When I was in the busiest time of my life; I was getting my business going, I was raising some teenagers, I was struggling with figuring out how to get everything done and do this “life thing” in a way that felt at all successful. In the middle of that time, I asked an older…
On Tuesday, I told you how my screen time was up 170% over the prior week! I don’t have that kind of time to spend worrying. I’ve got a life to live! When faced with one of these problems, the first thing that I do is notice and pay attention to what’s happening. And so for…
This weekend, I was a little disturbed when the screen time alert popped up on my phone, telling me how much time I had spent on it over the last week. It said, “Your screen time was up 170% from last week.” A hundred and seventy percent!?! That seems a little extreme. Last week, there…
For the last few months, I’ve been thinking about what it would look like to be more helpful with the emails and posts I create. I’ve been talking to folks I admire and bouncing ideas off of them, and I have a plan for what to do next. But I haven’t done it. The drive…
Would you rather have a thousand leads or ten good leads? How about a hundred candidates for your open position, or two perfect candidates? Do you want to create fifty logos for your customer’s rebrand or one great one? In each of these cases, the answer is easy – no one wants quantity; we want quality….
It’s hard for a creative agency to serve more than 10 – 20 clients at a time. It splits your brain in too many ways. For most creative agencies, growth is getting bigger clients, not more clients. Successful new business efforts might mean closing 5 – 10 new clients every year. That would be a…
Today I want to share a brief story with you written by author Robert Williams: I’m listening to the desperate sounds of a life or death struggle going on just a few feet away. There’s a fly, a small fly, burning out the last of its short life’s energies in a futile attempt to fly…
When you look at this image, what do you see? Do you see the “gap”? The amount that the performance is short of the goal. Or do you see the 50% improvement that has been made to close the gap? High-performing people are constantly setting goals and striving to meet those goals. Once we meet…
You’ve got an underperforming team member, and it’s been bugging you for a while. Maybe you’ve addressed it with her, and perhaps you’ve just been hinting around, but it’s gotten to the point where you need to do something about it. If you don’t, it’s hard to see how they are a part of your…
For some time, it’s been unofficial, but I’m trying to make it more formal this year; I’m putting together my board of directors. I’m committed to finding the very best advisors, people who are at the top of their field and who are available at any moment to sit down with me and let me…