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Frustration with Doctors
āHello Doctor how is you dayā
I have come to see you today as this pain from my Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is getting worse.
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. He looks at me with a very vauge look on his face
and then tries to make out like he knows what I am talking about.
āSo you have chronic painā I can hear the voice in my head say NO SHIT SHERLOCK.
āYes I have had it for three years nowā¦
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Book Finished Happy days.
Book Finished HappyĀ days.
This being my first ever book has been a journey on itās own
As you join me on this quest. You will begin to understand my life changing
discoveries in a very vivid and harsh reality of day to day living with CRPS
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SUICIDIAL THOUGHTS
A poem from my book Transformation Coming soon.
FEEL THE PAIN
Life is like that one moment you are here then your gone.
The only difference is you are moving and I am not.
Going insane, can you feel the pain.
Going insane, canāt understand the pain.
Going insane, shaking like a leaf again.
Going insane, no one understands the pain.
Then you take a killer and life feels alright for awhile.
Whenā¦
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C.R.P.S is over remission has begun.
C.R.P.S is over remission hasĀ begun.
It has taken me a nine year battle just so I can live a life most take for granted
everyday and this makes me sad to see all these people with huge potential for great things in their life just wasting it away.
I was one of these people before I got CRPS always complaining about every little thing
that went wrong, always coming up with excuses to get out of doing anything that would
take me outā¦
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Feed your mind
I believe you are what you feed your mind so select wisely what you allow to enter.
Ā You wake up in the morning and listen to the radio and hear all the
doom and gloom from around the world with maybe one positive
outlook, that is always tied to some advertisement.
Ā You head to work, the boss is having a bad day so you here
all about it over and over again. You get emails in your inbox
from all these people and places you have never heard of. You
begin to wonder how did theyā¦
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How to Build an Audience with Story (From Americaās Greatest Living Playwright)
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By Robert Bruce
Thereās been a fevered interest in the art of storytelling among the business crowd the last few years.
The masters and the hacks alike are thumping from every available pulpit that storytelling is the most powerful device on earth in regard to human influence.
We are told that story ā applied to money.com/index/countdown'>salesmanship, preaching, advertising, conversation, marketing, songwriting, and blogging ā contains the power to deliver the world to the deft storytellerās door.
This is correct. The writer runs this show.
But what is a well-told story? How do we know weāre getting down to the true thing?
Libraries are filled with books on the craft. You can (and should) read everything from Aristotle to McKee to get your chops. Today ā however ā letās get into a simple note or two from the pen of a contemporary legend.
David Mamet, Americaās greatest living playwright, has forgotten more about all this than you or I will probably ever know.
A few years ago, a memo surfaced, written by Mamet to the clan of writers working on his then television show, The Unit. This little āmemo,ā as Movieline states, is actually more a master class in writing and storytelling.
Letās let Mamet take us to school, shall we?
Information is ā¦ information
The audience will not tune in to watch information. You wouldnāt, I wouldnāt. No one would or will. The audience will only tune in and stay tuned in to watch drama. ~ David Mamet
50,000 people were waiting. Untold thousands would watch online in the hours and days ahead.
He walked onto the dark stage in faded jeans and running shoes at 10 am sharp. In his right hand was a simple clicker that moved the images behind him as he spoke.
For two hours, the audience laughed, roared, and gasped as the unassuming everyman showed them exactly what they wanted. And then gave it to them, in spades.
Steve Jobs ran one of the greatest theater companies on earth.
Who cares about drama? Iām in business
If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it will bore the actors, and will, then, bore the audience, and weāre all going to be back in the breadline. ~ David Mamet
Read Mametās first quote again, about what the audience will or will not tune in to watch (or read, or listen to).
The Information Age is coming to a close. It is crumbling around the ancient foundation of the human desperation for meaningful story, unadorned truth, and compelling drama that holds a mirror to life.
Information is simultaneously too much and not enough. Information is impotent to reach the hearts and minds of those who want to run with your idea, product, or service.
Story, on the other hand, is virile, rare, unforgettable. And when well-crafted, more true than the mere statement of plain facts.
This world is far too noisy to care about your mediocre information (as if it ever did). You, me, Mamet ā¦ we all eat or starve in direct proportion to how good ā and utterly truthful ā a story we tell.
