Angie Colee is a marketer and coach I greatly admire. A big part of the reason for my admiration is her "get back up and keep fighting forward" attitude. She's taken some amazing career strides very publicly in the past several years and it's been remarkable to follow along. Angie recently appeared on the Copy … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Making The Big Leaps With Angie Colee
I had a huge project hanging over my head for months. It occupied every spare moment of thought, like water seeping in through the tiniest spaces to remind me, “I’m here, you have to address this.” It did have a deadline though. And that meant an end. The problem was that end kept flipping back … Continue reading Once The Resistance Is Removed…
John Cleese grew up fascinated by guided missiles. He was fascinated with them, “…in a way that normally only ugly ducklings or pirates or talking vermin enchant a child.”* As a kid, guided missiles were a fascinating piece of wartime technology. As an adult, he realized they were a perfect metaphor to explain being ok … Continue reading The Little Missile That Could (John Cleese’s Brilliant Near-Term Failure/Long-Term Success Metaphor)
Storyboarding, or the act of breaking a story down into individual panels (think like a comic strip), has always fascinated me. It's a reminder that the sweeping story that floods past you is actually created from all of these individual frames, stitched together. And, in movies, somebody like Jennifer Yuh Nelson has the job of … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Storyboarding (Where You Make Your Mistakes)
John Maynard Keynes had bars. Emphasis added: The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. New and novel aren’t hard. Change, adaptation, and evolution, they’re the tricky part. It’s one thing … Continue reading Escaping The Old > Finding The New
You've gotta know the rules before you’ll know if you’re breaking them. And, you’ve gotta know the rules before you can consciously know how to break them too. If you think you’re writing your own rules or “oh so original,” human behavior suggests otherwise. The best part about learning the rules is they give you … Continue reading No Formula, Just Form
Of all the names Jeff Bezos looked at for Amazon, maybe the most telling were “Cadabra” (a play on abracadabra) and “Relentless.” Talk about two polar opposites with a life-giving river in the middle. For your business or idea or whatever you’re working on, remember these two inputs that have to be combined: Magic (abracadabra), … Continue reading Relentless Magic
April Dykman took a step out of the corporate world and into doing the work she wanted. Whether you’ve already taken the leap or only dreamt of it, listen to her tell her story on the Permission To Kick Ass podcast. It’s geared towards marketing professionals, but the bones of what she’s built extend into … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Freelance Freedom
Who you are and how you got here - it all applies to what you’re doing and where you’re going. Leaving any of it out is doing yourself a disservice. Figuring out where it fits in is more than doing yourself a favor, it’s giving yourself freedom. Don’t take it from me, take it from … Continue reading Whatever Happens To Us Is A Resource
I’m late to the Schitt’s Creek party. I know. But I’m glad I made it. This quote from Moira Rose made me hit pause and make a note: Miracles don’t take reservations. That’s right Moira, no they do not. Neither does good luck. Neither does magic. We still have to set the table. We still … Continue reading Miracles Don’t Take Reservations
