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In The Spirit Of…

Seth Godin’s post, Five Things To Do Today, I though I would add an additional five things you can do today:
1. Join me at Search Engine Strategies Toronto. It’s not too technical, it’s not over your head and you need to better understand how search engines work, in general, because it represents what consumers are doing, thinking and want.
2. Get your own My Yahoo! Account and create your own homepage. Add all the Blog feeds, news, your own bookmarks, etc… It’s your own free homepage chock full of important info whenever you need it. If you don’t love the fact that you can save important files, have all of your bookmarks and all of your RSS feeds/news with you, wherever you go, I’d like to hear about it.
3. Read the book, Never Eat Alone – And Other Secrets To Success, One Relationship At A Time, by Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz. I was going to suggest making three lunch meetings with different individuals, but I am only 20 pages deep into this book and it’s already making lots of good sense.
4. Get a speaking engagement. It could be your local Chamber of Commerce, a peer group or even your staff but sharpen your speaking skills. Aim higher – join Toastmasters or push for a speaking gig at a major industry conference.
5. Follow these simple steps for a week:
– Say “please” and “thank you”
– Show up ten minutes before scheduled
– Do what you say… and then some
– Give generously – to everything and everyone who asks
Happy Holiday.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.