One client, not many — Kelford Labs Daily
Focus first.
Focus first.
One thing at a time.
YOUR best, not THE best.
Attention is all that matters.
Why views are like packing peanuts.
Avoid the crowded race to the bottom.
Focus on giving attention, not getting it.
We should re-label most “best practices” as “classic mistakes.”
Or: “The best is bad, actually.”
Frankly, entrepreneurs and creative types tend to bully themselves. Not because they don’t know what to do, but because they feel like they know exactly what they should be doing, but aren’t. Or can’t.
If you want things to change, you have to try to change things, and that entails assuming the risk that things might not go the way you want. Every plan is a guess about the future, and sometimes our guesses are wrong.
It’s a dangerous myth that struggling businesses just need more customers. In my experience, many businesses aren’t struggling because they don’t have enough customers, they struggle because they have too many customers. Or too many of the wrong customers. They’ve become busy, but broke.