One of my favorite morning emails is the one I get from Seth Godin. Every day Seth stretches my thoughts about how I think about what kind of business I do and how I approach it. The main idea from today’s email was this: You can change everything!
Here’s my favorite 30 Ways to change everything a la Seth Godin:
- Publish your best work for free online
- Close your worst-performing locations
- Open a new branch in a high-traffic location
- Hire the best salesperson away from the competition
- Join the competition
- Host a conference for your competitors
- Connect your best customers and organize a tribe
- Fire the 80% of your customers that account for 20% of your sales
- Start a blog
- Start a digital bootstrap business on the weekends
- While looking for a job, spend 40 hours a week volunteering and freelancing for good causes
- Go on tour and visit your best customers in person
- Answer the customer service line for a day
- Let the most junior person in the organization run things for a day
- Delete your website and start over with the simplest possible site
- Call former employees and ask for advice
- Listen to ebooks in your car instead of the radio
- Sell your cash cow division to the competition and invest everything in the new thing
- Find more products for your existing customers to buy
- Quit your job
- Have all meetings in a room with no chairs, and everyone wears a bathrobe over their clothes
- Open your offices only four hours a day
- Get an RSS reader and read a lot more blogs
- Go offline for longer than you thought possible
- Write five thank you notes every day
- Stop sending spam
- Have everyone at work switch offices
- Buy some art
- Make some art
- Do the work
I can’t think of a better day than Monday to see a list like this. If you find yourself stuck in a rut, take a look at this list and take action. Life is too short to remain stuck in the mud. Not only is today Monday, but it is the first Monday in May. May’s birthstone is the Emerald, which means love or success. If you don’t love what you’re doing, if you’re not experiencing the kind of success that you want to have, do something about it. Carpe Diem!
I love to hear from my blog readers. If this blog post inspired you to make a change, please contact me. Whether you soar or flop, the point is to step out and do something! I value your comments, thanks for keeping the conversation going!
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