It’s easy to see what someone is doing, take what has worked well, copy it and try to reproduce that success. But it’s not going to happen. Why? Because you have no idea what went into making it a success in the first part – none whatsoever. You don’t know about the long nights and early mornings or the back and forth pacing or the countless ideas that came before it, you just know about…
Something I’ve been wanting to blog about for awhile is in the investment you place in yourself. Bad news – not everything is free, despite all the freemium tools out there, you could find something for everything, but eventually you’d run into limits and problems and start getting all – “well I can only do 5 posts of these a week because then I hit my cap” – really? That is what is going to limit…
This week, I start on a crazy journey to try to ship and deliver and manage than I have normally ever done. To get ready for this adventure, I’ve had to read a lot of blogs and books (still reading the books so I’m not all the way there) but the theme, the one theme is always the same and pardon the baseball term but I’ll put my own spin on it. Turn on the…
is a horrible statement, because ALL things are never equal and will NEVER be equal. When you say this, you are effectively watering down your argument for whatever solution you might be proposing by acknowledging that your solution can only ever be evaluated against the current solution (or another proposal) and conditions where all things are equal. But in life – nothing is EVER equal. We all know it – this is nothing new. And…
I think I was packing for a trip somewhere when I started going through the mental checklist of what tasks on my plate had to be completed before I went anywhere. These ranged from family to work to personal to house to car to anything really, but in the end, they all came back to three core categories; Have to do, Need to do and Want to do. Have to do This is the work that…