Busy Does Not Equal Important

“Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn’t mean mattered.” – Seth Godin

I am at the Techassure conference today looking and listening to my colleagues and saying “Wow – Look at all the cool things that they are doing”. This is a truly inspiring group that is very smart and very good at executing good ideas. To be successful in this business does not require rocket science. Doing well means doing the right things now and doing them consistently until we get them right. It is more important to be moving in the right direction than to be perfect. These members of Techassure are certainly moving quickly in the right direction and getting more and more perfect as time goes on.

These ideas dovetail perfectly with Seth Godin’s writings and just today I saw a post distilling many of Seth Godin’s ideas down to a single page. You can find that link here.

Among the many ideas distilled from Seth are the following quotes as listed by J.D. Meier, the author of the Sources of Insights blog:

Top 10 Seth Godin Quotes
Here are my top 10 favorite quotes by Seth:

1. “Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.”
2. “Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.”
3. “Go ahead, do something impossible. “
4. “You can’t shrink your way to greatness! “
5. “I don’t know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”
6. “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”
7. “Why waste a sentence saying nothing? “
8. “If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?”
9. “Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.”
10. “Are you a serial idea-starting person? The goal is to be an idea-shipping person.”