Weekend Update: "A Few Cool Things" Edition
Hey folks,
Happy Saturday. This is just a quick update and I won’t be sending it out to the email list and clogging up anyone’s inbox, so if you see it, lucky you!
There’s this funny thing that happens once in awhile in the blog-o-sphere. Every now and again, a whole bunch of people will create these awesome products all at the same time and I’ll want to tell you about them, but they just don’t fit into what’s going on with Riskology.co at the time.
So, that’s what we’re here for today. I have some friends that worked their butts off for a few months (or more) to create something really helpful and now they’re selling them and I wanted to give you guys a heads up.
Every guru in the world says not to tell you about more than one thing at a time because it’s confusing and doesn’t work, but I’m going to go ahead and break that rule because, you know, that’s what we do around here.
Here’s what’s out this week and here’s what I think of it:
Sell Your Crap
Adam Baker, chief of Man vs. Debt and captain of the “no BS book title” tells it like it is. Sell Your Crap is all about what it takes to get rid of all the physical objects in your life that are keeping you from doing something you really want like travel or just finding peace of mind.
The main manual is good and goes over all the psychological stuff that get’s left out most advice to unclutter, but if it were all you got, I wouldn’t recommend this guide. Luckily, it’s not all you get and Adam wrote three additional and incredibly comprehensive (almost too comprehensive) guides to show you how to get top dollar for the stuff you purge from your life by selling it on Ebay, Craigslist, and Amazon and explaining which service to use for which type of thing you’re selling.
If you buy the full package ($47) you get all 4 manuals + 10 interviews with some of the masters like Leo Babauta, J.D. Roth, Chris Guillebeau, and others on the strategies they use to keep their possessions lean so they can live on their own terms and not be ruled by their “stuff.” You also get a month of email support if you need some additional help implementing an idea yourself.
If you need some serious hand holding for a process like this, Sell Your Crap, is probably a great fit. Adam doesn’t leave out a single, solitary detail. I found myself skipping over a lot of the technical details of selling online because I already knew how to use these services, but I got a ton of great ideas for getting higher prices the next time I sell something online.
By the way, Baker has a wife and 2-year-old daughter. A lot of people have asked me about resources for people with families. Here’s a great one for you.
Check out Sell Your Crap.
Overcome the Fear of Uncertainty
My friend, Sean Ogle, from Location 180 recently got back from his 6-month jaunt in SE Asia and decided to write a full on course called Overcome the Fear of Uncertainty after leaving his desk job last year to take on a whole new life in Thailand. For the last 6 months, people have been emailing him begging to know the secret to taking such a big leap and this online course is his answer.
If you don’t want to buy it though, here’s the big secret: There isn’t one. You just build up your courage and break down your mental barriers day by day until there’s nothing left to do besides follow your dream.
Luckily, if you pay Sean $47 to teach you this, you get quite a lot more solid content that you can actually act on. He created a number of resources including worksheets, planning guides, and two comprehensive manuals to show you how to take some pretty vague concepts about fear and dreams and turn them into ideas you can actually work with to conquer them.
Just like anything you read that talks about fears, dreams, and emotions, it’s a little “woo-woo” at times, but there really is a lot of solid, usable info in it. The worksheets and the guides are what sold me on it.
Check out Overcome the Fear of Uncertainty.
The Power of Enjoyment
Finally, John Anyasor, another “up and coming” blogger just released his first e-book, The Power of Enjoyment, and it’s the underdog that blew me away.
It’s not long, and it’s not filled with worksheets, resources, or anything like that, but it is incredibly motivating. When John sent me a review copy, I honestly wasn’t expecting to like it at all. There are simply too many “live your best life” e-books out there that make me roll my eyes before falling asleep drooling.
But I’m really glad that I gave this one a read because it’s filled with all kind of insights about happiness and what it really is that actually made me think pretty hard about how I look for it in my own life.
John’s just a sophomore in college and that might turn off some of my “more experienced” readers, but I wouldn’t discount it. John’s a sharp guy and this book is, if it nothing else, extremely motivating. It left me seriously contemplating some of the things I do in my own life.
Plus, it’s only $10. Check out The Power of Enjoyment.
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Alright, folks. That’s it for this weekend update. If you buy 100 copies of each of those things, I’ll make a billion dollars and retire to Jamaica. Failing that, I’ll see you on Monday with more advanced strategies for advanced riskologists.
Where ever you are, have a great weekend.
