Kids, don't try this at home.
Welcome to a world where failure is more discredited than ever. Ask yourself this: Where would we be without failures? Okay, wrong question. Where would we be without failures whose next decision, post-failure, was to try it again with a new twist? Excellent, that’s right…no where. We wouldn’t be or ever be anywhere. We would be stuck. What is risky? Failure is...
Read MoreTrade Outer Expectations for Dreams…Is Your Heart Artificial?
People have had expectations for you before you were even born. When your parents got married they more than likely thought about the children that they would one day have, and what would become of them (you!) once they were off and running on their own. Teachers expected you to turn your homework in on time and in a readable fashion. Your basketball coach expected you to make 85% of your...
Read MoreJon McLaughlin
Do you believe that persistence pays off? If you genuinely believe in a concept or a new way of doing something or a business venture or a song, do you also believe that if you are not immediately successful you will be eventually? I believe persistence pays off. I believe that taking advantage of positive, goal-guided opportunities is worth it both in the short-term and the long-term....
Read MoreThe Key is to Personalize (it)
What is it? It is anything that people want, see, use or need…or just anything, period. Why do homeowners hang their pictures on their walls and place their family treasures all over their house? Why, when we buy a gidget or a gadget, do we long for unique options that the majority of other buyers wouldn’t ever think or pay to have? Why do we love putting new pictures of...
Read MoreShould We Be Worried?
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb Do you have time to worry? I remember this one instance where I worried about a certain challenge in my life for days and days, and then, all of a sudden, the clouds parted, the issue cleared itself up and all was beautiful-solved and finished as if the worry had never existed at all… …that instance was...
Read MoreAlex Bogusky
Here is a great quote from famed marketer Alex Bogusky in an interview with iMedia. Bogusky was the leading creative mind behind the Truth anti-smoking campaign, the Volkswagen ads, Coke Zero branding, Sprite, Geek Squad and Burger King marketing. His latest and greatest responsibilities involve taking care of and implementing Microsoft’s $300 million ad campaign which hopes to battle...
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