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About John Weiler
Thanks for visiting my Author page. My name's John and I'm originally from the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. As a writer, I've written for US TV shows that have aired on networks such as A&E, BIO, Spike, National Geographic, and more.
I have two e-books here on Amazon (with more to come) about my passions: traveling and meditation. I’ve been meditating for 13+ years and have traveled to 11 countries, been a tax-paying resident on three continents, and have lived outside the US for four and a half years and counting.
I currently reside in Bangkok, Thailand where I run a freelance writing (www.johnweiler.co) and meditation (www.ordinarydudemeditation.com) business.
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Blog postAttempting anything new takes a leap of faith. A jump into the unknown. Learning a new skill can bring up some pretty scary, uncomfortable feelings. So how can you cope? You may want to avoid the situation altogether. But if you want to grow as a person, then jump you must. This topic just so …
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Blog postFailure sucks. It’s painful, embarrassing and can make you feel worthless. We all want to feel good about ourselves, but when we fail, self doubt creeps in. It’s no wonder that most dudes avoid failure at all costs. But you shouldn’t. As I’ve mentioned in previous books, like An Ordinary Dude’s Guide to Meditation and …
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Blog postI’d like to take a moment to remind you that your life is awesome. Seriously. “But dude, how could you personally know my life is awesome? You have no idea of who I am or my situation.” True. But I can make some guesses based on the fact you’re reading this blog. You came across …
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Blog postThe world changes fast. The past decade has seen the rise of social media, smartphones and delivery/taxis services like Uber. Who knows what the next 10 years will bring. With all this change, you may feel overwhelmed. Exhausted. Like it’s impossible to keep up. It may seem like nothing is certain. But it ain’t true. …
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You just got into a massive argument with a family member. And now you storm out of the room.
How could he say such things?
How could he be such a douchebag?
Does he even care about you at all?
You slam the door behind you. Now alone in your room, your blood is on fire. You’re so angry you don’t know what to do. You just want to scream.
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Blog postLiving in the moment.
It sounds so easy. Especially when a celebrity or pro athlete casually mentions it on TV.
You just live in the moment. You just be. You’re just present.
Sounds simple enough.
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You’re following your breath in meditation. Breathe in. Breathe out.
You think you’re doing it right. Your mind seems to clear. But, you can’t ignore one teeny, tiny issue…
Your eyes are heavy.
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Transform website visitors into customers.
Your homepage is your website’s most visited page and a critical juncture. Get it wrong, and you’ve lost the sale before prospects enter your online door.
Based on my near decade experience in the digital marketing world, working for multiple agencies and writing hundreds of homepages, The Website Homepage Blueprint gives you a step-by-step formula for creating a stunning, high-converting homepage.
Like a blueprint, the book is broken into chapters that cover 13 homepage segments.
You’ll learn:
- How to write your homepage quickly (using my proven system)
- Secret copywriting techniques—like Sell the Dream and The Billboard Test—that capture prospects' attention and hypnotizes them with your product
- The most important question in marketing that will hook visitors into your business
- How to easily win trust by leveraging your partners and affiliations
The book is loaded with visual examples and includes links to two homepage samples (specifically designed for this book) that show you exactly how to create yours.
Don’t waste months learning how to write the perfect homepage, tinkering with random advice online as thousands of prospects bounce from your website, costing you missed opportunities, lost profits and cold hard cash.
Stop the confusion now.
Your shortcut—your blueprint—is right here.
Buy your copy of The Website Homepage Blueprint today.
Wow website visitors. Prove you’re an influencer. Convert like crazy.
Whether you’re a business owner, entrepreneur or freelancer, winning trust online can be a colossal feat. How can you prove your expertise when you’re just starting out or have only been in business a few years?
You may feel like a nobody online.
Website bounces are your norm. Your online sales suck. And your hosting, email and other website fees eat away at your savings and soul. You feel hopeless...when all you want is to see the business of your dreams succeed.
Becoming an influencer and growing a profitable website seems like a moonshot.
But it isn’t.
You can rise to influencer status this year.
You can wow browsers with eye-popping credibility that has them begging to punch in their credit card details. And you can do this in six months or less—and possibly even in weeks.
