I want you to think about one or two of your closest friends. If you had to tell a story about how you first became friends, would you both tell the same stories? Probably. It’s likely that the two of you shared an experience (attended the same school, worked at the same company, hung out […]
Ever been working right up against a deadline and get sidelined because your brain locked-up and you can’t get to the ideas locked inside? It boggles the mind what a little stress and pressure can do to gunk-up your mental gears. Here is a quick and easy exercise to pick those mental locks and get […]
Beginning in the 19th century, a hat tip (or the act of “tipping the hat”) was a common on-verbal greeting between friends while out walking or at social events. Typically two men (female hat tips were rare) would lift brim of their hats to greet each other rather than exchange words. In the late 1990s […]
I’m sure you’ve experienced a sales pitch or presentation where the speaker’s focus is all over the place. They seem to randomly wander from one subject to another with no segue or thread of logic to help you follow their meandering musings. Written content can fall prey to the same problem. The longer an article […]
Is the Call To Action in your marketing and advertising getting any action? Do you even have a call to action? Lots of people are writing articles and publishing podcasts and recording videos and buying advertising in print and broadcast and digital (along with a myriad of other paid and organic content) with the express […]
You’ve heard phrases like “strong as an ox”, “slept like a log”, and “cool as a cucumber” all your life. What you may not remember from your school days is that these wonderfully descriptive phrases are called similes. A simile is figure of speech that uses the words “like” or “as” to make a direct […]
During these sequestered days of working remotely to help stave off the spread of the coronavirus, I think we can all agree with the idea that most of the meetings we’ve attended in the past could have absolutely been emails instead. But now with so many people sending so many emails (including yourself) I think […]