DON! The Idea Guy

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 [...]

We all need pushy friends.
Not pushy in the way that is annoying and obnoxious, but pushy in the way that makes you reach further and achieve more by pushing you out of your comfort zone to enable that growth.
I have a new friend named Adrienne who not only challenges me in every conversation we have [...]

People will say “that’s impossible!”
…until it isn’t.
People will say “that will never happen!”
…until it does.
People will say “you’re wasting your time!”
…until it pays off.
The 4-minute mile? Impossible!
Man in flight? It will never happen!
The electric lightbulb? You’re wasting your time!
History is filled with examples of the Crazy Ones being ridiculed and persecuted by the Lazy Ones, [...]

While reading Jeffrey Gitomer’s latest book, The Little Book of Leadership: The 12.5 Strengths of Responsible, Reliable, Remarkable Leaders That Create Results, Rewards, and Resilience, I was prompted to do an exercise  that asked me to write down three things that define and embrace the way I think about my life’s goals. 
Most of the time [...]