Category: Goals

Proactive Nothing: Biz Strategy & Kayaking Skill

December 6th, 2011 · · Blogging, Energy, Goals, Meditation, Success, Time Management, Writing No comments - Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Peter Bregman is a Do-Nothing Guy.

Author and business strategist, Peter Bregman, recently posted an excellent Harvard Business Review blog piece entitled, Restore Yourself to Your Factory Default Settings. In it, he touts the wisdom gained from a short do-nothing break.

Asleep in a kayak

Doing Nothing Rather Well

“When you unplug and wait for a minute, you restore yourself to your factory default settings, which for most of us tends to be generous, open-hearted, creative, connected, and hopeful. ” -PB

His subsequent article, When Nothing Works, explored the concept more radically.

“In my last blog post, Restore Yourself to Your Factory Default Settings, I suggested that doing nothing for a minute might help change things. Sometimes, though, it’s worth taking that to the extreme.“-PB

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5 Great Take-A-Ways from Seth Godin Interview

November 11th, 2011 · · Blogging, Goals, Interviews, Memorable Quotes, Success, Time Management, Writing 2 comments - Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

I just watched Michael Sliwinski’s 10-minute chat with Seth Godin. The discussion circled around Seth’s prolific content development schedule. I’d encourage anyone involved with writing or blogging or starting a business to watch the interview.

The following are a few quick points I paraphrased. Check out the interview because there are many more.

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Writing Is Hard: I Can Do Hard

October 20th, 2011 · · Blogging, Goals, Procrastination, Success, Writing No comments - Tags: , , ,

So I contacted my buddy, Lorna, and we’ve resumed our Gmail chat meetings. We connect by chat, then write for 1/2 hour or so, and then share word counts. It’s silly but the meetings keep me going when resistance is high.

Our first meeting after several months took place yesterday. And OUCH, I remembered why I’ve been avoiding this. Writing SUCKS.

I remembered why I’ve been avoiding this for a few months.

Dawn frustrated at the computer

Writing sucks.

I’m a professional writer. I know what it takes to get something produced and published. You’d think that by now I could flush out copy without feeling like a big fake.

Not even close.

At one point in my life, I decided that my purpose on this Earth was to be someone who feels all the fear, insecurity, dorkiness, and ambivalence that everyone else feels, but who goes for it anyway.

So what if writing is hard? Everything easy was once hard. I can do hard.

So what if writing is hard? Everything easy was once hard. I can do hard.

Next week I’ll slap out a rough outline for my next book.

Onward ho.

Not Many Twitter Followers.. How to Deal with It.

October 10th, 2011 · · Blogging, Energy, Goals, Notes, Positive Emotions, Procrastination, Success, Time Management, Writing 3 comments - Tags: , , , , , , ,

Size Doesn’t Matter, Does it?

I started seriously tweeting on my blog topic about six months ago. To date, my feedback has been generally good.

  • The blog is relevant and interesting.
  • I craft useful tweets.
  • I exhibit Twitter restraint (not deluging followers with crap)
twitter followers

Woot.

When new followers show up, I often check their profiles. Most of them have, like, 2 million folks following them.  Last count I had, uhm, 86.

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Blogging for a Living:
Marketing Blogmeister Stephen Smith Takes the Leap

September 22nd, 2011 · · Blogging, Energy, Essays, Goals, Interviews, Positive Emotions, Success, Time Management, Uncategorized, Writing 6 comments
Stephen Smith

Stephen Smith

I discovered Stephen thru the InContext blog. He was quite excited about quitting his management position to return to blogging and consulting full time. Many of us consider this option but few take the leap. This interview is about his strategy, plans for the future, and attitude. Stephen’s bio is at the end of the article.

Dawn Groves: You have a lot of irons in the fire. Would you list your blogs/websites/online profiles?

Stephen Smith: Sure, it’s actually very easy, I’ve created a hub-page at http://stephenpsmith.com/ where you can see everything I’m up to: Twitter, the blogs, Facebook, Delicious, the whole enchilada.

You have a cool tag line concept: business development through personal development.

Business Development through Personal Development means you can use productivity principles to enhance your ability to lead, manage, and execute the functions of your business. By becoming more disciplined and focused you can improve everything – make more products, improve service, create more sales, even make more money.

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