Last Minute Gift

Garth Beyer

It’s quite simple. Walk to your printer. Pull out a piece of paper. Fold it in half. Draw a heart or a christmas tree or whatever you think you are somewhat good at drawing, then, on the inside, write a personal note. Thank the special someone for something. Share a memory they may have thought you’ve forgotten. Wish them a remarkable year. Remind them not to lose to fear. Sign your name… in really poor cursive, of course.

Gift cards are scams. One day shipping is a cop-out. An eCard isn’t personal enough.

Sometimes a card that shows you truly care is all you need to give.

 

Stay Positive & People Need Emotion, Sincerity, Compassion

Take The Risk Of Putting Yourself Out There

Garth Beyer

Here’s me, taking the risk of putting myself out there. Enjoy.

Big shout out to WSUM for having me on air. You can listen to other interviews here.

 

Stay Positive & Ship Something Every Day

Few Tips For Your Journey To Success

Garth Beyer

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

Becoming A Great Leader

Becoming A Great Leader

Garth Beyer

Great Leader

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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The Only Reason To Start A Project

The Only Reason To Start A Project

Garth Beyer

… 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

The Desire For Too Much Change

The Desire For Too Much Change

Garth Beyer

Too Much Change

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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Take The Stage: 15 Pieces Of Advice For 2015 Success

Take The Stage: 15 Pieces Of Advice For 2015 Success

Garth Beyer

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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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