The Three Month Vacation Podcast

Four Super-Cool Travel Tips (That Save a Lot of Bother)

28 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you sleep in an exceedingly noisy environment? How do you beat jet lag? These are some of the questions we've had for years. This episode shows...

Rerun - Why Contrast Ramps Interest in Article Writing

19 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What is the hallmark of great content? When you start writing articles, you get advice from all sides. But there's advice you don't want to hear. It's...

Replay- How To Instantly Get Your Audience's Attention

12 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Which is the most frustrating part of an article? Yes, it's the First Fifty Words. We get so stuck at the starting point that it's almost impossible t...

Rerun - How To Slow Down (Even Under Crazy Conditions)

12 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere This is an elaboration/review of the book by Pico Iyer. How do you slow down? What do you mean by go...

Rerun - When Landing Pages Go Bad

05 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Why do some landing pages work while others fail? The core of a landing page lies in picking a target profile. Yet, it's incredibly easy to mix up a t...

Replay - Why Energy Management Is Far Superior to Time Management

29 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we look at the relationship between energy management and time management. In the modern age we are expected to be on the go continuou...

Surprise Christmas Gift - The Brain Audit

23 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Listen in to find out how you can receive a surprise Christmas gift!

Rerun- How To Instantly Get Your Audience's Attention

22 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Which is the most frustrating part of an article? Yes, it's the First Fifty Words. We get so stuck at the starting point that it's almost impossible t...

Rerun - How to Get Smart and Stay Smart

15 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Many of us believe that smartness comes from learning the skills in our own field. And yet, that's only partially true. We can never be as smart as we...

Rerun- How to Validate Your Idea (Even When It's Brand New)

08 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Even if you have the best idea in the world, analysis-paralysis can stop you in your tracks. You feel frozen, not sure what to do. So you research. Th...

Replay-How To Write Stunning Headlines With And, Even and Without

01 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

When writing headlines, you often get stuck.
 Can grammar come to the rescue when under pressure? Find out how grammar class helps you write outstan...

The Intense Power of Kindness (And How It Has Nothing To Do With Business)

25 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In 1970, two psychologists did a very interesting experiment called the “The Good Samaritan experiment”. It was meant to determine whether we're k...

How To Speed Up Client-Learning With The Incredible Power of Infotainment

18 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What causes clients to keep coming back? Is it information? Or could it be entertainment? For too long we've treated teaching and learning as an activ...

How Managed Procrastination Works to Your Advantage

10 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Procrastination is bad, right? Well, not quite. If you break up a project, you're likely to find most projects have five distinct sections. To get to ...

How To Transform A Miserable Day Into A Happy One, In Under 30 Minutes

04 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Some days you just feel fed up of your work. You know you shouldn't. You love what you do, but you can't shake the feeling. You almost have to drag yo...

How to Get Clients To Return To An Offline Event

28 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do you get clients to return? One of the most underrated tactics is often right under your nose. Yet most people having events don't realise the m...

Why You Need An Offline Event to Boost Your Chances of Success

21 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us dream of having an online business We are led to believe it's fine to just start up a blog and the audience will show up. Reality is a lot ...

One-Buttock Passion (How a Simple Redefinition Can Help You Move Forward)

14 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do you redefine the term “passion”? A definition shouldn't be a barrier to your progress, should it? Yet, the moment you hear people talking a...

Why You Should Stop Looking for Your Passion (And Let it Find You Instead)

07 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us are told to start up a business doing what we're passionate about. There's just one problem. We don't know what we are passionate about in ...

Mental Barriers That Slow You Down (And Derail Your Progress) - Part Two

02 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How many books do you read in a year? Most people boast about how they read hundreds of books a year. That's what I used to do as well. Until I found ...

How To Overcome Mental Blocks That Derail Your Progress - Part One

23 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Do you have a bad memory? Well, so does the memory champion of the US Memory Championships. How's that possible you may ask? But that's exactly the po...

How To Avoid Overwhelm (And Systematically Complete Projects)

16 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Whenever you have a deadline, somehow you're able to stagger towards it and get the job done. But other tasks never seem to move forward. You fall beh...

Three Ways To Write A Stunning Report Overnight

09 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Writing a report for your website can be quite a nightmare How are you supposed to put 20-30 pages together? And what system should you follow to get ...

Why Selling Strategies to Competition Is A Smart Idea

30 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Competition? That's the enemy isn't it? Why would you sell or worse, give the competition your ideas? It doesn't seem to make sense at all and yet it'...

Passion Projects: How They Can Completely Change Your Business Part Two

26 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Take time off? Doesn't everyone want that? So how are you supposed to achieve that force of business? How do you get to downtime? And what about the p...

The Five Competing Forces of Business - Part Two

19 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

No one thinks running a small business is easy But even so, there are forces that pull you in all directions. These five forces almost seem to tear at...

