I owe this morning‘s power words to Gary Vaynerchuk. He and I have a great deal in common. We are both immigrants from what I will call Russia. We both came over in the 70s. We both came over with families who had nothing but a dream to have a better life. We both showed…
Today’s show up words. Yes, self-awareness, self control, self-discipline are all important. We also must take some time as part of our self development to celebrate ourselves. It doesn’t have to be long. It can be “woo hoo!” when we’ve achieved something and then we jump right on back into it. But we do need…
Build the neural pathways to where you want to go. Choose a location card.
In truth, we can’t know how one small act today might impact every day for the rest of our lives. But it does, somehow. We won’t know until we have the wisdom of hindsight, but a yes or no, a right or left, a stay or go – they all shape and form the rest…
“There’s an app for that,” are some of the most beautiful words I’ve ever heard or said. I’m thrilled to see so many talented people create apps that do just about anything I could want. It allows us to be independent and creative in how we run our businesses. That counts for a lot for…
Creativity Blocks I believe one of the worst things that we can do for our creative process is to label our downtime with a negative connotation. Sometimes, we need time to think, to ruminate, to create the worlds, universes, paintings, songs, books, or speeches. And if that means that we spend some time not creating,…
Here I was at last full moon taking pictures with my trusty Nikon. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get situated in a way that my little tripod could get a picture of the moon without the cable in front of it. How frustrating, right? But then I got this picture. And I saw it. A perfect representation…
I talked before about finding your voice in the written word and will explore that further in the future. Today, I want to speak about audio. Audio is ubiquitous with more and more people starting podcasts, posting live videos, and presenting live in meetings and during the course of their lives. As we develop our…
What are you invested in? What is your ultimate goal? Do you want to gain today or win tomorrow? To answer these questions, you have to make some exchanges, some trades. Will you give up tonight‘s movie? Will you give up going to the bar? Will you give up spending time on Facebook or other…
Here’s an easy way to spark some creative thinking and problem-solving. Pick a card, any card. Every card has a different object. Figure out its story. Does everyone want it? Is it causing problems? Conflict? How will you resolve things? How will you solve the problem? Answer those questions with the story. Then, transfer those…