March 2010 Entries
Like Rock for Five , my previous TRMusings blog entry, Linchpin talks about how to do something that matters. It’s about how to make yourself unique and indispensible.
Everyone who reads my blogs knows I am a HUGE fan of Seth Godin --- one that sometimes begins to border on the creepy. OK, I admit it. In fact, I have often said that “…you can’t spell Godin without god…” Oh brother.
Not surprisingly, his newly released book Linchpin was a joy for me. Subtitled “Are you Indispensible?” it describes a linchpin as “…a person we can’t live without—the indispensable person who does work that matters, the person...
I can’t help but again channel a recent Seth Godin blog as inspiration for today’s thought. The concept he discusses encourages us to ROCK for five minutes a day. Totally rock in a new, different, or life-changing way. It’s a worthy goal. An achievable goal. A reachable goal. A memorable goal.
No one can ROCK all the time. No one. (With the possible exception of Seth Godin…but I am biased.) It’s a self-defeating goal to try. But you CAN set a goal to make a difference once a day. Rock for five minutes each day. Write a blog post that inspires someone to reach up or out…encourage an associate or to deal with...
Four seemingly disparate things converged earlier this week. (1) I bought a new MacBook Pro computer, (2) I installed a “word of the day” program that launches when I boot it, (3) The word on Tuesday was Sprezzatura (an archaic Italian word for being able to conduct your craft without a lot of visible effort…more on that later), and (4) Seth Godin's blog that day was on Sprezzatura.
I don’t think it’s any coincidence that Seth’s blog was on this word. He very possibly is a Mac guy, and the word resonated with him (as it did with me). However, I...