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Creating your ideal week
Email Archive | People | team

Creating your ideal week

ByBrad Farris May 12, 2022July 5, 2024

Once your priorities are clear, getting your calendar to align with those priorities is the next step to getting your work done. One way to start reshaping your calendar is to wipe the slate clean and create a template for an ideal week. By starting with a blank slate, you can schedule your most important…

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Email Archive | leadership

When do you get YOUR work done?

ByBrad Farris May 10, 2022July 5, 2024

Last week we talked about focusing on your job, the things that are only yours to do. When I see agency owners getting clear that they start to get free of many tasks that were draining energy from them, and that didn’t move the agency forward either. Theoretically, that should free up a lot of…

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Email Archive | positioning

From Hustle to Service

ByBrad Farris May 7, 2022July 5, 2024

As we’ve leaned into getting ourselves out of the day-to-day grind by letting go of doing the thing and focusing on building the system that does the thing, I want to pause and think about “the why.” If you let go of the thing you trained your whole life to do; you need a powerful…

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Email Archive | leadership

What IS your job

ByBrad Farris May 5, 2022July 5, 2024

Over the last couple of posts, we’ve been talking about how important it is to let go of what you did as an individual contributor and embrace your role as the leader of a growing firm. But being an individual contributor was easy. I knew how to do that! I was clear when I had…

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Email Archive | leadership

What’s NOT yours to do.

ByBrad Farris May 3, 2022July 5, 2024

On Saturday we talked about how your job isn’t doing the thing. (The thing might be designing, writing, creating campaigns, storytelling, whatever it was that you were good at that you sold to clients to get the agency started!) Your job is to build the system. Your job is to create the container, the way…

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Email Archive | leadership

I want you to be bored by Friday at 4 PM!

ByBrad Farris April 30, 2022July 5, 2024

Jerry Colonna coaches venture-backed CEOs, and he’s coached a boatload of them! He’s worked with the CEOs of Etsy, Foursquare, Intuit, and Soundcloud to name a few. But not just when they are big and famous; he works with many folks who are in their startup phase. On a recent podcast, he said of the…

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Email Archive | leadership

Who needs to hear this?

ByBrad Farris April 28, 2022July 5, 2024

Too many agency founders have drunk the 24/7 hustle culture Kool-Aid. “We’re in a service business, we need to be there to serve our clients! This is what agency life is like, it’s not a 9-to-5 job.” You’ve heard it, maybe you’ve lived it! I’m thinking that might be why so many of you responded…

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Email Archive | leadership

Avoiding the Myth of 24/7 Hustle Culture.

ByBrad Farris April 26, 2022July 5, 2024

The messages from last week where I talked about freeing ourselves from the endless grind with no finish line and the idea of reframing our work to be light, easy, and fun brought out many encouraging replies, including this one: Hey, Brad! This morning, I reflected that 10 years ago, I was grinding, traveling, building…

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Email Archive | leadership

Rise and Grind?

ByBrad Farris April 23, 2022July 5, 2024

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Email Archive | leadership

The Myth of Sisyphus

ByBrad Farris April 21, 2022July 5, 2024

According to Greek legend, Sisyphus so angered the gods that they sentenced him to the worst torture they could imagine. He will spend eternity pushing a rock up a hill — as it reaches the pinnacle, it will roll back down again. After returning to the bottom, Sisyphus would then have to push it back…

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