Sure, change is inevitable — but how about you go first? People might not like the way things are, but it’s a lot easier to complain about stuff than to make any improvements. This article continues the break down of dealing with the individual fears that prevent people from taking action on ideas with today’s […]
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 […]
Back when we were all still allowed to travel further than the length of our driveway and taking a vacation meant more than sitting in a lawn chair in your backyard, my favorite place to escape to was Hawaii. Anytime we travelled to Oahu, my wife and I always made time to visit the Moana […]
When you’re working on a project, planning a project, researching a project, and making decisions on how best to put that project into action, it’s like knocking an arrow into a bow and slowly drawing it back to your cheek — creating an extraordinary amount of tension in the bow string — harnessing all that […]
I attended a meeting of an industry networking group that has been around for a number of years. There are a ton of veterans in this group with decades of customer success stories and experience earned in the trenches. Almost all the members have known each for years, so there are no punches pulled and […]
I heard someone the other day repeat the old phrase “don’t fall in love with your ideas”, a warning to creative people to avoid getting too attached to their concepts. It’s usually intended as a reminder not to take criticism of your idea too personally, lest you defend components of your idea so forcefully that […]
I’ve noticed a lot of people on social media will ask a discussion group a question along the lines of: “Do you like A or B?” or “What would you do in a situation like this…?” and the group will respond (everyone on social media is an expert on everything and you really don’t even […]