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Saying No To Everything Else

Struggling to find time to build your business? ⏳

You could do what Steven Pressfield did, after years of struggle, to finally write his first book…

He created a situation with no escape. He rented a cabin, brought his typewriter, and shut off all other options.

He said, “I didn’t talk to anybody during that year… I didn’t hang out. I just worked. I had a book in mind and I had decided I would finish it or kill myself. I could not run away again, or let people down again, or let myself down again. This was it, do or die.”

Derek Sivers calls this “saying yes to one thing, and no to absolutely everything else.”

Here’s an example of 3 guys doing that in Eastern Europe and building a $5k/month business selling cartoon avatars.

Updated: October 10, 2023

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