Not too long ago a publishing agent wrote to me from the UK seeking to know if I could write for a US publisher “for global electronic distribution at very lucrative terms.” Among the books the US publisher was looking for was a short guide of 3,000 to 5,000 words. I pinched myself. How did I move from an unknown back-office banker just a few years ago to a thought leader operating in seven

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  Don’t live your life like a lot of people who live not to offend anyone. In other words, they live to please others. They want to blend in.  They don’t want to stand out. That is what I mean by tiptoeing into life. Don’t tiptoe into life, make a splash, and a big one for that matter! Like Mohammad Ali: “I’m the greatest.” Like Martin Luther King Jr., “I have a dream.” Like JFK,

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