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How could we modify the training to make it easier for you? - [How to get your money back from Techshop](https://www.allentucker.com/how-to-get-your-money-back-from-techshop/) - On November 15th, Techshop closed their US locations. They fired the employees, locked the doors, and announced that they were immediately filing bankruptcy (which as of this writing they haven't filed). Months ago they stopped paying instructors and eventually they stopped making payroll while burning a rumored 5 million per year in corporate expenses. I - [Why Am I So Tired?](https://www.allentucker.com/why-am-i-so-tired/) - If you've ever asked this question, you've come to the right place. The importance of sleep can not be underestimated. Improving your sleep can, quite literally, change your life, if you’re sleeping poorly. You may not even realize that you’re not sleeping well. If you're always tired during the day, or having trouble falling asleep this guide can help you get better sleep as well as find ways to make time for more sleep. The improvement in quality of life can be substantial. - [How to Shave](https://www.allentucker.com/how-to-shave/) - The Internet allows obsessive people to gather ‘round their obsessions and document the minute details surrounding a single aspect of life. Somewhere in the far reaches of the Internet I happened upon various groups of people who treat shaving like it’s some sort of hobby. Sociology might call this a tiny subculture. To you and me shaving is just one more thing we have to do. But to some people, shaving is their profession. There are people who collect razors, people who spend their evenings arguing the merits of different shaving creams; and people who restore shaving gear. What’s so great about these subcultures is that their years of expertise and trials can be condensed very quickly into a single recommendation. Novices can obtain answers that have taken years for experts to figure out. This can get us to that 80% proficiency without all the initial effort. Whats more, these subcultures have found all the outliers; the best deals, the vastly superior products. They know about the $60 headphones that sound like $200 headphones. In this story, they know about the blades that cost twenty cents a piece, but outperform the latest $3 razor cartridge. That’s what this blog is all about. Going straight to the answers, and more importantly finding answers to the questions we didn’t know to ask. - [Self Awareness](https://www.allentucker.com/self-awareness/) - Applying self awareness to our current and future selves - [Conflicting goals](https://www.allentucker.com/conflicting-goals/) - Our goals must compete for our willpower and resources. Often one goal prevents us from achieving other goals because we don’t have the energy to do everything. We try to do too much and then we fail at everything. Even when several of our goals seem to align, they cause us to make assumptions that - [Write advice to yourself](https://www.allentucker.com/write-advice-to-yourself/) - Write advice to yourself or other people. Review it regularly. Edit it. Refine it. It worked for Marcus Aurelius and it worked for Bruce Lee. I've started a list of advice or things I know. Perhaps things I believe I know. Some of these are lessons I've learned the hard way, others are lessons I've - [Podcast Episode 2 - Interview with Bill Hartman](https://www.allentucker.com/podcast-episode-2-interview-with-bill-hartman/) - Over the holidays I sat down with Bill Hartman to talk about working, learning, how to create the perfect athlete, as well as how he broke into the publishing industry. If you're not already familiar with Bill, he is a physical therapist working out of Indianapolis. There he co-owns a gym and PT clinic. His clients include kids, professional athletes, CEOs, and average joes. His internship program at IFAST has generated a number of world class physical therapists and trainers, many of whom now work in the NBA. This was a fun talk and I hope you enjoy it. - [The art of the man purse](https://www.allentucker.com/the-art-of-the-man-purse/) - So somehow you've ended up with a beard, and maybe you've even bought a swedish made axe. Perhaps you've taken an interest in zombie survival, or you really just like multitools. Well all that stuff has to go somewhere and if it's not with you, well what's the point? Enter the man purse I get - [Tag-lines and framing your message](https://www.allentucker.com/tag-lines-and-framing-your-message/) - The idea is that we take a whole bunch of complicated issues, with complicated solutions, and we condense all that into a nice simple slogan or tag-line. - [Exponential Blogging - Lesson 2: Consistency](https://www.allentucker.com/exponential-blogging-lesson-2-consistency/) - Anyone that’s ever heard me talk about blogging knows I hate short blog posts. Most of what I do with clients is force them to write longer and more difficult blog posts. There’s a problem with this though, until you’ve reached a certain level of consistency, this perfectionism only leads to failure. Just like someone - [Why you shouldn’t build a new website for your next product](https://www.allentucker.com/why-you-shouldnt-build-a-new-website-for-your-next-product/) - I’m going to start with the exception to the rule. If you are a large venture backed company willing to invest lots of time and effort into creating great websites with lots of