If someone tells you that you are really, really, really, really bad at something and you should not be doing it, you have a choice to make. Listen to them, measure your worth against them and spend the rest of your life worrying about what they are going to say. Move on and keep being “bad” at whatever it is you’re doing.  Actually don’t simply be bad, be horrible, stink the joint up, make mistakes…

Sometimes these posts don’t make sense. Sometimes I see the emails fly by and my grammar and prose are atrocious. Sometimes I forget to write the pieces in my head that fill in the blanks of the genius I was hoping would spew forth from my finger tips. Sometimes I miss the mark. But every message, every post has a voice, a purpose and a direction.  It might not be clear by reading the first…

Forget the stats. Forget the followers. Forget the connections. Forget the likes. Forget the dislikes. All these metrics were happening long before social media and we found a way to ignore the daily churn and not get hung up on them.  This isn’t to say you should treat those that have connected and follow you as numbers that grow your network but instead think of them in the context of the real world. When you are…

It’s so easy to receive that umpteenth email about a great course you have to watch, a book you need to read and a lecture you need to attend. Maybe you’ll finally receive that one last golden nugget of knowledge that will make you a success. Or maybe it’s time to stop worrying about what little bit you are missing and start building, creating, trying, failing, breaking and most importantly just doing. You can only consume…