Over the past several months, I’ve been really quite fascinated by the idea of the power of human potential. I have found myself thinking more and more about the difference between people who achieve incredible things, those of us who are largely average with mediocre accomplishments and then the people who struggle to get anything done at all – what differentiates us?
Book Review: Grit By Angela Duckworth
Every single meaningful list of the best books of 2016 had Angela Duckworth’s Grit on it. When I started this idea of reading a book a week I went out and scouted around for good new books to read and all of the people I ran across who knew what they were talking about, raved about this book.
Book Review: Idea To Execution
I’m going to admit it, the subtitle of Idea To Execution totally sold me on the book – “How to Optimize, Automate, and Outsource Everything in Your Business”. This is something that I’m always looking for but even more so at this time of the year – as we start 2017, I’m looking at this as the year I scale Casual Marketer a bit more, so I figured this might be a good book to sink my teeth into.
Book Review: Simple Rules
I have no idea what inspired me to pick up “Simple Rules: How To Thrive In A Complex World” on Kindle and Audible, but I’m stupidly glad that I did.
Book Review: The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck
I’m going to be completely honest with you, I found “The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck” really hard to review and listen to.
Now, you might be thinking that I didn’t like it or that I didn’t agree with the message that Mark Manson was delivering in the book, but you’d actually be wrong.
Don’t Be Like The Airlines
I’m a firm believer that you can learn so much about how to run your business by watching how other companies and industries run theirs so badly.
Your Customers Aren’t Lab Rats
Some of the grubbiest people online are the people who focus almost exclusively on conversion optimisation. Their sites are loaded with pop-ups, optin boxes, slide-ins and an array of things designed to make you do what they want you to do on their site irrespective of what brought you there or what you want to do.
Not The Next Big Thing
It’s that time of the year where we should all be starting to think about what we want to do with our business next year. Some people do business planning according to the financial years and at other times, but almost everyone pulls some kind of plan together at the new year.
Believing Your Own BS
Sometimes people construct a series of fictions that are so powerful and so convincing that they believe it themselves. They end up fooling themselves into believing what they are saying is so valuable that the idea that anyone would doubt their brilliance even for a second is unthinkable.
Making Some Changes
This blog post has a couple of parts to it, so please take the time to read it all. In the first part, I’m going to talk about a few subtle changes I’m starting to make and then in the second part, the first of those changes gets introduced.