Whether you’re aware of it or not, your website sends subtle signals to visitors that reveal your credibility and trustworthiness. Signals that can be the difference between a bounced visitor and a $10,000 sale. This book illuminates 25 of these signals (or credibility indicators) so you can use them to your advantage.
How do I know these strategies work?
I didn’t invent them. In fact, these techniques have been used by online marketing masters—like Tony Robbins, Seth Godin and Gary Vayenerchuck—for decades, and I’ve personally used them on hundreds of my clients’ websites.
In this book, you’ll learn how to become an:
- Expert today: within the next 24 hours, you can prove you’re an expert. The secret is you already are one. You just need to learn how to communicate it with strategies like McDonald’s 99 Billion Served and the Years in Business trick.
- Trusted online business: by using techniques like the Logo Effect, Warm Connections, Credibility by Association and more, you’ll learn how to win over web visitors instantly.
- Bestselling author: discover the simple strategy to become a bestselling author, and 5 tactics to gain influencer status with your book.
- Influencer in your city: learn how to leverage local media, organizations and events to become an influencer in your city and see your business growth skyrocket.
- Global influencer: no, it’s not easy. But there is a proven path. Learn the 4 strategies that global influencers like David Goggins, Chris Gullibeau and Morgan Spurlock used to launch their careers.
Becoming an expert or an influencer is not out of reach. The roadmap is here, within these pages.
You can become an expert today and an influencer next month. Simply add these 25 credibility indicators to your website, and you will see an increase in subscribers, sales and business growth.
Buy your copy now.
I'm as ordinary as they come. The only difference...I've been meditating for over 13 years. And I want to show you how you can meditate too—in a straightforward language that any ordinary dude or dudette can understand.
Over a decade of practice, meditation has transformed my life, bringing more peace, calm and clarity into it than I could have ever imagined when I started at the age of 19. And now, I want to share how meditation can do the same for you.
Or do you?
The truth is happiness and endless possibilities are right here. On your couch, you can order beer from far corners of the globe, you can mock a dictator and you can even call hot celebrities (seriously, I got ahold of Denise Richards).
Do you know what prehistoric dudes would say if they had all this amazingness? “Holy crap!” is right.
For heaven’s sake, this guide isn’t an activity book. Instead, think of it like a gratitude book or Chicken Soup for the Soul for dudes—but with a bit of raunch, a lot of nonsense and a whole lot of beer, pizza and naps.
You’ll remember how the couch has played a pivotal role in your life, from first beers, first lays and first sports heartaches. And you’ll remember that happiness is often found on the most obvious of places: your couch.
Rediscover what life is all about, and the importance of enjoying the ride—dude style.
A Dude's Guide to the Couch relieves your stress with laughter, an escape from daily pressures, and is a reminder to appreciate life’s simple pleasures.
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Ordinary dudes can be extraordinary dudes
Take back control of your life with 23 practical strategies to conquer your toughest habits.
No more failed diets.
No more missed nights at the gym.
No more feelings of disappointment and hopelessness.
Based on science, psychology and my experience changing 8 habits in a single year, this practical guide empowers you to create your ideal life. You’ll learn simple tactics to eat healthier, exercise weekly, quit smoking, save money, break a smartphone addiction, and rise above common habits dudes struggle with.
You’ll also learn:
- How habit transformation can be fun, simple, and life-changing
- 3 key reasons dudes fail at habit (and how to overcome them)
- Habit myths: The truth about popular advice that secretly derails your efforts
- 23 tactics to make or break any habit
- The crucial role habits play in realizing your biggest bucket list goals
If you’re sick and tired of failing your new year’s resolution year-after-year, feeling stuck in the same routines that destroy your health and happiness, and are ready to kick the snot out of your bad habits, check out An Ordinary Dude’s Guide to Habit.
Buy your copy now.
Discover the calm, content dude inside you
With An Ordinary Dude’s Mindfulness Book Series.
Not all mindful people are saints—you can be mindful and enjoy a beer. You can be mindful and sleep till noon. You can be mindful and watch football all day.
Mindfulness doesn't remake your personality.
But it does improve your relationships, health and ability to experience happiness, peace and joy.
