What an amazing way to start the day off with a
"direct message from Keith Richards".
I saw it the inbox & my heart skipped a beat, baby :-)
5/11/11
What a Wake-up
What an amazing way to start the day off with a
"direct message from Keith Richards".
I saw it the inbox & my heart skipped a beat, baby :-)
5/10/11
The Spread The Love Method
Reading up on blogging I consulted a cool site: www.ridiculouslyextraordinary.com
and got blown away by the article:
Everything You’ve Been Force-fed About Blogging Is Wrong.
And I do like to have my mind blown!
As Keith says:
I never know what I'm looking for, exactely, but when I hit upon it, I know it.
The article points out that:
"Conventional wisdom suggests one of the following ways to become
a successful blogger:
1: Write amazing content on a consistent schedule.
2: The fans will follow."
We all kind of know better, and still I kept to the thinking for a while,
like "I'll just post and the rest will follow." Doesn't work that way.
Spread The Love Method
Instead I took another advice from the article about "be everywhere".
Ergo I have added links to my Facebook and Twitter accounts to the blog.
And I intent to follow through on the Spread The Love Method:
1: Write amazing content on a consistent schedule.
2: Write amazing content for others.
3: The fans will follow.
and got blown away by the article:
Everything You’ve Been Force-fed About Blogging Is Wrong.
And I do like to have my mind blown!
As Keith says:
I never know what I'm looking for, exactely, but when I hit upon it, I know it.
The article points out that:
"Conventional wisdom suggests one of the following ways to become
a successful blogger:
1: Write amazing content on a consistent schedule.
2: The fans will follow."
We all kind of know better, and still I kept to the thinking for a while,
like "I'll just post and the rest will follow." Doesn't work that way.
Spread The Love Method
Instead I took another advice from the article about "be everywhere".
Ergo I have added links to my Facebook and Twitter accounts to the blog.
And I intent to follow through on the Spread The Love Method:
1: Write amazing content on a consistent schedule.
2: Write amazing content for others.
3: The fans will follow.
5/8/11
Practise
In Keith's words: Nostalgia is a luxury
Looking back is probably not as important as it once was.
Or maybe it is just as important as always to get the old masters'
knowledge under your skin in order to find your own truth in what you do
& what you'd like to do.
In any sense practise can't be overlooked as a daily effort of huge value.
Like anything else, the more practise you have at something, the more
you find room to maneuver and find out what your limits are and how
to overcome them.
Looking back is probably not as important as it once was.
Or maybe it is just as important as always to get the old masters'
knowledge under your skin in order to find your own truth in what you do
& what you'd like to do.
In any sense practise can't be overlooked as a daily effort of huge value.
Like anything else, the more practise you have at something, the more
you find room to maneuver and find out what your limits are and how
to overcome them.
5/6/11
On My List
Everybody knows Keith is a heavy reader.
And as a classic lover of literature, Keith says he found refuge
in books before he discovered the blues.
He now owns thousands of books and even considered "professional training" to manage them.
Sounds a bit geeky, and the librarian’s standard Dewey Decimal classification system did turn out to be "too much hassle" - restoring my belief in the Keith kind of not trying to control things too much.
Instead he keeps his favoured books close to hand, and so do I.
ON MY LIST:
Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business
Erik Qualman
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Stone me. The Wit and Wisdom of Keith Richards
Mark Blake
The Internet is a Playground
David Thorne
Influenze. The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
By Malcolm Gladwell
Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success
Claire Shipman, Katty Kay
The Next Big Thing: Spotting and Forecasting Consumer Trends for Profit
William Higham
The Myths of Innovation
Scott Berkun
My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic: Everything You Need to Know
About Art, Ads, Life, God and Other Mysteries and Weren't Afraid to Ask
Charles Saatchi
And as a classic lover of literature, Keith says he found refuge
in books before he discovered the blues.
