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Watch out for these friends in your 20s

Your twenties can feel as turbulent as an airplane trying to land with just one engine.

We all need good friends to cling tight to when the turbulence hits. Or even better, friends who know how to fly and land that plane when there’s trouble ahead.

If your friends, instead, are most likely the cause of the planes problems, well then, get used to that vomit bag becoming your best friend forever.

Your friends can make or break your twenties. As Mithu Storoni wrote recently on Inc., your friends can literally rewire your brain. 

So what kind of friends do we need to make and keep? And what kind of “friends” might actually be worse than our enemies. We need to figure this out.

Watch Out For These “Friends”

In my new book 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties, I talk about the kind of friends on opposite sides of the spectrum

Jet-Pack Friends helping you fly
Anvil Friends tied around your ankles

Let me ask you a few questions about the closest friends in your life.

Are your friends taking purposeful steps forward in life? Or are they still playing beer-pong in the basement?

Do you hang out with your friends and then leave feeling more anxious? Or alive?

Do you wish you could become more like your closest friends or less?

Success and failure are HUGE litmus tests for your friendships

Then as well, success and failure can do some strange things to friendships.

Failure — Do your friends encourage you in your failures? Or when you fail, do you no longer exist?
Success — Do your friends celebrate your successes? Or do your friends try to bring you back down when you succeed?

You wouldn’t think experiencing success would negatively effect some friendships, but sometimes it does.

Some friends who supported you through the bad times, might not necessarily be the friends who will also support you in the good.

Some friends might let their own Obsessive Comparison Disorder take over, and the fact that you’re succeeding, throws salt on their own perceived failures. It’s hard when a friend, who supported you through your seasons of quarter life crisis, tries to keep you down when you start to get your wings back in working order.

As you change and grow, so should your friendships. If your friends want you to stay exactly where you are, how will you ever get anywhere?

Making Friends is Never Going to Be Perfect

Don’t get me wrong, our friendships are never going to be perfect. So much is changing in your twenties, your friendships are going to change too.

As I wrote in 101 Secrets For Your Twenties, “Making and keeping friendships in your 20s can feel harder than G.I. Joe’s abs.”

And sometimes we have to help carry our friends through hard times, as they in turn help carry us through ours.

Relationshipping is never going to be simple and straight-forward.

Yet, in your twenties especially, there’s nothing more important to invest in than your relationships. 

As my wife Naomi recently wrote to the amazing launch team of my new book, “What is the greatest asset you hold in your power in today’s economy? Is it money? status? No and no. RELATIONSHIPS and your NETWORK.”

We have to be willing to take risks in our relationships. Pursuing and investing in some friendships through the awkward phases.

But then possibly letting go of other friendships that continually take us down.

This is what I mean by an Anvil Friend, someone who continually is a bad influence or negative voice in your life.

Someone who doesn’t really want to see you change, grow, and be successful because they want you to stay stuck with them.

If a “friend” consistently does more harm to you than any enemy would, I’m not sure this is the best kind of friend to hitch your life to.

So do you have more Anvil Friends, Jetpack Friends, or a mix of in-betweens?

In my new book 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties: (and let’s be honest your thirties too), I created an entire “Friending Scorecard” with specific criteria to help you assess your friendships.

There’s too much turbulence in your 20s to have your closest friends adding to it. (click to tweet that)

Some friends you need to cling tight to. And some friends you might need to let go, even if just for a season.

Whether you fight for certain friendships or take a break from them will take wisdom and asking yourself good questions.

Join in a live workshop with me (for free)

Hi friends,

Want to take part in a live mini-workshop with me on how to get unstuck and start moving forward?

I’m doing one tonight!

An invite-only mini-workshop where you can also ask me any question you want.

The invite will be sent out soon for everyone who’s grabbed a copy of my new book 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties (or Thirties) and sent me their purchase confirmation to paul@allgroanup.com.

Even if you buy the book today and send me an email confirmation asap, I will send you an invite right away to join the private Facebook group for the mini-workshop tonight.

The live Facebook mini-workshop will happen tonight, Tuesday April 10th at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern. 

It will be live, but a recording will be placed in the Facebook group as well for anyone who gets the invite into the group and wants to watch the replay.

