I found this great video on a friend’s blog (Thanks Noah!) and after listening to it and watching it a dozen times I really, really thought it was the best example I’ve seen in a while of someone taking an object beyond what most people do. Most guitar players I’ve seen simply use the strings to make music. Others do incorporate the body of the guitar, but I’ve never seen anyone do it as well as Andy McKee. He goes beyond and creates MORE. Millions of guitar players have …

Absolutely LOVED and hated Seth’s blog this morning. Why? Because for the past 30 years I’ve been learning to quiet my lizard brain like he said, but it’s only been this past year that I finally found something that works. It’s not quieting it. It’s listening to it.
Seth writes, “We say we want one thing, then we do another. We say we want to be successful but we sabotage the job interview. We say we want a product to come to market, but we sandbag the shipping schedule. We say …

Seth Godin asked members of his social media group Triiibes.com to nominate people they considered Linchpins in their lives. I only had to think for about oh - 30 seconds. There are a LOT of fantastic, supportive people in my life. They’re there off and on, gone for months, or there for a hard time, or whenever our schedules mesh. But of all the people I know, there’s one who has been there, and been consistent and steady. She’s always only a phone call or email away. Even when I …