Author: Garth Beyer

For Those Entering The Communication World

Garth Beyer

They tell you silence is golden. It’s not.

Have a concern? Speak up.

Unsure of something? Speak up.

Problem? Speak up.

Thought of an idea, good or bad? Speak up.

Have criticism? Speak up.

Speak up with whoever you’re interacting with. From those you interview to those you work with. From those who are above you and those below. If you’re interacting with anyone, speak up.

 

Stay Positive & Do I Need To Say It Again?

 

Words That Have Meaning

Garth Beyer

Opportunity, go, job, strife, success, thrash, goal, results, guarantee, safety, new, change, acceptance, stress, cheers, struggle, beautiful…

These are all words that have as much meaning as you’ve put into them. For some reading this, they are empty words. For others, they need more letters to hold all the meaning. Luck, experience, chance, love, work… they are all just words, that is, until you give them meaning.

 

Stay Positive & How Will People Feel Flipping Through Your Dictionary?

Assorted Links

Garth Beyer

1. The secrets of successful website content (read)

2. The oracle of ice hockey (long read)

3. The future of journalism just got a little more robotic (read)

4. Do 11 percent of Americans really think HTML is an STD? (read)

5. New school lunch policy (read)

 

Where You Start

Garth Beyer

What can you make from this chart?

Where you start

There are businesses, writers, artists that start when they still haven’t perfected their craft. They create crap art and develop sketchy business models. They write well but make countless grammatical and mechanical errors. But according to this chart, there’s no correlation of where you start in terms of a perfect craft to how successful you are down the line.

What about those who are perfect at their art when they start. What about those writers who practice in the shadows and refuse to come out until their novel is perfect? How about those businessmen and women who study model after model before they develop their “perfect” model. Is there any guarantee of success for them down the line? Nope.

Where you start doesn’t matter much down the line.* What matters is that you start.

 

Stay Positive & Go Start

*If you’re looking for a short-term investment or if you’re looking for a place to perfect your practice before you truly launch yourself, where you start matters very much.

 

 

 

“I Don’t Have Time To Read”

Garth Beyer

Words made famous by almost everyone.

Consider this by Michael Ferber, there were about 350,000 new titles or new editions published in the U.S in 2012, of which perhaps 75,000 were in adult fiction. The number of self-published books and print-on-demand books form extensive backlists. Britain published more than 200,000 books. Add Canada, Australia, and so on, and we can safely assume that about 1,000,000 new titles in adult fiction appeared in 2012 in English alone.

What does this mean for reading and becoming successful? It means that if you spent all of your time reading, you wouldn’t have any time to act on what you learn to become successful.

I’ve met so many people who think they need to sit in a library every day and read up on all they can. Alert! Here’s a cool chart that reflects what happens to your likelihood of success the more you read.

Reading Your Way To Success (Or Failure)

Malcolm Gladwell covers the inverted-u concept. Zig Ziglar and Seth Godin tell their audience if they want to become successful, they should read a book a week. It might work perfect for them, might even work perfect for you. It doesn’t work perfect for me. I’m a two books in a day then no books for a week kind of guy. I don’t advise this for you. What I advise is you try to find how many books a week you can read to get you at the top of the inverted-u. Success.

 

Stay Positive & I Know You Can Do It

With Every New Trend

Garth Beyer

Someone who is always quiet will finally speak up.

Someone who never writes about anything will blog about it.

Someone who knows nothing about the design behind the new trend will then seek out to learn it.

Someone who never read a book cover to cover will now.

With every new trend.

 

Stay Positive & Someone Perhaps You