Need a Quick Kick in the Pants to Release Your Work?
In 2006, I clicked publish on a blog and it forever changed my life. Since then I’ve kept clicking publish, taking chances, and putting my work, opinions, ideas out there for the world to see (and hopefully be changed for the better). I commissioned this illustration by my friend James Dalman to highlight my talks…
The Obstacle Is The Way Is More Than a Book
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday is quickly becoming one of my favorite all-time recommended books … and a mantra for how I attack life. I love the book or rather the philosophy so much that I also bought the audiobook to play while I’m driving…
Your 5-Minute Inspiration To Click Publish
If you need some inspiration, or a kick in the pants, to Click Publish on a project, business, idea, product, blog, etc, I have something just for you. Here is my 5-minute lightning talk from WordCamp San Francisco that I gave a couple of weeks ago. Here are the slides to the talk as well:…
My Simple Steps for Deciding What’s Next
“If everything you’ve done until now is just the beginning, what’s next?” –Dan Sullivan, StrategicCoach.com This question has been inspiring (and somewhat haunting) me this year. You can apply this to every aspect of your life — personal, family and professional. But since I rarely like to look back, it’s helped me think about what…
Footsteps of Entrepreneurship
My mom texted me this photo last night and I immediately asked to get a print so I could hang in my office. I want to tell this story in person to everybody who visits me. This is my grandfather’s first business on grand opening in July 1967. It was a drive-thru restaurant in Big…
The Big Question I’ve Been Asking More and More
For the past couple of months, I’ve been asking a new question as we consider or get close to green lighting big ideas, opportunities, projects and partnerships. How could this fail? It’s the question I find asking myself, or our team, or whoever we’re working with … not as a way to be pessimistic about…
How to Leave a Job
After four years at iThemes, today is the last day here for my friend and our creative director, Brad Ulrich. He’ll be taking a job to pioneer a digital division at Sonic Corporate, which runs “the nation’s largest chain of drive-in restaurants with more than 3,500 drive-ins serving approximately 3 million customers every day.” (Those…
Why BackupBuddy Gold?
In the past I’ve been openly against “unlimited” and “lifetime” options, particularly in WordPress. (Don’t get me started on hosting.) You can check out my previous post on Sustainable Business Models in WordPress here for background. This week though, we launched BackupBuddy Gold … which grants customers lifetime updates to all current and future features of BackupBuddy,…
For Our Next Meeting, Let’s Focus on Ideas, Options
I’ve written before about how we should all seek to Be the Solution at work. And I want to expand on that for working within teams. Work is all about problem solving. Using our unique talents and experiences to find solutions to problems. And the team players, the ones who understand they are hired for…
On Workcations, Part 2
My family and I just got back from a week in Cabo, Mexico, which we approached as a workcation. I say that because it was not meant to be a full-on vacation like many assume it was (say Cabo and it’s hard not to think that!). We were there meeting with business friends and doing…