My good friend, Ken McArthur is standing in a circus tent today
asking 2,000 people to spread a message of hope to teenagers who
don’t think that life is worth living.
I think it’s a great message of hope for anyone and would love to
see all of my readers think about spreading it today.
Here’s Ken’s simple message for [...]

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I did something unusual on Twitter yesterday.
I posted an affiliate link. To a sales page. This one:
“This 200% guarantee looks interesting!
http://tinyurl.com/4zwzy8 (aff link)”
One lady who was following me didn’t like it. She wrote:
” @drmani Allow me to unfollow you… twitter is
not a place for links to sales pages. At least
not in my [...]

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I’m midway through the process of deleting over 3,500 subscribers from my email list.
And paused to share some thoughts about WHY I’m doing this.
1. “They May Buy Sometime” is a myth
We’ve all heard it. A silent subscriber turns into a multi-thousand dollar spender after years of receiving your valuable content and insight [...]

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On September 12th, 2008, I did a 24-hour non-stop Twitter marathon to raise awareness and funds for congenital heart defects. The Heart Kids Tweetathon raised a little over $5,600 during the event (you can donate here, if you wish) and reached an audience of thousands with the message of Congenital Heart Disease awareness.
Here are [...]

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Passion, Purpose and Persistence
The 3 P’s can crown the result of any venture with glory.
Combined with a community or tribe, and energized by a common, shared set of values, goals and principles, their power becomes magnified many times.
Change - useful, meaningful change - becomes not just possible. It becomes inevitable.
You are a part of [...]

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What I’ve shared with you over the course of this event intially started out as a series of notes for a new book.
You have read the kernel of it. What it needs is for parts to be fleshed out and expanded, as well as a few more ‘case studies’ from guest contributors.
Here’s what I’m [...]

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The insights I’ve shared with you are mainly self-realized. In the course of an amazing, tiring, often scary and even agonizingly painful journey as fund raiser and CHD evangelist.
The 3 P’s have fuelled and sustained my decade long effort to help fund heart operations for under-privileged Indian children who have no chance of affording [...]

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I’ve poured out my heart, sharing my thoughts, views and opinions about passion, purpose and persistence, and about how it has played a central role in my work with children fighting congenital heart disease.
Now it’s your turn to let me know what YOU think.
Did you find the content I shared interesting or useful?
Do you agree [...]

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I’ll try and put it all into a nutshell.
PASSION is what underlies every great venture… in business, in charity, in love, and in life.
It fuels and energizes you to reach greater heights than you ever imagined possible. It is transmitted to others in your sphere of influence. It spreads and transforms everyone it [...]

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Blind adherence to any dictum is not good sense.
Persistence is good. But it also has to be purposeful.
If sticking on with what you’re doing is bringing no one any benefit, but is instead harming many, then going on just for the sake of being persistent isn’t quite right.
Unless there is a purpose behind your [...]

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