Mentally Stuck? 5 Tips to Melt that Brainfreeze

December 19, 2007

Everyone has those brain fart moments, when you need to complete something but your mind is just drawing a blank. To help you through those times, I’ve come up with this list of ideas for getting unstuck:

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Carnival of the Capitalists

December 18, 2007

This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists (for 12/16/2007) is up at samaBlog. Of note:

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Concept Mapping

December 13, 2007

A while back, I had a post on sketchnotes which featured Mike Rohde’s sketches from a conference. I’ve found another great idea sketching idea that expands upon this technique: The Concept Map.

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I Learned Everything I Know by Watching TV

December 12, 2007

I have a guest post up today over at Rob May’s blog, BusinessPundit, entitled MBA By TV: Business Lessons Learned From Watching Kitchen Nightmares. The whole idea is a good laugh but the business principles are sound, so check it out!

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Carnival of the Capitalists

December 12, 2007

Jay pulled up his shirtsleeves and did this week’s edition of Carnival of the Capitalists himself over at Dispatches from Blogblivion. Of note:

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King James Inc: Five Business Lessons from LeBron James

December 11, 2007

There’s a really great article on the empire of LeBron James, the NBA star, at Fortune / CNN Money: LeBron Inc. The building of a billion-dollar athlete. (Thanks to BusinessPundit for the tip-off.) What interested me the most was the "summit" that LeBron and his marketing team held at the end of the NBA season, and how LeBron’s team aligned themselves with the top consultants. Even though LeBron is just a baby in the business world, as he’ll be turning 23 this month, he is already demonstrating many fine examples of good business strategy and execution. These include:

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Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship

December 10, 2007

The Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship #2 is up at Bootstrapper right now. I wanted to point out the entry, The Single Fastest Thing You Can Do to Increase Trust, from Trusted Advisor. This interested me because Charlie’s reasons really did make sense, but I read a lot about Tim Ferriss and the The 4-Hour Workweek for last week’s post on Entrepreneurial Time Management and Discipline. While reading Tim’s work, I was thinking about the kinds of ideas that Charlie is talking about in his article—that is, scheduling your e-mail and making people wait on you may be good for you, but it’s probably not the best idea for building solid client relationships. I think there’s a careful balance between Tim’s response and Charlie’s. Currently, I tend to lean more towards Charlie’s response.

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Carnival of the Capitalists

December 7, 2007

The Carnival of the Capitalists for December 3rd at One Man Band. Of note:

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Launch Faster: 12 Tips for Avoiding Web Project Delays

December 6, 2007

It seems like everyone I’ve talked to lately is in the middle of some kind of web development project delay. (We even had an entire thread about it in the StartupNation Community.) I started asking around and thinking about the delays I’ve had or heard about in my own webdev business to figure out why these kinds of delays happen. What I’ve found that if you want your site to be launched several months after you thought it would, do one or more of the following things:

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Entrepreneurial Time Management and Discipline

December 5, 2007

As we near the end of 2007, it’s time to start making those goals for yourself and your business for 2008. After studying all the entrepreneurs I have come into contact with over the past year, both at StartupNation and in my marketing/webdev business, I have come to realize that success as a solopreneur is not just a matter of a good idea; it has a lot to do with how much self-discipline an entrepreneur has, and what kind of time management processes they have in place. I know everyone wants to think they will be a success because of their offerings or their superior inventions, but how efficient an entrepreneur can be juggling so many hats in the limited number of hours in every day will determine their fate the most. If you need some help tipping the scales in your favor in 2008, try some of these ideas I’m compiled for time management and efficiency.

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