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  • I & II
    • Part 1: Managing Your Mission
      • mission description
    • Managing Your Mission
      • 1. Who Are You?
      • 2. More Questions
      • 3. Tips for Completing the Activist Project Histories
      • 4. How to Tell the (Absolute) Truth
      • 5. Honesty vs. Burnout
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      • 6. Three More Facts About Burnout
      • 7. How to Handle Uncomfortable Truths
      • 8. The Importance of Focus/Creating Your Activism Goals List
      • 9. How Much Activism Do You Really Want to Do?
      • 10. Health and Fitness
      • 11. Relationships
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      • 12. Money
      • 13. Why Are Activists Poor?
      • 14. The Worst Choice: Not Having a Well-Paid Career
      • 15. More Career Advice
      • Other Needs
      • Your Personal Mission Statement
      • Your Mission Plan
    • Part 2: Managing Your Time
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    • Managing Your Time
      • 1. The Value of Time
      • 2. How Successful People View (and Use) Time
      • 3. Do You Suffer from the AACL?
      • 4. Lifestyles Inimical to Success
      • 5. Another Inimical Lifestyle
      • 6. Success Is Not a Hobby: The One Lifestyle That Will Support Your Success
      • 7. The Time Management Process
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      • 8. Time Management Step #1: Create A Time Budget
      • 9. Time Management Step #2: Create A Weekly Schedule
      • 10. Time Management Step #3: FOLLOW the Schedule and TRACK Your Time Use
      • 11. Time Management Step #4: TALLY Your Time and REVIEW Your Weekly Progress
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      • 12. Time Management Step #5: REFLECT and REFINE, then REPEAT
      • 13. Time Management Step #6: WATCH Yourself Get More Productive!
      • 14. Objections
      • 15. Three Crucial Skills for Staying on Schedule
      • 16. Seven Time Management Tips
      • 17. How Others May React to Your Time Management
  • III & IV
    • Part 3: Managing Your Fears
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    • Managing Your Fears
      • 1. How YOU May React to Your Time Management
      • 2. What Procrastination Is
      • 3. How Procrastination Feels
      • 4. Who Procrastinates
      • 5. The Problem You Think You’re Solving
      • 6. The Problem You Should Be Solving
      • 7. The Three Productivity Behaviors
      • 8. Adopting the Three Productivity Behaviors: A Process for Creating Behavioral Change
      • 9. Seven Success Tips
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      • 10. Solving v. Dithering
      • 11. Fear
      • 12. One More Point About Fear
      • 13. Fear Creates Obstacles to Success
      • 14. The Most Important Thing You Need to Know About Your Obstacles
      • 15. Perfectionism
      • 16. Negativity
      • 17. Negativity II: Why It’s Not All Your Fault
      • 18. Hypersensitivity
      • 19. PANIC!: The ObstacleAmplifier
      • 20. A Process for Defeating Fear
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      • 21. Defeating Your Fears: Requirements
      • 22. Defeating Your Fears: The Process in Detail
      • 23. Tools for Change #I: Journaling
      • 24. Tools for Change #II: Therapy and SelfCare
      • 25. Tools for Change #III: A Created Community
      • 26. Finding and Cultivating Mentors
      • 27. The Ultimate Solution to Managing Your Fears: Develop an “Empowered” Personality
      • 28. What Empowered People Do
    • Part 4: Managing Your Relationship with Self
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    • Managing Your Relationship with Self
      • 1. Your Most Important Relationship
      • 2. A Vision of the Actualized Self
      • 3. How to Self-Actualize
      • 4. Self-Actualize to Become a Better Activist
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      • 5. Self-Actualization: A Progressive Value
      • 6. The Right’s Big Lie
      • 7. The Strict Father Model
      • 8. The Key Insight
  • V & More
    • Part 5: Managing Your Relationship with Others
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    • Managing Your Relationship with Others
      • 1. What Activism Is—or Should Be
      • 2. Marketing and Sales Defined
      • 3. The Most Important Point About Marketing and Sales
      • 4. How Marketing Works: An Activist Case Study
      • 5. More Lessons from the Case Study
      • 6. Bitter Truth #1
      • 7. At the Heart of Bitter Truth #1
      • 8. Why People Buy (a.k.a. Bitter Truth #2)
      • 9. Bitter Truth #2 and the Activist Sale
      • 10. The Primary Requisite of Effective Activism
      • 11. The Best Activists Do This (Part I)
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      • 12. The Best Activists Do This (Part II)
      • 13. More on Deep Needs
      • 14. The Ethics of Marketing to Deep Needs
      • 15. On Bullying
      • 16. The Bitterest Truth: It’s Not About You
      • 17. Why You’re Not Getting Through
      • 18. The Activist’s Need Not to Be Rejected
      • 19. Corollaries to the Bitter Truths
      • 20. More Marketing Basics
      • 21. The Marketing Process in Detail I
      • 22. The Marketing Process in Detail II
      • 23. The Marketing Process in Detail III
      • 24. Sales 101 for Activists
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      • 25. In Sales, Preparation + Practice = Success
      • 26. Sales Process #1: Prospecting
      • 27. Sales Process #2: Qualifying
      • 28. About Your Family
      • 29. Sales Process #3: Needs Assessment
      • 30. Eight Tips for Conducting a Good Needs Assessment
      • 31. Sales Process #4: Restate the Customer’s Problem
      • 32. Sales Process #5: Ponder & Present Solution
      • 33. Change is Hard
      • 34. Sales Process #6: Ask for the Sale & Supervise the Action
      • 35. How to Handle a “No”
      • 36. A Day in the Life of a Successful Activist
    • Conclusion
      • Conclusion
    • Notes
      • Notes
    • Resources/Bibliography
      • Resources / Biblio
  • Translations
  • Articles

Category: Sample Chapters

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The 3d section of The Lifelong Activist (“Managing your Fears”) is now available in Spanish! Thanks to my friend Erik for the translation!

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Hillary December 3, 2011 February 26, 2012Sample Chapters, The Lifelong Activist

Featured Chapter: Dealing with Your Family

Just in time for the holidays… “Many progressive activists are brought to the edge of despair and beyond trying to convince their parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives to embrace their values. But guess what? Nothing in any sales book I’ve ever read says that your family are…

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Hillary November 12, 2011 February 26, 2012Sample Chapters, The Lifelong Activist
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