I spent last Friday at a seminar with Roy H. Williams, the renowned “Wizard of Ads” and founder of the world-famous Wizard Academy.
He shared the following insight, which he learned from Mike Metzger:
“You meet 4 kinds of people on the ocean of life.”
“Those who drift just go with the flow. The wind and the waves [...]
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To Be Alive
Gregory Orr
To be alive: not just the carcass
But the spark.
That’s crudely put, but…
If we’re not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?
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Doing is Being
Ray Bradbury
Doing is being.
To have done’s not enough.
To stuff yourself with doing — that’s the game.
To name yourself each hour by what’s done,
To tabulate your time at sunset’s gun
And find yourself in acts
You could not know before the facts
You wooed from secret self, which much needs wooing,
So doing [...]
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The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it [...]
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Throw Yourself Like a Seed
Miguel de Unamuno
Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit
sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate
that brushes your heel as it turns going by,
the man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant.
Now you are only giving food to that [...]
Produced by Erik Proulx, Lemonade is a “project by and for those who have been affected by unemployment.” It’s about people who lost their job, but found their calling in the process.
I don’t know how many members of our community have been affected by unemployment, but current statistics tell us that it’s 1 in 10.
As [...]
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Curiosity
Alastair Reid
may have killed the cat; more likely
the cat was just unlucky, or else curious
to see what death was like, having no cause
to go on licking paws, or fathering
litter on litter of kittens, predictably.
Nevertheless, to be curious
is dangerous enough. To distrust
what is always said, what seems
to ask odd questions, [...]
Last year I had the privilege of meeting with Orrin Woodward, co-founder of TEAM and co-author of the bestselling book Launching a Leadership Revolution: Mastering the Five Levels of Influence.
TEAM is a leadership organization, offering leadership training and products.
While I am not an associate and have no affiliation with TEAM, I have been thoroughly impressed [...]
As a fan of leadership books, I try to read everything that comes out in this field.
Unfortunately, reading hundreds of books on the same topic means there is seldom something really new—fresh, exciting, revolutionary that uplifts the entire genre.
The last such surprise for me came several years ago in the writings of Steve Farber. But [...]
Seth Godin’s latest book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, releases today.
I haven’t read it yet, but judging from Seth’s other books I’m sure it will be an indispensable (pun intended) book in the freeman’s 21st Century library.
It leaped to the top of my list when I watched the following interview with Seth by David Meerman Scott.
It’s [...]
