Today I was reminded of a great quote by Voltaire, “It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.” I’ve always liked that line for a number of reasons because it sums up power and influence so eloquently.
Do People Know The Real You?
People are fairly complex creatures. I’m not talking physiologically, I’m speaking more from a psychological and interpersonal perspective. I often find myself listening to people, even some that I know really well and thinking, “Do I even know this person?”
Getting Your Mojo Back
Sometimes you just lose your way a bit with your business. Maybe a bit of boredom sets in or perhaps life deals you one of those detours we talked about the other day. But sometimes you just aren’t firing on all cylinders for whatever reason.
Are You Playing A Long Or Short Game?
When I was a kid, I used to really enjoy the old Batman TV series starring Adam West and Burt Ward. It ran from 1966 – 1968 (before I was born) but through the magic of television, I remember being a young kid and watching it while I’d eat my lunch in front of the TV.
Taking A Detour
One of the most frustrating things in life is when you’re driving down a road and you see the signs that there’s construction ahead. I don’t know about you, but I always sigh a little knowing that I’m going to be inconvenienced for awhile as a bunch of guys stand around leaning on shovels.
Keeping Your Spirits High
People’s perspective has always fascinated me. When I listen to people talk, I try and understand not only the context of the situation or thing they are telling me about but also the one under which they are operating at the moment.
Saying What You Mean
One of the most important lessons I ever took away from my time in high school came from a Latin teacher that I had. He said that the importance of words was to convey meaning, but that didn’t excuse you from using them incorrectly with the excuse that people knew what you meant so it doesn’t matter.
Showing Some Discipline
In yesterday’s post, I told you about going out for an extra long and while listening to some music I had a couple of ideas I’d been playing around with in my mind coalesce into a really solid, fully formed project. It was exhilarating, to say the least. The more I thought about the idea, the better it got and the more sense it made – I was really excited.
Fostering New Ideas For Your Online Business
This has been a really long week and I’ve been super busy. There has been travel, late nights and plenty of work to get done in both my day job and in the business. In fact, for the first time in since I started this new role about ten months back, I’m having to work on a weekend – tomorrow (Sunday) has been set aside to write a document for some work that landed in my lap towards the middle of last week.
Bouncing Back From A Craptastic Day
We all have them, the Craptastic Day. You know the ones I’m talking about where you’re alarm clock doesn’t go off, you make yourself a coffee but you have no milk, you end up late for a meeting and pretty much everything that can go wrong does go wrong.