It’s time to rise and shine, I suppose. It’s easy to resist wakefulness, isn’t it? I messed my back up, which makes my motivation to wake that much weaker. 

I hope your Monday goes well, and that you’re moving forward towards your goals. 

A Sunday morning haiku

As dawn climbs the sky

How do i better myself?

Birds sing their answer

It’s a challenge for me to focus on the future, to create a vision. It’s much easier to live in this moment. But it leaves gaps in my psyche I try to fill. This is perpetual for me. 

Short Term Marketing Doesn’t F***ing Work

I just stumbled on Chris Chalmers (via this video, of all things). Chris was a DJ on a couple of local (Seattle) radio stations. Having helped many folks with their digital presence, I fully get what he’s talking about in this video. Short-term marketing, much less short-term thinking, doesn’t work. Not in the long run at least.

Marketing should be a well thought out and well planned element of your business. Strategic thought, analytics, and deliberate execution all play a part in building the long-term business.

I’ve seen too many folks expect a website, Twitter/Facebook/Instagram account to come in and rain money. 9 times out to 10 (99 times out of 100?) it’s not going to work. Regular focused posts, thoughtful interaction and the well timed/placed promotion are what gets you there. You should consider this to be a multi-year long initiative.

 

An early evening haiku

With darkness falling

The sun shining from down low

Easily through trees

A Tuesday Meditation For You

Each day move forward

Seek out the best in ourselves

Honoring the sky 

Good morning and welcome to Tuesday! I hope your week moves you in the direction you seek. 

Homewards: tonight’s haiku

As we move homewards
Across the San Juan Islands
Summer’s Joy’s awake

Hiking Lopez Island’s Iceberg Point

Within this forest
Passing all this Spanish moss
A cool summer’s day

Textures 

Textures

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