The best (Muppets) YouTube video
Posted on November 24th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
This Muppets video is awesome. Super-awesome.
Tags: bohemian rhapsody, muppets, video
How I’m Achieving My Goals: Step 1
Posted on November 23rd, 2009 @ 9:28 pm
Jim Rohn
I’ve recently begun mentoring someone and am helping her accomplish life goals. Over the years, I’ve read many different theories on how to set and achieve goals. I’m developing a way that I think, worst case, will work well for me. Best case, it may work well for you also.
The first step is simple: Set goals. Personally, I’m a fan of the Jim Rohn method for setting goals. His talk on setting goals is fantastic. He gives many examples, but really just has a few basic steps. Here his method is, in a nutshell:
- Write down five goals you’ve already achieved.
- Write down 50 goals you want to achieve.
- Label each of those 50 goals as 1, 3, 5 or 10 year goals.
- Pick the top four most important one year goals, and write out a couple of sentences for each on why it’s important.
- Write a short paragraph about what kind of person you have to become in order to achieve those goals.
Working with my mentee spurred me on to take the steps myself. I had definitely accomplished goals that I had already set, but had not yet written out that many goals I wanted to accomplish. So here’s some samples from my own list as an example.
- Start a web design business, write a book.
- Ride exercise bike on a regular basis, go to Disney World, write five books.
- Ride an exercise bike was 1 year, Disney World a 3 year, write five books a 10 year.
- One of my four most important was to ride my exercise bike, for this reason: My health in general, and my blood pressure specifically, is very important. This will be one thing that will be fairly easy to do that will have the biggest positive impact on my overall health.
- Here’s my paragraph on what sort of person I need to become: In order to accomplish my goals I have listed over the next ten years, I have to become a more disciplined individual. I need to be more adept at forming and maintaining good habits. I need to increasingly make better use of my time.
Hope that helps. Stay tuned for step 2…
Free Prize Inside, by Seth Godin
Posted on November 4th, 2009 @ 1:47 pm
I just finished off another of Seth Godin‘s bestsellers, Free Prize Inside: The Next Big Marketing Idea (shameless affiliate link warning). It was good stuff, which is par for the course with Godin.
If you’re not familiar with Seth Godin’s books, a frequent focal point of his is basically that it’s a lot easier to market something that’s remarkable and does way more than just differentiates you from the competition. He has referred to this as a purple cow in the past, and here uses that term and that of a free prize. That’s a drastic simplification of what Godin has written several books about, but that’s the gist of it.
So a lot of Free Prize is Seth Godin’s same mantra as always. So if you’re looking for tons of new Godin ideas, you’ll probably be disappointed. However, as usual, he gives plenty of great stories to back up his ideas. The one fairly new thought in this book, however, was his advice on how to champion ideas.
As usual, a lot of his thoughts are “Duh, I could have thought of that.” But it doesn’t matter, because you didn’t. Not only that, but Godin organizes the thoughts so well and has researched so many examples.
If you enjoyed Purple Cow, or any of Godin’s books, I would recommend taking a look at Free Prize Inside as well. And it’s a decent starting place if you’re looking into how to market your own business, but a great place if you’re wanting to know how to better champion your ideas in general.
Tags: book review, marketing, Seth Godin
