GET DOING THINGS.

GET DOING THINGS.

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  • Why Anxiety Is A Sign You're Doing Something Important (Part 2)

    I'm doing a lot of new stuff at the minute and it scares me and makes me anxious. Here's why that's important.

    1. Yesterday I covered my story, and why doing things you’re scared of is important
    2. Today I want to carry on, and go into my story a bit more
    3. I’ve been getting into a lot of marketing things lately that I’ve never tried before
    4. And I’ve bought a couple of courses 
    5. Tried stuff out I’ve never done
    6. Started a daily email newsletter
    7. Working on a creating some video courses
    8. Even trying to write a book
    9. All of that stuff scares me
    10. Every year, we do a big print project for a client, and it terrifies me
    11. I get genuinely anxious about it for weeks
    12. But it’s worth it: to grow, to get better, to produce amazing work

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      8 min
    13. Why Doing Stuff You're Scared of Is So Important - My Story (Part 1)
      I've been preaching for a long time that doing stuff that makes you scared is a good thing. Today I go into a bit more detail.
      Staying in your comfort zone for too long isn’t good for you
      You get:
      Comfortable 
      Complacent
      Arrogant
      Doing new stuff that scares you a bit:
      Challenges you
      Stretches your capacity 
      Creates growth through pressure
      Humbles you
      My daily challenges 
      I do them to stop complacency 
      To force myself to grow
      Podcasting has been the biggest challenge I’ve every taken on, because I’ve had to learn so much
      It’s taught me things about speaking, sound design, new apps
      In 9 months I’ve learned so much
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      7 min
    14. You're Competing With Nobody But Yourself
      We need to learn that in life, we're good enough and really we should stop comparing ourselves to others.
      Today I’m talking about mindset and marketing.
      In episode 3 I spoke about caring less what people think
      I wanted to expand on that topic a bit more today by talking about competition between you and other people
      Comparing ourselves to others
      The good side
      You have a bar to set yourself against
      It forces you to work harder
      Sometimes you can achieve more than you would normally achieve
      The bad side
      You have TOO HIGH of a bar to set yourself against
      Constantly inferior
      You’re never good enough
      You beat yourself up
      You’re miserable
      YOU are good enough
      Just being you in your marketing and life is unique, you don’t have to copy anybody
      I see the best personalities around when they’re comfortable being themselves, and they’re competing with nobody else.
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      8 min
    15. Why Is Apple's Website SO Effective?
      What makes Apple's website so good, and so effective?
      It looks good, and a lot of what Apple does is all about looks.
      It’s content is written well. It’s witty.
      iMac Pro - “Power to the pro.”
      MacBook Air - “Make big things happen. All day long.”
      iPad Pro - “Anything you can do, you can do better.”
      It’s got a good concept. Most pages are conceptually designed well. The pages take on the look of the product.
      11 min
    16. Discovering What You Are and Selling It
      We all spend years trying to fit into other people's moulds. This is a story about how I stopped doing that, and learned to enjoy myself more than ever. 
      UPDATES
      My podcast is now FINALLY in Apple Podcasts
      My website has a link to it
      I’ve launched The Daily Email
      THE EPISODE
      What are we really? What are we uniquely good at? Most of us never think about that.
      Zone of Genius, as it’s called in my fave new book, The Big Leap.
      Most of us work up to a level of excellence in our careers, and we stay there. 
      Our motivations for staying there are usually 2 things: comfort and money
      When we’re excellent at something it’s easy, and it makes us a lot of money
      But it doesn’t truly satisfy us. Not deep down
      Because it’s not truly what we are
      Ever since I read a book a couple of months ago called The Miracle Morning, I’ve been thinking a lot about my zone of genius, and what I’m uniquely good at
      My podcast has changed over time to reveal it too
      I’m a designer and a web designer by trade. That’s what I spend about 60% of my time doing. The rest is emails, meetings etc.
      I love it… but.
      What really gets me fired up is helping people, teaching people, and talking to people.
      13 min
    17. Discovering What You Are and Selling It
      We all spend years trying to fit into other people's moulds. This is a story about how I stopped doing that, and learned to enjoy myself more than ever. 
      1. UPDATES
      2. My podcast is now FINALLY in Apple Podcasts
      3. My website has a link to it
      4. I’ve launched The Daily Email
      5. THE EPISODE
      6. What are we really? What are we uniquely good at? Most of us never think about that.
      7. Zone of Genius, as it’s called in my fave new book, The Big Leap.
      8. Most of us work up to a level of excellence in our careers, and we stay there. 
      9. Our motivations for staying there are usually 2 things: comfort and money
      10. When we’re excellent at something it’s easy, and it makes us a lot of money
      11. But it doesn’t truly satisfy us. Not deep down
      12. Because it’s not truly what we are
      13. Ever since I read a book a couple of months ago called The Miracle Morning, I’ve been thinking a lot about my zone of genius, and what I’m uniquely good at
      14. My podcast has changed over time to reveal it too
      15. I’m a designer and a web designer by trade. That’s what I spend about 60% of my time doing. The rest is emails, meetings etc.
      16. I love it… but.
      17. What really gets me fired up is helping people, teaching people, and talking to people.
        18. 13 min
      18. Stop Giving A S**t What Other People Think
        EPISODE 3
        The biggest thing that holds us back in life is caring about what other people think about us too much.Shownotes
        The biggest thing that holds us back in life is caring about what other people think about us too much
        When it comes to podcasting, videos, or any other personality marketing, you have to learn to care less
        If you don’t you get paralysed with inaction
        The guy who does 3 emails every single day: https://alexanderjuanantoniocortes.com/
        Quotes
        Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss
        If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad. – Benedict Cumberbatch
        You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing. – Richard P. Feynman
        Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain
        10 min
      20. Introducing GET DOING THINGS.
        EPISODE 1
        This is the introduction to GET DOING THINGS, a podcast about mindset and marketing from Craig Burgess, a mindset-hacker.
        Read more over here: https://www.getdoingthings.com
        14 min

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      GET DOING THINGS is the podcast of Craig Burgess: Creative Director of a branding and digital agency called Genius Division. Each episode Craig talks to a different creative thinker in a long-form…