#0548 Start With You
Who are you doing this for? Classic response is, for my family, for my customers yada yada. That is honourable and everything but it does not translate unless you do it for yourself first. Good…
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#0547 Broken Record
They do not know what you know, so you have to tell them. At the risk of repeating myself, you have to get used to starting from the beginning. Every time you interact with someone…
#0546 Dealing With Messy
The shortest distance between where you are and where you want to be is not determined by how fast you go, but by how well you navigate the obstacles in your path. Rarely is the…
#0545 Painfully Slow
Bogged down in red tape? As an enterprise gets bigger it is natural to place additional checks and balances to ensure continuity. Many do so at the expense of what got them there, speed and…
#0544 Invisibility
Your business is invisible. If you struggle with consistent lead generation it is likely you are fishing from a small pond. Personal contacts, networking and referrals. Outside of these circles you are not seen or…
#0543 Embrace The New
I feel the emotion of my daughter finishing high school and the unknown ahead. When your entire living memory are the boundaries, people and experiences of a school, not having to turn up Monday is…
#0542 The Company You Keep
They say you are the average of the five people closest to you. I also believe you are the average of many other groupings. Your news sources, social media habits, the shows you watch, communities…
#0541 Half Arsed
Starting is hard but finishing seems to be harder. Unfinished projects litter the business landscape frustrating those in the middle and disappointing those who have invested time and money. Should you be really starting the…
#0540 No or No Thank You
If you say yes to something and really mean no, you now have a dilemma. Do what you said yes to, or let someone down. Neither options is ideal but you are the one who…
#0539 You Choose
Sometimes I do not want to, but I do it anyway. There are times I really want to, but I do not. When I have to, I will. In every instance, I have a choice,…
#0538 Feeding Frenzy
Technically, you can feed an infinite number of people with a single pizza. The more slices you cut however diminishes the amount each person gets to a point it may as well be zero. How…
#0537 What Do You Do
If you struggle to articulate what you do concisely, you are spread too thin. Too many products, channels, platforms, audiences, desires. When you start, start wide, find your groove quickly, then go deep. Better to…
#0536 Give It A Go
“Let’s do this” is so much more fun than “no”. Invariably leading to an experience, good, bad or indifferent. Experience is how you grow. An idea is worthless until you give it a crack. Giving…
#0535 Take Pride
There is a place for minimum viable product. Do the least amount reasonable to get to market quickly and see what works and is wanted. Taking that into every aspect of delivery however is littered…
#0534 Commendable Effort
Having DIY’d a ton of my own video over the years and I have come leaps and bounds, or so I thought until I recently worked with a professional videographer. My efforts pale when compared….
#0533 ABC
Try singing the alphabet song out aloud skipping every second letter… a, c, e… I wager two things, it sounded clunky and disjointed, and you silently sang the in-between letters in your head anyway. Now…
#0532 Reach Out Early
There is a dangerous stage in business referred to as the “Trough of Disillusionment”. It is the period of time where you realise business is not all rainbows and lollypops but you are not sure…
#0531 Calling It Out
We need to get better at calling it out. Workplace intimidation, racism, misogyny, gaslighting, bullying, any and all inappropriate behaviour, the lot. The more we bring it up, the less tolerated it will become. We…
#0530 Raw Emotion
It is not the story itself, it is the meaning and raw emotion it conjures up. When you consider about a story to share, pay attention to how it makes you feel. Happy, sad, motivated…
#0529 Lower Priorities
What about the rest of the list? If you are always ticking off the top three on your priority list, you will end up with a really long list of other things that never get…