Todd Brandt (28)

What? When? How?

People and ideas succeed by combining three elements. Doing the right thing. At the right time. In the right way… What will you, your business, your community or family do? What is the dream? When will you do it.? Is this the moment? How will…

Just do it…

This was a NIKE campaign years ago. I love the idea here and it’s a principle we need to apply if we are trying to achieve anything. We only make forward progress by action. At the end of all of our thinking, planning, doubting, scheming,…

Finish what you started…

Here is an idea that I believe comes from John Lennon. When you sit down to write a song, finish the song. Write the song to the end. I read, briefly, that John Lennon had many songs half done, that he had a hard time…

Catch a Spark…

Here is a line I am going to co-opt from the movie, A Complete Unknown. Pete Seeger asks the young Bob Dylan what he is doing in a New Jersey Hospital coming to see the ailing Woody Guthrie, having tramped all the way from Minnesota.

Turning Beethoven Around…

I recently listened to an audiobook (Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks) recommended to me by one of my younger partners. The book highlights the natural decline all of us will experience in our abilities at work as we age. We naturally loses skills…