How To Write Enthusiastically (And Why It's Important To Do So)

12 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Articles can be mundane or enthralling. But what makes an article stand out? The short answer is enthusiasm. Yet, it's not easy to know how to create ...

Unusual Methods to Find Outstanding Coaches

05 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do you find a good coach? We've all done courses that have been a waste of time, money and energy. Yet, finding a great coach isn't easy, is it? T...

Rerun- How I Write 4000 Word Articles Without Getting Exhausted

29 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The biggest problem with article writing is the exhaustion factor. It's write, delete, write, delete and the endless cycle goes on. So how do you go a...

Rerun- The Talent Journey and How to Get There

22 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Why do others seem more talented than we are? Is talent innate? Is it just practice? Or is there something else. Incredibly the key to talent is in th...

ReRun - How To Deal With Envy In Business

15 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Envy isn't something we talk about, or even to admit to openly. And yet it's the one thing that all of us feel. We feel that others are going places a...

ReRun- How To Make the Leap from a Job into Entrepreneurship

08 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The leap may seem physical, but it's mostly mental. In your head you don't know if it's the right time to jump into being an entrepreneur. What about ...

ReRun - How To Name Your Information Product

01 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Trying to come up with a suitable name for your book or info-product seems like a nightmare. What if you're wrong? What if the name isn't well receive...

ReRun - Why Kicking Angels Help Create Momentum in Business

24 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us know of the concept of the "guardian angel". They come into our lives and they take care of us. The "kicking angel" is quite different. The...

Info-product Creation Part 2: Double Your Sales With Versions and Satellite Products

17 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Can you really double your sales of a product you've created a while ago? And why are satellite products so very useful to clients and profitable to y...

Info-product Creation Part 1: When to Leave The Clients Out (And When to Include Them In)

11 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

When creating an information product is the client important? It might seem that a client is extremely important when creating an information product....

How to Make Your Uniqueness Stick In The Client's Brain-Part 2

03 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

When you create your business, product  or service uniqueness, do you need to test it? Incredible as it seems there's little point in doing any testi...

How To Quickly Create Your Uniqueness

27 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do you position your products and services? Finding your uniqueness is incredibly difficult, yet some companies do it consistently well. How do yo...

How Giveaways Increase Sales of InfoProducts

20 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Information product sales don't always increase with promotions alone Often they increase by giving away content that you could easily sell. But shoul...

How To Achieve A Lot (Even As You Switch Tasks All Day)

12 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do you maintain a high productivity level when switching tasks? How do you get the brain and body to handle the transition? And how do you manage ...

Validating Your Idea: How To Beat Analysis-Paralysis

03 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Even if you have the best business idea in the world, analysis-paralysis can stop you in your tracks You feel frozen, not sure what to do. So you rese...

How To Validate Your Idea (And Overcome Self-Doubt) - Part One

29 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do you know whether your business idea is good or bad? Is there a system of validation for your info-products, courses and workshops, or do you ju...

Why Success Is Hindered By The Lack of the Tolerance Effect

22 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How does tolerance play a role in small business? It might not seem like tolerance is the root for success, but if you dig deeper, you'll find that sm...

How to increase energy (even in the midst of chaos)

15 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"I wasted too much time getting angry". So said world-famous tennis champion, John McEnroe. McEnroe and arch-rival, Jimmy Connors had similar temperam...

When Things Went Wrong at Psychotactics (And What We Learned From Our Mistakes)

08 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In a small business, strategy and tactics often go wrong. Yet all you hear about is success, success and how someone made it big. This episode is abou...

Outlining Your Book: Three Crucial Steps

01 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

When you sit down to write a book you and I can waste a lot of time, if we don't take time to outline But what are the elements involved in outlining?...

Landing Pages: Why We Fail to Attract the Right Clients

25 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Why do some landing pages work while others fail? The core of a landing page lies in picking a target profile. Yet, it's incredibly easy to mix up a ...

How To Speed Up Learning with Deconstruction

18 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Why do great inventors, business people, and a ton of smart people have in common? They have many traits, but one specific trait is the ability to cra...

How To Slow Down (Without Losing Momentum)

11 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere This is an elaboration/review of the book by Pico Iyer. How do you slow down?  What do you mean by ...

The Insider Story of Psychotactics: Working With A Partner/Spouse-Part Two

04 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2 of how working with a partner can be both an upside as well as a downside. How do you cope? How do you take it to a whole new level, without al...

The Insider Story of Psychotactics (Working With A Partner)-Part One

25 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How easy is it to work with your spouse or partner? What are the upsides and downsides? These are questions that are asked all the time and there's a ...

What I Learned in 2016—And How It Made Me Calmer As A Result

18 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone loves a fabulous year, but the best years for us are those that aren't terribly great. We learn more, and go through a revolution in such "di...

