Before you jump back up on that horse that threw you off, take a minute to figure out why you got tossed in the first place.

All the drive in the world is worthless if you are driving yourself off a cliff. Match the motivation, determination and drive with education, organization, and implementation to cross the finish line.

Mix in consideration with your determination in the conversations or emails you start or send during solicitation.

Managing to follow through for a day is good. But, managing to follow through every day, for days, weeks and months creates authentic and consistent results.

The weak hype of analytics without the stronghold of conversions to sales and profits is not something to promote. Stop hyping the online numbers and start delivering better content and engagement to create the true physical sales numbers.

Stop spending money to be nominated for worthless awards with no substance and no worth to your career. If you have to spend money to be nominated for an award and then spend the time to push all your friends and fans to vote for you to win that award, it is not worth it and it is not going to help you in anyway whatsoever in the long run.