WOWOW: The Social Media Edition [Links of the Week]
edited by Alexander Becker
This week comes in loose categories, check out Sandy, branding, and protein tips, the best anabolic agent, fear, laziness and laser-like focus, and finally the blogging vs. social networking debate.
Business
The Elements Of A Personal Brand
Be Yourself: In the world of the Internet, with "me too" applications abound, branding is often superfluous, if everyone just figures you're just like someone else.
I Want Sandy and so do you --
Sandy, please crawl this page and remind us to actually read the included links... @recommendations
Exercises
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Two out of ten --
3. The best anabolic is water.
4. Did you eat breakfast? If not, don't ask me anything about nutrition.
Motivation
Check out Inquiringmind Magazine and their beautiful picture on the start page.
The Long Day by Geoff Thompson, who concludes his guest post on dealing with fear with --
Just because I am the man that wrote the words it doesn't mean that I am a man that doesn't need to reads the words again.
11 Tips For Nuking Laziness Without Becoming A Workaholic
Productive rest,
as in --Keep Work and Play Separate. Although I'm not perfect in application, I strive to follow the "work hard, play hard" mantra. This means that when you allocate time for working on big projects, you focus entirely on that for a set period of time. The time you have remaining is yours to use however you like. This removes the guilt during rest periods and urge to procrastinate during work periods.
Social Media
Also: Blogging vs Social Networking
I was offered a job through my blog....
I have 9000 'friends' at facebook and myspace....
I used to know most of my readers by name and knew that they all knew mine - even though there were only 200 a day....
I know a lot more people see my profile on facebook - but most of them just are hunting for friend bait....
I used to spend hours writing things that meant something on my blog....
I now spend hours updating people on the lattes I drink and people I meet on Twitter....
I had a brand of my own on and on my own property on my blog....
I now have a brand on someone else's property....
While: Marketing is NOT Social Media-Social Media is NOT Marketing.
Finally: Give Me Some Love
While there's no substitute for a warm smile, firm handshake and face-to-face conversation, social networking sites such as Facebook can be useful tools for building relationships. They are great for finding and reconnecting with friends -- and they give you easy access to all their friends.
... just make sure to keep it real, real world that is -- as opposed to collecting xx-thousands of "friends", friend-bait, where the add-to part is all there is to it.
Keep it real, be yourself, and make it personal.
Labels: blogging, brian+clark, business, darren+rowse, fear, fitness, focus, hugh+macleod, keith+ferrazzi, laziness, lifehacks, lifestyle, linking, personal+branding, protein, sandy, success, wowow
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Learn to Trust Your Inner Voice
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How old are you? Aren't you old enough to finally trust yourself?
You feel like not exercising today? You feel like really overeating? Maybe there is a big project that is labeled important and thus would have to be treated first, with top priorities... but you feel like not touching it today?
You are old enough. Listen to your instincts and do not always assume that your inner voice is a lazy one. Your inner voice, your instincts are guiding you. Why would you accuse yourself of attempting to cheat? Do you really think you are that bad?
On the other hand, you may fear your inner voice could tell you to double your efforts -- how would you react to that?
How many times did you give in to your feelings of not doing something at that particular time and on how many of these occasions did you beat yourself up, drowning in guilt, only to later realize that it was just right to not pursue that project on that day.
Funny how the day after came along the last bit of input that I would have ignored if it hadn't been for my day off... and I thought I was lazy...
The amazing thing about instincts is their effectiveness, they work... instinctively. It's like an additional sense -- but only when carefully observed and trusted.
Take advantage of your inner voice and test it with minor issues at first. Act according to your instincts, preferably on difficult decisions where your conscious mind would suggest doing the exact opposite. Go with your instincts and evaluate what turned out to be different compared to the conscious-mind-only method. You will notice how your instincts contribute to your sensory input and -- once trusted -- are an important way to achieve clarity and stable decisions where the mind-only way would be still guessing.
Respect your instincts and learn to trust your inner voice. Why would you assume that your inner voice is wrong? Why assume that your inner voice is bad in the first place?
It is easy to ignore the inner voice, sometimes it is even easier to keep up the discipline than to break it. You have to constantly evaluate your actions. Do not let your habits run you and prevent you from optimizing your environment and your decisions. Do not stick to a habit because of the guilt that is associated with taking a day off. Stick to your habits because your mind and your instincts tell you to do so.
Listen to your inner voice. Trust your inner voice. Rely on your inner voice.
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