Blurries

“How do you come up with stuff to write about?”

Some people really struggle with this. That’s never been my problem – I have plenty of ideas, but I struggle with voices of self-doubt and second guesses.

Then, my partner Paul Boomer told me to keep my tickler file of blog ideas here and make it public.

They’re laced with typos, and they’re obviously out of context – like punchlines without the rest of the jokes – but it gives me a place to store them, and it gives you a look at the stuff that gives me pause, makes me laugh or lights my fire.

• Reis and Reis
• U.S. Small Business Good News / Survey / Betterness
• Review of Betterness
• Complements – having a problem created by better marketing can’t be solved by more better marketing
• Middle of the day – woman playing Farmville in the library
• Anatomy of a presentation – a series about building the new Will press
• Are you the bottleneck?
• The miserable experience of buying a car
• Cinch
• Alignment – Planets
• Disclosures
• Lawyers, Baby Owls & Twitter
• Will’s thing on his nose – the things that make us different
• Mates
• Brogan’s Post about Vikings or whatever
• Rebirth
• Too Smart To Do It Yourself
• Five Eleven things I love when I travel …
• Starfish
• Not too high … not too low … just stupid
• Twitter’s not a megaphone
• The CoMo Collective
• Bad News / Sad News
• Playing Catch
• Why your office shouldn’t ban facebook, twitter, etc., BUT … what you could do is …
• Douglas Adams Quote
• Shiny Baubles vs. What Got You Here
• 2nd Quarter – Important time of year before summer.
• ‘Liking’ a company on facebook to win tickets or something – what does everyone else get? Ok. I like you. Now what? A carrot at the end of a stick won’t feed the horse.
• Deepwater Horizon execs getting safety bonuses – areyoueffingkiddingme
• Masters Week – Ernie and Ben Els and autism
• What exactly is a motivational speaker?
• The new Apple ad – We Believe – particle conflict
• I heart Southwest Air
• My talk next week here in mid Mo
• The Civic Lessons keynote
• I was an idiot on Chapman DM – stack v. conflict
• Hampton Inn Ads – Show v. Tell – but can’t find them on Internet
• Fastlane’s stupid billboard – Fun?
• The next sales superstar at Long John Silver’s.
• Jackie MacMullen on the Simmons podcast about Bob Ryan’s notebooks
• Laura Harbaugh’s 3-second rule
• How I use twitter.
• How I keep my inbox clean – workflow
• Knowing What You Don’t Want … Kimberly @
• Evening review / daily preview / setting the table
• What’s the next right thing?
• The green vegetables of work
• BCNB DM Typo – Proofreading out loud before you print thousands of something
• Orscheln – your twitter recruitment ads should lead to job description – scent trails (Eisen)
• Why the *&%$! is Christina’s public drunkenness considered breaking news? How did we get here?
• Eleanor Roosevelt Picture
• Ask Jesse about RL social media monitoring practices
• Daily and weekly reviews – what I do …
• “It was long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.”
• “My hypothesis worked!”
• Balance
• Whining and Losing – the ads where the competitors called up and complained.
• I think snark sucks.
• How I keep up with all the blogs I read (Erica’s tweet in @Action folder)
• The Office Water Challenge
• Why The groundhog piece worked so well – already know/like
• Heck yes, I have (and use) five text apps. Okay, yeah, that’s weird.
• My love affair with the MacBook Air
• “I want to do what you do.”
• Today, hide the feeds of people who use facebook to be men and women of constant sorrow.
• Abc FAMILY – why the $*#* do you show such trashy commercials.
• Duality of twitter – bluehost and sex doll v autism
• Amass a bazillion followers vs actually making friends – Amy
• Tinoghts this SMC event
• What I want to say to Brian about Isabelle
• Buying a Big Calendar
• Receipt for 1973 Bowling Ball – stories being everywhere
• Strategic Planning Video
• Monday Morning Meditation – Love is … (my sarcasm band)
• Case Study of Francis Pass’s web evaluation team of Chapman’s Site
• Picture of Will lost in his work and clip from Steven Pressfield’s work about flow: “photo.png”
• TED Talk from Sir Ken Robinson
• Michael Hyatt’s – Ways to Gain Energy
• My Tom Bihn Bag – how I travel
• My workflow/to-do list
• Answer to helping your staff get essential and non-essential emails – that I helped Pauli with
• Guest speaker at Will’s school – who’s in your story – who are they with – where are they going – why – what’s in their way … that’s pretty much strategic planning – who’s in your story – who’s with you – where are you going – why – whats in your way – how do you get around it – tell me about the happy ending
• Blog about radio workshop in Sioux Falls
• Blog about class at the Academy
• What’s missing? Keep your job – fill your missing need some other way.
• Make your new monthly radio ad your homepage copy, too. How to do it, and why it’s a good thing.
• A few of my favorite things in 2010.
• Reboot the small business new year’s resolutions http://timmilesandco.com/small-business-new-years-resolution-reboot/
• Will’s book – When my worries get too big
• Mariann’s cool Christmas Present – opening the sex of their babay
• Lessons from Less: http://zenhabits.net/lessons-from-less/
• “When will it get better” asks the wrong question.
• Legends & Leaders – Big Ten
• Boomer – opportunity costs
• Dumb phones
