Tag Archives: priorities

You’d Better Be Running!

“Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death.

It doesn’t matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle… when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”

Source Unknown…

Shiny Objects: Seth Godin…

Good stuff (as always) from Seth Godin’s blog.  Check out this post from him:  http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/02/shiny-objects.html   I’ve been chasing my share of shiny objects lately.  It’s an interesting principle – reset your activities to your priority objectives vs. chasing the noise.

Sales Procrastination

Interesting thoughts from Seth Godin on how busy does NOT equal important in life: http://bit.ly/a1BuOY .  Applied to sales and marketing, this even more poignant.  Doing lots of (the wrong) activities will not build your funnel.  What are you “busy” with today?