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Garth Beyer. Who Is That?

Garth Beyer. Who Is That?

Garth Beyer

I often take for granted you know who I am. You get an idea of what goes through my head on my blog and even on my about page, but there’s more to it.

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Name is Garth Everett Beyer. I work in the public relations and marketing industry. My big belief is I want people to know they can do remarkable work. On GarthBox I teach people how to connect with others to leverage their work, to do the work that matters, and to, quite simply, happily create art. I teach confidence and risk-taking and professional/personal development.

The work I’ve done has spanned from sales to HR to leadership to business strategy to marketing. I’ve failed plenty of times, but I’ve learned enough from others’ failures that I seem to be doing alright on my own as a freelancer.

I have a girlfriend who grounds me. Nothing irks me more than entrepreneurs who are in relationships that they let crumble after starting a business. In the future, I want to help new business owners to make sure their relationships stay strong.

Outside the realm of marketing I am big into three things: ice hockey, craft beer, and exercise. Hockey is the sport I wish my parents would have forced me into when I was younger. I have found beer brewers to be the nicest people in the world. Tony Horton inspired me to get active and I’ve done a handful of other workouts regimes since. (Currently doing Body Beast and the Tim Ferriss diet.)

My mom was a personal trainer for awhile, so I’ve got that knowledge from her. And both parents have shown me how possible it is to have a job and a money-making hobby at the same time. I currently work full-time for the state of Wisconsin as a Grant’s Specialist (fancy way of saying I give money to kids to go to college) while I do freelance work.

I believe in the saying “to each, their own.” I’m fascinated by spiritual concepts and different belief systems, but at the end of the day I follow one religion: the Garth Religion.

I love to read fiction, but I rarely do because I love to read non-fiction marketing-type books more. But I will never pass up a chance to read some Kurt Vonnegut or Tom Robbins.

I always answer the question of what is your favorite X, Y or Z with the most recent movies, music, food, etc,. I enjoyed.

I firmly believe that everything always works out so I don’t worry about much. I’m pretty weird and people tend to laugh at the things that unintentionally come out of my mouth. I’m terrible at manufacturing humor. I never say “hate,” and I try to connect with someone new everyday.

This is who I am. At least at the time of writing this.

 

Stay Positive & Pleasure To Meet You, And You Are?

The Biggest Lesson Blogging Has Taught Me

The Biggest Lesson Blogging Has Taught Me

Garth Beyer

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People grow at a phenomenal rate.

That’s my nice way of saying people change, goals change, hopes change, circumstances change, problems change, purposes change.

The way I wrote is way different from how I write now. When I started blogging I wrote longer posts and made them more personal because I knew no one would be reading them and I was finding my way. Now I write shorter, more to-the-point posts in a way that is, quite frankly, safe. This will change in the coming year, the coming week, the coming few days.

Blogging is my business, it’s my foundation for acquiring social capital, and any successful business reinvests in itself.

My blog is the best place to see where I’ve been and to find patterns to see where I’m going. Right now, I’ve been about equally satisfied with my blog posts as I have been dissatisfied. To most readers, they may question why I bother blogging if I’m not satisfied with half the material I produce.

It goes back to what I said was my biggest lesson from blogging. Things change, and if we document, reflect, imagine different executions to past events, we can change for the better.

The only way to go once you blog is up.

Consider blogging for the new year that is fast approaching. And feel free to reach out to me to get set up, to get accountability, to get motivated about writing. thegarthbox@gmail.com or @thegarthbox

 

Stay Positive & Words Make Actions Powerful

Why Wait Until Thanksgiving

Why Wait Until Thanksgiving

Garth Beyer

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Today is my 3rd anniversary of blogging.

1,214 blog posts

20,475 page views

and a ton of online interaction and offline discussion from what I’ve written

Words, no matter how much I practice my craft, are not enough to express how thankful I am for you, my readers. Although I write daily, I don’t expect you to stop by everyday and read, but to simply stop by when you feel the need, when it’s time to remind yourself to switch things up, when you’re craving some motivation.

I can’t say that without you I wouldn’t be writing, because I still would be, but you certainly make this experience a grand one.

Thank you.

 

Stay Positive & No Day In The Future Is As Special As Today

Subscription

Garth Beyer

I’ve made the decision to close off my blog to subscriptions. In particular, email/RSS feed subscription and for two particular reasons.

Yes, a blogger absolutely benefits from having subscribers. That’s all good and great, but by subscribing, you – the subscriber – benefit less. What?!

I used to be subscribed to about a dozen blogs and I would get updates on them every few days. After only a couple of months, I found myself deleting the emails; some without opening to see what the newest posts were about. The reason for this leads to the first reason why I closed off subscription to my blog.

I quit needing their particular form of motivation. I stopped needing their information, their persuasion, their enthrallment. In other words, while I never stopped loving their blogs, I found myself reading them for the sake of just reading them and not for the sake of them helping me or bringing me to make some action.

