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On Leadership
Anyone can be a leader, you don’t need a title to be one. You cannot lead a culture that doesn’t want to go in the direction you’re leading them. Perfection is not the goal, innovation is the goal. If you don’t act because you’re afraid to fail, you will lose opportunities that would bring you…
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Positioning Statement
People often wonder how to make their “positioning statement”. A short statement that defines them in a way that resonates with their ideal client. To start, I would ask yourself four questions: Who do I want to serve? What problems do they have? Of those problems, which ones can I solve? What solution can I…
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Use Your Hands to Speak Better
I was able to increase the quality of my voiceovers by smiling and gesturing with my hands. I can’t see myself in the recording, it’s just audio. But smiling and gesturing changes the tone of the recording. Your body language affects how you speak. Use good posture, hand motions that compliment your speech and good…
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Charge for Hours or Value? Value Pricing
A few months ago, I had a client who was interested in having me expand what I was doing for them to include videos. While I was waiting for them to get back to me, I did a job for another client based on a fixed-price. I loved it and made almost twice as much…
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The Most Dangerous Distractions
“The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.” – James Clear It’s easy to get rid of the things that take time and energy that we hate. It’s hard to get rid of the things that we like, but are not important, not something we truly love or…
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Keep Your Progress
In James Clear’s book “Atomic Habits”, he argues that maintaining the progress you’ve made is more important than making new progress. He uses the example of money. If you have $100, and gain 50%, you have $150. But it only takes a 33% loss to get you right back where you started. Put in the…
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Pray.
Martin-Lloyd-Jones once said “Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face-to-face with God.” Pray for your churches. Pray for your pastors. Pray for the leaders and the deacons and the treasurers and the secretaries and the janitors and the sound guys and the people who slip in the back…
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Study Skill #12
Study skill 12: Who are you doing it for? Why do we do what we do? Who are we doing it for? If we’re doing it for ourselves to not fail, it isn’t really worth doing. If we’re doing it to make a difference, if we’re doing to show God’s glory in Him working through…
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Study Skill #11: Give Good Distractions a Time and a Place
We all have things to do, errands to run, people to see. These are what I would call “Good distractions”. They are things that we need to do in order to do our job but they are not the key object of our job itself. Michael Hyatt would call these “Backstage Tasks”. He has three…
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Study Skill #10: Prayer
One study skill that is often overlooked is prayer. We need God’s guidance and direction in our lives and His strength in our studies. Proverbs 3:5-6 tells us “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths.”…