Are you smart and motivated and passionate, and have lots of cool things you'd like to get done, but somehow when it comes to doing them, you just . . . don't?
Are you great at ideas but lousy at execution? Talk a good game but don't get any results? Spend a lot of time thinking about where you want to go, but not much time actually moving your … [Read more...] about The Complete Flake’s Guide to
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Are You Ready for Your Audition?
When I was about 20, through a series of complete flukes, I got a job working as a costume assistant for the U.S. tour of a small Russian ballet company. This was before Glasnost, Russians were exotic creatures in those days. We had the FBI come and ask us questions, it was all very interesting. I didn't know anything about dealing with costumes, … [Read more...] about Are You Ready for Your Audition?
5 Recipes for Success (and 1 for Tomatoes)
By Sonia Simone Seth Godin did a great post on how to read a business book, in which he pointed out that good business books are 95% motivation and 5% recipes for acting on that motivation. My own struggle with Godin's books is that I come out of them motivated as hell, but then I lose steam trying to translate the big idea into a recipe I can act … [Read more...] about 5 Recipes for Success (and 1 for Tomatoes)
