Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
There’s a secret way fear speaks out to keep you safe, to prevent you from taking a risk, from putting yourself out there. It involves the feeling of being busy. There’s a dopamine release when someone acknowledges that you appear slammed. Being busy makes us feel needed, valued, and preemptively appreciated. But the busy we’re […]
See more than be seen. Listen more than hope you’re heard. Give more than you wait to be asked. People don’t want to be interrupted and they don’t want to do the interrupting. They want to know they’ve been listened to, that they’re understood, that you’re on their team. Stay Positive & Fit Their […]
You might care more than the person who did X before you. You might have more passion, researched more and got more eyeballs on you, but it’s unlikely the market, the audience, the spectators will care. What they’re looking for is someone who cares so much that they’re willing to put themselves out on the […]
Key mindset of preparation is to prepare for more. More photos during a shoot. More customers in line. More online orders. More special requests. More people referring friends. Can your business handle more? It ought to. Stay Positive & More Is More Photo credit
The best tech, apps and software get better when more people use it. Facebook, DragonSoul, Unsplash, Snapseed. The same can be said for many businesses, too–the one’s that build a community are often the strongest, most profitable and longest-lasting. Subaru, Mobcraft, Basecamp, Firefox. It’s worth asking if your brand gets better when more people come […]
This is my 2,517th blog post. I’ve written a lot that I didn’t like (probably still don’t) and some I do. But that’s not the point. The point is to show up because that’s the only way to find inspiration, to meet your muse and to create something meaningful. More important than the output is […]
Contrary to what we might assume, most people don’t want a literal map. They don’t want a step-by-step process. They don’t want their hand held. On second thought, it’s not that they don’t want any of that. It’s that they want something else more. The feeling of achievement, perhaps. Or the feeling of belonging. Or […]
