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July 23rd, 2008 — Leadership, Recommended Reading, Workshops
If you could relive yesterday, how would you live it? What will you do? What will you avoid?
Most of us will try to do more and be better if we could relive yesterday. We desire to accomplish more. Like we saw last month, you can be more productive by creating good habits and rejecting bad ones. But then, with all the right intentions, why do we keep practicing bad habits? What’s the bottleneck in achieving what we desire?
The problem is that we do not do what we said we would do. You can become what you want, if you do what you said you would do. We must continually review ourselves and stay in action. Keep practicing the good habits and keep rejecting the bad ones. This persistence will pay off!
But there is another fundamental question we got to ask ourselves. The question is: “Do I want to be great? Really?” Read further if your answer is “Yes!”
There is some good news! You can become great. All great people started like you and me. They had some traits that made them great.
Richard St. John, a millionaire marketer was puzzled when a small girl asked him, “What really leads to success?” Even though he achieved success, he couldn’t tell her how he did it. To answer her question he spent 10 years interviewing over 500 successful people, including Martha Stewart, Richard Branson, Russell Crowe, and the Google founders. After analyzing all the data, Richard discovered the 8-Traits that lead to great success. What he found surprised me with its simplicity! And I had no doubt that following those 8 traits will make anyone successful.
I want to share those 8 traits to become great with you. The picture below depicts the 8 traits. Clicking on the picture will take you to a video Richard made to explain the concepts. The video is wonderful and I strongly recommend watching it, and sharing it with everyone on your team.
8 Traits To Be Great
You can also find a nice summary of these ideas on Richard St. John’s site.
July 16th, 2008 — Mobile, Updates, Writing and Speaking
Go, the inflight magazine of AirTran Airways carries an introductory article on Mobile Web. The author Lee Gimpel contacted me for inputs a while ago and I was glad to help. Clearly, mobile web is huge, and there is good amount of buzz around it these days. But like Amy Mischler of dotMobi said, it’s important to set your expectations and realize that you’re at the beginning of something that can really differentiate yourself.
Have you tried something on the mobile web yet? Did you read my book on it?
July 9th, 2008 — Technology, Updates, Writing and Speaking
A while ago, I got an email from Sean, about a journal he has started about search engine marketing. I checked out what it was about and learned this:
SEMJ.org is the first printed journal dedicated to the advancement of search marketing through peer reviewed articles. The goal of the journal is to help professionals in the industry share and demonstrate their expertise. We are different than a magazine in that we encourage the submission of articles and research papers by experts in the industry. Similar to a scientific journal, we review articles submitted by industry professionals and our editors decide if the article will be published in our journal.
That’s a very good concept. The search engine / online marketing industry is booming and it needs validated information and learning tools.
And I accepted Sean’s invitation to become a senior editor!
The first print edition is going to have a lot of interesting papers.
If you are in online marketing or SEM, check out the journal. You can also share your knowledge by becoming an author.
June 23rd, 2008 — Leadership, Recommended Reading, Workshops
First, some introspection!
How was the last month for you? What are your achievements? What are the things you wanted to complete, but did not?
And if you could redo yesterday, how would you work? If you could really relive yesterday, how would you start your day? What all actions would you take? What would you not do?
More than 80% of us would like to be more productive, more expressed and more satisfied if they could relive yesterday. Why did we not live yesterday like that than? It’s not that we couldn’t do it. It’s not a question of ability, it’s a question of going beyond the usual.
You may know that we have a Monthly Review Meeting in Magnet. Different teams meet once a month to review the last month, share the learnings and to create something for the month ahead. We started with these introspective questions this time.
Our habits determine our productivity
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June 13th, 2008 — Mobile, Writing and Speaking
Aliza Sherman reviewed my Mobile Web Development book on the Web Worker Daily - a GigaOm site yesterday. One, it was good to be on GigaOm network (I am impressed with Om Malik and his ventures), and second Aliza had very positive comments for the book.
It was interesting to see her comparison of Mobile Web with the early days of Web. And how fascinating it was to learn HTML! Here’s what she says:
If I were still coding, this book would probably mean as much to me today as Teach Yourself HTML in a Week by Laura Lemay meant to me back in the 90s. Even as the person who hires the coders on development projects, it was an interesting read, particularly getting a glimpse of how far HTML has taken us and where it seems to be going.
She also says, “The gist of the book is to help you create mobile-friendly sites and mobile-ready apps.”
That’s pretty good! Thanks Aliza for your affirmation on the value of the book!
And while on the topic, I must not forget the excellent review Joe Dolson did a while ago. Joe said:
My overall reaction to this book was positive. It covers a wide variety of key issues for mobile web programming in an easily understood manner.
Mehta goes out of his way on many occasions to emphasize the serious importance of considering who (and what!) will be using your mobile web application.
Joe is a good critic, and identifies three problems with the book too. Thanks Joe for doing a thorough review!
For more reviews, checkout MyMobileWeb’s review, Martin’s chapter by chapter overview and the reviews on Amazon.
Also the example chosen is simple but at the same time enlightening. The author has demonstrated that he has done an excellent research on open source tools and standards for mobile web development. The chapter on Mobile AJAX has been also a very good choice, as Mobile AJAX is the future. (from Morfeo / MyMobileWeb)
In this book you find the outline of the mobile web applications development world, some principles for self-study, some useful hints and examples and - last but not least - the inspiration. I would recommend this book to every developer interested in the mobile web. (from Dev::Info)