How do you build an audience with story? Itās about media not marketing, baby.
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Robert Bruce
Robert Bruce is VP of Media for Copyblogger Media, as well as its Resident Recluse.
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Hereās How Jon Morrow Writes
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Pat was alarmed when her son wasnāt crawling by age one. So, like any good mother, she took him to see the doctor.
After a long examination, the doctor diagnosed baby Jon with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). That meant instead of getting stronger as he aged, Jon would get weaker. Eventually he would get pneumonia and die.
The doctor, who said he was being generous, gave him until two years old to live.
Pat, however, would have none of that.
She ā and a cadre of medical staff, family, and friends ā fought to keep him alive.
Jon did get pneumonia. 16 times. But because of their hard work, he survived, and at 31 Jon is one of the oldest people alive with SMA.
As you can imagine, Jon is infused with his motherās warrior spirit.
The warrior with a strong voice
Jon graduated high school at 16 with honors. He nailed a 3.921 GPA in college (though he confesses he wishes he hadnāt). Heās asked for $500,000 in seed money to start a software company. Brokered million dollar home money.com/index/countdown'>sales.
Because he can only move the muscles of his face, he gets things done with his voice ā¦ and his voice alone.
Jon is best known, however, for blogging. Viral content, to be precise.
He got his start with On Moneymaking, a site he grew to respectable heights before it leveled off. He then watched it rocket again when he published a guest article on Penelope Trunkās blog.
That exposure eventually led to a gig as Associate Editor here at Copyblogger.
From there, Jon launched Partnering Profits, Guestblogging, and he is the founder and CEO of Boost Blog Traffic. Heās also written some crazy popular articles on sites like Problogger and Copyblogger.
Jonās mission is pretty simple: empower the little guy and gal to earn a living from their blog.
Jon writes:
By the time weāre done, you wonāt be a spectator in the battle for attention, squeaking out your posts and praying for a couple of retweets.
Youāll be a warrior, armored with marketing know-how, brandishing your perfectly-crafted content, sending spammers scampering by the thousands as you claim your rightful spot at the top of the web.
Thankfully Mr. Morrow took time out of his busy schedule to talk to us about his weird pre-writing ritual, the secret to climbing to the top of any field, why his disability has been both a curse and a blessing, and the special tools he uses to write.
About the writer ā¦
Who are you and what do you do?
Did you have to start with the hard questions?! You couldnāt do an easy one first?!
Iām Jon Morrow. The last time I checked, Iām the CEO of Boost Blog Traffic, LLC.
What is your area of expertise as a writer?
Iām a blogger. More specifically, Iām known for writing viral blog posts.
Where can we find your writing?
Boost Blog Traffic
Copyblogger
Problogger
Penelope Trunk
The writerās productivity ā¦
How much time, per day, do you read or do research?
Well, I read 2-3 hours per day, but every moment of my life is āresearch.ā I use all of it.
Before you begin to write, do you have any pre-game rituals or practices?
I often read Stephen King for 5-10 minutes. Out loud.
Weird, I know, but itās better than insisting on carrying around miniature pairs of doll underwear like James Joyce. Or refusing to wash your clothes like Beethoven.
Do you prefer any particular music (or silence) while you write?
Silence. Good writing has a rhythm. If I listen to music, it makes it harder for me to āhearā the words.
How many hours a day do you spend writing (excluding email, social media, etc.)? What is your most productive time of day?
(sigh) Not enough.
One of the unfortunate side effects of becoming a fancy-pants CEO is I have a lot less time to write than I used to. Where I used to spend 5-6 hours a day writing, Iām lucky if I get 1-2 now.
Not that Iām complaining. Being the CEO also pays a hell of a lot better.
In general, my most productive times a day are between 10 AM and 12 PM, and between 8 PM and 10 PM. I donāt know why. Those are just times when my creativity seems to light up.
A side note: because I know thatās when Iām most creative, Iāve asked my staff to never schedule meetings during those times. Instead, I spend the time working on a blog post, writing money.com/index/countdown'>sales copy, or creating instructional videos.
Do you write every day or adhere to any particular system?
I used to be more rigid than I am now.
For years, I wrote a minimum of 2,000 words a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. I never, ever took a day off. Not Christmas. Not my birthday. Not even when I was sick.
