First Get Good At Consistently Creating

Garth Beyer

So often you’ll not follow-through with a project or an idea because you know how much marketing you’re going to have to do when it’s complete.

To you, the world might not seem approving of someone writing a book and just throwing it on a digital bookshelf. No. You have to write the book, make sure it’s excellent, put it on the digital bookshelf, and then advertise it, get reviews on it, have bloggers cover it, give it out for free, set a Skype chat interview up for you to talk about it, make sure it’s translated to 20 different languages, beg the NYT reviewers to read it, and so much more.

It’s all a lie. It’s all a trick to stop you from creating. It’s fear speaking up. It’s an excuse and you and I both know it.

First get good at consistently creating. Write five books and throw them up on Amazon. Chat with friends about it, naturally, but don’t worry about heavily marketing it. Think about it in terms of time. If you create something, a book, an art piece, a business plan or a TED talk (and it takes you a month), then you spend the next seven months marketing it, getting people to see it, buy into it, subscribe to it, admire it, blog about it. You’ve just stopped yourself from creating seven more incredible works of art.

Obviously this post isn’t meant for the experts, the famous, the already envied. It’s for you, it’s for me, it’s for all the people out there who think things need to be perfect and need to have their total commitment for a year before they move on and create the next thing. It’s not necessary. The best marketing strategies come natural, the best art work doesn’t need to be pushed, the greatest connections often come from chatting about what you’ve done lately, not what you did six months ago.

And you know what? The act of consistently creating might be the greatest marketing strategy known to man.

 

Stay Positive & Interesting, Isn’t It?

 

Self-Taught, It’s All On You To Create

Garth Beyer

I’m self-taught. Half because I don’t think school teaches enough of the important stuff. Half because it’s expensive to have others teach you. (Naturally, the younger you are, the less money you have to invest in your private education.) It’s not just tuition that’s pricey, but seminars, learning programs and teaching kits too.

It does well to remember, though, you can read up on books, watch YouTube and TED videos. You can ask a smart friend to mentor you or you can establish a club where you teach each other what your superpower is and learn together. But none of this compares to the impact, the lessons, the power of creating.

When you start creating, the lessons seek you, the connections find you, the success follows you. What you take in is half of your education. What you give out is the other half.

 

Stay Positive & Quite Possibly The Most Important Half Of Your Education

There Are More Of You Out There

Garth Beyer

Finding people like you is tough. Ignorance made me think I was the only one who had difficulty finding people who thought the same as me. I’m not. You’re not either.

No matter how many people we can share similarities with (there are a lot!), very few seem to just click. Taking away from the romance of the two pieces of a puzzle that fit together, I have to break it to you that there are no two, three, or four piece puzzles that work. At least none that are any appealing.

The puzzle concept is a fair analogy. You, one piece of the puzzle, fit perfectly together with only a couple other pieces. That doesn’t mean you’re complete. Nor will you ever feel complete with only a few perfect pieces. Should you reject all the other pieces that connect with each other and with those who you connect with, simply because they can’t connect directly with you? Of course not.

This is the Connection Economy. No one said it was the Perfect Connection Economy.

Connect with as many as you can, no matter how weak or strong the tie will be. Pretty soon, you’ll have pieces fighting over each other to be closest to you. But, you’ll never get there if you reject all those who don’t think exactly like you.

One is lonely, two is company, a hundred is one hell of a party.

 

Stay Positive & Who Doesn’t Want That?

 

5 Tips/Reminders For Happy Living

Garth Beyer

1) Variety isn’t the spice of life, but a bit of variety each day makes for good memories.

2) Staying positive is hard. Sometimes faking it leads to the real thing.

3) Make yourself really uncomfortable for a little bit. While you’re uncomfortable, realize that there are people in the world that don’t have a choice to be uncomfortable.

4) Call a family member and vent. They’ll listen and have nothing but good things to say.

5) If something goes wrong with someone. Talk it out, right then and there. If other people are in the room, pull the person you had a conflict with to the side and proceed to talk it out.

 

Stay Positive & What Are You Waiting For? Get Happy!

 

Not Everyone

Garth Beyer

In a world filled with people making choices based on the size of the competition pool, it does well to remember not everyone wants to be a public speaker. Not everyone wants to become a plumber. Not everyone wants to do what you want to do.

There’s competition no matter where you go, but it does well to remember your competition isn’t everyone in the world even though it feels that way from time to time.

 

Stay Positive & Your Chances Are Better Than You Think

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?