I find the best ideas often come when you have completely disconnected from work.  Instead of worrying about a “To Do” list, your mind has a chance to actually wander a bit.  That is what I am hoping for the next three weeks as I “disconnect” a bit.  For the first two weeks, I am going to be taking some vacation time and spending it with family and friends.  Then for the third week, I am going to be kicking off the New Year with a trip to LA for business and then a stopover in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronic Show.

In order to kick start my thinking over the holidays, I am going to be doing quite a bit of reading.  At the top of list is an eBook that was compiled by Seth Godin called “What Matters Now.”  As Seth describes the project:

Now, more than ever, we need to shake things up…Here are more than seventy big thinkers, each sharing an idea for you to think about as we head into the new year.

I had a chance to start reading through this collection over the weekend and if anything, Seth undersells how good these “big thinkers” are.

So with that, I wanted to try something different.  Since I’ll be spending the next three weeks letting my mind wander, I want to give you some inspiration to do the same.  So every couple of days, I am going to post one of the ideas from “What Matters Now” that really struck me.  Hopefully they will inspire you the same way they did me.

In the meantime, you can download the eBook in its entirety here.

See you in the New Year!

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