Formula for Success: Try and fail. Try and fail. Try and fail. Try and fail. Try and fail. Try and succeed. (repeat as needed.) Improved Formula for Success: Try, fail, LEARN. Try something different, fail again, learn some more. Try something even more different… SUCCEED. (repeat for the rest of your life.)
Time for the annual New Year’s Whensday reboot! Think of this yearly recurring post as a “New Year’s Holiday Special” for inspiring you (and me!) to get more things done in 2012. January is an ideal time to adopt an “Everyday is Whensday” philosophy. By now you’ve probably noted the unique spelling (or at the […]
One might “gain weight” but there is rarely anything gained by waiting. On the contrary, the chances are greater that you’ll miss out on opportunities by delaying — you’ll experience “wait loss.” Some delays are inevitable, but most are self-imposed delays based on fear, distractions, and insecurities. Fear Some fear failure, some fear success, some […]
People know I’m a huge fan of Gitomer’s coolest sales toy ever — Ace of Sales. I liked it so much that I wrote an ebook sharing 52 ways to use Ace of Sales more creatively to brand yourself with clients, stand out from the competition, and to increase sales. I liked it so much […]
Fantastic story about a haunted house that attracted a bigger audience seeking a scare NOT by showig how spooky their monsters were or how many cobwebs hung from their doorways, but by instead capturing the sheer terror of the people going through the house. Read the article here: How to Be a Frighteningly Brilliant Content […]
For some reason Seth Godin’s web project Squidoo.com has been popping up on my radar recently. I’d originally explored the site and its offerings back when Seth first launched it sometime in 2006. I promptly created an account and began creating pages (Squidoo calls them Lenses) and would update them fairly inconsistently and infrequently. It […]
A recent conversation with a friend of mine lead to him describing the creative process he was going through as “molding a new idea out of clay.” That statement sparked an image in my mind, but (as with most ideas) I kept building on it in my own brain and came to the realization that […]