Hello from my second-home of Chicago! I’m spending a couple weeks here visiting friends and family, eating entirely way too much food, and trying, as hard as I can, to legitimately unplug and relax. Here’s to hoping the next week leading up to Christmas is as relaxing and stress free as possible for you!
Each week I recap some of the best things I’ve read/seen/heard from around the web. I also get you up to date on what you may have missed here on the blog. It’s perfect “right-before-the-weekend-already-checked-out-at-work-on-a-Friday-afternoon” reading. Without further ado, here goes nothing.
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It was a cold morning. Barely 40 degrees. As I put on my warm clothes, laced my shoes, and made sure my iPod was queued up to the perfect playlist, I knew that this day was the day for me to finally attempt half-marathon distance.
Gearing up for a long run, there’s a lot of things that swirl around in your head. Confidence builds, self-doubt mounts, energy pumps. Today wasn’t a competition with anyone but myself. It was a battle with my own mind. My own body. I’m confident. Nervous. But confident.
And so it begins.
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“…He gets criticized for changing his opinions, or ‘flip flopping,’ but over a lifetime I’ve seen many people who don’t change and they always get left behind. Smart people learn things, so they change their minds. Only stupid people never change their minds…”
So were the recent words of Donald Trump, referring to Mitt Romney on the Today Show last week. Love him or hate him (I mostly side with the latter), the man makes a good point. A point that we often forget. A point that we should apply to our decision-making a little more often.
The point? It’s okay to change your mind. In fact, you probably should.
Change is inconvenient. We inherently want to be right. We have the desire to be correct. To prove we’re smart. To show that we “know things”.
But that inability to see things from another perspective. That little something inside that refuses to be “wrong” – it will forever hold you back from learning, growing, and ultimately having a more formed and educated opinion, on, well, pretty much everything.
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Another week in the books and we’re already almost at the halfway point of December. I’m heading back to my second home of Chicago this weekend for the holidays, and am looking forward to eating way too much, visiting family, seeing my Chicagoland friends that I haven’t seen in over a year. Good times. What are your holiday plans? How are you planning to get away and unplug over the next couple weeks?
Each week I recap some of the best things I’ve read/seen/heard from around the web. I also get you up to date on what you may have missed here on the blog. It’s perfect “right-before-the-weekend-already-checked-out-at-work-on-a-Friday-afternoon” reading. Without further ado, here goes nothing.
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- Modern Love – My Husband is Now My Wife – My “read of the week” goes to this true story of a woman and her man-turned-women husband-now-wife. It’s a true story of acceptance, understanding, and above all, love. Do yourself a favor and give it a read.
- Selling: I Love This – People want to connect with something larger than themselves. In branding, marketing, and selling your business, think not only about the end product, but about the emotion it evokes, story it tells, and experience it provides.
- Taking some time off - Sometimes a day at the beach is much better for your business than a day at the office. Why stepping away and unplugging can do wonders for your productivity and efficiency.
- Millennials are Born Entrepreneurs. Wait, Really? – Was my generation born into a life of entrepreneurship, or are we victims of circumstance, the way we were raised, and the current state of our economy? How has our circumstance provided opportunity? Interesting stuff to consider.
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Let me put this out there, first and foremost: I love what I do.
Let me also put this out there: I don’t always like what I do.
Hear me out.
One of the greatest fallacies out there is that you need to love something in order to do it. While I agree that you don’t need to love everything you do, there needs to be, there should be something you love. There must be a greater mission you’re working toward.
To paraphrase a recent interview with John Amaechi (which I HIGHLY recommend you take 6 minutes to watch) - an ex NBA player who came out after retiring and has since been doing some pretty amazing things:
“People who think that you need to love something in order to do it don’t understand fundamental human motivation. Take professional basketball as an example. The idea that a player “loves what he does” is a marketing tactic. They’re trying to convince everyone that they love what they do so much, that they would do it for nothing. But, if that’s true, why was their a lockout? Why did players hold out for more money? Why do players have agents to make sure they make more money, more than most of us can conceive making in a year, 10 years, even a lifetime. If they loved what they did, truly loved the game, would season’s be eroding, knowing they’ll still end up making a gagillion dollars?”
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