This summer I’m so freaking excited to open four new programs for you: Build Your Tribe, Find Your Truth, the Advanced Video Series, and the Quickstart Video Program.

In the spirit of “this is not a freaking non-profit,” I’m launching the heck out of these this summer.

I will be asking you to help. (More on that later.)

Meanwhile, sign up now to get on the First Dibs list & you’ll be the *first* to know when these programs go live!

#1 – Build Your Tribe (prelaunch May 25-27, 2010)

Create relationships. Build a tribe. Engage. Join the conversation.

Yeah, but what does that mean? How do you actually do that?

In BYT I’ll teach you both the technical steps as well as the strategy behind each step of building your tribe.

You will find & nurture a tribe that resonates with and buys from you. Because of who you really are.

Building my tribe changed everything for me – especially as I launched a completely new business in 2009. All my successes, the money I’ve made, the joint ventures and opportunities and friendships and masterminding – it all came from that tribe.

We’ll be focusing on five tactical areas for building & nurturing your tribe: social media, email, deliverable content, blogs, and live interaction.

Here’s how it will work: BYT will be a virtual self-study program delivered via video/audios & pdfs, broken down into short lessons. You’ll also get video tutorials on the technology and case study interviews with both experts as well as regular people you haven’t heard of who have got results. I’m probably going to throw in more stuff too unless someone stops me.

It will be freaking awesometastic. The prelaunch is in less than 2 weeks. #yay!

Get on the EPW First Dibs list to keep up with the latest on Build Your Tribe and everything else I’m launching this summer.

(More on Find Your Truth, the Advanced Video Series, and The Quickstart Video Program coming soon)

If you have anything you’d like included in BYT, or anything else you would like to learn from me or need help with, leave a comment below!

Related posts:

1. Behind the Launch of Build Your Tribe
2. How to Decide if You Should Buy Build Your Tribe
3. #1 Resource in Building Your Tribe (& you’re missing it)

So right now I’m in the middle of designing and writing the copy for my new website, which will go up later this week. And, if left to my own devices, I would spend all of my time over the next 96 hours obsessing over it.

And not get any other work done.

But, alas, I am one of only two people working for my company, and there’s other work to get done.

So instead of actually working on that other work (including writing this post and another guest blog posts for MomEO), I did what any highly productive CEO would do.

I went and complained on twitter.

And my wonderful friend Alison Kramer (@nummiesbras) replied to my complaints in a flash of brilliance:

Finally! Inspiration!

And that leads us to the point of this blog post.

You see, I complain about two problems with writing.

The first is that I feel the need to be inspired.

To have a flash, a possession come over me that demands I write an epic diatribe full of insight and pronouncements on life or business or reality.

Obviously not a sustainable business model.

I can’t base the blog of a real business, one that needs continuous traffic and new content, off of random and unpredictable inspiration.

And, as we’ve all said before, every post does not need to be epic.

The second complaint is that I don’t have time to write.

Now this excuse is becoming more and lame. I’ve hired Ken Moorhead (@kenmoorhead) as my COO, which means that all of those back end things of my business are being handled by someone much more suited for that than I.

And seriously, some of the time I’m futzing around on social media or answering emails could be dedicated to writing.

But writing, or any creative endeavor, doesn’t just need time. It needs space.

When my mindset is in the middle of a project, when I’m stressed out about a conflict with a loved one, when the apartment is a mess … I can’t create.

I have no mental space. No spiritual space. No void created for the chaos of my mind to find a nexus, to pull together disparate pieces of information and ideas into a message. Into a truth to be spoken.

So, instead, I whine.

That’s freaking useful & productive, eh?!

Ah, but it was, wasn’t it?

I whined. And now, I am writing. About said whining.

And, that’s the nexus of this post.

Write from the now.

From how you feel, where you are, what’s going on, in this moment.

Because there is always inspiration in this moment.

That’s the only place where inspiration lives. In the now.

So if you have a blog post to write, or a video to create, and don’t feel like it, or have writer’s block, or are obsessed with your website or your house being a mess or the fight you just had with your friend or how cute your cat is … write about that.

And yeah, you may want to relate it somewhat to your business. Or what was on your writing calendar for that day.

Or not.

I invite you to let inspiration, let the moment lead you to what to create. Don’t force it inside a predetermined framework. Don’t think your way into it.

Because, the thing is, you already know.

Just get out of your own freaking way, and write.

Related posts:

1. The Things About Which I Do Not Blog
2. Two Half Written and Nothing To Post
3. Speaking, Bullsh*t, and Billionaires: Post-#Shine Wrap Up pt 2

Have you been told you need to become a guru or an expert to build your business or speaking career?

That you must reduce access to you (not answer your own phone, not answer your own email, not speak to people at your events, have someone else manage your social media) in order to appear successful? That you must distance yourself from your people / community / tribe?

So … how’s that working for you? Not that great, eh? Yeah. Exactly.

[If you can't see that video, go here]

What do you think? Are you sick of guru’s? How do you want to engage with your people?

Related posts:

1. Why I Never Want to Be Called a Guru … part 2
2. Speaking, Bullsh*t, and Billionaires: Post-#Shine Wrap Up pt 2
3. Get First Dibs on Build Your Tribe