TL;DR 2012

Now that you’re officially back from vacation (I know some of us showed up last week but now your mind has caught up, right?). In case you didn’t religiously check our site every day here’s some of our most popular stuff from the last year with distilled down to the essence of each post (what is TL:DR?):

• Will that idea you have deep inside your head work? Who knows but in the end you should get started because sometimes we don’t start because we are really just looking for permission.
• Here’s 8 universal motivations: wealth, looks, health, popularity, security, inner peace, free time, and fun.
• Here’s 5 tips on creating a 7 tips blog post: don’t be lame, mythical numbers, don’t be obvious, learn compositional surprise, think about conversion, and give a bonus tip.
• BTW the world ended December 21st, 2012 did you accomplish all you wanted?
• Maybe you need the ultimate motivation… as Sun Tzu wrote create a death ground by giving yourself no other option but going forward.
• We learned a ton from launching Curation Traffic, here’s the top stuff we discovered.
• What you do today has an impact 60 days from now… so have you taken the right action today that will have the right impact in 60 days?
• Don’t tell another soul about your intentions… let them see your intentions by your actions.
• Most of the content you create should have a long shelf life. So are you creating evergreen content?
• Want success, start taking peyote and start having some visions.
• We still believe there isn’t purchase intent in social media.
• If you’re comfortable you shouldn’t be, because truly pushing yourself means you typically don’t know what you’re doing half of the time (if not more).
• Abraham Lincoln had the telegraph and you have social media… here’s how those two things relate.
• Here’s a content secret called the inverted pyramid. Basically give the most important information first.

Here’s some of our book recommendations:

• Top Sales Books
• Top Storytelling Books
• Top Marketing & Advertising Books
• Top Books That Could Change Your Life
• Top Books on History