How’s your luck? Fear a black cat will cross your path? Afraid of walking under a ladder? Don’t even get you started on breaking a mirror? Do just the thought of those events cause you to grip your rabbit’s foot a little tighter and start scanning the lawn for four-leaf clovers? You’re making your own […]
A lot of people entertain the idea of writing a book, but odds are they’ll never finish writing a book if they can’t finish writing a chapter, and they’ll never finish writing a chapter if they can’t finish writing a page. So the real solution to the challenge of writing a book is simply write […]
Today’s article was spark by a group conversation in Jeff Bajorek‘s new membership group Rethink The Way You Sell. Members were talking about how checking your mobile phone can a disruption and a sign of disrespect when you’re meeting with clients, which is absolutely true most of the time… BUT… I had a different point […]
I shared a challenge question on my other site today that asked people “What business could you start this week with just 50 bucks?”. Many people think that having no restrictions allows them to think up bigger and better ideas, but I disagree. I think that having constraints on a project actually forces you to […]
Some times you might want to some make creative waves, other times you might want to ride the waves. Making waves is a lot harder than spotting a sweet wave and riding it instead. Making waves relies on you starting with ripples and kicking up enough turbulence to create a tsunami. Most people will be […]
Concept and ideas seem to come in cycles; three movies about robots taking over the world hit the theaters within a week of each other, young-adult books about wizards from six different authors hit stores in the same month, four different wood-fire pizza places open in your town within days of each other, and every […]
Ever had a salesperson cold-call you on the phone and launch into some long-winded speech about you-don’t-know-what and you-don’t-care-what? You’re trying to be professional and let them get to the point of why they called you in the first place but they just never seem to get to it. It’s like a plane going down […]