(Welcome to Day 6 of Miles & Company’s Completely-Shamless, Semi-Shameless Subscriber Drive. Today’s the last day our email subscribers can share our stuff and win big ole’ buckets of crazy swag prize packs that include tools for doodling, learning to write gooder, and caffeinating themselves to creative oblivion. All the rules are here. Only our email subscribers are eligible to win… because they’re all unfairly awesome… if that describes you too, why not sign up for our short emails, too?)
In the methodology we created called The First Order Of Business, everything’s built on the goals and values of your company. We shared our best advice about goals and values Thursday. Once they’re solid, you need a strategic plan. We offered up our very best strategic planning advice Friday. Monday, we dove deep into the world of your customer. Tuesday, we focused on messaging. Yesterday, we climbed atop the marketing pyramid and plant our flag on media.
On today’s menu? Meatloaf.
What The Heck Is Meatloaf?
Many of our stories fit neatly into the five categories that comprise our methodology we call The First Order Of Business. All the stuff that doesn’t fit neatly gets rolled and mashed and mixed up in the Meatloaf category. Some people tell me it’s their favorite place to spend some time on Saturday or Sunday mornings going through our thoughts on life and how we live it.
I got filled with delight going back through our archives to pick posts for this list. I hope you’ll feel the same way.
THE MCo BEST OF MEATLOAF
Since we have so many new readers this week, we’d like to point you to some of our favorite stories in the Meatloaf category. This list could be ten times as long. Going back through our archives for this post was a real joy. DON’T PANIC! Like all of our stories, these are short, practical pieces of advice that typically take no more than 2-5 minutes to read… but you may think about them all day.
30 Ways To Stay Married 30 Years – The post that almost broke Pinterest and the internet as still as magical today as the day Lynn wrote it.
“Daddy, I Have A Question…” – For years, our son Will has asked the most interesting questions. The greatest gift of my life is that Will has taught us to look at the world a little differently.
A Football Field… As Thanksgiving Table? – Timely, True, and… umm… Tawesome.
How To Magically Lose Weight, Get Up Earlier, Have More Money & Write A Book – It’s true! You can do it! That’s why I’m using exclamation points!
4 Life Lessons Learned Playing Scrabble – Delightful post… the only thing disappointing about it is that Nancy could find a place to use her q and z tiles…
4 Things Canadians Can Teach Us – Ask me about Canada sometime… if you have two hours to listen to me go on and on and on and on about my love for the country and its citizens.
What One American Learned At A Canadian Hockey Game – See what I mean? There’s, like, eight posts about Canada on the blog. You can search for them if you want. Game on, eh.
Today My Son Will Have Brain Surgery – Ryan Patrick posted this the morning his son and our hero, Charlie, had a procedure that changed all our lives. I love that little guy… Charlie, too…
How To Be Awesome – I think this is pretty self-explanatory, don’t you?
Take The 21-Day Happiness Challenge – Try this with your office. Seriously.
Why I’m Not Taking The 21-Day Happiness Challenge – Or not…
How To Overcome Burnout – Bookmark this post. Read in case of emergency.
How To Be Successful Working With Friends & Family – To me, this is what life is all about. If you can manage it, why wouldn’t you want to spend as much time as possible with the people you love? Here’s how we do it.
I pinch myself every day. For years, it was just Dee and me. Now, we are nine… plus you. I feel so blessed to be a part of this thing. Thanks for being part of it, too.
(Over the next couple remaining days of our subscriber drive and contest, we’ll be sharing our very best advice with you. We’ve used these strategies to help unleash awesomeness in hundreds of companies and thousands of people… but BE WARNED… this is the diet-and-exercise of business growth, marketing strategy, and personal branding and development. You have to be willing to do the work. If you are willing, amazing things can happen. If you aren’t already a subscriber, why not try us for a few days?)
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