Here are some books and magazines that I have been reading over the past year.

Brands & Branding

Graphic Design that Works

Instant Cashflow

Eat That Frog

Logo Design Love

Purple Cow

E-myth

Instant Repeat Business

Little Red Book of Selling

From Selling to Serving

HOW magazine

PRINT magazine

Continuing to learn about business and design is so essential to me... If I stop learning new things then I risk getting stuck where I am... and I want to keep moving forward. 

What books and magazines are you reading?

I have learned so many lessons and great tidbits of information over this past year–about myself, running a business and so many other things.  I mention in an earlier post about Matt Cheuvront and hearing him speak about the lessons he has learned in the last year and half after being fired and blogging and starting his own company.  I really enjoyed listening to the lessons he learned and many of them were similar to the ones that I have learned ... I usually can pick up something from each person that I hear speak that I can relate to either personally or professionally and I wanted to share a handful of the lessons I have learned over the past 15 months or so....



1. Just do it... Leap out on faith... Trust your instincts... believe in yourself.  BUT PLAN IT... make it a calculated leap.  You have to have goals and writing them down and figuring out where you are and where you want to go is so important.  You need to know what you are working towards.



2. Attitude is everything. ...