Also some people were having difficulties sending me their purchase confirmation of the book by yesterday for the raffle.

So I will extend the deadline until 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern tonight for anyone who buys the book today to be entered into the raffle for these amazing goods below.

I will do the raffle live at the end of this mini-workshop tonight. 

Grab the book here then send me confirmation at paul@allgroanup.com before 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern today. Go now.

This private Facebook group will also be a great place for you to meet fellow twentysomething and thirtysomethings who have bought the book, so we all can discuss some of the questions together. So a book discussion group as well and a place to connect with others.

Snag 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties and send me the proof of purchase right away.

Be entered into the raffle. Get my Signature Sauce course for free. Get invited into this private, live workshop. And ask me any questions you want!

Ask me questions about the book itself.

Ask questions about publishing, getting a book deal, working with literary agents, growing a blog, or even how much I make from books!

Or are you at a cross roads in your life and need some insight, ask away.

No question will be off limits.

Thanks everyone! Excited to talk to you tonight!

PS – Remember, send me proof of purchase of 101 Questions before 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern today to receive an invite and possibly win an amazing raffle prize tonight. 

Snag the book here and email me the confirmation at paul@allgroanup.com.

There’s got to be more than this?!

I remember staring at my cubicle walls.

At all the constant work emails about nothing.

At the dis-impassioned lives of many around me simply going through the motions.

The highlight of my cubicle being when I leaned as far right as I could in my chair, so I could get a glimpse out the window at the one flower growing through cement slab.

Kind of sounds like prison, doesn’t it?!

I’d stare at my computer and daydream about sending a company wide email that read one thing.

And one thing only.

Subject: THERE’S GOT TO BE MORE THAN THIS?! (I QUIT!)

My purpose to help others live on purpose with purpose, was burned inside me within those cubicle walls.

And on that cubicle floor! (See real cubicle pic below)

This is also when I learned that the Freshman-Fifteen is nothing compared to the Cubicle-Cincuenta

No matter what anyone else tells you — there is more to your life than doing work you dislike. 

To going through the motions. To feeling stuck.

More to life than dreading Monday.

If we wish the majority of our life would quickly pass at work, aren’t we simply wishing that a majority of our life would quickly pass? (click here to tweet that)

Doesn’t this seem wrong?

Whether you find yourself reading this from your cubicle or not, I want you to live a significant life.

Escape the Dread of Monday

I’m not trying to exaggerate or needlessly dramatize.

I just know the stakes at play here. As I wrote yesterday, I know what this frustration can do to you if you don’t do something about it.

This is Your Future We’re Talking About

This is much bigger than me wanting you to snag my new book or just another blog article you’re reading.

This is your life. And the world needs the life you bring. The world needs your unique flavor.

As I write in 101 Questions You Need To Ask in Your Twenties,

There’s no lack of “Help Wanted” signs.

We can’t join the ranks of half.dead.adults who gave up on their hopes and dreams years ago.

Join us in the charge against living a freaking ho-hum life.

What if you knew what you wanted in life? I mean, really knew.

To the point where it didn’t matter what the critics, cynics, or “reality checkers” were shouting in your ear?

Let others do whatever with their life. Do something significant with yours.

If you’re asking right now, there’s got to be more than this?

Well, there is.

Consider this a sign.

Today is the last day to snag my new book 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties (and Thirties) and also receive my full Finding Your Signature Sauce online course, that typically costs $149, for FREE.

Then as well, you will be entered to win one of seven $25 Starbucks cards and an Amazon Fire HD. 

This book and course will help you get unstuck and live on purpose. 

Grab here 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties: (and Let’s Be Honest Your Thirties Too) 

Then forward me on the purchase confirmation at paul@allgroanup.com by the end of the day today. 

I’ll personally email you back with the all the goods. Thanks! Let’s join in this together! – Paul Angone

Feeling frustrated with your life? Awesome!

There I was, pouring my heart out to an incredibly wise woman mentor of mine.

My life was going nothing as planned.

And the frustration I was feeling inside was boiling over to “scald everyone in my general vicinity” kind of levels.

This was not supposed to be my life. But I couldn’t figure out what to do about it. 

