Avoiding Burnout

by Dave Saunders on March 12, 2010

While flipping through headlines with Feedly (ok, while ‘x’ing out dozens of articles in the blink of an eye, without reading them, using Feedly), I stopped at this Life Hack article: 11 Simple Ways To Avoid Burnout
All great ideas, but it was #5 that made me laugh.
Write a Manifesto
Wow, I typically use the word manifesto [...]

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Emotional Butterflies and How To Tame Them

by Dave Saunders on March 9, 2010

The most common question I hear from people seeking public speaking advice in and outside of my Toastmasters’ groups is “How do I get rid of the butterflies I feel every time I go to speak?” My answer is the same every time. In the eyes of the other person I see either a [...]

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Which Card Do I use to Pay Attention?

by Dave Saunders March 8, 2010

If you could pay attention through payments on a special card, what would your balance look like?
Overdrawn?
Creditors beating down your door?
The word attention comes from a Greek word which means “to attend". To me that really brings home the fact that paying attention to something is not the passive act many have reduced [...]

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The Legend and Lesson of GoldenBuddhaSchmutz

by Dave Saunders March 4, 2010

In the realm of personal branding there are two camps: One believes that you create a personal brand through the way you dress, cut your hair, pad your resume and all that nonsense which ends up giving the concept of personal branding a bad name. The other sees personal branding as a process of revelation. [...]

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Turning Lack into an Asset

by Dave Saunders February 22, 2010

Everyone starts somewhere. Invariably, that somewhere is “the beginning.” The beginning may look different on the surface from one person to the next but absolutely no one is born playing violin, writing novels, doing taxes, hunting down all the Jedi in the universe, pounding on opponents in heavy weight fights or winning bouts on The [...]

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What If You Charged Admission For What You Do?

by Dave Saunders February 21, 2010

I could write a lot on the book The Experience Economy, but there’s one thought that really hit me from what I read. What if, instead of charging for your product or service, you instead charged an admission and gave the rest away for free?
How would this impact how you interact with your market?
How would [...]

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Smelly Airline Passengers Now News, Post Kevin Smith

by Dave Saunders February 19, 2010

That’s right. Now that Kevin Smith has raised a ruckus online over being kicked off a flight for being too fat, other passengers are raising a stink.
Literally.
Hmmmm…too soon?
I find this story amusing. A man was kicked off a Jazz Air flight. His smell was later described as “brutal” by another passenger. If you’ve ever flown [...]

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Twitter Gets a Boost From Real Time Search

by Dave Saunders February 15, 2010

Shout out to LeeAnn Prescott at VentureBeat for reporting on this. The gist is that Twitter has experienced a 9% boost in traffic since Google’s real-time search was introduced. I guess the point is that search is far from dead and it still does make sense to pay attention to keywords, trending topics and to [...]

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Who really is looking out for you?

by Dave Saunders January 29, 2010

This ad ran in Time Magazine (June 30, 1947). That’s right, the headline reads DDT is Good for Me. 

When I make jokes about this, I’ve actually had someone respond with “well yes, but the benefits of DDT in Africa can’t be argued with.”
Really?
I understand that Malaria is a horrible affliction, but if you’re [...]

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The Wrong Approach to Motivation is Ruining Your Results

by Dave Saunders January 28, 2010

What if everything you thought you knew about motivating yourself and others turned out to be wrong?
What if the old “carrot and stick” approach has been, time and time again, proven not to work?
What if those tried-and-untrue tactics were also proven to hinder results and decrease performance?
What if a Nobel Prize was awarded in economics [...]

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