How To Get Smart (And Stay Smart)

11 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Many of us believe that smartness comes from learning the skills in our own field. And yet, that's only partially true. We can never be as smart as we...

[Re-Release]: How To Write A Sales Page From The Bottom Up

04 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that landing pages fail almost at the headline stage? We’re all told to create landing pages. So why do they fail? The answer, it seems...

[Re-release] Why Persevere Even When Failure is Certain (And When Not To)

28 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It might seem like perseverance is a good thing. We've been told to persist in the face of odds. Yet, there are times when you should stop. How do you...

[Re-Release]The Resistance Game Part One - Can Resistance be Beaten

13 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Resistance seems like an overbearing force in our lives We want to achieve a lot, but as soon as we get started, resistance kicks in. But did you know...

[Re-Release] Good to Great - How To Take Your Small Business To Greatness

06 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

There are two options in life: greatness or mediocrity. But greatness seems so elusive, even so pompous. How do you call your work “great”? How do...

[Re-Release] How Gentle Productivity Gets Astounding Results

30 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Whenever you run into tips on productivity it’s always this earth shaking advice You’re advised to make these monumental changes to improve your b...

[Re-Release] Risk - How To Overcome The Hesitation Factor

23 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

If you were to boil down marketing to a single word, it would be “risk”. When a client is ready to buy they still hesitate. Even when there’s a ...

[Re-Release] Teacher vs Preacher - Why Learning a New Skill is So Difficult

16 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Why do we learn so slowly? Is it because we’re not good learners? Is it age? Or is it something quite different? The problem of learning (and teachi...

How To Get Stunning Names For Your Information Products and Courses

09 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Trying to come up with a suitable name for your book or info-product seems like a nightmare What if you’re wrong? What if the name isn’t well rece...

Rapid Talent (How To Get There and What Holds Us Back)

02 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do we get talented? Part 2 of “How To Get Talented” is a bit of a shocker. You realise that talent is only the stuff you can’t do. If everyo...

Rapid Talent (How To Get There and What Holds Us Back)

25 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Why do others seem more talented than we are?  Is talent innate? Is it just practice? Or is there something else. Incredibly the key to talent is in ...

How To Instantly Get Your Readers Attention-The First Fifty Words

24 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Which is the most frustrating part of an article? Yes, it’s the First Fifty Words. We get so stuck at the starting point when writing an article, t...

How To Get $2500 Worth of Goodies (Absolutely Free)

11 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What links thousand year old organisations with a bike company like Harley Davidson? What do football teams have in connection with businesses owners ...

How To Fight Envy (And Stay Motivated Instead)

09 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Envy isn’t something we talk about, or even admit to openly. And yet it’s the one thing that all of us feel. We feel that others are going places ...

How To Write Intensely Curious Headlines—Even If A Deadline Is Looming

02 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you write intensely curious headlines—even if a deadline is looming. When writing headlines, you often get stuck. Can grammar come to the re...

How To Create A Superpower That Instantly Attracts Clients

21 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine a client walked through the door and you could give them the power of X-ray vision. Would that client come back for more superpowers? Of cours...

Why AirBNB Struggled To Get Off The Ground (And How The "Biggest Problem" Helped Them Take Off Finally).

21 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

AirBNB was struggling? Was it just start up problems or was it something else? Find out how AirBNB, Zappos and other now-famous brands had to dig, or ...

Part One- How To Stand Out When The Competition Is Already Outstanding

08 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

If there's little or no competition, it's easy to be top dog. But what if there's oodles of competition? And what if the competition isn't just averag...

How Kicking Angels Help To Jumpstart Your Business

01 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us know of the concept of the “guardian angel” They come into our lives and they take care of us. The “kicking angel” is quite differe...

How To Write Extremely Detailed Articles Without Getting Exhausted

25 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The moment we sit down to write an article, we need to do a fair amount of research. Case studies, stories, they’re all needed to create a solid art...

How I Write 4000 Word Articles Without Getting Exhausted - Part One

25 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The biggest problem with article writing is the exhaustion factor It’s write, delete, write, delete and the endless cycle goes on. So how do you go ...

How To Make The Leap From A Job To A Business - Part Two

17 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Having a vision is hard enough, but where most plans go off track is we scramble after every possible target. To keep our focus we have to have a hatc...

How To Make The Mental Leap From a Job into Entrepreneurship - Part One

09 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The leap may seem physical, but it's mostly mental. In your head you don't know if it's the right time to jump into being an entrepreneur. What about ...

The Unlikely Bestseller (And Why It Sold 2 Million Copies) - Part Two

08 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

So Kathy Sierra and her husband have a bestseller on their hands but we've only seen two of the ideas being explained. What is the third, if slightly ...

