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Do you find yourself wanting the perfect answer BEFORE you make a decision or commitment? Casey Berman is a friend in San Francisco and one of the first folks to go through my Unique Genius Process.  He’s a mergers and acquisitions advisor “by day”, and joined the Unique Genius program last year to get help…

Is your website a source of frustration or enjoyment for you? Dare I say you can ENJOY (re)building a site??  I do dare! Websites are big sources of uncertainty, stress and excuses for not moving forward – but they don’t have to be. With a little help and guidance, you can actually have fun building…

Subscribe To PebbleStorm Updates via email Yesterday the Amazing Onna and I had some fun recording video, which can be fun if you don’t take it too seriously 🙂 Have you ever felt blocked from doing something you felt you should do?  I mean, blocked for MONTHS?  I find that happens to me all the…

Subscribe To PebbleStorm Updates via email My First Burning Man The Friday before last (Aug 31), I made an executive decision to go to Burning Man the next night – Sat Sept 1. I did the 24-hour mad scramble, and made it 🙂 I went up with an internet and legal entrepreneur Alexis Martin Neely…

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…

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

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

I’m always looking for cool apps to use and recommend, whether for business or personal productivity. With Maria’s help (PebbleStorm’s intern), we published a list of some favorites.  You can find the link in the PebbleStorm navigation bar, or click on “Great tools” Any other recommendations or suggestions?  Email me or leave them in the comments!…

John Girard, CEO of Clickability: “There is something extraordinary that happens when smart business leaders sit down to talk about their ideas for transforming business, and Aaron Ross is a master at guiding these conversations to help find the real gems.  I think a best selling business book could come out of every one of…

[Aaron’s note: this is a guest post by Scott Krajca, a highly talented friend and collaborator of mine.  I’m a believer in rapid prototyping, whether of ideas, tools, products or even businesses.  When Scott told me about the practice of TryStorming, I asked him to write it up!  I’ve noted below a couple of points…

What’s the best way to explain PebbleStorm’s mission, when someone asks “Who/what is PebbleStorm, and why does it matter?” I’m not sure about the best way to describe it yet, but it’s progressing. Here’s a sample of the progression… The original was: how work can be “more fun, more money, less stress” Then it was…

Have you heard of “The 4-Hour Workweek”, by Tim Ferriss? His premise: people don’t want to be millionaires, they want to be able to live like millionaires. So – start a business that creates passive income (income you earn while you sleep), that only requires a few hours a week to maintain, and you can…