ground breaking content or your products are assets that will likely be sold off to third parties or go public ...then by - [Exponential Blogging - Lesson 1](https://www.allentucker.com/exponential-blogging-lesson-1/) - People ask what I do and it’s difficult to explain, but part of what I do is teach people to make better websites and get exponential growth to those websites. A number of people come to me asking for help, often asking me to build websites for them, but it’s not the website that matters. It’s what goes in that website. The hard work of making something truly remarkable by simply writing better articles and solving your reader’s problems is what makes a successful website. Until this happens, website design or mechanics will do nothing for you. A close friend of mine wants to become internet famous so he can have a real impact on a great number of people...and so he can buy a lambo some day. So I’m going to document my advice for him here so that you can follow along. - [Expectations](https://www.allentucker.com/expectations/) - Most of our conflicts with other people have a very few root causes. The one thing that magnifies these conflicts... - [Podcast - Episode 1: Interview with Zach Moore](https://www.allentucker.com/podcast-episode-1-interview-with-zach-moore/) - We all want to be better at achieving our goals. I sat down with Zach Moore, coach at Precision Nutrition, to talk about how he coaches clients and helps them achieve those goals. We covered behavior change as well as his background, how he broke into the fitness industry, and what it's like to work - [How to choose a career](https://www.allentucker.com/how-to-choose-a-career/) - Are you struggling with a career move or lack thereof? Don't know how to choose a career? Maybe this will help. - [Brutal Honesty](https://www.allentucker.com/brutal-honesty/) - Brutal honesty can grant us an amazing level of freedom and power that most people rarely experience. It allows us to connect with other people at a deeper level and it can make us more aware of our own vulnerability. Brutal honesty, also called radical honesty, is simply telling the truth...all the time, even when - [The story that keeps us from moving forward](https://www.allentucker.com/the-story-that-keeps-us-from-moving-forward/) - We all seem to have a very specific explanation for why we can’t do something or why we behave a certain way. Often it’s only this story which keeps us from moving forward. We find reasons for being unhappy instead of just doing the things that make us happy. We look for some external cause - [Modeling Motivation](https://www.allentucker.com/modeling-motivation/) - Where does motivation come from and how can we get more of it? - [Do you feel overwhelmed?](https://www.allentucker.com/do-you-feel-overwhelmed/) - It’s easy to look around and say I feel overwhelmed or I don’t have time. We’re constantly bombarded with distraction and other people’s priorities. However, the vast majority of this stress and distraction we bring on ourselves because we seek out things that aren’t really productive and aren’t really relaxing. We are caught in this - [Forget the NSA. How EVERYONE is spying on you and what you can do about it.](https://www.allentucker.com/privacy-101/) - At the time I started writing this article the NSA drama was unraveling, and everyone seemed to be very concerned that their lives were no longer private. What I intend to show you is that the NSA recording your phone calls is only the tip of the iceberg. It’s actually the least scary thing happening - [Always be qualifying](https://www.allentucker.com/always-be-qualifying/) - In sales, qualifying is simply evaluating whether a customer is able to buy your product. The more time you waste pitching unqualified prospects, the less time you have to close clients who are qualified. Qualifying applies to a lot more than sales. - [Pay Too Much](https://www.allentucker.com/pay-too-much/) - Have you ever inherited something that's really old? When you held it, did you notice that it's different than what you can buy at the store today? Chances are your grandparents saved up for quite some time to buy it, and that’s why it’s lasted until now. Often something that costs twice as much doesn't - [Turn Down More Work](https://www.allentucker.com/turn-down-more-work/) - What often separates those with massive success and those that end up average is their ability to turn down work. When I did IT audit the biggest thing that separated our company from the big four accounting firms was our inability to serve large companies. Large companies come with larger budgets, better margins, and longer smoother engagements. It wasn’t that we didn’t have the staff or that our staff wasn’t as good. In fact our IT people ran circles around most any other firm. The problem is that we never said no to clients that weren’t as profitable. We were too busy with small clients to focus on winning large clients. We’d burn through staff people running them all over the country for one week jobs. They grew tired of the travel and tired of the pressure. Eventually I was one of those staff. That same thing happens in small business and particularly the fitness industry. Type A, motivated people often fail because they can’t say no. They try to promote every way they can, serve every customer, and they never become really great at one thing. They’re not so great at everything. 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