The status quo is so overrated. 

When everybody else is going left, I go right. When the sign says up, I go down. Purposely.

My life is a cookbook in going against the grain.

I’m a happy single parent (and not looking for a better half)… I have lots of tattoos (for a girl)… and to the utter amazement (and awe) of most people around me, I freely travel the world with a young child in tow.

This philosophy carries over in my business life too.

For example, when a particular marketing technique (like safelists) is totally out of style, I embrace the hell out of it and see what happens.

Sure it’s a calculated risk. Sometimes I discover the wrong way really is the wrong way.

But then again, there was a time when everybody thought the world was flat…

This unique outlook – I’m discovering more and more each day – is a definite asset to my writing career.

A Quick Look at Contraian Writership

You ever heard of the book Die Broke?

Written in 1998, it was a NY Times bestseller. And it’s an immpecable example of Contrarian Writership.

Many people are taught to work a 9-5… use credit cards… retire at 62… give our kids an inheritance.

Die Broke says ditch the 9-5, get rid of your consumer debt, DON’T retire, and live your entire life happily ever after until “the end.”

Can you imagine NOT retiring?

Most people can’t because of an ingrained Pavlovian response to the infamous work life equation: Hard work + 40 years = Retirement

And yet, enough ‘wrong way’ thinkers resonated with the don’t retire idea enough to make Die Broke a bestseller.

So your task for today is to think of how can you add a contrarian point of view to your regular writing.

Prove a point that others say is unprovable. Do something that is supposidly un-doable. And then write about it.

Shake up the establishment and grow rich,

Alexis Dawes

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