Looking to make a change? Want to start doing what you love, but don’t know where to start?

I know how you feel. I have been there myself… several times, in fact.
Over the last couple of decades, I have had half a dozen radically different careers and businesses (real estate, television, online media, software, private-equity investing and publishing). Each new venture required a personal reinvention. Let me give you some field-tested advice about how to do it and do it with success!

1 – Leverage Your Strengths

While each endeavor was completely different, one thing was in common with them all—they needed the strengths I had to be successful…
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Q. Chris McWillie writes: I am trying to find funding for this idea I been working on with my team. It’s an online service/social platform,  but I don’t want to give away 60 percent of my idea to some investor. Advice?

A. Having been on both sides of the pitch table (both as an entrepreneur who has raised millions of dollars and as an angel investor holding investments in several companies), I can definitely give you some hard-earned advice on this matter.

Build It, THEN They Will Come
This is truly the Great Age of the Entrepreneur. Why? Because you can launch an enterprise in your spare bedroom, dorm room or on your mobile laptop that can generate millions of dollars in income or hundreds of millions in equity.

Need proof? How about some squarely in the space about which you inquire…

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I’ve been receiving some great questions recently-here’s one from Arturo Alvarez regarding the Law of Attraction.

Q. Hi Darren!! I work in the restaurant business and it takes most of my time, and at this point I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired of it. How do you apply the Law of Attraction to your own personal success?

A. One thing you will come to realize about me on this blog is I love straight, candid, tell-it-like-it-is talk, especially as it relates to the serious business of self-improvement. There is too much polite puffery and aggrandizing of success principles in today’s marketplace, in my opinion.

Let me clean up some misconceptions about the Law of Attraction that have gone haywire in the hands some savvy marketing of late…

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SUCCESS magazine and THE BIG IDEA with Donny Deutsch seem to be cut from the same cloth and part of the “mutual appreciation society”. We are both committed to the same end – helping entrepreneurs achieve more and lead more fulfilling lives.

Here is how you can join me on THE BIG IDEA with Donny Deutsch…

They have asked me to come on the show Thursday, August 21, at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT (check your local listings), specifically to answer viewer questions and help them with their success challenges.

In the comment section below you can ask a success-related question – some great challenge or hurdle that is keeping you from accomplishing what you want in life. It could be a specific business, sales, communication, leadership or relationship question or a more general question about success habits, philosophies, fears or behaviors that are keeping you from what you want in life.

If your question is selected you might be invited to ask it on camera, over the phone or on air.

Ask your question below as a comment and I will look forward to seeing you on the show!