How It Works

Garth Beyer

There is a little known benefit to watching how something works.

5403037296_89a0c4ce08_z

For most things, you can read blogs, watch YouTube videos, or flip on the television show How Stuff Works to see how exactly something works. If you’re a real adventurer, you might go to the location of “it” and see for yourself how it works.

The little known benefit of watching how things work is that it becomes ever more difficult to hate it, dispute it, or rant about it.

After seeing this video on how clutches work, I don’t find myself getting angry when I’m shifting my motorcycle and it jerks me forward or backward.

There’s a natural tendency to care more about what we know more about. All opinions change as more information is acquired.

Next time something frustrates you. Learn about it.

 

Stay Positive & Stress Ball Profits Are Now Seeing A Decrease

(how do they even work anyway…)

Garth E. Beyer

Photo credit

Two Words To Never Believe

Garth Beyer

2530403170_3a124399f1

“no hurry”

 

Everyone wants affirmative and immediate feedback.

And for those who think haste makes waste, let me remind you that waste can be used as biofuel.

 

Stay Positive & Carry On

Garth E. Beyer

Photo credit

The Three Whales

Garth Beyer

Twitter Whale

The killer whale and the serial whale are always out to get you.

The killer whale is that large weight holding you back from completing your project (or for some, starting it). The killer whale, well, kills. It kills your passion, your motivation, your hope, and eventually your art (or for some, just the idea of it).

The serial whale is the whale that you actually come face to face with while you’re doing the hard work of making your art. The serial whale doesn’t communicate through loud screeches and cries. No. The serial whale has a voice that it uses to tell you you’re not good enough, that your goal can’t be reached, that you should just give up. (Who knew the little voice syndrome was actually a whale talking to you. Things get more and more weird.)

Then you have the fail whale (pictured above).

The fact the whale is smiling says more than words can right now.

 

Stay Positive & The Fail Whale Is Okay, It’s The Other Two That Need To Be Poached

Garth E. Beyer

Are Your Clothes Too Tight?

Garth Beyer

I’ve found the answer to the fitting in clothes vs standing out in them argument.

Think of it this way. If it fits, it also makes you stand out.

Maybe this post isn’t about clothes, though.

 

Stay Positive & Turns Out To Be A Team, Not A Battle

Garth E. Beyer

Business Meets Soggy Cereal

Garth Beyer

3920972699_0ce9b91293

A friend of mine purposefully waits for her cereal to get soggy. Now, the way my mind works, I couldn’t help but relate it to businesses. Sure, some people love their cereal soggy, they love that a business is still there even after it gets drowned (e.g., by the economy, by critics, by amazon reviews).

This is fine, I don’t judge her for enjoying her soggy cereal or when people buy clothes from Abercrombie & Fitch. Nor do I judge those who only want the crisp, new; the top of the line crunch and taste of just-poured cereal or fresh creative clothing.

The real problem (aside from milk pouring down your chin when you take a bite) is that cereal gets soggy. Cereal will always get soggy.

You can fight it by putting less milk in the bowl, by dividing the cereal inside the bowl, or by eating the cereal fast, but always, every cereal gets soggy.

Or you can leave your business to run itself and go create a new type of cereal.

 

Stay Positive & I’ve Never Seen Cereal Get Unsoggy

Garth E. Beyer

Photo credit

Turn Them On

Garth Beyer

5204120624_51bde1c021_b

The most basic reason we read is to find out what happens next.

The same works in the world of creativity, art, and design. It’s this basic reason that artists who try to create the next big thing and then quit are unsuccessful. Once the next big thing is made and the creator backs off, there’s no anticipation, there’s no urgency or curiosity – everything that encompasses “what happens next” is gone.

To turn your clients on, you have to get them expecting, desiring, practically dying to find out what happens next.

 

Stay Positive & Seriously, Though, What’s Next?

Garth E. Beyer

Photo credit