This wise woman just sat back and listened to me vent.

Then she took a deep breathe and gave me one of those “If only you could see the truth” kind of smirks.

I expected her to respond with advice on being content, no matter the circumstances. Or how I needed to suck it up and just work harder.

Instead she shocked me with this advice:

“I’m so glad you’re frustrated! If you weren’t frustrated, then I’d be worried.”

What? She was glad I was feeling frustrated?! I couldn’t believe it.

Then she continued:

This frustration is forcing you to look honestly at your life. Now, the real question is — what are you going to do with this frustration?”

What are you going to do with this frustration?

That’s THE question. A question that changed my life.

What Are You Going to Do With Your Frustration?

Sure, frustration can be a complete jerk.

It won’t sit there cross-legged, all polite and quiet-like.

No, frustration will gnaw at your insides.

But that’s why we need it sometimes.

Frustration can be the best guide in leading you where you need to go.

The biggest problem isn’t the frustration we’re feeling.

Our biggest problem becomes when we don’t listen to what that frustration is trying to tell us. 

Or we know what the frustration is about, but then we try to medicate it away.

Or we just distract ourselves from the frustration with busyness, entertainment, or drama.

That’s what too many of us do. And that’s where too many of us stay.

So what’s the best thing we can do with this frustration?

The Best Thing to do with Frustration

Sit there in it. Take a breath. And allow yourself to be frustrated.

Then start asking yourself questions about why you’re frustrated.

Do I have soul values that are in conflict with the part of my life that’s bringing me anxiety?
Is there a relationship in my life that feels like a “hangry” raccoon is tied to my ankle? What do I do about it?
What do these problems and pains in my life reveal to me about my purpose?
What is my next best step towards making a change?
Who will I not be able to help if I give up now?

These are the questions that helped me meet my frustration head on and make changes in my life.

These are the kind of questions that helped me escape the cubicle for five years running now.

These questions helped me publish three books and speak around the nation full-time, all while making my own schedule and spending tons of quality time with my three kids.

These are the kind of questions that make up my new book 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties (and Thirties).

Questions to help you get unstuck and do something with that frustration. Questions about your career, your dreams, your relationships, and your purpose.

These questions are also in my Finding Your Signature Sauce online course, with 10 video teaching modules from me and interviews with other amazing creators, influencers, and entrepreneurs.

(The course that I’m giving away for free, along with other goodies, if you buy my new book in the next two days. Snag 101 Questions here and send me the confirmation at paul@allgroanup.com to receive all the free stuff. Only two days left).  

Do Something With Your Frustration

The best way to relieve frustration is to dive headfirst right into it.

Frustration is telling you the problem and asking you to find a solution — a real solution that gets to the heart of the problem.

Let frustration cattle prod you toward your future. 

Let the frustration of “This is not where I want to be” motivate you to keep moving forward.

Most inventions and innovations begin with frustration, as it forces you to find a better way, if you’ll let it.

Don’t let your frustration take you down, tackle it head on.

Tackle this frustration in community. Tackle this frustration with guides to help you overcome. Don’t try to do this alone. It’s too hard and too exhausting.

That’s why I’m so excited about my new book 101 Questions You Need to Ask because it’s the best way I can help guide you.

I’m also thinking of opening a private Facebook community for people who buy the book, that I will jump in as well, so that we can wrestle with these questions together. If you’re interested in this, let me know.

Go ahead. Be frustrated. Then do something productive about it.

Ask good questions about what your frustration is telling you.

Then ask, “what’s my next best step towards making a change?”

I’ve been amazed and honored at what the first readers are already saying about 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties (and Thirties). Check them out here. 

Remember, only two days left to snag a copy of the book and be entered to win amazing prizes. Email me your proof of purchase to paul@allgroanup.com before Tuesday, April 10th. Grab your copy of the book here. 

When I got dumped so embarrassingly hard…

Oh man, did I get dumped so embarrassingly hard my senior year of college.

Leading up to the moment of getting dumped, there was…

18 hours of driving.
Torrential rain.
Mudslides.
I called 911 (true story)
Met  her parents (upon her request, which went really well).
Thinking this might be “The One”….

