Because more than you need to makes it personal.
Because work that belongs to you, by choice, is the first step to making art.
Because the choice to do more brings passion to your life and it makes you more alive.
Because if you don’t, someone else will, and in an ever more competitive world, doing less means losing.
Because you care.
Because we’re watching.
Because you can.
Thought For Today
A Short Lesson in Perspective
A Short Lesson in Perspective.
Countless late nights and weekends, holidays, birthdays, school recitals and anniversary dinners were willingly sacrificed at the altar of some intangible but infinitely worthy higher cause. It would all be worth it in the long run…
This was the con. Convincing myself that there was nowhere I’d rather be was just a coping mechanism. I can see that now. It wasn’t really important. Or of any consequence at all really. How could it be. We were just shifting product. Our product, and the clients. Just meeting the quota. Feeding the beast as I called it on my more cynical days.
So was it worth it?
Well of course not. It turns out it was just advertising. There was no higher calling. No ultimate prize. Just a lot of faded, yellowing newsprint, and old video cassettes in an obsolete format I can’t even play any more even if I was interested. Oh yes, and a lot of framed certificates and little gold statuettes. A shit-load of empty Prozac boxes, wine bottles, a lot of grey hair and a tumor of indeterminate dimensions.
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Seth’s Blog: Free Coffee, Next Exit
The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
Simple, clear and actionable.
Life Underwriting Expert Witness (for now)
It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years. To do those things well, you’ll need to cultivate a deep understanding of yourself—not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence. And we will have to stay mentally alert and engaged during a 50-year working life, which means knowing how and when to change the work we do.
Peter Drucker
If you had told me 10 years ago that I would be doing expert witness work 10 years in the future I would not have believed you. Read Drucker’s quote above and read it again. Let these words sink in, especially the wisdom about knowing how and when to change the work you do. I’ve changed the work I do multiple times in my life. I’ll probably change again at some point in the future. Don’t fool yourself. Change of this nature is not easy but it will become increasingly necessary for your career.
Thought for Today 11.27.12
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Change This – We Are All Artists Now
Change This – We Are All Artists Now.
We settle for low expectations and small dreams and guarantee ourselves less than we are capable of.
Don’t settle. Dream big dreams. Go download this manifesto and be inspired.
Why Niche Creation is Where It’s At – The Hart Technique
When you embody a niche in the market, you have fewer competitors. Therefore you also have more opportunities. Opportunities have a way of snowballing. Work begets work. The more you work, the more you work.
via Why Niche Creation is Where It’s At | The Hart Technique.
Why Idleness Is the Best Investment You Can Make
In today’s Western culture, we mistake productivity for the appearance of productivity. The frantic attentiveness to smartphones which characterizes corporate ambition, for example, is a display of how hard someone is working, not an actual measure of their productivity.
via Why Idleness Is the Best Investment You Can Make | IdeaFeed | Big Think.
I am not doing very much today so that I can be more productive.
How to Rewire Your Brain For Success
In neuroscience, the previous prevailing belief had been that the adult human brain is essentially “hardwired,” so that by the time we reach adulthood we are stuck with what we have. Now we understand that the adult brain retains impressive powers of “neuroplasticity”—the ability to change its structure and function in response to experiences real or imagined.
via How to Rewire Your Brain For Success | Experts’ Corner | Big Think.
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