I don’t want you (my readers) to enter this lull or habit. In a sense, it can even be self-defeating; one is more interested in learning how to improve their life than they are in improving it. If it’s between you taking a risk to do something in your life and reading my post for the day, well, you know which one I would pick.

The second reason for ending subscriptions I only realized a couple of weeks ago after someone said, “I’ve been on your website. I don’t read everything you write, but I hop on their every now and then.” I went on to tell them that they shouldn’t feel guilty for not reading every day, I don’t write so the same person can read every single post. I have this idea that I am simply here when you need me. I’m not going to force you to show up by making you feel guilty or reminding you to read my content through subscriptions. If you don’t show, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and say that it’s probably best you didn’t.

If you want to read what I have written, then you can type www.garthbox.com in your web bar or add me to your favorites bar. I’m looking for connections, not subscriptions.

 

Stay Positive & Let’s Connect (@)

Garth E. Beyer

Run With Scissors… Just No Cutting.

Garth Beyer

I love boxes. There’s something magical about them. Something truly unique about them. Theres so much to take from them, conceptionaly speaking. Think about it. Everyone living their passion has a box with everything they need in it, they just have different names for it: Toolbox, Thinktank, Craftbox, Time Capsule, Computer, Jack-In-The-Box… (maybe not that last one)

We all have our own box, that’s a given. It basically contains everything in our life. I may even go so far as to say for some of us that our box is our life.

So I have to ask you, what happens if you cut corners within your box?

It kinda quits being a box, doesn’t it?

 

Stay Positive & Running With Scissors Is Actually Less Hazardous

Garth E. Beyer

100th Post

Garth Beyer

In reflection, it has been a long five months full of successful change and improvements. Originally my hopes were to write five blog posts a week. Although some weeks had fewer and other weeks more, the average actually comes out to five  posts a week. Isn’t it incredible how things can manifest, especially when they are not in the way you originally thought or hoped for?

As with any habit, in my case writing, you have the ability to increase and improve that habit. In fact, that is exactly what I plan to do with this blog. Beginning now, I am shooting for a minimum of six posts a week, with a goal of one a day. With this effort I am asking you to push me to write even more and stronger posts, including posts that answer questions you have.

Which leads me to announce a big improvement to GarthBox. In two days I will be creating a separate page for you to contact me with a question and I will write a post answering that question. But this will be unique, there is a trick to it so make sure to check the page out for details.

Back on track, just as the content I provide is meant to hold you accountable to incorporate what you read into your life and to push yourself. The way you can push me to do much more than I say I will do is to post comments, pose questions and give me and everyone else your own thoughts about each post, “like” a post on Facebook, tweet content and simply make a ruckus out of what I write.

By extension, you deserve the credit for anyone who is helped by the posts I write if you are the one who shares it. In fact, all I did was make you aware of your own success and life-improving abilities. You have all the knowledge and power to begin changing and creating the perfect life you want with all the positive relationships, passive income, persistent motivation and much more.

With that being said, I will be retiring the motto that GarthBox is a place for you to find all the resources that will “Get you out of your box one life lesson at a time”. While I fully believe that everyone needs to step out of their comfort zone, including me (that’s how I get my content), I also believe that we all have the tools inside of us. I simply write to make you aware. GarthBox’s motto is now “Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What’s In It?” With this change, it calls upon me to increase the strength and amount of content I provide. Rather than the 80/20 rule, I will push myself for the 90/10 rule, the GarthBox law. Because after all, no one needs (or wants [referring to Occupy movement’s anger toward]) to be in the top 1%, you can be just as happy, maybe happier, to be in the top 10% percent. It also puts the (positive) pressure on you to use what you have been given to get yourself where you want to go.

Besides all the improvements, this 100th post is about giving my thanks. I am extremely grateful for every person that has viewed a post, shared a post and decided to make a change in their life after reading any of my material. If there is one thing I have learned from blogging, it is that people are busy. No. They are overloaded – incapacitated with busy-ness. With my life experience, the one detail to this busy-ness that I have learned is that often people are so busy doing nothing that they don’t have time to read a post that will encourage them to do something to improve their life. So with that, this 100th post is to thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule and even more thanks if you took more time out of your day to apply what you learned to your life. It is also a reminder to step back from life from time to time, to center yourself, to direct yourself and to fuel yourself to go after what it is you truly want. And of course all of this can be done by simply taking less than 6 minutes a day to view one of my posts.

Stay Positive & Live On

Garth E. Beyer

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Bonus:

I’ve been asked “What do you think we ought to do about education?” and my answers take much more time than a person is capable to stand and listen to. The reason being is that my answer, or rather, answers, incorporate thousands of other students’ responses because I have asked them, I have grown up with them and I am one of them. I have heard every improvement idea and route a student would rather take than what is placed in our education system now. My question to them, to parents, to taxpayers and other ruckus-making educators…”Why don’t we do anything about the way school is taught?”

Instead of waiting for the answer, I am one of few that is standing up and taking action. Anyone who comments below with their email address or likes this post will receive the earliest edition of my eBook “Start Schooling Dreams”.

Stay Positive & Make School Different

Garth E. Beyer