Then I got dumped like I was in a Dawson’s Creek episode. 

This break-up story kicks off Question #1 of my new book 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties (and Thirties). 

And I want to give you the first 10 questions from the book right now.

Download and read right away how I got dumped like Dawson’s Creek.

No email to enter first. No strings attached. Just download and enjoy.

When an early reader of the book in the 101 Questions launch team read this break-up story, she asked me this:

I guess the break-up really does sound as bad as I think!

This break-up story led me to ask in question #1 of the book — “What’s the best way to break up with…yourself.”

Download the first 10 questions and see what I’m talking about. 

And remember, if you decide to buy 101 Questions, send me the confirmation so I can give you my entire Finding Your Signature Sauce course (that costs $149) for free. Only five days left for this offer.

Have your own crazy break-up story? Want to share your thoughts on the first 10 questions of the book?

We’d love to hear from you within the comments on this article at All Groan Up.

Thanks everyone!

What is fear keeping you from doing?

I still remember crawling through a tent-tunnel with my two- year-old daughter when my phone notified me I had an email.

An email that I stood up in sheer excitement after reading, forgetting I was in a tent-tunnel, that was now hanging to me in pieces while my daughter stared at daddy apparently officially losing it.

The email was a reply to an email I almost didn’t send.

I talked myself out of sending this email for weeks. I was petrified to press send.

Yet, here I was reading a reply from a huge influencer in my life whom I’ve never met. And yet, here was Seth Godin endorsing my first book, 101 Secrets For Your Twenties.

I called to my wife in the kitchen with giddy excitement, holding the phone triumphantly in the air, tunnel dangling off my backsides.

If you don’t know Seth Godin, you need to. The man breathes insight, wisdom, and inspiration in his amazing books and is a  guru of business, marketing, influence, education, and leadership.

So with my new book 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties (and Thirtes), I thought of emailing Seth again.

I was envisioning how cool it would be to include a piece of question-gold from a legend like Seth Godin in my book.

THE QUESTION from THE MAN that every twentysomething should ask.

Again, I was scared to send the email. Again, I talked myself out of sending it for weeks. Again, I let fear get the best of me in the name of “I don’t want to waste Seth’s time…”

But then, I stopped stopping myself.

I finally sent the email, breathed a sense of relief, and then started kicking myself for bothering him with a bothersome ask.

Then again, Seth responded, with his question for every twentysomething. And it was a piece of question-gold:

What is fear keeping you from doing? Is it worth it?”

It’s like Seth read through the fear and trembling pouring through the fingers that had written him.

Fear had stopped me many times. Yet, Seth was right, of course.

Fear isn’t worth it. (click to tweet that)

If I never asked, I would have never gotten to pay forward his question in my new book. 

So now, I bring Seth’s question directly to you today:

What is fear holding you back from? Is it worth it?

Is it worth the anxiety that comes from letting fear get the best of you?

Is the fear holding you back worth always wondering and never knowing?

Is it worth living a life of “if onlys”?

Is it worth staying stagnant, comfortable yet miserable?

Never taking needed risks because of fear is not worth it.

It typically never is.

Trying and knowing is better than wondering what if.

Stop stopping yourself.

This post is adapted from my just released new book 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties (and Thirties). 

In the book, I’m thrilled I was able to include questions far beyond my wisdom from people like Seth Godin, Conan O’Brien, Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner, Oprah, etc. The book, and the questions, are bigger than me.

I’m already amazed, humbled, and honored at what reviewers are already saying about the book. Check it out. 

Today is a BIG DAY!

Hi friends,

Today is a BIG DAY!!

My new book “101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties: (and Let’s be Honest, your Thirties Too)” officially releases today!

This is me excited! And slightly exhausted!

Are you struggling with this?

Have you ever seen the movie 127 Hours?

It’s an intense movie. A tough watch.

And it contains one of the most poignant messages and warnings for all of us that we need to take to heart.

If you haven’t seen the movie, it stars James Franco, who does an incredible job portraying real-life mountain climber Aron Ralston and his harrowing account of falling down a canyon in remote Utah only to have a boulder land on his arm, preventing any escape.

Ralston is stuck.

