I'm on "vacation" this week and promised my wife I'd work less. For an hour I have sat in the hotel lobby and acted on the most important emails from yesterday. My Tips: 1. You only have an hour - stick to it like glue. 2. Spend the first five minutes prioritizing the tasks (For example, my make … [Read more...]
Excuses Can Just Suck It
1. None of us really care about your excuses anyway. 2. You've got great goals you are striving to achieve. 3. Take all the time you spend making excuses and do the work to reach those goals. *** end of post *** Story of the short post above. I was using my offline post editor and it ate my … [Read more...]
The Bloggers Topic Dilemma
Every (not most) blogger I know struggles with the topic dilemma. Do I write the short, raw, shoot from the hip post? Or, do I take the time and write something deep, thoughtful and potentially game changing? The later post style will probably bring us business and potentially put food on the … [Read more...]
Stop Asking for Permission
For the past few weeks I've watched entrepreneurs I consider more successful to see what they are doing differently than me. The answer that hit me, they seldom ask for permission. They get more things done quicker. One of the ways you get things done is to following the old saying "it's easier to … [Read more...]
Keep After Your Masterpieces
Yesterday, while working on an ebook for my ColorMetrix audience the one useful piece of information it will leave them with finally jumped out and bit me. Your masterpieces will take longer. The actual writing of a blog post rarely takes me more than and hour and is quite often done in 20 or 30 … [Read more...]
Play Nice With Others
This was the title of my third slide for a recent presentation. "Play nice with others" ended up being the one thing I left my audience with. Play nice with others. In the context of my presentation referred to ColorMetrix software products being interoperable with other "competitive" products. I … [Read more...]
reThink and unThink to Achieve WordPress Like Success
Matt Mullenweg's success with WordPress has convinced me to unThink "it can't be done." In 2003 Matt (as founding developer) released WordPress which is the platform this web-site and about 202 million others run on. (No I didn't make that number up, it's in the linked Wikipedia article). Matt was … [Read more...]
What's the Right Amount of Blogging?
If you are a blogger, this topic is bound to catch a little corner of your brain every now and then. It's also one of those questions that if you asked 10 bloggers you'd get 11 answers. There is no right amount of blogging. There just isn't. I try like heck to post once a day either here, or on the … [Read more...]
Social Media & Business Lessons From a Jewel Concert
Last night I had the pleasure of attending a Jewel concert with my wife. Here's the three things I learned from Jewel last night after she made sure we knew her Twitter handle @jeweljk. 1. The power of your story. Last night it was just Jewel and her Guitar. Between songs she told the stories … [Read more...]
Stop Thinking and Ship it Baby!
Last night while watching a mindless episode of tosh.0 with my family I grabbed my MacBook and wrote the previous post Watch Your Thoughts. It took about 20 minutes and about half my attention was devoted to writing the post. You don't know what will resonate. I stopped thinking and started … [Read more...]
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