Generosity and fear

Fear is self-focused. Day to day, our fear is about us. What will happen if we give that speech, launch that project, get stuck in traffic, are eaten by an alligator… And generosity is about others. “How can I help?” Jumping in the water to save a struggling swimmer stops us from worrying about how…

Marketing Budget: How Much Should Your Team Spend in 2024? [By Industry]

Our most recent State of Marketing Report tells us that marketers are pretty confident when deciding where to invest their budget in 2024. We’re looking at 57% who feel somewhat confident, and 26% who are very confident their budget plans will maximize ROI for their business. I want you to feel confident in your spending…

Kinds of courage

Courage is a generous act that involves risk. It’s not courageous to hang out with friends and make a crank phone call. The risk involved might be actual risk (it took courage to go to the moon) or it might feel risky (raising your hand at a meeting to ask a useful question probably has…

Putting up the big numbers

Some people go to the gym for health and energy. Some go to lift more weight than they did yesterday (or more than the person next to them). You can start a company to make an impact and surround yourself with people on a similar journey, or you can seek to maximize the stock price…

Boyle’s Law

There’s no such thing as work life balance. There’s simply life. And you spend part of your life at work. One way to change the pressure of work is to expand or contract the size of the container that holds it. It’s a trap to embrace a productivity shortcut that isn’t a shortcut at all–simply…