And as the intensity and enormity of the situation begins to set in, he realizes a cold, hard truth:

I never told anyone where I was going.

No one would know where to look.

No one would be coming to his rescue.

He was utterly alone because he lived his life like he never needed anyone.

We don’t need to be mountain climbers like Aron Ralston to heed this warning.

The Biggest Struggle of Them All

There is a danger in going at anything completely alone. We need to tell people where we are going and where we have been. And the remedy is something simple, yet extremely difficult: vulnerability.

We’re all struggling. Yet, we’re all struggling to make it look like we’re not struggling. (click to tweet that)

This is the biggest, most damaging, struggle of them all. 

 

The walls we build to protect our image only keep people away. We try to keep our wounded pride intact, while it’s lying lifeless on the floor.

We smile for the next picture while the walls to our house crumble around us.

Me Being Vulnerable

It’s been over five years now since I left my “real job” to pursue being a full-time writer, speaker, coach, consultant.

And can I confess something to you?

Some months, I don’t have a clue what the best next step is. Or where the money is going to come from next.

Obsessive Comparison Disorder seeps into my mind and heart as I look upon the lives of friends and wonder if I’ve royally screwed up mine.

Anxiety starts cascading through my body like a rogue helium machine filling me until I feel like I might explode.

I take a lot of walks, searching for clarity while simultaneously trying to escape that “Am I completely blowing it?” feeling.

With my new book less than a week from releasing, fear slithers its fingers inside my chest until my heart feels boa-constrictored.

My mind tells me one thing, my emotions another, and my legs tell me to run as fast as I can.

Why am I telling you all this?

If I sing about the need for all of us to be authentic and vulnerable, while I inauthentically hide behind each piece of advice and the exciting parts of my journey, then I’m just another clanging symbol amidst a cacophony of unnecessary noise.

We don’t connect with each other through our pretend perfection. We connect over our shared struggle. (click here to tweet that)

Authenticity starts with each one of us. We have to be brave enough to go first.

It takes a lot of courage to talk about where you lack the most courage.

We have to be courageous enough to open the doors and let others really see inside.

And honestly, if I can just get really real with you right now.

I wouldn’t be able to handle any of this if I didn’t truly believe and know that God is here with me in all my questions, imperfections, insecurities, and fears. If I didn’t sense in my spirit Him saying, “Relax. We’re in this together,” I would be an inoperable mess.

I can’t do surgery on myself. Or at least, I don’t want to try.

So here’s a piece of my struggle for you to see inside. To hopefully encourage you in yours.

Whether you feel like you’re failing, you’re smack dab in the middle of a quarter-life crisis, losing inspiration, or you just can’t seem to feel normal again.

“Groan up” life is hard and we can’t do it alone.

Let’s keep exploring, yet ask people to walk with us along the way.

We’re not supposed to ease the angst by pretending like it’s not there.

There are answers in the angst if we’re willing to vulnerably sit in it and ask the hard questions.

I don’t have it all figured out, but I know I’m not supposed to.

Explore. Get lost.

But tell people where you are and where you are going.

Share the struggle.

So that if the rock falls on your arm, you’ll have someone there to help you get it off.

This is an adapted excerpt from my new book 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties (and let’s be honest, your thirties too) releasing April 3rd.

Remember if you buy 101 Questions now and send me your proof of purchase to paul@allgroanup.com, you’ll receive a free membership to my Finding Your Signature Sauce online course (typically costs $149).

Then as well, you’ll have the chance to win extra books, a $25 Starbucks card, and an Amazon Fire HD 8, if you send me your receipt before April 10th, 2018. 

The Importance of Asking the Right Questions

My friend Brent told me about a conversation he had with a wildly smart man who specializes in artificial intelligence.

With everything this man knew, Brent asked him what this man felt was the most important thing he was teaching his daughters to succeed as they grow up in a culture where big data, artificial intelligence and block chain are becoming the next thing to dominate the world.

What did this man think was the most important skill his daughters could have?

The man responded without missing a beat, “The ability to ask really good questions.”

Asking the right questions. It’s the best answer I’ve found.

There’s nothing more important in making momentum in our lives than the questions we are asking.

