Last month on Twitter, a fellow named Alex Tsel observed about me:
I don’t how and why but you might be one of the most misunderstood people in our space… Unless it’s on purpose ?
If that’s true (and that is for others to decide, not me), then it’s not as if it ain’t my own fault. I’m a walking contradiction in a lot of ways. Which is why everything I say, do, teach, say should always be taken with a big, fat block of salt.
For example, I have:
- written 9 novels, yet don’t read fiction
- penned 10k+ pages of books/8k+ emails so far, yet still can’t spell to save my life
- hosted 237 podcasts, have done hundreds of hours of audio work, yet suck at pronunciation, and constantly butcher the language
- spoken at many events, masterminds, etc… yet I shun people
- sell a single video course for $2500, but absolutely loathe video, and will not rest until the internet to goes back to plain text
- have a coaching program, but have never hired a coach in my life in the business, marketing, copywriting, email, sales arena
- love being around my child, don’t like being around anyone else’s children
And that’s just a few contradictions.
Which should give anyone hope that whatever they want to do, they can…
Here are some more:
- Despise MLM, yet I enjoy teaching lessons I learned from people I respect in that industry
- Own a SaaS company, yet couldn’t write line of code if my life depended on it
- Hate seafood, yet live across street from ocean in fishing town
- Invested half a million in a mobile app platform based on audio/video/pdf content, but still prefer writing print books & newsletters
And the list goes on.
On and on and on it goes.
One contradiction after another.
And this “contradiction effect” is probably something that also happens (not on purpose, if it does, or you see it happening) throughout the content inside my Email Players newsletter in a lot of cases.
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