If you find yourself in the presence of someone you would like to get to know better or simply just have a good conversation with, maybe it’s someone that interests you, maybe it’s an exec from your company and you want them to remember you, how should you engage them? Maybe talk about something that interests them. Maybe you can get a reading of what they are interested in based on what they are wearing or holding, or where you…
“Why does this always happen to me, and in the worst moments! Is it possible that the keys grow legs and hide when I need them! If I don’t leave in the next 10 minutes I’m going to be late!”, says Stacey with a frantic tone as she’s running around the house looking for her car keys. Immediately after, her husband Michael yells out, “I found them!”. “Thanks Honey, not sure what I would do without you.”. He responds, “Babe,…
You can categorize your time in three buckets: value added time, non value added time (also known as busy work), and artist work time. It’s not about replacing non-value added time with value added time, it’s about replacing non-value added time with time available for the artist to go to work. Driving a nail into a board to build a house is value added; finding an innovative, more efficient way to build a house, and executing on that idea, that…
My son came up to me one day and asked me how a certain word is spelled. I responded back with a question, “how do you think it’s spelled?”. He got a look of frustration and eventually answered the question. He responded with the wrong spelling, so then I asked him, “why do you think it’s spelled that way?”. Again, another look of frustration as he hadn’t signed up for this, all he wanted was the answer. But he proceeded…
I recently finished reading “Linchpin – Are You Indispensable” by Seth Godin. In my first post I talk about the fear we get of what could go wrong when wanting to do something different and tell you to not listen to your brain. The author refers to this side of the brain as the “lizard brain”. So what does he call the side of the brain that takes risks, that continues on when faced against fear, the artist! To highlight…