[Gary] Peeples Helping People, LLC

Your business doesn't have a purpose

It IS the purpose, but I will come back to that.

First, I love this quote in the image on the left. It's something we don't stop to think about often.

Whatever you believe, whatever you subscribe too, it's hard to disagree with the fact that you have something "bigger then your body" going on.

Your soul -- or whatever you personally call it -- is essentially what defines you, deep, deep down. It's like an idea, or the idea of you, and it’s essentially your purpose.

People soul search often, right? Asking things like: What am I doing? Where am I headed? Who am I? -- All in an attempt to redefine the soul [their purpose] and maybe get on “the right track”.

And once some decisions have been made, they then turn to their body [the vehicle] to execute the plan. 

I think what's interesting is: you could take a page from this playbook and apply it to your business, just as easily.

Ready for this? QUOTE RE-WRITE ATTEMPT:

Your business doesn’t have a purpose.

Your business is the purpose.

You have a company.

Whenever you are faced with a question, a challenge, or an opportunity, remember: you started the business for a reason – to solve a problem – and you created the company to execute that vision.

Never forget the vision and you'll usually make the right decision and get on [or stay on] "the right track".

May the bridges I burn light the way

 

Are Facebook posts more powerful then Tweets?

There is no perfect science to this -- obviously -- but I recently read a post that supports the idea that Facebook posts are 3 times more valuable then Tweets. You can read that here. I should mention I found this via @AskAaronLee -- I definitely recommend following him.

The article closes with a question: what's your opinion?

Well, here's my attempt at making sense of it:

I'm not the smartest man in the world -- I'm just awesome -- but I think it has something to do with the psyche of choice and trust.

On FB I know nearly every one of my FB friends [or pretend to know] and I chose them [and spam them sometimes, but I digress].

My Twitter, on the other hand, is mostly people that I don't know that happen to interest me.

If this is true for most -- and I imagine it is -- then my assumption would be that you have an immediate level of trust with your FB community because you chose them more actively. While this is likely present on Twitter to some extent as well, it probably takes more time to build.

So, you know, you're on FB, it's "all" people you know, it's brands you let into your life; you're just in that mindset of "I chose this, I trust it" -- immediately. 

Sort of like when you are on vacation and you spend money like it's not real. You're in a frame of mind. No one ever does that, AMIRIGHT!?!?

So, from that, I would assume that -- much like you'd take a friends word for it -- you would be more likely to take a brands word for it. A brand you choose to let into your "circle of friends". 

On twitter, I think you eventually get there too, but I would assume it just takes longer. 

So there's my 2 cents. Taadaa.

The advantage of being colorblind

When I saw this, I thought: that's funny; tongue-in-cheek joke; I want to share it. So I did.

But then I thought more about it; differently. What if the joke went the other way and the colorblind person just kept trying and trying and trying and trying, never knowing when they nailed it?

Not knowing if they are hot or cold, I would imagine they may eventually get to a point of creativity.

Maybe they collaborate with someone who tells them how they are doing. Or maybe they would have different textures added -- correlated to the colors -- and solve it using the sense of touch.

The advantage of being colorblind -- from that point of view -- is that the person is forced to get creative.

Want to see how creative you can get? Try a "colorblind" approach to solving a problem sometime. You might be surprised what you come up with.

3 things your business can learn from Radiohead

When it comes to stretching boundaries, it's as if they don't exist for Thom Yorke and Radiohead.

Three things you can learn from Radiohead:

1. How you are when you start is probably not how you will be when you finish;
Pablo Honey is not Kid A or In Rainbows.

2. Once you figure out what it is you are good at, focus on it;
Kid A -- and beyond -- are 100% recognizable as a Radiohead products. Arguably every song within the first 30 seconds.

3. Instead of focusing on different products, focus on different distribution and promotion;
they released In Rainbows online only and priced it @ whatever-you-wanted-to-pay. Literally. 1.2MM downloads on the day of the release.

All that said, here is the latest release. Revealed via Thom Yorke dancing for 5 mins -- which kinda creeps me out, but whatever.

Are you doing it right?

Who knows? Right now anyway.

But if the alternative to trying, whatever it is you've come up with, is doing nothing -- or doing more of the same -- then what do you have to lose?

Consider these failed attempts:

1. Henry Ford had 5 businesses that completely failed before founding the Ford Motor Company.

2. Thomas Edison had 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb.

3. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.

4. Stephen King's first thriller "Carrie" was rejected 30 times by publishers.

5. The Beatles were told by a record company: "We don't like your sound and guitar music is on the way out".

Without failure you may not know what success looked like; and some may say the link between the two is perseverance.

Albert Einstein -- arguably the most brilliant man ever -- once said:

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

So, there you have it -- try it -- whatever it is. You'll figure it out along the way as long as you don't give up. 

Hello world. Is this thing on?