Comments on: Annual Review: 2009 Business Lessons

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:53:36 +0000

2010 is the year I dress up as a cockroach and hit US college campuses in all 50 states to promote my line of literary t-shirts (it makes sense). Finding those 1,000 True Fans one at a time. I’m in the middle of setting my goals for the year and your articles are (and were 6 months ago) a great resource. Thanks!

By: Skip

Skip — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:08:33 +0000

This is a great series of articles and really neat to read about.

One thing that I really valued last year was the writing contest you held. By participating in that it helped me more clearly define what I did and want to do. So, thanks and please do another or some other sort of contest.

In general keep it up dude and I ditto the “manvsdebt” or Baker comment about being excited for your new line of guides.

Lastly, let me/us know if you do a New England/Boston meet up.

By: Tanner Maluchnik

Tanner Maluchnik — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:32:15 +0000

First time posting and love the site Chris! I have some big goals set up for 2010. I am just about complete with the design of my blog and currently have 14 goals set for 2010. Some of them are deadlined during June and some of them are deadlined for the 31st of December. I am really excited and have been putting in about 16 hours a day designing, researching, reading, getting set to start publishing my content.

I do look forward to your online communities!

By: Andrew Lightheart

Andrew Lightheart — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:01:39 +0000

Chris

Just in case you’re wondering, this is totally useful.

Partly for the content of what you’ve been doing, and partly just as a continuing example of someone doing it his own way.

Just remembering my path to you (Seth), which lead me to your e-book, which lead me to Havi, which lead me to Naomi, then to Charlie, and Pam and …

Oh, and my new blog, which I’m *loving*!

Looking forward to your stuff in 2010.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:50:56 +0000

Chris, so glad to read your recap and about the business efforts, it gave me a background I didn’t have with you before. I want to thank you for the responses you’ve given me in the past 6 months, glad to hear you are growing…yet staying purposely agile and small. In 2009 I decided to relentlessly pursue creating my lifestyle and financial freedom on my own terms.

I changed how I do things in my life rather dramatically, downsized a lot of material belongings (today just so happens to be one of my monthly minimizing days), and have taken on more than just being an opportunistic wheeler and dealer…I’ve taken on a business mindset. I created a community to chart my lifestyle design experience at thelifedesignproject.com and am building out a homebase at itarsenal.com to speak my IT mind, be a resource, and build products and services.

2010 is going to be about getting my hands dirty with a business purpose, seeing reality in income and planning some big learning adventures. Thanks

By: krys kirkpatrick

krys kirkpatrick — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:15:30 +0000

I really enjoy all your posts. I have been following you for a while now.

I have a successful business started with my sister, 24 years ago. Bunnies By The Bay. I am trying to pursue my own artistic expression now. With your great advice, I have a blog and I am dabbling in social networking. I feel as if I am starting over, which is exciting and rewarding in itself. I do know, things happen when they are meant to happen. Keep up the great work.

By: Tony Sturtevant

Tony Sturtevant — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:11:51 +0000

I have really appreciated your work and it has made a big difference for me, I have found that using your wisdom has been really useful, so I am eager for more. I concur with your ideas about sticking to what feels right to you. This concept reminds me of a an idea from Tony Buzan’s Lessons from the Art of Juggling. He believes that when people are trying to learn to juggle, they often slow down their learning by focusing on catching every throw, which means that they are reinforcing bad throwing, making staying in balance difficult. Rather than this, he suggests that people let the bad throws fall and only catch those throws which come right to their hand, meaning they are not chasing balls, so that the next throws are not compensating and the juggling can get to the rhythm that is needed for the right flow. The lesson for this to me is similar to your conclusion of keeping to what feels right, catching rather chasing.

By: Mark Lynch

Mark Lynch — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:19:54 +0000

Hey Chris,

I just wanted to say I appreciate your straight forward honesty about everything you do. I think that is so rare in the world today, it’s very refreshing. Keep up the good work! See you on the road somewhere…

Cheers,
Mark
*with the five kids in LA

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:55:58 +0000

Congratulations on having such a good year, Chris! I’m very much looking forward to your new projects – they sound fabulous & definitely like something I’d like to participate in.

2009 was kind of a rough year in our household, but I’m planning out 2010 and hoping/thinking it’ll be much better.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:50:43 +0000

Your posts always inspire me and push me to be more focused on doing what I do best. Thank you so much for being a pioneer in many ways. I look forward to learning more from you in 2010.