Category Archives: Life Lesson

The Sweat Of Perfection

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No. This isn’t about working hard. It has nothing to do with perfect practice making perfect. It actually has nothing to do with quality. It does, however, have everything to do with fear, effort, and vulnerability.

Edward R. Murrow called stage fright ‘the sweat of perfection.’

What Murrow was implying is that getting yourself up there, just doing it, trying, testing, shipping, making yourself vulnerable, opening yourself to criticism, sharing what you have created is what makes perfection.

You can build a myriad of matryoshka dolls but they will never be perfect unless you share them, because that’s what creating is really about.

Perfection is a state of completeness and nothing is complete until it’s given away.

 

Stay Positive & Perspire Perfection

Garth E. Beyer

3 Steps To Get Better At Anything

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1. Consume: Read and read often. Find idols, heroes, and infamous artists. Study them. Research what they researched. You’ll quickly discover that while tracking their footsteps, you’re leaving your own.

2. Produce: Try. Create. Make. Experiment. Fail. Produce something as often as possible. Choose not to have a choice if you construct something each day, just do it. Your goal is 10,000 hours or 10,000 lightbulbs, whichever comes first.

3. Share: Ship with style, deliver relentlessly. To share is equal amounts act of giving and feeling vulnerable. Don’t think about waiting. Tell yourself the best time to ship is now, and it will be. Whether you think you have something that matters doesn’t really matter. Someone, somewhere believes it matters. Will they find you?

 

Stay Positive & Consume Feedback Then Repeat

Garth E. Beyer

Encore

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Is it at the back of your mind? When you’re selling a book? Playing on stage? Speaking in front of 15 or 1,500 people? Or just finishing your menial tasks faster than the rest?

Too often I have seen people judge their work by whether they get an encore.

What about the regular applause? Is that not good enough?

No. It’s not.

Because no one makes themselves vulnerable for applause, they make themselves vulnerable because they want to do it again. And since sooner is better, the best is when they get an encore.

 

Stay Positive & Truly, Every Moment Is Your Encore

Garth E. Beyer

The Question I Ask Every Student

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There are two types of majority students. There are the ones that have no clue what they want to do and ones that do, but don’t do it. Whether the reasons are family based, fear based, or fund based, I use one question to truly get students to think about what they authentically want to do or what they could be doing with their passion.

If school was taken from you, what would you do?

 

Stay Positive & Ask It. You Will Be Amazed

Garth E. Beyer

The Other 364 Days

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My mom dislikes her birthday. She doesn’t like celebrating it, she doesn’t even look forward to it. The same goes for Mothers day. I usually have to remind her that it’s around the corner. And it’s because of this, through her, that I’ve learned how to be one of the best marketers at my age.

If birthdays are days you’re meant to celebrate being alive. What are you to do the other 364 days of the year? If Mothers day is the day you’re meant to celebrate all that your mother has done and continues to do (let’s face it, they are always putting up with your crap whether you’re delivering it or not). What are you doing the other 364 days of the year?

What about the thank you letter you write to your new boss for hiring you. Or your friend who you treat to dinner after they lend you some money for your project that turns out to be a success. Or your dad who lets you reel in the big fish. Or the random stranger who does a good deed.

If there is one thing Mothers day should remind you of, it is the importance of celebrating it and every other event the other 364 days of the year as well. Sure, it’s okay to do a little extra on these days – it’s hard not to when it’s such a heavy tradition. Saying every day is Mothers day is a bit overkill when we have so many people to celebrate being in our lives.

As it goes with your mom or your customer, your appreciation when it’s least expected is often the most effective.

Thank you mom for giving me the foundation to be everything I could and for filling in the holes that I miss. You’re the best. Miss you.

 

Stay Positive & Live As If There Was No Calendar To Tell You The Significance Of The Day

Garth E. Beyer