Sounds a bit geeky, and the librarian’s standard Dewey Decimal classification system did turn out to be "too much hassle" - restoring my belief in the Keith kind of not trying to control things too much.
Instead he keeps his favoured books close to hand, and so do I.
ON MY LIST:
Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business
Erik Qualman
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Stone me. The Wit and Wisdom of Keith Richards
Mark Blake
The Internet is a Playground
David Thorne
Influenze. The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
By Malcolm Gladwell
Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success
Claire Shipman, Katty Kay
The Next Big Thing: Spotting and Forecasting Consumer Trends for Profit
William Higham
The Myths of Innovation
Scott Berkun
My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic: Everything You Need to Know
About Art, Ads, Life, God and Other Mysteries and Weren't Afraid to Ask
Charles Saatchi
5/3/11
The Main Thing
It's not that easy to be Keith Richards. But it's not so hard, either.
The main thing is to know yourself.
So Keith is quoted along with his picture, always placed next to my desk.
It could be mistaken for a 'Keith shrine' with the
candle and the fresh flowers, like offerings to the guru.
But there's no such thing in my world.
Keith, his life, his philosophy and way of thinking, of being, is a strong and kind influence in my daily life.
Now he's no God, but he is a king. And I do try to navigate with both ears open to his big sea of wisdom and courage - in order to find my own route through it all.
As Keith says: Everybody starts by imitating their heroes.
The main thing is to know yourself.
It could be mistaken for a 'Keith shrine' with the
candle and the fresh flowers, like offerings to the guru.
But there's no such thing in my world.
Keith, his life, his philosophy and way of thinking, of being, is a strong and kind influence in my daily life.
Now he's no God, but he is a king. And I do try to navigate with both ears open to his big sea of wisdom and courage - in order to find my own route through it all.
As Keith says: Everybody starts by imitating their heroes.
5/2/11
Karma is a bitch!
You might as well accept the fact that evil is there and deal with it any way you can.
'Sympathy for the Devil' is a song that says 'Don't forget him. If you confront him,
then he's out of a job.'
That would certainly be true in the case of Johan Håkansson of JM Kommunikation.
The man is going out of business faster than I can say:
"So sick and tired of hanging around with jerks like you"!
Yet another freelance supplier burned by Johan Håkansson
Today I got a call from another freelance supplier, who's been burned by Håkansson.
Johan Håkansson got in touch with the person in question at one of the Danish
freelancer sites. And using the same dodgy tactic of heavily hinting at "12-14 big jobs
in the pipeline", as he used with me, he managed to persuade this freelancer into
delivering a week's job done in 24 hours!
Håkansson added some new lies to his "explanations" and then cashed in on
yet another "free" delivery by another small business owner, now bleeding!
But karma is a bitch, Johan Håkansson. Go google yourself!
'Sympathy for the Devil' is a song that says 'Don't forget him. If you confront him,
then he's out of a job.'
That would certainly be true in the case of Johan Håkansson of JM Kommunikation.
The man is going out of business faster than I can say:
"So sick and tired of hanging around with jerks like you"!
Yet another freelance supplier burned by Johan Håkansson
Today I got a call from another freelance supplier, who's been burned by Håkansson.
Johan Håkansson got in touch with the person in question at one of the Danish
freelancer sites. And using the same dodgy tactic of heavily hinting at "12-14 big jobs
in the pipeline", as he used with me, he managed to persuade this freelancer into
delivering a week's job done in 24 hours!
Håkansson added some new lies to his "explanations" and then cashed in on
yet another "free" delivery by another small business owner, now bleeding!
But karma is a bitch, Johan Håkansson. Go google yourself!
5/1/11
Solid Sunday
And I adore the wit flowing from a passionate man's
colossal history - it's like Keith starting the day off with Mozart; a solid base.
A new day, a new beginning; It's curcial to my sanity that I bring that thought with me every where. It's what I have to do..."Lose your dreams, And you will lose your mind" as the song goes.
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