Mistake made. Confirms I'm a failure. And yet...I am still going to mull over it for hours and hours. How could I make the mistake? Oh cause I'm supposed to, but... Sound familiar? Are you one of many who let's mistakes get the better of you? It may be why you achieve so much. But [...]
It is easy to look at what others are doing in the advertising realm and think that we must do the same. "Her videos are amazing, how can I adapt and copy?" "His blog posts are so entertaining and educational, I need to do the same." "They post on Facebook three times a day, and [...]
Thinking, discussing, expanding, learning, changing. Some of my favorite things - and in this conversation between Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Grant you get a lot of all these things. It was good, check it out here.
"Why do you have so many estate planning clients?" "Well, because for the most part that is the only type of work I choose to do." As a business owner you get to choose the work you do and whom you work with. That doesn't mean that you will not do things just for them [...]
One of my favorite podcasts is How I Built This with Guy Raz. He expertly interviews business owners, getting their stories about how they started and some other ups and downs. It is very common that the business owners he interviews did not do well in school. They struggled to comply if it wasn't something [...]
Good work provides meaning. But for many working in an office, it also provides connection with other humans. The connection is simply not the same when working from home. But as many more people transition office work to be at home work, hopefully the work will still provide meaning for you, but is there something [...]
As I get ready to put on a triathlon, I am not racing this one, I was thinking about something called sighting. Some of the athletes will be doing this for the first time, and many of those will never have swum in the lake where we are racing. They will swim from one spot [...]
Why does someone volunteer for x or y? There are of course many factors that we decide to spend our time in certain ways. Usually it will be tied to something beneficial for ourselves of course, but that benefit may simply be the feeling that you are doing good and giving back. Spending time helping [...]
It is often a business owner's or manager's job to make decisions. Lots of them, throughout the day. And in making decisions, you can either be someone who keeps things moving along. Or you can let them stack up on your desk because you need more time to quote "think about them." There are certainly [...]
As I call people to participate in my podcast, I am surprised by the hesitation. I thought I might struggle as a 'nobody' to get people to participate. I didn't think that people would not want to participate because they are shy and do not want to do something that can get their name out, [...]
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