Author: Garth Beyer

If You’re Not Going To Act On Your Great Idea

Garth Beyer

Share Your Great Idea

then please share it, give it away, put it out there for others to use.

You’re doing a disservice when you hold on to your idea for the right time, the right funding, the right medium. You’re holding everyone back when you keep your idea because you don’t want it to be stolen. You’re holding yourself back when you don’t do all of what you can right now.

If an idea doesn’t move you to constantly do all it takes to see it to fruition, then set it free.

A good idea that stays an idea and doesn’t connect with action, promotion, and care, is just dead weight.

I always look at it this way: tomorrow someone might do a google search, might be handed your name or email or web address, and when they look you up, they might read what you wrote, see what’s on your mind, and it might be just what they needed.

There’s a large chance putting your great idea out there won’t make an impact, no one will see it, and it will be lost out in the noise, but the risk of depriving someone who may need that idea tomorrow. I’m just not willing to take that risk.

 

Stay Positive & Make It Happen Or Let It Free

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The Path Successful People Take

Garth Beyer

They come up with a lot of bad ideas until they start coming up with good ideas.

Then they start to market those good ideas very poorly.

Soon enough, they pair good marketing strategies with good ideas.

Which step are you at?

 

Stay Positive & If You Didn’t Notice, Failure Is The Stepping Stone

#RandomCall

Garth Beyer

Zachary Lukasiewicz and I connected over LinkedIn and ended up recording our Google hangout for your pleasure. It was the first time we talked other than a few private messages to set up the hangout. Scott Herren was also with Zachary. We chatted about entrepreneurship, startup communities, how students need to take advantage of opportunities and how to stay positive. There were technical issues at the start of the talk, jump to the 4-minute mark to start.

You can watch it here. Enjoy.

 

Stay Positive & Making Connections Is Everything

Why Good Habits Don’t Last

Why Good Habits Don’t Last

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Daily Grind Habit

Max Ogles wrote on Medium that it’s because the habits are generally not enjoyable. The thing is, most people set out to master good habits, not to maintain them. Simply stating it, maintaining good habits is the unenjoyable part, not necessarily the habit itself.

We go into goal-setting with a subconscious acknowledgment that there are a million good habits that we should have, but don’t. Once we’ve developed one good habit, we begin to see all the other good habits we’re missing.

Moreover, and quite plainly, we gain more pleasure out of turning something into a habit, of moving forward than of maintaining the habit. The reason that good habits don’t last is we’re no longer moving toward something. We’ve stagnated. We’ve began standing still. People die standing still.

When you’ve developed your good habit, you’re left with two options.

1) You can choose to start practicing a new good habit. (This will happen regardless, unless you choose the next option.)

2) You can slightly shift your good habit.

It’s one thing to exercise each day, but once it becomes mechanic, repetitive, unenjoyable, you can switch up the type of exercise. Strive to build a habit of boxing daily instead of running. This way you maintain the benefits exercising and retain the pleasure of striving to acquire a new habit.

By all means, follow Ogles advice to learn how to enjoy any habit, but know that stopping a good habit isn’t a bad thing so long as you’re on track to starting a new good habit.

 

Stay Positive & Keep Trying Different Good Habits Until You Find The Ones That Work For You

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One Thing Employees Want Most

One Thing Employees Want Most

Garth Beyer

Mopping Leader

is to know their leader understands them.

And the only way to understand them is to step in their shoes, to do the grunt work, to have experience doing what they’re doing.

The best place a leader can be for quick profits might be in the office, but the best place a leader can be for building a remarkable business, for increasing the chance of surviving longterm, for doing what really gets talked about is out on the floor.

 

Stay Positive & Same Can Be Said For His Target Audience

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What’ll You Name It?

What’ll You Name It?

Garth Beyer

Imgur name

Naming [your book, your business, your child] is one of the most exciting steps of creation. Unfortunately it’s also one of the most time-consuming. While we mull over a hundred different names, use name creation sites, and view top baby/business/book name lists, we waste precious time that could be spent making something out of the name.

I have two tips to offer when it comes to what you’ll name your project.

1) Don’t think of what you want to name your tangible project as you see it now. Instead, think of naming the vision, think of what you want to name the end result, think about what the project will look like when it’s complete and what name best represents that image. Make people believe in something with your name. Create huge expectations out of the name. Don’t think about the starting line, think about the finish.

2) Pick a name quickly. By all means, take a few days, run it by a couple of people you admire (and who know what they are actually talking about), but pick a name quickly. A name is what you make it. Seth Godin wasn’t a remarkable name when he was given it, but it has since become the name of one of the most remarkable marketers of this era. Apple was decided on quickly and has made a name for itself. Same with Zappos, Chobani, Uber, and so on. Pick a name and move on.

It’s not a ‘which came first the chicken or the egg’ situation here. The name came first. The meaning came second. And it’s the meaning that you want to be focusing your energy and time on.

 

Stay Positive & Fill Your Name With Meaning

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Why I Ignore My Most Magnetic Posts

Why I Ignore My Most Magnetic Posts

Garth Beyer

Metrics Match The Message

The posts I’ve written that have gained the most traffic in the shortest amount of time were all how-to posts. Going through my archive of more than 1,200 posts, you’ll see I don’t write many of them. Why?

It’s easy to write posts that guarantee a spike in traffic, that have a giant (and often vague)  promise to boost your website analytics.

“How to attract a thousand unique visitors a day” and “How to start a multimillion dollar online business” are great examples of instant traffic posts.

I could write how-to posts every day for the next month and gain more traffic than I have had in the last year, but I don’t. I only write them when I can expand on the meaning of each step, when it’s pure fun for me and when it involves more direction than actual steps (because of reasons here).

Let’s point out that there is another type of post that may have less views, but is far more “successful.” It’s a type of post that gains a lot of attraction over a longer span of time because people are interested more in the story being told than the quick turnaround tips so many ego-centric writers present.

These popular posts are written as evergreen content. Content you can come back to, play off of, learn from again and again. When writing about steps, they are steps that can apply to business, to relationships, to work, to art, to life and so on.

These posts are often work to read and process because they challenge the reader to think differently, to try something new, to push themselves. These posts arn’t so much a read and then click over to my next tab… they are a read and come back again later to read again and think about again and play off of again.

The best art and relationships come from the blog posts, the ideas,  the pieces of work you ship into the world that one person views and then interacts with, not that a thousand people view and don’t interact with.

I ignore the most magnetic posts because they don’t represent the story I’m telling.

 

Stay Positive & Make Sure Your Metrics Match The Message

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