There's a cocktail bar that offers you a free cocktail in exchange for a few personal details when you sign up to the mailing list. Your name, email and date of birth. I think it's interesting that we're willing to trade this information for a drink. That drink might cost around $13 which is of … Continue reading Free cocktails
Tag: value
When to change your customer
In a podcast episode from a while back the host answered a question about what to do if your customer, the people you're selling to, aren't allowing you to make enough money. The answer was something along the lines of 'change your customer'. If you know how much you want to make a month as … Continue reading When to change your customer
Open to exploring
Who you are does not have to be so rigid that you force yourself to be defined by ticking several boxes and sticking to them. You can be one thing today and another thing next week. So often we go through life trying to find ourselves and figure out who we are so that we … Continue reading Open to exploring
The content and the audience
I recently read an article about how much various influencers get paid. The majority of the people were twenty something but the numbers of followers ranged from a few thousand to a few hundred thousand. What I've found to be interesting is that when paying an influencer to create content you're paying for 2 things: … Continue reading The content and the audience
The power of words
As a writer, when it comes to the written word I think it holds a lot of value. However, I have to admit that when it comes to communication, the written word doesn't always come out on top. In a back and forth exchange, it's easy to miss the tone or intention of the words … Continue reading The power of words
Cost and accountability
People pay a lot of money to ensure they remain accountable. Perhaps you want to lose weight and you're struggling to do it alone so you join weight loss group. You might be a writer who is struggling to make time to write so you join an online weekly writing group. Both of these types … Continue reading Cost and accountability
The mindset for starting over
When your life isn't quite going how you anticipated. You might have the thought to start over. Often this takes a while to actually begin. Starting over goes from being something scary that you choose to avoid (because you'd rather be unhappy with what you know than risk things being any worse if you try … Continue reading The mindset for starting over
Give it a week
Before you say or do something you might regret, give yourself time. Perhaps, your instinct is to react straight away especially if you're angry, upset or frustrated. And, sometimes that might be exactly what you need to do. But other times there is value in being patient and in having patience. It takes patience to … Continue reading Give it a week
Getting unstuck
Often when we feel stuck or stagnant in life it's because we aren't doing the thing that we know we should be doing. We're living in a particular place when that we've now outgrown, we're going to places out of habit doing things that we once enjoyed even though we're no longer having fun or … Continue reading Getting unstuck
How do you view you?
For many people, how they value themselves comes from other people. This can be great when people are treating you well but when not so much when you’re treated poorly. You go from feeling good about yourself to not feeling good enough and because you've become reliant on other people to determine your value. It … Continue reading How do you view you?