Monday Mash-Up
Recommended Reading 🍏 Steve Jobs’s 6-Step Rehearsal Process He Used for Every Presentation Thanks to Dave Dee for telling me about this article. A longtime Apple designer breaks down the exact 6-step rehearsal process Steve Jobs used before every big presentation. You’ll get a peek behind the curtain at how he started early, rehearsed like a…
️Recommended Video ⛔ 404, the story of a page not found Two reasons I love this video: 1) It’s a TED talk that lasts less than 5 minutes. Not the typical 18-minute journey 2) It offers some funny, yet valuable advice. We all hate 404 pages, but Renny Gleeson shows why that moment of frustration is…
Holiday History 🎅🏻 Shopping for Santa Claus: Origins of Macy’s and the Holiday Icon Macy’s introduced the department store Santa more than 150 years ago. It was not the only innovation the store introduced to attract parents and children during the holiday season. This article tells the story. It is loaded with business lessons. Holiday Humor 🎅🏻 “Santa is…
Recommended Tools 📈 Sales Ready Organization (SRO) Assessment If you’re thinking about how to bring more predictability and profit into your business, my friend Christopher Filipiak has a smart tool called the Sales Ready Organization (SRO) Assessment. I took it myself and I’m already using what it revealed to guide my 2026 planning. In just a…
Recommended Video 📈 Just Get Started! Moving From Learning To Doing Jeff Walker breaks down the gap between knowing and doing — and why the only real fix is to start before you feel ready. It’s a short, honest reminder that your first steps won’t be perfect, and that’s the whole point. Worth a watch if…
Recommended Humor 🔐 Chasing the Algorithm If you’ve ever found yourself trying to decode how to get your posts and ads seen on Facebook and other social media sites, you have to see this cartoon and post by Tom Fishburne (a.k.a. The Marketoonist). So much wisdom and humor in this. Recommended Video 😂 The Power of Laughing at Ourselves…
Recommended Software 🎙️ Letterly Speech to Text I’ve tried lots of apps to turn speech to text, and was never satisfied until I tried Letterly. It’s a mobile and desktop app that records your voice, turns it to text, and then uses AI to transform that text into organized notes, posts, or whatever you want. Use it…
Recommended Listening 🎙️ Easy Ways to Create Great Sales Stories When David Garfinkel invited me to be on his Copywriters Podcast, I jumped at the opportunity to trade insights with “The World’s Greatest Copywriting Coach.” We discussed it all… You can hear the episode wherever you get your favorite podcasts or on David’s podcast website. You can…
Recommended Listening 🎙️ Rick Rubin: The Spiritual Secret to Limitless Creativity Rick Rubin is one of my musical heroes. He’s a producer who has collaborated with greats across multiple genres — Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Run D.M.C., Tom Petty, The Beastie Boys, The Avett Brothers, Adele, etc. etc. etc. And he’s a scholar —…
Recommended Reading ⏩ Perseverance: 7 Stoic Lessons on How To Keep Going Need a boost to keep going? This Daily Stoic article delivers seven practical lessons on perseverance from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus. It opens with Admiral James Stockdale’s incredible story of surviving 7 years as a POW using Stoic philosophy, then breaks down timeless…