How to Radically Improve Your Life

With just three words

John P. Weiss
Mind Cafe
Published in
7 min readDec 15, 2018

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Illustrations by John P. Weiss

There was once an aspiring blogger who created a website about marketing. He did it mostly to teach himself about marketing, and to begin growing an email list. He named the website Passive Panda.

Over time, the website grew in popularity, and soon the blogger had around twenty-five thousand subscribers. He was generating enough income to live off his website.

Most writers would love to have a money making blog with 25K subscribers. Except, this blogger did something unexpected. He scrapped his Passive Panda website, dropped his list of 25K subscribers, and started over.

Who does that? And why would anyone abandon a sure thing to start over?

Have the Courage to Change

The blogger in this story decided that Passive Panda wasn’t really him. It wasn’t what he was truly interested in.

He got into blogging to become an entrepreneur and have control over his time. But he realized that his interest in personal development and habits was more satisfying than managing a website about passive income.

So, he sent a final email out to his 25K subscribers and told them he was closing shop. He invited them to check out his new website, JamesClear.com.

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John P. Weiss
Mind Cafe

I write elegant, thoughtful stories and essays about life, often illustrated with my classic black and white photography.