1. Striking truths (short short read)
2. Russian commuters win free Metro travel if they can prove physical prowess (read)
3. The fist bump manifesto (read)
5. How Netflix reinvented HR (read) (reference to core values from earlier post)
Important Questions Of 2014
There are a lot of important questions that need to be asked year after year. There are some important questions that are unexpected, others, unnecessary.
I could create a list (a longgg list) of important questions that you will need to ask yourself at some point or another.
Instead, I’m going to tell you the important questions that I’m asking myself this year and hope they resonate with you and give you insight of what you can expect from me this year.
1) How can you bite off more than you can chew and stay ahead of the competition without crashing?
2) Your voice, your story is out there somewhere. What are you willing to try and do to find it?
3) What are your core values and how do you present them?
4) What happens when you leave your comfort zone (job, house, school) and go after what you’re passionate about?
There will be more questions as the year progresses, but this is a firm place to begin. I encourage you to bookmark my blog and catch the answers throughout the year.
Funny, if you remember, last year was a year full of questions. I suppose it’s time for more answers.
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What’s Your Speed
Are you a sprinter? A pacer? A walker?
Imagine that you work at a bookstore and someone asks you to help them find a book. You know exactly where it is. How fast do you walk to it?
Walk slow and they perceive you as not caring about what you’re doing. Go too fast and they perceive that they are a nuisance to you. Walk at their pace and they won’t perceive you at all.
The big go getters in life, the real big ones, they don’t make it. I’ve tried each of the paces. I’ve gone too fast and crashed. I’ve gone to slow and disappointed people, including myself. I’ve done things at a mediocre rate and went unnoticed.
I’m writing to tell you that the right pace is different for you than it is me because we’re likely trying to please a different group of people. However, we all have our competition. The right pace can be simplified to slightly faster than your competition, than those trying to please the same group of people as you. We all have our audiences and average pace for pleasing that audience.
The best become so by being slightly better.
Selling, consulting, making people happy. It’s not a race. The quickest don’t win. Those who push themselves just past the average are the ones who win.
And in the world we’re in, winning is everything.
Stay Positive & Get Out There, Be Better Than The Rest
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The Thing About Advice
There’s a lot of advice out there. Really good advice. Advice because other people took risks, learned from them and don’t want you to make the same mistakes.
That is all good and fun, but it’s partly wrong.
I remember a time when I was younger and living with my dad. He was trying to tell me to not do something that he did when he was my age. I turned to him and asked if he regretted the choices he made. I said to him, “What if. What if I do everything exactly as you tell me, that I do everything you suggest the way you suggest it. Then what. Am I supposed to be happy? It won’t be my life then.”
True advice is when someone suggests you do something a certain way but doesn’t resent you if you don’t. This is what I want you to keep an ear out for with this new year.
I want you to take the risks, make the mistakes, fail, but fail fast. If something isn’t clear that it’s the wrong choice, then it’s up to you to see whatever choice you make as the right one and not let anyone else make that judgement for you.
Stay Positive & This Is YOUR Life
Garth E. Beyer
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What Are You Aiming At
Don’t aim to do the same. Aim to do more.
Stay Positive & Seems Like A Neat NYR To Me
Garth E. Beyer
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The Odd One
One out of a thousand straws are naturally curved while the others are straight. One out of 240 teddy grahams are fused together. One out of a million M&M’s have a legitimate “W” printed on them rather than an “M.”
People love these things. That’s why you don’t want a perfect product. Sometimes the rare condition makes it more valuable.
There may not be a profit in this, but it sure makes people happier. That’s what you’re trying to do right?
Stay Positive & However, Happiness Sells
Garth E. Beyer
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Busy
Not all who are busy achieve a lot.
Working long and hard doesn’t make you more respected, there is no medal for it, and no reward that you couldn’t obtain by working less hours.
The real success is in working smart and strong enough for a reasonable amount of time and producing either the same results or better results than if you had slaved day after day into the night.
When I find a formula for this, I will share it. For now, just don’t buy into the idea that to be successful you have to sleep less, work more and let go of things that make you immediately happy.
Stay Positive & Time Will Tell
Garth E. Beyer