When my little cousin went to preschool for the first time, she had a wonderful experience.
Nevertheless, as she was leaving at the end of the day, she said loudly to her mother, “I didn’t learn anything.”
Hopefully, that made her teachers (and the school director) laugh. Regardless of what the child’s expectations were, she definitely learned something.
Read MoreEarly on in The Marketing Seminar, participants are asked what change they are trying to make and who they are trying to change.
Seth Godin’s definition of marketing is to make a change happen. Therefore, your marketing needs to change somebody. Who? And how?
Faced with these questions, a lot of us go big. “I want everyone to participate in this initiative!” “I’m trying to end loneliness forever!” “I want to change the world!”
Read MoreBecause I am a huge nerd, I like to time my tasks using a stopwatch.
Well, it’s not just because I’m a huge nerd. It’s also because I struggle with executive functioning and I have a terrible sense of time.
In order to be able to gain any mastery over my days, I’ve had to accommodate these weaknesses, so I use external tools like to compensate for my poor internal clock.
Read MoreBack in the olden days, when you used up all of your lives in an arcade game, that was it. Literally, GAME OVER.
You had to drop another quarter in the slot to play again. And you would always start at the beginning. It might take you hours to get back to where you were in order to practice the higher levels of gameplay.
Early home gaming consoles had the same design. But as computer and video games evolved (and merged along the way), they allowed players to save their progress.
Read MoreBack when I first started teaching music lessons in Atlanta, I was a little self-conscious about my circumstances.
I lived in a small, run-down apartment with no central air conditioning and a bad parking situation. Piano lessons, I taught in the bedroom, and guitar lessons were in the living room.
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