The Unlikely Bestseller (And Why It Sold 2 Million Copies) - Part One

08 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

When Kathy Sierra sat down to write her book on JAVA, it wasn’t supposed to be a bestseller. They had incredible odds with over 16,000 other books o...

How To Write A Sales Page Using The Bottom-Up Method

26 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Writing a sales page can be a real drag You start, stop, start and stop. But is it possible that you’re writing a sales page in an inefficient way? ...

How To Thrive and Succeed In The Midst of Chaos

20 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us have grand plans to succeed Yet, the moment we start there are a million distractions in our way. Chaos lurches around in our doorway and t...

What I Learned On My Super-Unusual Vacation

13 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Food, drink and sleep. That's my dream for every vacation. And yet this trip to Goa, India was quite the opposite. So what did I learn that almost tur...

[Re-Release] Why Doug Hitchcock's Unusual Goal-Setting Plan Will Help You Get Rid of Chaos

06 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Who's Doug Hitchcock? And in a world full of goal-setting exercises, why does Doug's system stand out? Find out why most goal-setting goes hopelessly ...

[Re-Release] Three Myths That Can Destroy Your Sanity (And How To Avoid Falling in a Trap)

30 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What's wrong with this statement? Instead of wondering when our next vacation is we should set up a life we don't need to escape from.? There doesn't ...

#[Re-Release] How To Make Products and Services Incredibly Irresistible to Your Client

23 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do you make your product or service irresistible? With tens of thousands of similar products or services in the market, can you use simple techniq...

[Re-Release] How to use a simple "Pebble System" to write amazing sales pages

16 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What's wrong with this statement? Instead of wondering when our next vacation is we should set up a life we don't need to escape from.? There doesn't ...

[Re-Release] A Meaning of Life? Or a life of Meaning?

09 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What is the meaning of life? This utterly vast and philosophical question pops into our lives with amazing frequency. But is it the right question to ...

[Re-Release] Free vs. Paid Product: Which One Works Better?

02 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

When you're giving away bonuses, it's easy to believe you don't need to give away your best product or service. The best information always needs to b...

Article Writing Advice Writers Don't Want To Hear

25 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

When you start writing articles, you get advice from all sides. But there's advice you don't want to hear. It's advice that goes against the grain. An...

How To Create A Profitable Product (Three Core Questions)

17 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

We all want to create profitable products but aren't sure where to start. We hope for some amazing formula, when all you really need are three core qu...

Three Disaster Stories (And How We Recovered and Soldiered On)

12 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

It's super-easy to tell stories of success and how everything went from good to great. But what about the events when you had to eat humble pie? Or ...

The 17 Question Testimonial: How To Ensure You Get an Amazing Client Response

04 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

17 questions? Why have 17 questions in a testimonial? And what if the client won’t answer the questions? The reason for the 17 question testimonial ...

How Gentle Productivity Gets Astounding Results

28 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Whenever you run into tips on productivity it’s always this earth shaking advice You’re advised to make these monumental changes to improve your b...

How To Avoid Painful Clients (And Find Amazing Ones Instead)

20 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

There seem to be two sets of clients: really painful ones and amazing It’s the painful ones that seem to drain an enormous amount of energy and time...

Why Clients Dropout From Courses (And How To Avoid The Dropout Curse)

13 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In an interview with Tim Ferris, marketer, Seth Godin says that 97% clients drop out from his online courses. And under good conditions, 80% drop out....

The Myths of Pricing - Part Two

07 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Should you lower your prices? In Part 1 of Persistent Myths of Pricing (And How To Overcome Them), we looked at Myth 1: Ending prices with 7 or 9 (e.g...

The Myths of Pricing - Part One

30 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

When you’re giving away bonuses, it’s easy to believe you don’t need to give away your best product or service. The best information always need...

Why Persevere Even When Failure is Certain (And When Not To)

23 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

It might seem like perseverance is a good thing. We’ve been told to persist in the face of odds. Yet, there are times when you should stop. How do y...

Why Inspiration Can Be The Key To Winning The Resistance Game - Part Three

16 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Where do we draw inspiration from? When we try to beat resistance, we tend to look at what wehaven’t done and what needs doing. Yet sometimes resist...

How To Beat Inertia And Why Logic Doesn't Work: The Resistance Game - Part Two

09 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Is resistance a game? It can feel a bit like that when you're almost always on the losing team. But often the reason why we lose to resistance is beca...

The Resistance Game: Can Resistance be Beaten? - Part One

02 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Resistance seems like an overbearing force in our lives We want to achieve a lot, but as soon as we get started, resistance kicks in. But did you know...

Feedback: The Secret of How To Get Clients To Keep Coming Back Repeatedly - Part Two

29 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to feedback, almost of us hit a blank wall. Ask a client to "help you fix" your product or service and you get two or three small sugges...