following Your Passion?
- A Month By Month Road Map to Making an Income From Your Passion
- Stepping Fully Into My Purpose
August 2010
July 2010
- Some things I’d like to share with you
- Discomfort and Growth
- Don’t Read This If You Want to Be a Better Blogger
- Uncancel Your Dreams
- The Courage to Follow Your Dreams
- How to Overcome Limiting Beliefs
- How to Be Resourceful
- The Biggest Roadblocks to Following Your Dreams
- Write Your Own Permission Slip
June 2010
- The Three Ways to Deal With Difficult Emotions
- Lessons From One Year of Self Employment
- Why Being Honest With Yourself is Keeping You From Getting What You Want
- Introducing the New Addition to Team Illuminated Mind
- One Year of Getting Paid to Exist
- New Illuminated Mind Headquarters + I Need Your Help (again)
- How to Stop Being a Perfectionist
- I'm Probably Crazy For Doing This, But...
May 2010
- What’s Getting in the Way of Your Awesomeness?
- The Anti-Life Purpose (or your purpose is not what you think)
- The Importance of Being Unremarkable
- Why I Decided to Fight
- The Beautiful Mess of Life: How to Allow and Move Past Negative Patterns
- What’s Coming Up at Illuminated Mind
- How to Do More of What Matters
April 2010
- My Experience Eating Raw Foods
- Seven Weird Habits That Will Change Your Life
- Five Things I Wish I Learned in School
- What Must You Do?
- Why Passion Won’t Build a Business
March 2010
- Join the Street Team: Earn Cash + Traffic Truth
- How to Cure the Love/Hate Email Relationship
- The Future and Evolution of Illuminated Mind
- The Art of Being Ridiculous; or Why Being Serious is a Waste of Time
- How to Reclaim Ownership of Your Mind
- Choose Not to Fail
February 2010
- Unstoppable Passion: How to Eat Inspiration For Breakfast
- Why Most People Fail to Make a Living Doing What They Love
- Self Qualified & Degree-less: How to Sneak in the Back Door to Your Career
- How to Live Two Lives in One
January 2010
- Reclaim Your Dreams Reviews
- Kill Your Curiosity
- Art and Pain (a story of separation)
- One Tool That Will Change Your Life
- How to Suck at Anything
- Why People Hate Productivity
December 2009
- Out of Control (or why balance is overrated)
- How to Make 2010 Awesome
- Annual Review: Reflection and Setting Intentions for the New Year
- Break Free of the Sidewalks in Life
November 2009
- De-Compartmentalizing Your Life and the Extinction of Boundaries
- The Number One Self Development Mistake, And The Fake Growth Addict
October 2009
- The Ownership of Conversation
- What Does it Take to Eat Raw?
- Last Chance to Get Paid to Exist
- Let’s Build Something Beautiful Together
- Your Comfort is Not Important
September 2009
- It’s My Birthday; Get My eBook Half Off
- The “Break Free” Coaching Program
- Triple Your Rate of Failure and You Might Succeed
- The Zero Hour Workweek
- If It’s Not Working… Doubt Yourself
August 2009
- Limiting Yourself: The Key to Your Success
- Illuminated Mind Gets a New Look
- The Two Most Dangerous Words
July 2009
- On Freedom and What’s Coming
- The Death of Becoming Something
- What to Do When Your Goals Don’t Work
- Set Your Head On Fire: The Way of the Liberation Artist
June 2009
- 24 Ways to Be an Ordinary Radical
- When You’ve Been Given Back Your Time
- So I Quit My Day Job, Dear Boss: You’re Fired
May 2009
April 2009
- Last Chance to Reclaim Your Dreams
- Operation Disengage
- Get a Free Copy of My eBook and Other Cool Stuff
- Live Webcast Tomorrow
- How to Be Your Own Master
- Why You Should Stop Caring About Personal Growth
- The Future of Illuminated Mind and My Life
March 2009
- Non-Conformity, My Ass; or Why We’re All a Bunch of Posers
- The Lie of The Four Hour Work Week
- If It's a Good Idea... Don't Do It
February 2009
January 2009
- When Success Becomes Meaningless, It's Time to Drop Out
- Reclaim Your Dreams, It’s Time to Come Alive
December 2008
- Sometimes it’s Better When You’re a Giant Mess
- The Best Way to Solve a Problem: Give Up
- How You Can Save Timmy's Life
November 2008
- Kill Your Goals, Expectations and Stop Caring For a Better Life
- ADD Is Your Friend or Why Distractions Are The Key To Your Success
- The Biggest Obstacle to Living Your Dreams
- How to Live Your Dreams
October 2008
- How to Find Your Purpose in Life
- The Number One Dream Killer: Doing What Works
- How to Create a Dream Sanctuary
- How To Make Your Dreams a Reality
- The Four Secrets to a (nearly) Perfect Relationship
September 2008
- What’s Right With Your Life?
- A Year of Change
- A Birthday Extravaganza & Best of Illuminated Mind
- Don’t be a Sellout: A Guide to Staying Real
- The Secret to Happiness: Stop Caring
- 10 Ways to Avoid Brainwashing
August 2008
- What’s the Point of Life After Total Enlightenment?
- 7 Rules To Re-Claim Ownership of Your Mind
- Liberate Your Life: Put Yourself on Auto-Response
July 2008
- The Ultimate Guide to Achieving Total Happiness... Instantly
- Embracing Creative ADD and Thinking Inside the Circle
- Enlightenment is Overrated
- Going Out of Your Mind is Essential For Your Health
- The Minutiae Vacuum and Career Advice From Unexpected Sources
- 10 Counterintuitive Ways to Improve Your Life
- Think Small, Act Big (but still think big)
- 5 Signs Self-Help Is Ruining Your Life
June 2008
- Living Freestyle; Life Without a Template
- I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends
- A Light in the Dark; The Story of My Overdose
- Change Is Approaching + A Guest Post For Sidesteppers
- Recover Your Personal Freedom With The Four Agreements
May 2008
- The Biggest Lie; Our Imperfection
- Knowledge; The Jeckyl and Hyde Inside Our Mind
- The Cult of Productivity & the Art of Purposeless Living
- 5 Signs You’ve Married Your Problems (and how to divorce them)
- The Secret? There is No Secret
April 2008
- The Art of Self Loving; a Puja to Yourself
- Important vs. Urgent: 5 Ways to Focus On What Really Matters
- How to Use Gratitude to Re-Center Yourself
- 5 Reasons You Should Treat Your Partner Like Your Dog
- 11 Ways to Improve Your Health You (probably) Haven’t Heard Of
- 10 Ways to Relax Your Workspace
- Acceptance vs. Complacence
- 6 Keys to Develop the Action Habit
- 10 Tips for Effective Networking
- Best of March + Personal Update
- Transcending and Including the Ego
March 2008
- Positivity Demystified
- What's keeping you from taking action?
- Getting Things Done: Inner Vs. Outer Motivation
- 33 of Life's Most Powerful Lessons (pt. 2)
- 33 of Life's Most Powerful Lessons
- How to Boost Your Energy
- 7 Lessons From the World's Greatest Minds
- Celebrating success
- Smile, Life is a Miracle
