Today I am making it official: I quit social media. I actually quit more than a month ago. What I mean is: I blocked or avoided the news feeds (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.). I resisted the urge to post “updates” throughout the day. I resisted the urge to post links to articles and videos I…
On Entrepreneurship
Vision Setting Exercise: See, Say, and Feel
We all want our projects to succeed, but two problems almost always occur while we are working on them: We don’t actually know what success looks like. While working on a project, we get stuck without a clear idea how to move forward. Whether it is a book, a screenplay, a song, a speech, an…
The True Goal of Influencer Outreach
There is a lot of talk and a lot of articles out there about the need to do “influencer outreach” as a part of marketing and launches. Most of these articles share tactics to help you get the attention of influencers so they will promote your products. Approaching influencer outreach with this kind of self-centered…
Take More Shots
“My goal is to make four baskets,” my daughter proudly announced to me before her second 3rd grade basketball game. This would be a pretty audacious goal considering it was only her second game ever and the final scores of her games do not tend to be very high. My wife offered another suggestion: “How…
Long-term Oriented Thinking about Projects
I heard Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, say something interesting about the projects he is working on. When someone congratulates him on a good fiscal quarter, he thanks them but it doesn’t really make much of an impact on him. The results from this quarter were already determined by the work he did three years…
