Author: aaronross383
How Money Can Mess Up And Help Your Unique Genius
For people working on discovering their Unique Genius, this quote is so perfect: “Make peace with outrageous abundance. You are more likely to have a pure vibration and attract more abundance if you leave money out of the equation. But it isn’t because money is the “root of all evil.” It’s because it messes up…
Four Core PebbleStorm Programs Have Emerged
If you haven’t seen the updated PebbleStorm homepage links at the top of the blog – take a look. It’s been really interesting leaving myself open to letting things evolve on their own, and then watching ideas and programs snap into place on their own! The Programs & Roadmap A) Feed Your Freedom “FYF” I’ve…
14 Simple Ways To Inject Enjoyment Into Work
PebbleStorm is about making work enjoyable in every way: what you do, how you do it, who you do it with… (and of course, how all that enjoyment translates into making more money more easily). So while the most important part of making money through enjoyment is discovering your Unique Genius and translating it into…
Your Work + Adventure Suggestions?
Lowell Winer (a very cool guy starting a very interesting happiness-related tech company) and I were talking about going someplace adventurous to work from for a couple of weeks, as some of us did last year in Kauai: More Kauai pictures on Facebook We threw around some ideas. and I think the middle east came…
How You Can Get Into The Heads Of Other PebbleStormers
The picture is from a casual get together of some PebbleStormers in Northern California, at Cafe Gratitude in Potrero Hill (yum!!). From the left, we have online marketing and relationships guru Paul “Irish” Hegarty, social media expert George “TwitterBiz” Kao, Erin “Big Cheese” Halling, Hong-Anh “Love Bug” Ha, and Katrina “Needs a Nickname” Wong (suggestions…
Perfectionism – an Enjoyment Enemy
Follow me on Twitter (By the way, the picture is from a PebbleStorm Treasure Map Hike on Sunday in LA…hence the eyepatch!). Below is an excerpt from an email I sent to the PebbleStorm group going through the “Come Play With Us” program. I’m posting it for two reasons: to practice non-perfectionism (is that a…
5 Questions with Aaron Ross: How to Make $ and the Most Out of Life! (Genius.com post)
I just did a blog post for Genius.com touching on making money through enjoyment, leadgen and “Seeds, Nets & Spears”, ColdCalling2.com, and more… Today I ask five questions of Aaron Ross. Aaron is an original and was one of the original sales guys at salesforce.com. While at salesforce.com, he invented Cold Calling 2.0 for his…
A Visual Business Plan v2.0 (Updated w/Video)
My mind can’t process classic “business plans” (you know, the 20 page Word documents with marketing and sales plans, financing plans, planning the plan plans…) About a year ago, I sketched out a Visual/Circular Business Plan. Now, since I’m introducing the idea to my PebbleStorm “Come Play With Me” group, and now I’ve updated…
Playing with video blogs…Cabo San Lucas & Sunday morning at home
I’m playing with video snippets to share on the blog…here are the first couple: April 9, 2009: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (Cabo Trip Pictures on Facebook) Easter Sunday, April 12 2009: at home in Santa Monica, CA Subscribe to the PebbleStorm Blog by Email Join the PebbleStorm Group on Facebook Follow me on Twitter
“Thanks for making the world more of the place I want to live”
What a fun week and launch on Tuesday! It was just plain fun, both to create and share it, and because it resonated with people. Here are some stats about the launch webinar (thank you again Yanik Silver!)… …..Registrants for the March 17 PebbleStorm webinar: 1300 …..Number of people who joined live on it: 350…
If I could recommend only three books…
On the webinar, one of the questions was “what books would you recommend?” Of course, there are so many good books out there, but if I could only recommend three to my readers here, they’d be (in no particular order): The 4-Hour Workweek This book can help shake up your persepective on work! You’re programmed…
PebbleStorm’s Launch Webinar!
Special Webinar Replay Added Below If you love your work, it’s no longer “work”, right?… “Here’s an Uncommon Way to Discover Your ‘Unique Genius’ – Combining What You Love with Real Satisfaction and Financial Independence” Enjoy More…Make More…Get More Out of Life! Dear Internet Friend, A few months ago, my friend Tim Ferriss (Yep, the…
Big Aaron Update: Overload, “Bursting”, Create a Profitable Business in 4 Hours, and more
Overdoing enjoyment You know when you’re so busy that you lose track of time and days? And not in a good way, but in a mentally overloaded way? Because that’s how my head’s been the past several days/week, because my main businesses and projects (PebbleStorm, CEOFlow, DataSalad, ColdCalling2.com and Nitro.la) are all gelling right now,…
Using the Economic Trouble to Your Advantage
Below is an article I wrote for Christopher Lowman’s Moving Towards Peace newsletter, on why I think the current mess will be healthy for us all in the long run – even if it’s incredible painful in the short run. ———————- Americans are dealing with the worst financial and economic trouble in decades–and, unfortunately, it’s…
[CEOFlow] New CEOFlow sketch: “Revenue, Space & Enjoyment”
As I wrote about in My original notes on frustrations with the way work, uh, works, PebbleStorm: CEOFlow is like “advanced PebbleStorm”. I’ve been playing with my CEOFlow circles for awhile, and finally this morning they really clicked: That’s actually the whole post, but if you want to see the original, it’s here Subscribe to…
My original notes on frustrations with the way work, uh, works
I’ve almost always been frustrated with our traditional expectations of how work and corporate jobs should function (even when I was the CEO of my own company). Back in the summer of 2006 I wrote down some different thoughts around my frustrations. These trains of thought helped crystallize PebbleStorm (“make money through enjoyment”) and PebbleStorm:…
Fun with “word clouds”
Wordle.net is a fun site that can take a bunch of text or your blog, and create a beautiful word cloud. Here’s one it created from PebbleStorm. It’s no accident that “Unique” & “Genius” are the biggest words! [UPDATE] Here’s a word cloud as of March 2011, about two years later: And for more fun,…
Sneak Peak of the first PebbleStorm Webinar with Yanik Silver (your chance to contribute!) and…Elvis?
Below’s a sneak peak at the PebbleStorm overview I’m currently putting together for a webinar I’m doing with with Yanik Silver, a very successful internet/marketing entrepreneur I met through Tim Ferriss. The webinar will be on March 17th (12pm PST / 3pm EST)…register at www.surefiremarketing.com/enjoywebinar. Now’s YOUR chance to contribute to PebbleStorm I’m still shaping…
A blog worth reading: “Illuminated Mind”
People either tend to love the way I think or they look at my like I’m an alien – “Make money through enjoyment? That does not compute; it is illogical; that is not how the world works;…yadda yadda yadda…” And yes, PebbleStorm’s not the standard way of thinking about work …yet 🙂 But – you…
The Intersection of Meaning, Money & Enjoyment
Do you ever have so much to say or share, it paralyzes you? Sometimes that’s how I feel with everything I have to share with PebbleStorm. Ironically, the longer the time periods between blog posts, it probably means I have more than ever to share with people. Even I have to take my own advice,…