There are aspects of your life you do not control. You don’t control how others think or what they want. You don’t control how they treat you or how they respond to you. You don’t control the weather, or the news, or what the late-night hosts say on their shows. You probably don’t control the […]
Second place is the first loser. That’s what so many of us tell ourselves. We mean it as a kind of constructive self-shaming, if such a thing can be real, a way to prod ourselves to give everything we have when we compete with others. It’s not enough to finish second–we should only be satisfied […]
Seth Godin read my mind. Again. Seth knows how important it is for me to force myself to ship, to put whatever is in my head out into the world where people have a chance to love it or make fun of it or ignore it. He knows it’s the shipping that’s really the point–it’s […]
We spend our lives stuck in a single frame. You may not remember the old movie projectors, the ones that ran a strip of film in front of a bright light to project the moving image onto the screen. The little ones I watched in grade school in the 80s (that were twenty or so […]
We all have a goal, or at least a dream, that terrifies us. Some of us have more than one. You know what I’m talking about: the thing you’ll have, or do, or be someday, if you can only find the time, or the money, or the strength, or the energy. You’re thinking of yours […]