Liz Wiltsie

What Matters Now

Seth Godin worked with some really talented people to compile an e-book entitled, What Matters Now. Take a look at his post about it here, and a list of the authors here. I’ve also uploaded it so you can download it here.

In the spirit of this work here is my list of the things that I think matter now:

Believe – in yourself, in others, in the capacity for goodness and change
Laugh – with your soul, until your face hurts and you’re crying your eyes out
Apologize – and mean it
Forgive – even long standing wrongs
Empower – everyone you can
Be Scared – at least once a day, maybe more
Authenticity – be true to your core beliefs, personally and professionally
Grace – forgive your own mistakes
Learn – something new, be better tomorrow than you were today
Move – in a direction, fail forward

What are yours?

Last Week’s Greatness

Does anyone else use Twitter as a note-to-self?  I retweeted links that I thought were excellent and didn’t want to forget.  I was SUPER busy last week, so I feel like I’ve just caught my breath.  Sort of.  I’m leaving for the life-change on Friday, so a little busy.  I don’t want these links to get lost because there are some excellent ones.

Before I get to the list, I’d like to give a big shout to Trey Pennington (@treypennington).  We had an excellent conversation that spanned topics like social media and great TV.  Also the limits of the Apple TV and iTunes’s inability to reference more than one hard drive at the time.  I look forward to more conversations in the near future.

And now my list…

Dan Roam creates winner of Best Slide Presentation contest by Adobe and Slideshare.  Dan Roam is the author of The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures.  I love looking at great presentations, there are always ideas to put into motion.  I wish Dan Roam would do more on Twitter (@dan_roam).

The Seven Laws of Projects and How to Break them by Matthew E. May (@matthewemay).  This is a great piece about challenges of projects.  I think being smack in the middle of my own projects helped me appreciate this insight.  Tweeted by Guy Kawasaki (@guykawasaki), I am always impressed by his variety.  I find his tweets to be insightful with a great mix of funny, serious, knowledgeable, and esoteric.  I know he is one of the best, but I am always happy to see it in action.

Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint.  Again, he is great.  This is the text of the speech.  It makes me want to rework every deck I’ve ever made.  Although, I think there are different rules for decks that are meant to be read online (via something like SlideShare) versus given as a presentation.  Brevity is still key, either way.  Although I call it ADD friendly.

And to prove that Guy is too well-rounded for one human, he posts this link to a 4 year old giving the Herb Brooks speech from Miracle flawlessly.  It is a must see.  Too funny.

Those are the ones for the moment.  This week is crazy busy in my world, but I’m planning to blog my road trip next week.