So I’m thinking God is trying to tell me something.
I was sitting in my recliner last night, trying to squeeze in a quick bible study. But it was tough, cuz I had just read some emails from the office that got me worked up. Got me REALLY worked up. They put me on that “who do you think you are” mode.
Then I realized I had felt this way about three or four times in the past couple weeks. Which is not normal for me. And as much as I wanted continue wallowing in my inflamed anger toward those questioning my greatness, it hit me that, given the recent frequency of these events, maybe the problem was with me.
I think God hit me upside the head and said “Boy, you got an ego problem.”
It’s that time of year again.
I was walking around a park near my house just the other day. I noticed a couple, probably in their 40s, or 50s, walking briskly behind me as I began. They were focused, and clearly getting a head start on their New Year’s Resolutions.
I then heard their footsteps quicken behind me. The husband passed me, then looked back and saying “C’mon, baby.” The wife quickly snipped back with “I can’t.” The husband then doubled back to encourage her, and she managed to run a few more steps, only to further confirm her sentiment with a strong “I can’t do anymore!” The husband backed off.
I know exactly what the husband was thinking at this point. He was thinking, “Oh, you don’t even know how to push yourself.” I could see it in his eyes, his posture, everything. He was a relatively fit guy, and I’d be willing to bet he’s spent plenty of his youth on sports teams, at two-a-day football practices or the like, pushing himself with 50 other guys that we men eventually, somehow, consider the greatest days of our lives.
What I’m saying is he recognized that the whole point of this running thing was to push yourself into p
It’s been a while since I batched up of the great stuff I’ve read lately that you may have missed. Check these lil’ morsels out, and spread the love.
Men Are Idiots …: I’m only vaguely familiar with this story about Cali Lewis from GeekBeat.tv, but I know enough to know this is funny on many levels. Nice grab, Gio.
Alienating the 2%: Hey, what’s a mash-up list without a post from Seth, huh? His premise is that 2% of your crowd is gonna be disappointed with what you’re doing. They just squawk so much that you can’t tell if they represent everyone else, or if they are, truly, just 2%. My experience in direct sales also tells me this 2% is often your top leaders (at least in leadership levels), and therefore you listen even more. Seth says stop.
Content Strategy and the Dying Art of Execution: Forget that this is focused on content marketing. These pitfalls apply to just about any project. Joe’s nailed the pits of quicksand we so easily get stuck in. My favorite (if you can call it that)? Lack of support from the execs. Being able to get executive buy-in truly is a gift and skill. Find people who can do it and put ‘em to work.
8 Simple Facebook Tips: My friend Jen Fong neatly packages some nice Facebook reminders that are so easy to forget. Read ‘em. Do ‘em.
My Favorite WordPress Plugins: One of the things I love most about Michael Hyatt is how he so readily pulls back the curtain and let’s you know what he’s doing behind the scenes. WordPress plugins are a lot like iPhone apps: there are a lot of cool ones out there, but who’s got the time to weed through them all. Michael’s list will help you cut through some of the clutter.
…. created a Facebook profile yet.
There’s someone who is completely confused by “@” and “#” symbols next to otherwise names and words.
There’s someone who doesn’t know that traditional advertising is dying.
There’s someone who’s never heard of Seth Godin.
There’s someone who has a cell phone but no texting service.
There’s someone who thinks it’s hard to accept credit cards.
There’s someone who thinks building a website costs at least $25k.
“Smoking killed far more people than terrorists ever did. It’s just not as dramatic.”
You can thank Seth Godin for that loaded byte. His post on the power of slow change makes a great point: single events don’t crush anything; series of events over time do.
On the one hand, you’ve got something to be happy about: no individual act is make or break for you. So stop treating it that way.
When the tribe speaks, you have to listen. Success in business today resides in tapping into the right tribes.
Marketing is as much a chemical process as it is a concrete, formulaic process. Seth Godin writes on a marketing point, using our hormones and chemical reactions as an example.
Joint ventures fail because the joint venture partners are never as powerful as a single owner.
9 Links for marketers, direct sellers, content marketers, entrepreneurs and PR professionals. Great marketing posts from April 2009.
Eight juicy tidbits from the past couple of weeks. Enjoy. Stuff Christians Like. I’ve just stumbled upon this extremely entertaining blog by Prodigal John. A couple of posts that got me both thinking and laughing are his Great Sex! Flat Abs! and Jesus!, and his Understanding How Metrosexual Your Worship Leader Is. Online MLM Sponsoring. [...]
