The Power of Words (via StackThatMoney)
Wes is an expert in Online Lead Generation. Born and raised in the beautiful country of Zimbabwe, like anyone with any sense he left in 2001 and now lives in London. This is his tumblelog.
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Make your schedule before you start. Don’t allow setbacks or blocks or anxiety to push you to say, “hey, maybe I should check my email for a while, or you know, I could use a nap.” If you do that, the lizard brain is quickly trained to use that escape hatch again and again.
What an extraordinary poem!
Whale Song by Sophie Stephenson-Wright as seen on Poems on the Underground
(pic credit Trips2London)
Quieting the Lizard Brain
“What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do is [get projects finished],” says bestselling author Seth Godin, arguing that we must quiet our fearful “lizard brains” to avoid sabotaging projects just before we finally finish them. (via a comment somewhere on Perry Marshall’s blog about slowing down in order to be more productive)
A lot of companies are set up with departments. So it’s sort of like, OK, you have the design department here and you have the programmers here and you got the IAs and you got the project managers. And while they all work on the same thing, they also have their own sort of turf, you know. So people are really protective about “Oh you can’t do that because that’s my job. I have to do the HTML. You just do the Photoshop, and tell me where this should go and I’ll do it.”
But at 37signals, it’s sort of like the lines are blurred.
Lots more good stuff in this 37signals Podcast