On a roll
Get a small idea rolling, and you can never tell just how far it might go!
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Where the wind blows
Let your ideas take you where the wind blows. Allow your creativity to sweep you away to wonderful new worlds filled with interesting characters and new adventures. It worked for Dorothy. It will work for you.
Jiggle The Handle
You’ve probably experienced this situation — you flush a toilet, but it won’t stop running because the flapper valve isn’t adjusted properly to form a good seal, allowing water to continually leak out of the tank, and therefore the tank continually attempts to fill itself. So, you stop the toilet from running by “jiggling the […]
Facebook’s Content Eclipse
Among Dictionary.com’s definitions of the word “Eclipse” are the following: A reduction or loss of splendor, status, reputation, etc. To make less outstanding or important by comparison. In the past I’ve always told my consulting clients that Facebook was a great place to find and connect with people who are interested in the products and […]
Banging Your Head Against The Wall
When people say they feel like they’re banging their head against the wall, the typical response is to advise them: “stop doing that.” I’ve learned to ask WHY they’ve chosen to keep banging their head on that particular wall. It’s not that I think they believe it feels good — but I do think they […]
Quit watching the needle
I once considered myself a “Google Anal(ytics) Retentive”. When Google Analytics first launched, they made it so simple and easy to install a few lines of code on your site in order to view “valuable” data about your website traffic that I became enamored with this toy. I could generate pages and pages of reports […]
How Ideas Really Happen
I think the thing that frustrates most people about the process of coming up with ideas is that they believe in a singular moment of creative clarity. That there is an individual “A-HA!” moment where the perfect idea presents itself to the person who needs that exact idea at that exact moment. The process is […]