Is that extreme? Yes, I suppose, but I wanted to be the best.
Point to the top person in any field, and youāll find someone who went to extremes to get where they are. So, I did too.
Itās no coincidence thatās when I created my best work.
Do you believe in āwriterās blockā? If so, how do you avoid it?
I believe it exists, yes, but itās never happened to me.
Sometimes I get burned out on a particular topic, but Iāve never reached a point where I couldnāt write anything at all. That would be horrifying.
The writerās creativity ā¦
Define creativity.
Creativity (n): a word people use when they want to sound smart talking about a really abstract subject.
Me? I prefer to avoid abstractions.
Who are your favorite authors, online or off?
Stephen King is my favorite. I also love Seth Godin, Jim Butcher, Robert McCammon, Chip and Dan Heath, Brandon Sanderson, Steven Pressfield, Neil Gaiman, Dan Kennedy, Jeffery Deaver, Gary Bencivenga, Lee Child, David Wong, and countless others.
Iām kind of a bookworm.
Can you share a best-loved quote?
Here are a whole bunch of my favorite quotes.
How would you like to grow creatively as a writer?
Iād like to go beyond being just a āblogging authorityā and write about some mass-market topics. Maybe self-improvement and/or entrepreneurship.
That way, I get the chance to screw up millions of people, instead of just a few hundred thousand.
Who or what is your Muse at the moment (i.e. specific creative inspirations)?
David Wong. Donāt ask.
What makes a writer great?
A gazillion different little things.
If I had to choose one though, it would be empathy. If you canāt ride in the readerās skin, youāll never be a great writer.
The writerās work flow ā¦
What hardware or typewriter model do you presently use?
I have a few different PCs.
(And yes, I said PCs. In my opinion, Apple is nothing more than a Steve Jobs cult, and I refuse to be converted. And yes, I know that means Iām going straight to hell.)
The one I use the most is a Dell laptop with an i5 processor. Nothing fancy.
The fancy part is my VXI TalkPro UC2 microphone and my prototype lip-operated mouse. High-tech, baby!
What software do you use most for writing and general workflow?
Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Microsoft Word for writing. Iām a fan of Trello for workflow.
Do you have any tricks for beating procrastination? Do you adhere to deadlines?
Remember the scene in Fight Club where Tyler puts a gun to a guyās head who wants to become a veterinarian, and he tells him heās going to hunt him down and shoot him if he doesnāt enroll in veterinarian school?
Best. Procrastination. Beater. Ever.
The secret to being productive is finding metaphorical guns to put to your head. One of the best ones for me is I rarely do anything until someone has already paid for it. That makes me obligated to finish, so I do.
How do you stay organized (methods, systems, or āmad scienceā)?
I employ a professional nag ā¦ err ā¦ Executive Assistant. Her name is Marsha Stopa.
(PS: Sheās going to kill me for calling her a nag. Goodbye cruel world.)
How do you relax at the end of a hard day?
Like most people.
I read books, watch movies, play video games, talk to friends, and lots of other normal stuff. No worshiping Satan or microwaving kittens. Sorry to disappoint you.
A few questions just for the fun of it ā¦
Who (or what) has been your greatest teacher?
My disability has taught me more than anyone. Itās been just as much of a gift as a curse. Really.
What do you see as your greatest success in life?
Just being alive, dude. At 31 years old, Iām one of the oldest people in the world with Type II spinal muscular atrophy.
Whatās your biggest aggravation at the moment (writing related or otherwise)?
Payroll.
Why, oh why, canāt people work for money.com/index/softwarefree6'>free?
AND WHATāS THIS I HEAR ABOUT HAVING TO PAY THE GOVERNMENT TAXES?
*whine*
Choose one author, living or dead, that you would like to have dinner with.
Since weāre talking fantasy, I would choose myself. Hereās why:
If I were able to have dinner with myself, that would mean somebody managed to clone me and there are now two Jon Morrows in the world. I would strap a bomb to his chest and get him to do all the work while I sit at the beach and read and wink at girls.
(On second thought, the other me would probably have the same plan, and we would end up coercing each other to do even more work than we did before. Damn. Never mind.)
If you could take a vacation tomorrow to anywhere in the world, where would you go (cost or responsibilities are no object)?
