Too many people out there worry about what others think about them based on who they associate with and what kind of ideas they embrace. The judgment of other people is not your responsibility. If you start worry about what other people think of you, you’ll never get anything else accomplished. Continuing the break down […]
Many people get excited about their ideas, but when it comes time to put that new idea into action their excitement turns into excuses because it’s going to require an awful lot of extra effort and hard work to turn their idea into a reality. This article continues the break down of dealing with the […]
Some people do not like rocking the boat or challenging the status quo. This adherence to rules (both written and unwritten) is a perfectly reasonable sounding excuse to let yourself off the hook from putting a creative idea into action. “I’m not allowed to do it — it’s against the rules”. How can you creative […]
Continuing the break down of dealing with the individual fears that prevent people from taking action on ideas with today’s topic Fear of Blame. Many people won’t move forward on an idea because they don’t want to catch the blame if the project goes wrong. They won’t even entertain the possibility of it actually turning […]
A while back I wrote an article with reasons why people fear new ideas. I recently shared the article with a new audience and a couple people asked me how I dealt with those fears myself and how I was able to overcome them with prospects who might be hesitating in moving forward with a […]
Are you the peanut butter to someone’s jelly? The cheese to someone’s crackers? The mustard to someone’s hot dog? When you’re in the right partnership with someone, you feel like you’re two halves of a whole. You partner with a person because you’re both better together than apart. As a partner your value increases exponentially […]
If you have to force yourself to focus on a project and it feels like you’re swimming against the current in order to make any progress, perhaps you need to set it aside for a little bit and see where the flow wants to take you. Doing important work is challenging enough without fighting against […]