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A dream you don’t have to fight for isn’t a dream—it’s a nap. One changes your afternoon. The other changes your world. Keep fighting.

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What keeps me going?

Quitter January 11, 2013 • Comments

There is no guarantee my next book will sell well.

There is no guarantee you will finish your dream project this year.

There is no guarantee the business deal you’re working on will work out.

Or that guy will finally call you.

Or a million other things that maybe you’ve been waiting for.

But there is always possibility.

And this year, that is enough to keep going.

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Construction Worker to Acupuncturist – A Quitter Story

Quitter January 10, 2013 • Comments

(Today’s guest post is written by Trey Brackman)

My Quitter story actually begins five years ago when my wife and I moved back to Nashville after many years of living in New Mexico and Wisconsin. We arrived with loads of debt, two small children, and a big loss on the sale of our house in Milwaukee that we had only bought 18 months prior to moving. We spent our first nine months in Nashville living with my father, stepmother and three half-sisters. Yes, nine of us in a 2,500 square foot house with my wife working full time, our two sons in daycare, and me without a job.

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The one kind of dream that will always fail.

Quitter January 9, 2013 • Comments

Recently, a young girl reminded me of the kind of dream that will always fail.

I was at a college speaking. It was my second time there. After I was finished, she came up to me and told me something.

She said, “After I read your book Quitter, I changed my major. My parents always told me I had to be one way, and so I thought that was true. So I started chasing their dream instead of mine. I was miserable. I spent the last year in my new major. I’m happy now. Tell everyone not to chase someone else’s dream.”

So today I am.

That’s the one kind of dream that will always fail. You can’t spend your life chasing your mom’s dream. Or your dad’s dream, or a professor’s dream.

You were designed with something unique to you.

And in thinking about that challenge, I ran into a song that seemed to provide a soundtrack to this moment.

The next time you’re tempted to live up to someone else’s expectation of how you should be, I hope you’ll remember to fight.

2 words the world needs.

Quitter January 8, 2013 • Comments

The worst place to write a book in Franklin, Tennessee is Starbucks. There are approximately 14 people who live in this town, and we all know each other. So if you want to make sure someone will distract you from doing something you’re afraid of doing, like writing a book, then write your book in Starbucks. Plus, you’ll get to look all writery with your Mac and your moleskine notebook, the Mac of all notebooks.

The second worse place to write a book is the public library. For one thing, the weekday crowd at a library is a little squirrely. You are instantly overwhelmed with the thought, “What are all these people doing at the library at 10 AM on a Tuesday?” Once you work through this thought (they’re old, unemployed, weird or a potpourri of all three), you’ll be hit with a second wave of thought, and this one stings a little.

“Does the world really need another book?”

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Go Pro Goes Awesome.

Misc January 7, 2013 • Comments

UPDATE: Looks like the guy who posted this video removed it, which is a shame because it was awesome.

This video is the best use of a go pro camera I have ever seen.

Prepare to be delighted.

44 “punch the new year in the face” songs.

Quitter January 5, 2013 • Comments

This is the soundtrack we created for the last Quitter Conference.

It was awesome and befitting a new year and a new dream and a new day.

What song gets you fired up?

  1. Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
  2. Snow Patrol – Just Say Yes
  3. Mike Doughty – 27 Jennifers
  4. The Cure – Friday I’m in Love
  5. Gavin Degraw – I Don’t Want To Be
  6. NeedtoBreathe – Shine On
  7. Death Cab for Cutie – You Are a Tourist
  8. Brett Dennen – Sydney (I’ll Come Running)
  9. Gomez – See the World
  10. Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
  11. Imagine Dragons – It’s Time
  12. Aqualung – Something to Believe In
  13. Dexter Freebish – Leaving Town
  14. Young the Giant – My Body
  15. The Dunwells – I Could Be a King
  16. The Apache Relay – American Nomad
  17. Toad the Wet Sprocket – Walk on the Ocean
  18. Jesus Jones – Right Here Right Now
  19. The Lumineers – Ho Hey
  20. NeedtoBreathe – Something Beautiful
  21. INXS – New Sensation
  22. Phoenix – 1901
  23. The Pushstars – Everything Shines
  24. David Gray – First Chance
  25. Train – Drops of Jupiter
  26. David Gray – Babylon
  27. Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way
  28. The Gabe Dixon Band – All Will Be Well (Live at World Café)
  29. One Republic – Secrets
  30. Bob Schneider – 40 Dogs (Romeo and Juliet)
  31. Muse – Uprising
  32. One Eskimo – Amazing
  33. Taylor Swift – Mean
  34. Mute Math – Typical
  35. Mumford & Sons – Roll Away Your Stone
  36. NeedtoBreathe – Lay em’ Down
  37. Oasis – Wonderwall
  38. RUN DMC – My Adidas
  39. Zero 7 – In the Waiting Line
  40. Rob Dougan – Clubbed to Death Kurayamino
  41. Fatboy Slim – Praise You
  42. Chemical Brothers – Block Rocking Beats
  43. Moby – Honey
  44. Peter Bjorn and John – Young Folks