Nowhere. Iāve spent the last three years traveling, and Iām freaking sick of it.
Can you offer any advice to fellow writers that you might offer yourself, if you could go back in time and ādo it all over?ā
Hereās the thing about that question:
The most valuable things I could tell a beginning writer wouldnāt make any sense, because knowledge is viewed through the lens of experience. Without that experience, the knowledge is worthless.
So, Iād tell them to gain experience. In other words: write, a lot.
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And finally, the writerās desk ā¦
Every serious writer builds a shrine of some sort, whether it be picking the perfect table at a coffee shop, or carving out a quiet nook in your home, with which you hope to entertain the Muse.
Jon Morrow is no different.
Thank you for sharing a snapshot of your amazing open-air writerās lair, Jon!
And thank you for sharing The Writer Files ā¦
More Q&As are in the works from writers who inspire us, and if you care to sift through our archives, you can find more inspiration here.
If youāve already subscribed to Copyblogger via email or RSS, the next installment will be delivered to you just like the rest of our daily content. If not, go ahead and subscribe right now so you donāt miss a thing.
Now set some ambitious deadlines and get back to work! See you out there.
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Demian Farnworth
Demian Farnworth is Copyblogger Mediaās Chief Copywriter. Follow him on Twitter or Google+.
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Ā Countdown Monkey Review
Iāve always known that adding countdowns to my offers increased sales, so naturally I was interested in anything that would help me make the process easier.
Thatās why I was happy to get a chance to get advanced access to āCountdown Monkeyā to see if it really was the solution, Iād been searching for.
First of all, let me explain the problems I have had, and what I was looking for to get it resolved.
As I mentioned Iāve know the power of adding countdowns to my offers.
Whenever Iāve added a countdown in the past, it has worked like a magic wand, plunking fence sitters on the head, reminding them that if they bookmark my deal or go Googling the web for a better deal they are more than likely going to forget about my offer until itās too late.
Iāve experienced huge conversion boosts from adding simple countdowns in the past so I wasnāt surprised by the documented claim of 350% increases in conversions by the makers of āCountdown Monkeyā. In fact, this increase might even be a little understated.
The problem I had was actually in the logistics of implementing countdowns to all of my offers!
Some of my offers use .html templates, some of my sites use .php pages and I also use WordPress a lot, and so each time I wanted to add a countdown I needed to figure out some sort of code that would work.
Although it took time, I did find code that worked in most circumstances but the best I could say about it was that it āworked.ā
Unfortunately, while I could find code that āworkedā the results on the page looked āButt Uglyā as I was forced to use web-safe fonts for the countdowns and this made them look rather āPlain Janeā and not very professional on the pages.
Plus, try as I might, my best countdown timers would look screwed-up in some browsers and almost never worked on smartphones or tablets.
So, each time I had to make a decisionā¦ Should I create countdown timers for offers that I knew would boost sales through the most popular browsers ā even when I knew that my pages would look so screwed-up on smartphones and tablets that Iād risk totally alienating all mobile customers!
As more and more people shop with their smartyphones you can see why this was an increasingly hard decision to make!
Thanks to āCountdown Monkeyā I donāt need to make those sorts of decisions anymore, nor do I have to waste time writing any code!
With āCountdown Monkeyā all I need to do is log into the web app serviceās control panel, spend a few seconds filling out fields in a form. (How long do I want to have the countdown run, what color, what style and etc.)
After I fill out the form and check a few boxes and press save, āCountdown Monkeyā spits out a code snippet I can put on any kind of money.com/index/freesoftware3'>money.com/index/freesoftware2'>website, (.html, .php, and any WordPress Page or Post) and I have a beautiful working countdown timer that looks and works in all browsers, even smartyphones and tablets!
Best of all they look awesome!
āCountdown Monkeyā countdown timers donāt look like āButt Uglyā flipping font numbers either!
No!
The creators of āCountdown Monkeyā either created or purchased some awesome graphics for their timers, so they really look like expensive clocks or automobile odometers.
They look so great they give a burst of sophistication and add additional perceived value to the offers they are used on. I canāt give āCountdown Monkeyā enough accolades!
If you want to blow your conversions up, and add sophistication and additional perceived value to all of your offers in minutes, then āCountdown Monkeyā is the only new sales tool that youāll need this year!
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