Posts Tagged ‘production’
Tips for Your Online Portfolio
Here’s three examples:
..and there are plenty more. Do a Google search for online portolios and you’ll turn up plenty.
You should consider multiple portfolios. You can get benefits from each and their respective communities, but funneling traffic from all of them back to your own blog or web domain raises your profile even more as well as adding to the number of back links to your domain. This all contributes to your raising your net profile.
Let me know what you think and how you use your online portfolio!
Goals – Say it out loud!
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie
It doesn’t matter what you want, what you’re trying to do or where you want to go. If you’ve focused your intentions and settled on a goal you have to form actionable steps to get there and take action. The single most effective technique I know of to motivate myself to do this is to “say it out loud”!
When you speak or write your goals in some sort of public way you put yourself out there. You’ve invited consequences, both good and bad and it’s like putting your ante on the table. It’s not terrible to fail, but if you’re seen to not attempt once you say something out loud, that’s going to sting.
From the quote above, Andrew Carnegie obviously understood that information, analysis, creativity, even a good actionable plan are not enough to achieve a goal, but that it is a necessity to be able to motivate yourself. I can’t think of anything more motivating than the prospect of public and personal awareness that I didn’t at least attempt the things I set out to accomplish. It’s the kind of open ended consequence that serves to remind you that sitting still will guarantee the mediocrity Carnegie mentions.
I’m not going to tell you everyone’s response to your expression of a goal will be supportive, helpful or even that there will be any responses. Some will minimize you and/or your goal for any number of reasons usually having nothing to do with you or your goal. By speaking your intended goal out loud you become familiar with this and learn to deal with it…my suggestion is mostly to ignore any non-specific, emotionally driven negative assessment of your goals. If someone has specific, actionable advice it may be worth considering.
What I will say is that saying your goals out loud and reminding yourself of them regularly increases your expectation of yourself to rise to meet them. The steps you take to do that can encourage others to do the same and help you. It’s the first and simplest way to begin believing in the outcome you want to see.
If you have a list of goals I encourage you to make a blog post or twitter tweet or to do something that makes it clear that you’re on a road to make something happen.