• Three Big Things – Leo’s MITs. That’s what I put on my calendar.
• Do you schedule thinking time?.
• I unsubscribed from Copyblogger.
• Will’s Therapy: You cannot expect someone to change their behavior without first being willing to change your own.
• Staying Power.
• Stuff I read this morning.
• Speaking Engagements – Three Resources (Brogan, You Suck, Hyatt)
• Berlin Walls on Calendars. People wait until after first of year.
• Chilled fork and different color napkins for salads at the white chocolate cafe.
• The new John Jantsch article.
• Homeslice pizza. Hipsters who give great service.
• The clever trap
• Too Hip Radio Ad
• Brian’s Mastertech Ad
• Office Desk video -http://vimeo.com/3239496
• Credibilty vs Cleverness – how the open of my speech works – six home services businesses.
• What’s the opposite of heating?”Veil of Knowledge”
• Apple advertising and the pendulum.
• Blog ideas
• Personality types as babiesI am haunted by poo.
• I played by myself.
• Brandon. Every organization needs Brandon.
• The Disclaimer
• Great cheeseburger. Great hotel on the inside.
• Notebooks. – what’s in mine.
• Stealing my work
• Packing
• Thoughts on a cruise
• Dear Alpine Shop – make it easier for me to reach you. You’re lucky to have Liza.
• How do I make my presentations and capture videos and workflows and stuff.
• Ittybiz and Johnny Truant’s discussion of how many hours people work.
• Hotel room perfect
• Outsourcing 100 ideas
• Gina at smarterware on apple iphone ads
• Yellow pages
• Yes. People suck – David getting screwed by the 1 percent. Chapman’s on the $15/monthly deal.
• Taking compliements
• Why I haven’t been writing.
• New American Airlines ad.
• Comowhine disclaimer vs. Mid mo dining guide. Authenticity.
• My office setup
• My new notebook – this simple note/just notes thing.
• Could totally just do like the 12-pack with the example. The reinforcing examples are huge. Illustrate your points with a local and national example.
• Zimmer Sales Training Ideas – emails to Erica – salespersons as experts with a blog like ASB.
• Sphere of Credibility
• Houlihan’s too clever promotion.
• Office setup and workspace blogs
• Seth’s 16 questions
• Workshifiting – 7 ways to get an hour.
• Buck’s Ice Cream& Meat Shop
• The 90/10 Rule
• MMA – Lying Lebanon Sales Rep
• CIVICS LESSON: Say what you should never say … but is still true.
• Starbucks w Erica inside B/N – don’t honor SB gold card.
• Salespersons use of !! High Priority !! in emails.
• Sunpops business model.
• The crappy Centurylink bonus charge.
• Did you know they changed the penny?
• Ucs – when it went off the rails
• Directors cuts – writing more than I need.
• Blog about unmarketing’s speaking tips
• Reboot your office space
• The Secret you already know
• Serve Don’t Sell
• Great meeting properties:
• MMA
• 1. Deliverables
• 2. Honest Counsel – Havin opinions
• 3. Answering questions as asked
• 4. Track new deliverables
• 5. Send links
• 6. Find a way to save them time or money
• 7. Review each others obligations; establish next round of obligations
• Dee – Using VRBO
• Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
• Compare Dee training/scheduling for her marathon with career/craft training schedulig
• Compare Francis ad to Chapman ad
• How to use radio properly
• Reality Hooks
• Are you being productive … or just busy? Got through eight hours … hadn’t had a moment’s rest … but didn’t get anything checked off my list.
• Tweetdeck’s the new Camel Light. But just one smoke per break.
• Hard Lesson: Socket audio for video. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. RHW: Never do yourself what someone else can do better or faster for eight bucks an hour.
• The technology fast for Sunday’s from Michael Hyatt’s blog.
• Organizational Trolling –
• One HVAC company whined that we made a video. Another whined to the city that we weren’t charging.
• General Reference Folder
• Presentation Tips
• Software Features that help get me through the day. Do screen casts demos – Look for PC Equivalent.
• Whole series on goal setting using spms
• “passion breeds care.” Herman miller chair story.
• “you mean u don’t take percentage?”
• Answering questions as asked. Sarah just peed herself. On the ottoman? Well she was on two blankets.
• Holiday Sales Checklist – A to Z
• Who’s doing voiceover on Ram Ad?
• Wallpaper: Breathe
• Relational/Transactional of Social Media
• Lessons Learned: Do The Hard Thing
• Company Culture – Stuff like office art and working at home.
• . Measuring success – award shows and stuff.
• * New Balance San Antonio – Symbolic Language
• * Each slide from all the difference
• * We love Hyvee. Trib article.
• Interview Aaron rose
• * Deconstructing what Bryan Eisenberg did with promoting his own name
• * Michael Hyatt’s Friends, Enemies and Trolls post
• * Recommend CharityFocus newsletter – daily good. Maybe interview them?
• *Breaktime doing transactional advertising on
• *Facebook – Social Media – Rel v. Trans
• *Productivity501 article about one thing people use
• *TextMate guy inventing systems
• *The concept of”flow.”
• *Charter’s Email
• * Zappos – Customer Loyalty vs. Retention
• * What is a company’s culture?
• *”I want to play with you.”
• * Suzanne Norman Interview
• * Apples flash ad in the new York times
• * Civics Lessons – Takeaways from Pendulum
• * Strategic Planning
• Conflicting modification on December 21, 2010 9:41:04 AM:
• What’s missing? Rachel’s email.