 Which is why I’ve spent the last 12 years researching, and the last three years writing my new book 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties, (and let’s be honest, your thirties too).

And in the next two weeks, I want to give you the possibility of over $350 of stuff if you snag the book (see the details at the bottom of this post).

First, why are the right questions so important and why do we need to be asking them now?

The Defining Decade of Our Lives

As Dr. Meg Jay so aptly defined, our twenties are the “defining decade” of our lives. We are setting the course for our future.

Yet, for years in my twenties I felt like my ship was sailing around in circles, colliding with every iceberg out there.

I think we’re all looking for meaningful answers in our twenties and thirties. But if we’re not asking the right questions, then the answers will take us further away.

You see:

Our twenties and thirties aren’t about them going as we planned. But how we adapt, change, and grow when they don’t. – 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties (and let’s be honest, your thirties too)

Being successful in your twenties is about being purposeful in the process.

Asking the right questions are your secret sauce to adapting and moving further into your purpose, instead of further away, like most.

As Jeff Boss writes in Forbes,

Nothing has such power to cause a complete mental turnaround as that of a question.

Asking the right questions is the only way to point your ship in the right direction before you start sailing.

If your journey starts with faulty premises and incomplete answers, then you’ll end up traveling far off course, becoming stranded on some piece of land like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, yelling at a volleyball that also happens to be your closest friend. It just doesn’t make much sense.

Good questions guide you along the journey as you constantly tack, pivot, and reconfigure as your journey goes further and deeper.

Don’t Let Life “Just Happen”

Most people let life just happen to them.

They never ask what they really want and how they’re going to get there, so they take that promotion for a job they never wanted in the first place.

They marry the wrong person because they weren’t asking the right questions about their relationship.

They become a one-hit wonder in front of a crowd one day, then the next, the bottom of the stage falls out and they go into hiding.

If you don’t start with good questions, and keep asking yourself these questions as you are called to adapt and change, how can you formulate any worthwhile answers?

And don’t get me wrong, this process isn’t always easy. It takes grit, honesty, and courage.

Some questions are asked and left unanswered. For years. Making you want to wear sweatpants all day and eat chocolate fried bacon. At work. For a month straight. It’s a confusing time of life.

An unanswered question doesn’t mean anything is wrong necessarily, it just means an answer may be yet to be determined. Our brain will begin to search for the answer when we ask a question, and that journey alone causes the growth that is needed to get where we need to go.

Yet, on the flipside, if we don’t ask ourselves these questions, we can fall into the trap of a complacent life where we become comfortable with feeling miserable because we didn’t want to ask ourselves any of the “hard” questions.

Your twenties and thirties will be covered in eraser marks and revisions. That’s how it’s supposed to be. – 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties

Failure only happens if you stop writing. When you give up on the next page, leaving it blank when the heart of your story was about to unfold.

When we start believing the voice of the critics and cynics who try to convince us that it shouldn’t matter that we want our work and life to matter—that’s the scariest place to be. That’s the path to slow death.

Do not be sorry for not being apologetic that you want your life to mean something. I believe we should live on purpose with purpose for a purpose.

How about you?

Let’s Live on Purpose With Purpose

If not now, when? If not you, than who? 

My All Groan Up family, from the bottom of my heart, I believe my new book is coming to you at such a crucial, defining time in your life- your twenties and possibly your thirties.

I get so many emails from amazing readers who are asking me questions about how they get unstuck and get their life on track. I hear you. I’ve been there.

This book is my best answer. 

It’s a guide as you start taking those first strategic steps. It’s advice on relationships, career choices, pursuing a dream, finding your “signature sauce” and thriving in the ambiguity of grown up life.

Written and created with the same easy-to-read style and humor as my best-selling book 101 Secrets For Your Twenties, but this time we’re digging even deeper with 12 years of research and writing culminating into the most important questions everything twentysomething needs to be asking.

I really want you to grab a copy of 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties.

Not just so I can make money (which if you know about being published, you know it’s not exactly your ticket to the upper westside).

No, I want you to have this book because it’s the best gift, the most important resource, I could give you. And to prove it, I’m putting my money where my mouth is.

