Work is essential. Doing your job pays the bills, and doing it well pays for family vacations and early retirement. But work isn’t life, and life isn’t work. Our nonstop, hyper-connected culture may try to convince us otherwise, but don’t be fooled. While our careers rightfully occupy a large chunk of our lives, allowing them… Read More
Author: Jamey Codding
5 Steps to Learning New Skills to Escape Rutville
Everyone loves being in a groove. Work is easier when you’re in a groove, with fewer obstacles to overcome and less stress and anxiety slowing you down. You know what to do, and you know how to do it. Bada-bing, bada-boom. But what if your groove is actually a rut? Most of us find a… Read More
Creative problem solving with the Cleveland Browns!
I am a Cleveland Browns fan. Yes, willingly. You don’t have to follow the NFL to know the Browns are one of the sorriest franchises in sports. In the eight years since the team’s last winning season in 2007, the Browns are 37-91, a .289 winning percentage. For comparison’s sake, the Patriots have won 36… Read More
The “Star Wars” Marketing Machine
People from all walks of life and every corner of the globe will soon come together to joyously celebrate what promises to be one of the most memorable days of the year, a day kids have been looking forward to for months and a day adults get to feel like kids again. On Friday, December… Read More
Starbucks Red Cups: Marketing Genius or Sheer, Dumb Luck?
“I’d rather be lucky than good.” Fortunately for Lefty Gomez, an All-Star pitcher with the Yankees in the 1930s who used this quote throughout his 14-year career, he enjoyed seemingly generous portions of both luck and skill on the baseball diamond while compiling a lifetime 189-102 record and 3.34 ERA. Golfer Gary Player, however, flipped… Read More
Embrace your Messy Creativity
The creative process is both fascinating and infuriating. Most of us work at the mercy of creative inspiration, thriving on days when ideas flow naturally and everything is clicking while scuffling on days when ideas border on extinction and everything is a struggle. While we’ve provided lots of helpful advice on this blog for overcoming… Read More
With Web Design, Less is Often More
People love bells and whistles. It’s why so many of us wind up with more expensive mortgages, car payments and cell phone bills than we initially intended. Sizzle sells. But in this age of intense interactivity and relentless hyperactivity, one design truth remains: Simple is beautiful, especially when it comes to web design. The fight… Read More
The Importance of Website Design
What can you do in 50 milliseconds? Before you answer “not much,” consider recent Google research that suggests one thing you can do in 50 milliseconds is give someone a bad first impression of your website. How fast is that? By the time you count to “one-Mississippi,” you could theoretically have had 20 visitors determine… Read More
Never Stop Learning
“The quickest way to become an old dog is to stop learning new tricks.” You’d be hard pressed to find more useful career advice than this John Rooney quote. We all have things we’re good at – that’s how we got hired in the first place – but in my career, I’ve found that people… Read More