The business of business
“Greatness is consistency.
Meditating once is common. Meditating daily is rare.
Exercising today is simple. Training every week is simply remarkable.
Writing one essay rarely matters. Write every day and you're practically a hero.
Unheroic days can make for heroic decades.”
Meditating once is common. Meditating daily is rare.
Exercising today is simple. Training every week is simply remarkable.
Writing one essay rarely matters. Write every day and you're practically a hero.
Unheroic days can make for heroic decades.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On Hate as a Defense Mechanism, Reciprocity, and Consistency | James Clear
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It’s simple. Stay on the bus. Stay on the f*cking bus.Why, because if you do, in time you will begin to see a difference.
Arno Rafael Minkkinen • Arno Rafael Minkkinen: 'Stay on the bus. Stay on the f*cking bus', Finding Your Own Vision, New England School of Photography - 2004 — Speakola
If you’re efficient, you’re doing it the wrong way. The right way is the hard way. The show was successful because I micromanaged it—every word, every line, every take, every edit, every casting. That’s my way of life.
Daniel McGinn • Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager
Ship creative work. On a schedule. Without attachment and without reassurance.
Seth Godin • The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
The secret to life is doing the thing again. And again.
Cooking food will go the same way as sewing? I hope not!
Repurposing content
Do you ever feel like your business standards are lower than they should be?
If so, identify the three most important aspects of your business — maybe it's your product, your customer service, and your team (if you have one). Write down the current standard for each category. And then write down what excellence actually looks like.
The gap between... See more
If so, identify the three most important aspects of your business — maybe it's your product, your customer service, and your team (if you have one). Write down the current standard for each category. And then write down what excellence actually looks like.
The gap between... See more
When you deal with people who have trouble, you can either choose to taken the token that says “it’s no big deal” or the token that says “it’s the end of the world”. Whichever token you pick, they’ll take the other.