In the big picture, we are all content creators. Whether we’re on social media or not; whether we’re posting short-form videos on the ‘gram or not, we are all creating content every day. I mean “content” like a smile from a pretty girl, or a grumpy “harumph” from an old man on the train. Or …
Yesterday, as I often do, I grabbed a random chapter out of The War of Art. It concluded with this advice to professionals: The goal of the professional “is not victory (success will come by itself when it wants to) but to handle himself as sturdily and steadily as he can. Obstacles will come. A …
James Clear distributes a weekly email with approximately 2 million subscribers. In case you don’t know, James Clear is a marketing guru and the author of Atomic Habits. That book has sold about 10 million copies. In one recent email, he had this advice: Ask yourself, what is the one thing I can do today …
The almost daily section of this site is attributable, in a big way, to Seth Godin. And if you don’t know who that is, you should google him. Seth is a marketing guru with about 20 books out. More importantly, he is a fountain of brilliant thought about life as it relates to business. Seth …
In my life, writing has always been a first step toward getting something done. And this piece, I hope, will be exactly that. I’ve been stewing over a specific project for a week or two. But I’ve been reluctant to take the first step. The “project,” I will explain, is writing a blog post. It …
I play banjo in a bluegrass band called the Duck Hunters. Recently I was at a music festival, chatting with a guy, and I mentioned the band. “You can find us on Facebook,” I said. He pulled out his phone and started searching for the band by name. He was having trouble and he handed …
We all know some A-holes. Whether we encounter them at work or in our families or in social situations, we can’t avoid them. Their impact on our lives is greater than it should be. But many of the A-holes have mastered the art of getting under our skin. So you wander into the room, unsuspecting. …
This real estate site was born with a decidedly uncommercial design. Check the featured articles on the home page. None of them is a “hire me” hard sell. That is intentional. Generally I believe the level of potential reader interest is negatively correlated with the amount of selling in any marketing piece. But marketing communications …
I have always believed that life happens in six-week segments. It does not unfold in as a meaningful a way on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. It takes six weeks for things to play out; for our stories to move to move from one chapter to the next. Today, we are six full weeks …
I got the wackiest text message, sent to me at 2 am. It was from a past guest in my short-term rental property (think Airbnb, VRBO) from five months ago. It chastised me for my poor reviews of guests who resisted meeting me personally, upon check-in. I believe I did that once, several years ago. …
