There are only two people in the world that you need to impress. If you impress these two people, then you will have had a successful life.
I learned about this concept from a TikTok video by Smiling Erik.
Erik explained that there are only two people you need to impress in your entire life:
Yourself at 80 and yourself at 8.
Continue reading “The Only Two People You Need to Impress”You may have noticed I’m producing more content lately. Content is a vital part of what I need to do, but I have not been doing a lot of it.
I’ve been busy with all kinds of things. Each of those things seemed bigger than one piece of content, so I did them first, and then I made the content never.
The problem is that no one piece of content I create, no one video, no one article will make a big difference. Just like no one trip to the gym or one prospecting call will make the difference. The difference comes when all of those tiny little steps come together and you look back to realize you have come a really long way.
Continue reading “Get 1% Better”
2020 was the year of the pivot. The world that we had all known had ended. It was time to adapt to a new world.
We launched new businesses. Created new projects. Developed new products.
And now…
The world that we pivoted in has ended, and we are, umm, here, I guess.
Continue reading “Post-Pivot Pivot”
I had a plan this morning. It was a good plan. I was proud to be a part of this plan.
I haven’t been creating as much content as I need to, so, following the advice of Christopher Salem I got at Conference21, I got up at 6 AM instead of 7 AM. I would be up an hour early, and with that hour, I would create content. It would be glorious.
Continue reading “That Wasn’t The Plan”
A digital report by We Are Social and Hootsuite recently highlighted a number of statistics that demonstrated how integrated technology has now become in people’s lives. For example, more than 5 billion people use a smartphone. At least 4.2 billion of them use social media for an average of 2 hours and 25 minutes daily. There are even innovations like the cloud and artificial intelligence that can help businesses streamline their processes. All of this is proof that technology provides many opportunities to take advantage of — you just need to learn how to fully utilize them for your business.
That said, here’s what you need to do:
Sometimes you need to take a minute, or an hour.
Mornings are always a great rush in our house as they probably are in yours. Got to get the kid to school and back to so the terribly important things on my list.
No time to stop. No time to wait. No time to think.
Continue reading “Take A Minute. Take an Hour”
In this interview, we meet Peter Harrett, author of The Rings of Hesaurun. This is Peter’s first book, and the beginning of an exciting ongoing science fiction series that focuses of character and story over technology.
Get your copy of The Rings of Hesaurun at https://www.peterharrett.com/
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Bits And Bytes by Claus Appel
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I am a truly lucky man. I am married to the most beautiful woman in the world. Every morning, I look at her and am grateful that I get to look at her every day for the rest of my life.
On reading that you, will probably nod politely as we do when we meet someone who is delusional but harmlessly so.
My wife is quiet attractive, as her fans on her Instagram can attest, but she has yet to earn a professional modeling contract. That is because other people don’t see her as I do. In fact, I didn’t always see her as I do.
Continue reading “How I Married the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, and How You Can Too”
As I often do, I made a social media post which was intended to remind people of their power to control their responses to their world. In this case, the post was “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” The intent of the sentiment is that we cannot prevent painful things from happening to us, but we can choose our response to it and whether we choose to suffer in that pain or deal with it in other ways.
Some people were inspired by this post and others were offended. I was hurt by their taking offense. I understood that those who were upset read the words through the lens of their experience and took a different meaning from that which was intended. What it took some time to recognize was the source of my own pain at the misunderstanding.
Continue reading “We Are All Damaged”When I set up a one to one with someone, I send them a series of brief emails to share the various aspects of what I do. I have copied the particular messages to my blog so they can jump ahead to those that interest them more.
This is the one where I discuss my network and my book.