In my 16 years of meditation practice and 1,000+ hours studying enlightenment, I’ve transformed from a lost spiritual seeker, to a content ordinary dude who enjoys life’s simple pleasures available to us every day.
And now I want to share how mindfulness of your habits, emotions and thoughts can do the same for you.
An Ordinary Dude’s Mindfulness Series includes the following 3 books:
- An Ordinary Dude’s Guide to Meditation: Learn how to meditate easily - without the religion, fluff or hippie stuff.
- An Ordinary Dude’s Guide to Habit: 23 practical tactics to eat healthy, exercise weekly, save money and master everyday habits.
- An Ordinary Dude’s Guide to Enlightenment: Follow the path to inner peace...without spilling your beer.
An Ordinary Dude’s Guide to Meditation
This #1 Amazon international bestseller has 4.5 stars out of 60+ reviews and has sold thousands of copies worldwide for a reason—You will learn the easiest meditation ever invented. This straightforward, practical guide teaches you how to meditate without the many religious references and hippie lingo present in nearly every meditation book on the market.An Ordinary Dude’s Guide to Meditation teaches you:
- Simple, step-by-step instructions on how you can meditate (instructional pictures included).
- How meditation helped me conquer anxiety and panic attacks.
- An easy-to-understand definition of meditation, as well as concepts like awareness, space between thoughts, and more.
- Practical exercises to help you experience the benefits of meditation—calm, clarity and more.
An Ordinary Dude’s Guide to Habit
You’ve learned meditation. Now how do you stick with it? An Ordinary Dude’s Guide to Habit teaches you practical tactics to not only meditate daily, but also simple strategies to eat healthier, exercise weekly, quit smoking, save money, break a smartphone addiction and rise above everyday habits dudes struggle with.An Ordinary Dude’s Guide to Habit will show you:
- How habit transformation can be fun, simple and life-changing.
- 23 tactics to make or break any habit.
- Habit myths: The truth about popular advice that secretly derails your efforts.
- The crucial role habits play in helping you realize your biggest bucket list goals.
An Ordinary Dude’s Guide to Enlightenment
Meditation + Habit = a calmer, happier you in a chaotic and stressful world. Rid yourself of feelings of emptiness and inadequacy, and discover the natural completeness inside you.Soy igual de normal que cualquier otra persona. La única diferencia es que llevo meditando durante más de 17 años, y quiero enseñarte cómo tú también puedes hacerlo. Con un lenguaje claro y directo, para que todo el mundo pueda entenderlo.
La meditación ha cambiado mi vida tras más de una década de práctica, brindándome más paz, tranquilidad y claridad de lo que podría haberme imaginado cuando empecé a los 19 años. Y ahora quiero compartir cómo la meditación puede hacer lo mismo por ti.
Cambia tus hábitos.Cambia tu vida.
Recupera el control de tu vida con 23 estrategias prácticas para dominar tus hábitos más rebeldes.
Se acabó fracasar con la dieta.
Se acabó saltarse la hora del gimnasio.
Se acabaron los sentimientos de decepción y desesperación.
Basándome en la ciencia, en la psicología y en mi propia experiencia a la hora de cambiar 8 hábitos en un solo año, esta guía te facilita construir tu vida ideal. Aprenderás tácticas sencillas para comer sano, hacer ejercicio semanalmente, dejar de fumar, ahorrar dinero, eliminar la adicción al teléfono móvil y superar los hábitos problemáticos más frecuentes.
También descubrirás:
- Cómo la transformación de los hábitos puede ser divertida, sencilla y cambiar tu vida
- 3 razones clave que te hacen fracasar con respecto a tus hábitos (y cómo superarlas)
- Mitos con respecto a los hábitos: la verdad sobre los consejos populares que secretamente hacen fracasar tus esfuerzos
- 23 tácticas para crear o eliminar cualquier hábito
- El papel crucial que juegan los hábitos a la hora de llevar a cabo tus metas más importantes
Si estás harto de no cumplir tus propósitos de año nuevo, te sientes atrapado en las mismas rutinas diarias que destruyen tu salud y felicidad, y estás listo para eliminar de una patada esos malos hábitos, échale un vistazo a la Guía de los hábitos, escrita por un tipo normal.
Compra ahora tu ejemplar.
