Nice to be found. Essential to be sought.
via Seth’s Blog: Being found vs. being sought.
Nice.
Seth’s Blog: Basting the turkey.
Basting the turkey might sound like your job description, but ultimately, we’re known by the projects we get involved in. Saying “no” or even “stop” is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.
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.
Connection and leadership and trust are going to get ever more valuable. Sure, go ahead and shake your head in agreement, but when you get back to work, are you busy working in the scarce universe or trying to build a place for yourself in the new one?
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.
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.
The decision about what to do next is even more important than the labor spent executing it. A modern productive worker is someone who does a great job in figuring out what to do next.
What is Bach worth? – The Domino Project.
The real question is how much would you pay for 9 hours of classical music? Would you pay 99 cents?
I checked Amazon today and the deal is still on. I clicked and bought. Amazon is hoping that a lot of people will click and buy. The company is clearly betting on a social media referral strategy, hoping that enough people will email, link, blog, etc., about this offer to drive sales.
Hopefully Amazon will share the results of their experiment.
Spin enough plates and soon you will end up keeping the plates spinning instead of finding new plates to spin.
Seth Godin
How many plates are you spinning?
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