I often need to remind myself that if it wasn’t for hiccups and drawbacks, I wouldn’t be on the right track. How about you?

It’s simple — care. As simple as that. I’ve been on a short vacation across Canada (beautiful) and I’ve noticed one thing — a lack of customer service. Where everyone zigs, you zag. Genuinely care about your customer. If you don’t, go do something else, until you do. As simple as that. You’re a winner!

I have a vision board with many messages, one of them saying: Focus. It’s something I never really did throughout my life, focus on a single thing. I’ve always been involved in many projects at the same time, and many turned out successfully. But for the next two weeks, I’ll try my best to work on a single project (except my job and my life with the family and some important/urgent things that might appear).

My favourite city sport. But I haven’t ridden any for the past 10 years or so (not sure why). Yesterday I attended the first in-person board meeting for the Immigrant Writers Association and I’ve decided to take the bicycle. I lost a pedal on my way there but the experience…

I can’t say I rarely win things. I won small stuff throughout my life, including a full two-day pass to the Toronto Blockchain Futurist Conference. It’s not the first conference I’ve attended post-pandemic but it’s the first one when I wasn’t involved. I was so focused on my digital marketing/SEO stuff that I haven’t kept up with the blockchain stuff. But it doesn’t feel like I missed much. I believe in some applications that can be build and overall support the industry and the innovation. I believe the NFTs can be put to good use. But most projects now are BS. Don’t believe everything.

I had two Toastmasters meetings Saturday morning. The rest was spent doing a full course, reading probably more than 10 articles and watching at least 4h of videos (1.5x speed). The reason? I’m creating my own course so for whatever reason (probably procrastinating) I’m looking to see if I don’t miss anything, learn and absorbed more information. There’s always something I can learn from each course; even if the course is wack (many are), there’s still at least a tool or a plugin, a chrome extension or simply a different view that you can learn and adapt.

I wasn’t a fan of audiobooks. I preferred podcasts and shows; as for the books, I read on Kindle but always went for the print. Until this year when I said I should give Audible a chance and subscribe to get one book for free each month. And here I am 8 months and 10 books later (you get some free ones) and still haven’t decided if I like them or not. But I’ll continue.

I’m a fan of SOPs. I had SOPs before even knowing what SOPs are. Back in the day when I had my first business, I made so many spreadsheets and Google Docs (early adopter) all by myself and instructed others how to do it. Later on, I learned that, essentially…

Not sure why my last post was in 2020 as I always stated I like Medium and recommend people use it. I’m planning to write a daily blog — shorts- and I’ve debated what platform to use. I’ve been on Twitter for more than 10 years and rarely generated any buzz. I post successfully on LinkedIn “business” stuff, as in digital marketing and SEO stuff. Then I’m sending my newsletter by-weekly and doing a Tiktok video about it that I include in that newsletter. Then I share that video on all the other platforms (stories on IG and FB and shorts on YT).