I just spent 30 minutes to watch this video of a talk by Seth Godin on how he wrote and marketed 10 best selling books using methods relevant today. He shows how many traditional publishing and marketing methods are outdated and what is working today. It was 30 minutes well spent.
Recording - Keys To Success In Any Economy
I was recently interviewed by Janet Fouts on The Keys To Success In Any Economy. I want to share the recording with you because I think you will find it valuable. One listener had this to say:
“…you made a number of distinctions, each of which could be life changing for me, or most anyone who takes it to heart.” -Greg Vinson Read more at bestbusinessyear.com |
This blog post by Seth Godin reminds me of Republican Joe Wilson shouting ‘You lie!’ during Obama’s speech on health care yesterday.
This is a default response for many people–irked customers, angry bosses, disappointed colleagues. It’s easy to go into high dudgeon (in fact, low dudgeon isn’t even in the dictionary, it’s always ‘high’). The thing is: it doesn’t work. It rarely succeeds in accomplishing much, and it makes you unhappy at the same time. What if you took it out of your toolbox of responses? What if, just like becoming a cannibal or painting your face green, you eliminated righteous indignation as an option in your list of responses to various situations, no matter how unfair? What if the people you work with weren’t permitted to indulge? Just think of how much more you’d get done and how much calmer everything would be. Read more at sethgodin.typepad.com |
I like this blog post from Seth Godin. He identifies some of the reasons people tend to indulge in negative thinking, even when we know better. Key question then: why do smart people engage in negative thinking? Are they actually stupid? The reason, I think, is that negative thinking feels good. In its own way, we believe that negative thinking works. Negative thinking feels realistic, or soothes our pain, or eases our embarrassment. Negative thinking protects us and lowers expectations. Read more at sethgodin.typepad.com |
I’m being interviewed by social media coach Janet Fouts for a free teleclass on Keys To Success In Business & Life on September 15th. You might want to check it out.
What you will take away:
We’re going explore the keys to business and life success, in any economy. We will seek to answer the following questions:
- What do the most successful small business owners know and do that you don’t already know and do yourself?
- What are the key distinctions, strategies, mind-shifts, and time-management approaches of people who reach their full potential versus those that don’t?
- How can you grow a successful business, especially when the economy is in a slump, and still have a balanced, healthy lifestyle?
- What support structures do you need to reach your full potential?
- What is the psychology of a successful person? How do they think? How do they respond to challenges, both internal (beliefs & attitudes) and external (slow economy, lack of cash flow, etc.)?
- Specific strategies to synchronize your daily actions and habits with your bigger vision and goals.
- A simple time-management principle that you can im
Read more at janetfouts.com |
This is my latest blog post. I’m getting on my soap box here. All you information junkies need to hear this… I’m currently reading “The Irrational Entrepreneur - The Real Reason 9 of 10 Small Firms Fail & How Yours Can Flourish”, by Jon D. Lowry.
I’ve only read four chapters so far, but I wanted to share a couple of quotes from the book, because I thought they were so “spot-on”. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how most of my clients, and most of the people I know, are on information overload. They have trouble managing all of the information coming at them on a regular basis. Yet, they still seek out more information. While the internet is a modern miracle with tremendous value, it has compounded this problem many times over and most people can barely stay on top of their email, let alone all the other sources of information coming their way. Read more at bestbusinessyear.com |
How much time would you save if you increased your reading speed? This could be very useful… The PX Project, a single 3-hour cognitive experiment, produced an average increase in reading speed of 386%.
It was tested with speakers of five languages, and even dyslexics were conditioned to read technical material at more than 3,000 words-per-minute (wpm), or 10 pages per minute. One page every 6 seconds. By comparison, the average reading speed in the US is 200-300 wpm (1/2 to 1 page per minute), with the top 1% of the population reading over 400 wpm… Read more at www.fourhourworkweek.com |
| Everybody on the internet wants to give you their “free” advice and then try to sell you something. I don’t want to add to the “noise”. You’re probably on information overload already. Instead, I want to share the specific strategies I used to grow several small businesses while traveling the world, helping my favorite social-change and green causes, and goofing off way more than the average 9-to-5′er. I started many small businesses and a non-profit in my teens, twenties, and early thirties and have been gainfully self-employed my entire life. In 2003 I began coaching hundreds of clients to achieve uncommon success in business and life.Read more at bestbusinessyear.com |
This might be old news to some of you, but I’m a little bit excited about the new Google Wave application. I think it has huge potential.
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