Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Contribute to a lot of projects
Don’t present a problem unless you’re tagging a solution with it
Everyone has different social skills and understanding of social cues, don’t take anything someone says personally
If you are finding yourself impatient, use that time to reflect
People will tell your story whether you guide them with what to say or not
Stay Positive & Everything We Do And How We Do It Matters
Keeping up with trends on Twitter is too difficult. Keeping up with the new, in general, is damn near impossible. And the news of the world? News outlets can barely keep up. (The amount of information we should be seeing trumps what we actually see.)
It’s hard not to be a bad follower, hard to stay in sync with our online dinner parties and the digitalized world around us.
On the other hand, it’s quite easy to become a great leader because it’s hard not to be a bad follower.
When we start creating our own news, doing work that matters and connecting with people at real dinner parties, we thwart the concept of constant synchronicity with the online world.
Great leaders strive off the beaten path; they can’t create a trend by following one.
Stay Positive & Do What Followers Aren’t
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… is to change something.
Any viable product or service is made to change because the maker, the artist was dissatisfied, frustrated or just flat-out upset about the way something was working.
Money isn’t the answer even if it is. There’s a reason behind the money. Perhaps location independence or philanthropy.
When you know what you want to change, that’s the start of the story you tell.
Stay Positive & Be Make The Change You Want To See In The World
I remained immobile the other day after realizing how much I want to change in my life.
While I’m not one that sees the new year as a time to start something new (because now is the best time to start anything), I can’t help thinking about all the changes I want to make and in such short time I want to make them.
It’s a problem I see with a lot of entrepreneurs, go-getters and people who just want to turn their life around.
By “turnaround,” I mean a quick turnaround. We want our new habits to form from the start. We want to be on all the healthy tracks of eating, exercising, meditating, working, creating, connecting, and so on, all at once, and in a short period of time.
Quite frankly, just thinking about it, trying to plan big change to happen fast… it’s paralyzing.
We have to remember the new year isn’t a 1-day event, it’s a 365-day event, some may even consider it a marathon of sorts.
Small consistent changes are fine as long as they lead you to the place you want to be. We don’t need to have everything happen at once.
Stay Positive & Don’t People Who Are In It For The Long Haul Just Make You Happy?
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These are all tried and true practices, insights and advice of the most successful entrepreneurs, designers, brewers, writers, and artists that I’ve spoken to, listened to or seen in 2014.
Absolutely invaluable wisdom.
1) Show the world you’re not afraid.
2) Follow your gut. If it speaks to you, you don’t need confirmation from anyone else.
3) If you can’t find a job, create one. If you can’t find a way, make one.
4) Not everything you do will be a success, there will be things you do that are a flop. That’s okay as long as you push through.
5) Be completely indifferent to what people say about you.
6) Connect things that haven’t been connected; it’s how you make breakthroughs.
7) Wake up early and on your own time.
8) Mornings are the only time that a routine should take place.
9) An overwhelming number of entrepreneurs go through divorces because of their focus on business instead of relationships. Just be aware.
10) Connect with two people a day. Lunch date. Twitter chat. FB message. Good morning email.
11) Go where you’re treated best.
12) Find patterns. It’s the best way to guarantee an idea will work. (You may not understand the benefit of this advice until you start noticing patterns and asking why they are there.)
13) Keep going after something and you’ll get it. Stop and you’ll never.
14) If you make one decision over another because “it doesn’t really matter,” then you’re making the wrong decision because everything matters.
15) Hustle has to be in your legs, not your hands. Don’t get stuck in busy work, do work that matters, that moves you forward.
I don’t take these numbered posts lightly. I put a lot of thought and heart into what advice matters and can best serve you. I can chat for 10 minutes on any one of these, so feel free to reach out and make a friend this new year.
Stay Positive & Take The Stage This 2015
Protip: you can start right now.
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I’m all for focusing on one social media platform and becoming the master of it. I’m friends with some remarkable people who have built their businesses around a single platform, be it LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest or another.
For individuals, it may work, but as a freelance PR strategist, I can tell you from experience no business will be convinced that they should stay on a single platform.
To many businesses, the extra handful of clients they can get just by using another social media platform is worth the time and effort.
It’s for this reason you can find me on every social media outlet, why I exhaust myself keeping up with the learning curve of every platform, and… why businesses choose to work with me.
There are benefits and consequences to both sticking with one platform or stretching yourself across all. Which do you think is better?
Stay Positive & Both Require The Same Amount Of Hustle
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1) These were Tumblr’s top 20 sponsored posts of 2014 (see) Take a moment to check out these top sponsored posts. It’s amazing how a little effort can make things go viral, and simply by being human.
2) Blueprint for better business gives companies a ‘get out of jail free card’ (read) And these people get in trouble if they don’t use the card! Talk about promoted failure (learning).
3) The Ice Breaker (read) A lot to learn about hockey, a lot to learn from hockey. One thing is true on the ice and off: respect is earned.
4) Chug, Run, Repeat (read) The beer mile is getting ever more popular.
5) Crafting the ideal cup: Madison’s coffee culture goes third wave (read) Maybe a bit more about coffee than you want, but I love the heart these artists have.
6) Make your soul grow (read) If you haven’t read Kurt Vonnegut’s letter to a group of students at Xavier High School, you’ve been missing out.
