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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

114: Getting Out of a Bad Place by Derek Sivers of Sivers.org

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2016

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Originally a circus clown and professional musician, Derek Sivers created CD Baby in 1998. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100M in sales for 150,000 musicians. In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22M, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. He is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks. Since 2011 he has published 34 books, including “Anything You Want” which shot to #1 on all of its Amazon categories. Episode 114: Getting Out of a Bad Place by Derek Sivers of Sivers.org (Stuck in a Negative Environment? Be Happier with this Blog Post). The original post is located here: https://sivers.org/bad Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 114, getting out of a bad place by Derek Sivers of

0:06.6

Sivers.org.

0:08.4

Get ready to maximize your potential with Optimal Living Daily, the podcast that brings you the

0:13.6

best in personal development and productivity every day of the week.

0:17.8

Your Optimal Life awaits.

0:19.6

Now here's your host Justin Mollick.

0:22.1

Hey, hey, hey, hey, welcome to Optimal Living Daily or the Optimal Living Daily Network,

0:32.4

I guess, since we actually have two shows now.

0:35.5

The other being Optimal Finance Daily.

0:38.1

And I'm Justin Mollick and it's another edition of Sivers Sunday.

0:42.4

Just a reminder, two weeks ago, we celebrated the hundreds episode and that happened to land

0:46.8

on Sivers Sunday.

0:48.5

So I had Derek read his own content to you.

0:51.0

So if you want to hear his voice and have him read you stuff instead of me, check out

0:55.1

Episode 100 and all episodes that week because I had a bunch of different authors read

0:59.8

their stuff to you, including the minimalist, Kate Flanders of Blondon a Budget and more.

1:05.5

In speaking of the minimalist, I just gave away their book, Minimalism Live A Meaningful

1:09.0

Life to a lucky winner on my weekly email list.

1:12.5

And you can have a chance to win next if you're part of the OLD family.

1:16.4

Just totally free to join, just text the word Optimal to the number 44222 to get in.

1:22.2

That's Optimal to the number 44222 or you can visit oldpodcast.com and join there.

1:29.8

You'll not only have a chance to win books but also get a free automated Excel spreadsheet,

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