ShopToEarth Success Tips, Tools and Advice on The Little Big Things

by Dan Swiniarski
Tom Peters began his “Success Tips” blog back in the early 2000s, and today Tom continues to push out basic, fundamental, simple and time-proven teachings for success.

There isn’t anything in this book that is earth shattering or “off-the-charts” new and innovating, but what you will find is tons of information you can take, use and win with, should you adopt, adapt and get off the couch NOW!
“The Little Big Things” is not going to be the easiest read, nor is it going to be a book you will finish quickly, but you will find page after page of incredibly SIMPLE and useful tips, tools and advice. Not to mention you will get the feeling Tom is actually speaking to and challenging you.
Toms preaching of simple things are spread throughout this little gem. Wisdom like show up and show appreciation. Or, “People first, people second, people third, people infinity.” Reward excellent failures.
And a couple of my favorites:
“Devote adequate time to self-development”

“To do much with an idea, you need an ATTITUDE.”
So if you are really ready to get off the couch, shut off the TV and do something about where you are with YOU INC., I recommend you pick up this book along with a ledger and start reading immediately.

Start acting on the little big things.

ShopToEarth Social Circles Grow with Social Media What’s Next?

By Lisa Buyer @lisabuyer on Twitter

Watching the ShopToEarth social circles grow online over the past few years is exciting and rewarding. It’s hard to believe many of ShopToEarth’s social media networks were launched less than 18 months ago, and now it seems a daily routine for us to wake up and check-in on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and most recently Foursquare!

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We just hit the one-year anniversary of our Social Media Happy Hour Webinars, and speaking of anniversaries: YouTube just turned 5 years old! When we started the ShopToEarth Facebook Fan Page in January 2009, Facebook had 150 million users; today they’re pushing to 500 million users! Twitter started in 2006, and today has more than 100 million users sending 55 million Tweets a day. When ShopToEarth started on Twitter in January 2009, we were one of about 1 million users! 300,000 new users are joining each day!

The eco-friendly ShopToEarth network is an early adapter to social media, embracing it as a means to network and build relationships, and I’m happy to be able to share in this growth.

What’s next?
Now we have Foursquare checkins, bringing our network to a new geo-centric way of networking and adding to our eco-friendly way of shopping, saving and earning. With Foursquare we can share tips on places to go and see from city to city. Social media makes the world smaller, and I’m thankful to be part of the ShopToEarth social circle!

My next book:
If you are looking for a good read, check out The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World.

My next conference:
Search Engine Strategies Toronto, Canada - I will be speaking on the panel: Search, PR and the Social Butterfly and teaching a clinic: How to Socialize Your Website

My next vacation:
Seaside, Florida

My next concert:
Justin Beiber (with my daughter Kennedy)

My next movie:
Eat Pray Love

How Effortless Action = Success in Life and ShopToEarth Business

by ShopToEarth’s Julio Varela

 

Accomplish more, by trying less. This can be construed as a thought that goes against the principle of “No Pain, No Gain,” completely contrary to “You have to work HARD to make things happen,” and “The harder I work the luckier I get.” I’m sure you get the point.

When you discover the power of “Effortless Action” and eliminate expectancies from your life, the result is action without attachment to outcome. You will be accepting every result of your actions and choices for what they turn out to be, not what you might want them to be. In other words, “It is what it is,” and you continue forward.

Understand that you can act without the implied judgment of words such as effort or trying. You can compete without being focused on outcome.  Eliminating opposites paradoxically unifies them so that it is unnecessary to identify with one position.

You go into unquestionable action. You react immediately to whatever it is you are going to do. You don’t procrastinate. You do it without even thinking about doing it! 

The joy is in the constant doing at your own point of reality.  Your present, your NOW has unquestionable power built upon your 100% trust that whatever the outcome is, it is not controlled by you, and when that outcome materializes whether in seconds, hours, weeks, month or years, it has already been accepted by you as the outcome that is supposed to be. 

Don’t try to do the business, just do the business when you have decided to do the business. Remember Shakespeare and “The best laid plans of mice and men?”

Don’t spend time trying to manipulate the outcome of an event, just use your free will to decide what you want to do in that precise moment of the present, and allow your inexhaustible source to provide it to you in whatever form that it might reveal itself. 

In other words, accept it if it happens that exact way you wanted it to happen, or equally accept it if it happens in a totally different manner, or even if it doesn’t happen at all!

For in the scheme of eternity, who are we to question the importance of one single act, while at the same time appreciate the power one single miniscule action can have in the shifting fabric of eternity through our thoughts or actions?

Balancing your business life with your spiritual life always in front, is the way to achieve harmony and peace of mind. Enjoy and just be you.

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The Business Power of Breaks and Brainstorming @ShopToEarth

by ShopToEarth’s Erin Welsh

An important aspect of being a good leader, and often overlooked, is you have to take breaks to clear the mind and rejuvenate.

I’ve found myself over the last two years getting obsessed with completing the job, instead of realizing there is always going to be a huge workload and telling myself, “Take a break already!”

I think this is important no matter your career or what your life is like. We are at our best when we take time for ourselves, whether it’s a long weekend, hanging out with family, going to a concert or just a simple workout.

This is something I have really had to work on and really never realized it until the last two years. Funny, right? I have to work on not working so much!

But slowly I have understood I am at my best when I take a little time to decompress and enjoy things like yoga, laughter, being outside in the sunshine, live music, my family and my friends.

The ShopToEarth Cruise was a great way for me to decompress and enjoy the wonderful people making a huge impact on STE’s mission. It doesn’t get any better than taking your first ride on a scooter with your big brother Pat! That will clear your head no doubt!

Brainstorming – Four Heads are Better than One
Another thing I am very passionate about in business is brainstorming sessions. I am a firm believer in the idea that four heads are better than one to make an idea or program the best it can be.

ShopToEarth is at its best when we incorporate opinions and feedback from the leaders in the field, Customer Support Staff, Shannon Beck and Hilary Martin’s Sales and Marketing perspective, Pat’s Visionary perspective, and always ideas from the programming and technical side.

Listening and realizing that everyone’s input is important because perspectives are meant to be different, and multiple perspectives are very valuable.

So use your head to take your ShopToEarth green business to the next level. Give your brain a break every now and then, and rely on collective thoughts of those around to plan and succeed!