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October 28, 2015 By Andy Traub

The Importance of Elevators: How To Find Success In Anything You Want To Achieve

The most important room in a building with more than two stories is the elevator.

A photo posted by @axelblnga on Oct 26, 2015 at 7:53am PDT

Without the elevator every person that needs to go up would have to spend incomparable amounts of effort getting to their destination. My brother works in a building without enough elevators and he’s constantly complaining about it. I’m sure he’s not the only one that it bothers.

Some observations about elevators

  • If you’re going to have one, build it into your plans, early.
  • Elevators put us closer to our destination.
  • They save us energy so we can spend it on our work.
  • They give us time to think about what is coming.
  • They know the way.
  • They’re not difficult to use but they do require us to be all in.
  • If we trust them they’ll take us where we need to go.
  • They let us bring other people with us.
  • They’re generous, they’ll help anyone that trusts them.

The elevators in my life

Pierce, Dan, Cliff, Mike, Seth, Jeff, Jon, Hugh, Tom…

Read this post again. It’s short. This time think about your desire for success and think about who your elevators are.

If you don’t have elevators life is much more difficult than it should be.

Don’t try to succeed on your own.

Build good elevators into your life.

 

(This post was inspired by one woman’s description of Seth Godin at a release party for his book Linchpin. That’s the best description I’ve ever heard of him. You can access the previously unreleased video by going to this page and then reading the first few paragraphs to find the hidden password for the video embedded a bit lower down that same page.)

Filed Under: friendship, Generosity, Solopreneur, Uncategorized Tagged With: friends, linchpin, mentors, seth godin

January 16, 2015 By Andy Traub

What I Think About Instead of Actually Writing a Blog Post

  • Which program should I use to write my post?
  • Does that program sync with the cloud?
  • Should I use all bullet points or paragraphs?
  • Which picture should I use?
  • Will the picture look good on Pinterest? (I think about this and I’ve never put a picture on Pinterest)
  • Is my headline catchy, click worthy, or have X Steps To… in it?
  • Seth Godin already said that and he used less words
  • Should that be a new paragraph?
  • Should I have paragraph headings for every paragraph? 
  • Are those H3 or H4?
  • My blog needs a redesign.
  • I should be thinking about SEO more.
  • How can I monetize this?
  • I wonder if Mike will tweet this one out?
  • Is it too long?
  • How many click to tweets should I include, because I love those things. (Really, I do)
  • Should I do a video too? I should do more videos. 
  • Will I be considered more artistic if I just upload it to Vimeo instead of YouTube?
  • Is my RSS email campaign to finally format correctly?
  • This probably isn’t worth writing about.
  • I should check my email.

Filed Under: Uncategorized, Writing Tagged With: fear, michael hyatt, seth godin, writing

December 9, 2014 By Andy Traub

What To Do When It's Your Turn by Seth Godin (Unboxing video)

Yesterday another piece of Seth Godin art came to my door. Here’s a look.

(click to watch)

You can get a few here – http://www.yourturn.link/

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Uncategorized Tagged With: art, publishing, seth godin

October 29, 2012 By Andy Traub

Michael Hyatt on the realities of having a huge tribe

https://www.takepermission.com/podcast-player/6502/michael-hyatt-on-the-realities-of-having-a-huge-tribe.;
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On this episode of the Unofficial Linchpin podcast I talk with Michael Hyatt. He’s the author of the NYT best selling book Platform; Get noticed in a noisy world, a popular keynote speaker, he has a leadership role for the SCORRE and Launch Conferences. Mike is an equipper of writers and leaders through his blogging, products and teaching at MichaelHyatt.com.

I know you’re going to love this interview with Mike whether this your first time hearing from him or you’re a long time fan. In this 30 minute episode Mike talks about several topics publicly for the first time. We explored the blessings and curses of having a healthy on-line following and frankly I think it was a great conversation. If you have a question for me, feedback for this or other Linchpin episodes or have a guest you’d like for me to invite to be on the show call me at 615-200-TAKE or shoot me an email at [email protected]

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Filed Under: The Unofficial Linchpin Podcast, Uncategorized Tagged With: andy traub, blogging, chris brogan, jon acuff, leadership, linchpin, michael hyatt, platform, seth godin

October 12, 2012 By Andy Traub

Hanging with Seth for three days – Paul Jun

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Paul Jun spent three very memorable days with Seth Godin at his offices in New York. This interview details why Paul applied, how he got picked, how he prepared, details of the three days and what he’s done with the lessons he learned from the event.
 
 
 
 
 
Paul wrote an epic post about his experience entitled:
9 Unforgettable Lessons from Seth Godin’s Summer Seminar of Impresarios
 
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I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did.

Paul finished the book he mentioned in the interview. You can get it here.

The next episode of The Linchpin podcast I’ll be interviewing Michael Hyatt about “The responsibility of having a tribe.”

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Filed Under: Permission, The Unofficial Linchpin Podcast, Uncategorized Tagged With: andy traub, impresario, linchpin, paul jun, seth godin

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