{"id":3185,"date":"2011-10-27T17:39:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T21:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/higheredcareercoach.com\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2025-08-23T00:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:11:15","slug":"tommy-walker-knocks-down-your-excuses-staying-motivated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/higheredcareercoach.com\/staging\/2913\/tommy-walker-knocks-down-your-excuses-staying-motivated\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Walker Knocks Down Your Excuses: Staying Motivated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Motivation is sometimes hard to come by, but it's essential to keeping forward momentum in your career.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If anyone knows this, it's online marketing strategist Tommy Walker, who went from being <a title=\"fired over a pair of pants\" href=\"http:\/\/tommy.ismy.name\/about-me\/and-how-i-was-fired-over-a-pair-of-pants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fired over pair of pants<\/a> 3 years ago to writing a magnum-opus guest post<a title=\"106 Excuses by Tommy Walker on ChrisBrogan.Com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbrogan.com\/106\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \"106 Excuses That Prevent You From Ever Being Great\" <\/a>on Chris Brogan's web site. Brogan, known for almost never accepting guest posts, <a title=\"Chances: Tommy Walker on ChrisBrogan.Com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbrogan.com\/chances\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took a chance<\/a> on Walker's piece, and in the process threw any editorial guidelines he might have had out the window, <strong>posting all 7,000+ words of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The response the post received so far has been phenomenal, with 329 retweets and 1,260 likes on Facebook as this is being written. 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