Archive | December, 2011

Do Goals Actually Help You Succeed?

Sharpen your pencils and dust off the journal – it’s time for the annual goal fest. Time to get ready for the impending New Year (or not). Corbett reminds us in a blog entry this week that sometimes setting goals can work against us. So why do we do it? For decades now, goal setting has been a [...]

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Chocolate: A Complete Beginner’s Guide

This is a guest post by Jayne Georgette from Chocolates & Figs. “Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate.” – Terry Moore Personally I prefer not more than two steps away. Admit it, you want to be a chocolate snob.  Wine snobbery just doesn’t have the same cachet anymore.  Chocolate snobbery is more [...]

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You Don’t Have To Be The Best To Be An Expert

There is a common misconception that in order to become an expert you need to be perceived as the best. If you had to be the best to be an expert there would only be one expert at: Basketball (Jordan? Bird? Magic?) Piano (Mozart? Beethoven? Chopin?) Running a Tech Company (Gates? Jobs? Dell?) Painting (Monet? [...]

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6 Ways to Become a Recognized Expert

Last month, Entrepreneur.com wrote a post titled 12 Ways to Become a Recognized Expert. It focuses mainly on how becoming a relative expert can improve your career path, help you find a job, or even get a raise in this uncertain economy. With over 3,000 social media shares, you can see how the subject of relative [...]

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Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting – How To Get Good At Wing Chun

This is a guest post by Kenton Sefcik. 17 years ago, as a teenager in my parents’ basement, I was watching late-night TV. A commercial came on in the wee hours of the morning showing an elderly white-haired gentleman walking along a bridge. He was approached from both sides and was attacked by ninjas. I [...]

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How to Bike a Century: 4 Steps to Survive 100 Miles

This is a guest post by Lindsay Hunt of Women Cycling Tips. Sometimes the fastest path to becoming an expert is to implement quickly and perfect as you go. That’s the approach I took when I signed up for my first century bike ride (100 miles) last spring. A cold and snowy winter in Boston [...]

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Facing Fear: How to Explore One of the World’s Largest Skycaves

This is a guest post by John Falchetto of Expat Life Coach. The first time I learned how to rappel down a 600 feet rope and climb back out was there, the Majlis Al Jinn (the meeting room of the spirits). My friend Steve had invited me for a weekend of adventure and although I [...]

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The Expert Enough Podcast / Show (Episode 1): Foreign Language Hacking with Benny Lewis

Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Expert Enough Show! In this episode, Corbett sits down with Benny Lewis of Fluent In 3 Months to talk foreign language hacking and how to learn a skill rapidly. You can enjoy the show in a number of ways: the audio podcast on iTunes the video version from [...]

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How to Become a Racquetball Playing Machine and Look Good Doing It

Learning to play racquetball can be one of the most intimidating things you will ever do. The sheer speed of the game, from the outside looking in, can leave even the most athletic person wondering if they are capable of stepping inside the court. Perhaps, the most challenging parts of learning racquetball are mental. Unlike [...]

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8 Questions About Life’s Hard Questions with Lori Deschene from Tiny Buddha

Expert Enough is honored to be the first stop of the Tiny Buddha book tour for the launch of Simple Wisdom for Life Hard Questions. What Lori Deschene originally started as just a twitter account sharing mindful quotes and phrases has quickly grown to over 300,000 social media followers. She later founded Tiny Buddha, where [...]

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15 Probing Questions to Help You Bust Through Limiting Beliefs

You have great intentions, but you don’t follow through. You tell yourself you want change, but you’re too afraid to [...]

10 Uncommon Habits That Will Make You a Better Writer

If you’re the student that got highest marks in writing and composition in school, you learned to please a very [...]

3 Tips To Help You Create Great Looking Videos

Learning how to create great looking videos is a skill that will prove to be insanely useful during your life. Whether [...]

Adopt This Mindset On Your Road To Expertise

Golf is fantastic sport. You’re out in nature and socializing with friends and new acquaintances. You might even be using [...]

14 Tips For A Great Business Plan

Think of running a business like taking a trip. You have a great vision for where you want to take [...]

11 Steps to Decode the Creative Process

Imagine passing through a metro station in Washington DC at rush hour. Imagine watching a violinist with an open case [...]