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extraordinary people don’t just think

seth godin talks about how generating ideas is the easy part, it’s making it happen that is the difficult part.

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the new :60 pitch

the 60 second pitch has apparently been reduced to :15.  the idea that the time you have to get someone to pay attention to you has been cut into a quarter of it’s original time should be no surprise in today’s attention economy where time is a scarce commodity.

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resilience in the face of rough times

nice article about the need for resilience in terms of making it through the tough times that life presents us.  liked the “tips for strengthening your resilience in tough times.”  here are some of my favorites: accept that change is a part of life and come to terms with circumstances that you cannot change. keep working toward your goals every…

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six ways to make a friend

while i was disappointed in the lack of meat i found behind “six ways to make a friend ,” i did realize that the four tenets they list on how to “rescue a friendship” are great everyday tenets for brands.  if i was to leverage their ideas and convert them to the brand world they would look something like this:

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what color is your brand?

just read “what color is your brand ,” an article on the importance of choosing a color for your personal brand (with lots of support from the business world).  while i think that colors are extremely important in business branding and probably mega-personal brands, i think that there are so many other factors that are more important in defining your personal…

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if you never failed you never lived

i received this video from a good friend of mine in response to my post on on failing and beginning again (thanks antje). it highlights an interesting idea in that some of the most successful people in the world encountered serious difficulties and obstacles on their path to greatness.  i would retitle the name of this video to connect the…

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