Amazing Gifts Worth up to $350 for Buying the Book

If you buy the book now and send your proof of purchase to paul@allgroanup.com, I want to personally send you my online course Finding Your Signature Sauce, which costs $149, FOR FREE.

This course has helped a lot of people and is an up close and personal teaching from me. Plus it includes interviews from amazing influencers and thinkers.

If you buy 101 Questions now at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or wherever books are sold, and email your receipt or proof of purchase to paul@allgroanup.com., you can jump into the Signature Sauce course right now!

Then as well, I’m also giving you a Super Care Package, with the chance to win the Superer Care Package and the Grand Superer Care Package!

With the help of Moody Publishers we are offering some pretty amazing stuff worth up to $350 for buying an $11 book!

Super Care Package 

*If you buy the book now and email your receipt or purchase screen shot to paul@allgroanup.com, I will personally send you the Super Care Package: 

*Free Access to entire signature sauce course (valued at $149)

*Digital Poster

*Shareable Images

*Digital Stickers

* Smartphone Lockscreen image

* Creative Manifesto digital poster

* A few more surprises in the next two weeks.

Superer Care Package

*For those who send in their proof of purchase to paul@allgroanup.com before April 10th, I will also raffle off seven Superer Care packages on April 10th on Facebook Live, which includes…

Everything in Super Care Package, plus…
Physical Creative Manifesto Poster and Stickers.
Extra copy of paperback version of 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties and a copy of 101 Secrets For Your Twenties
$25 Starbucks card!

Grand Superer Care Package

*For those who send in their proof of purchase to paul@allgroanup.com, I will raffle off three of these packages on April 10th on Facebook Live

Everything in Superer Package, plus
An Amazon Fire HD 8!

101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties officially releases April 3rd, 2018.

Pre-order 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties here. 

Then send in your proof of purchase to paul@allgroanup.com to get free access to my entire $149 Signature Sauce course, more cool gifts in the Super Care Package, and then the chance to win a lot more! Like winning an Amazon Fire HD 8 and Starbucks card!

Let’s start asking the right questions, together.

Today is your day.

 

Why you can’t give up now…

Hi All Groan Up Fam,

First, a quick bit of EXCITING NEWS from me today — my debut book 101 Secrets For Your Twenties is now in Target!!

And it’s selling cheaper there than Amazon.

Swing by the book section at Target and see if you can find it.

If you find it, tag me in a photo on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter and/or snag a copy for yourself or a friend.

It’s because of all of you who have supported this book since the beginning that the reach of 101 Secrets For Your Twenties keeps expanding! It’s crazy unbelievable.

That’s why I want to encourage you with this. 

If you don’t know my story, I’d been writing, and failing, and editing, and re-writing, and working odd-jobs for eight years before I finally broke through with 101 Secrets For Your Twenties. 

I got rejected by every publisher around.

I had different “industry professionals” tell me it wasn’t going to work.

I was a few weeks away before giving up on it all and walking away from my dream.

I was so close to quitting. 

And now 101 Secrets For Your Twenties has been translated in Thai, Russian, Vietnam, for India, and is now also selling in Target five years after its release. You just never know what can happen.

That’s why I ask in my new book 101 Questions You Need To Ask in Your Twenties (and let’s be honest, your thirties too): 

Who will you not be able to help if you give up now? 

You see, there’s people out there right now who need your dream, and neither of you know it.

There’s people who need your unique ‘Signature Sauce”, so you can’t let yours slowly burn on the bottom of the pan. 

And I can’t wait to help you move forward and keep encouraging you on this journey with my new book 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties, which officially releases in less than two weeks on April 3rd.

There’s nothing more important to making serious momentum in our lives than the questions we are asking.

Be on the look out for an email from me this Sunday on why I believe this new book is SO IMPORTANT and the amazing gifts, possibly worth up to $350, I want to give you if you purchase 101 Questions.

In the meantime, keep the hope.

I’m telling you right now, your moment is coming. I promise.

Keep doing the work.

Stay in the game.

You never know when that breakout and breakthrough is coming. 

More from me on Sunday!

Want to share a piece of your journey or your dream with us? We’d love to hear from you within the comments on this article at AllGroanUp.com so we can encourage you!