Los tipos que beben cerveza también pueden alcanzar la iluminación.
Aunque muchos libros que tratan sobre la iluminación recomiendan llevar una vida de pureza, un comportamiento angelical y una dieta saludable para alcanzar la paz interior, lo cierto es que las cosas no son blancas o negras.
Una vez fui como muchos otros buscadores. Estaba inmerso en una cruzada espiritual destinada a eliminar mis propios sentimientos de vacío e insuficiencia. Me preocupaba no hallar la respuesta a preguntas de gran importancia: ¿Quién soy? ¿Cómo puedo encontrar la paz interior que tanto ansío? ¿Cuál es el propósito de mi vida?
Después de casi media década buscando respuestas, cientos de horas meditando y aún más tiempo leyendo libros filosóficos, espirituales y budistas, un encuentro con un maestro iluminado me transformó: el buscador se convirtió en un tipo corriente.
En esta guía no encontrarás a ningún gurú, monje o místico.
Sino a un tipo como tú... quizás alguien con quien te encontrarías en un bar y charlarías sobre las grandes cuestiones de la vida hasta la madrugada.
Si bien descubrirás que la iluminación es mucho más normal de lo que piensas, también adquirirás una comprensión no tan ordinaria de la vida y del mundo en el que vivimos.
Si quieres dejar atrás tu búsqueda espiritual, escapar de las presiones del mundo moderno y de la interminable necesidad de plenitud, y encontrar satisfacción en la vida cotidiana, te invito a sentarte en el taburete de este bar, te tomes una cerveza conmigo, y te quedes despierto hasta la madrugada.
Llévate ahora una copia de este libro.
Je suis aussi ordinaire que votre voisin. La seule différence... c’est que je médite depuis plus de 13 ans. Je veux vous montrer comment vous pouvez, vous aussi, méditer, et ce dans un langage simple, que n'importe quel mec ou nana ordinaire pourra comprendre.
Après plus de dix ans de pratique, la méditation a transformé ma vie, y apportant plus de paix, de calme et de clarté que je n'aurais jamais pu l'imaginer lorsque j'ai commencé, à l'âge de 19 ans. À présent, je souhaite vous partager comment la méditation peut vous apporter la même chose.
Beer drinkin’ dudes can be enlightened, too.
While many enlightenment books suggest that a life of purity, angelic behavior, and a clean diet are requirements for inner peace—the truth isn’t so black and white.
I was once like many seekers. On a spiritual quest to cast out feelings of emptiness and inadequacy. The big questions bothered me: Who am I? How can I find the inner peace I so desperately crave? What is the purpose of my life?
After nearly a half decade search for answers, hundreds of hours spent in meditation, and even more time spent reading philosophy, spiritual and Buddhist books, a meeting with an enlightened teacher transformed me: the seeker became an ordinary dude.
In this guide you’ll find no gurus. No monks. No mystics. But instead a dude just like you...perhaps someone you’d meet in a bar and chat about life’s big questions till the early hours of the morning.
While you’ll learn that enlightenment is much more ordinary than you think, you’ll discover a not-so-ordinary understanding of life and the world we live in.
If you want to put the spiritual quest behind you, escape the rat race rush of the modern world and never-ending search for completeness, and find contentment in everyday life, then I invite you to pull up a bar stool, crack a beer, and stay up with me till the wee hours.
Grab your copy of this book now.
Dream of traveling the world?
Imagine the freedom. The adventure.
Backpack Abroad Now! can teach you how to plan your adventure, one step at a time, and save enough money for your dream trip—even if you’re making 9 bucks an hour working at Mcdonalds.I saved up for an epic 11-month backpacking journey, while earning less than $17,000 a year, and have been living and traveling abroad for over 6 years and counting.
This is the guide I wish I had before starting...when I was overwhelmed and broke, dreaming about traveling the world.
Learn how to:
- Score a free flight to anywhere in the world - with smart air travel tips
- Prepare for visas when visiting multiple countries
- Find work abroad
- Save over $1,500 dollars on travel vaccinations
- Guarantee you never get scammed (after being swindled out of $1,400 in Cambodia, I’ve used this one strategy to avoid scams in the 7 countries I’ve traveled since)
Get your copy today.