“Things today are waaayyyyy better than Things have ever been. Cavemen had sticks. In the Middle ages they had typhoid. We have iPhones and Hermann Miller chairs and shoes with air in the soles. Inside the soles! How do they get the air inside the soles??? We are living in the Golden Age of Things, in the Golden Empire of Things.”
—Shalom Auslander's Fetal Position via Beckett Drove a Deux Chevaux
I first encountered the Apple billboard a few days after Christmas. I was walking down Fourteenth Street in the Meatpacking district, and there it was—an Apple ad declaring “Newphoria!” in enormous print.
We don’t need newphoria. We need oldphoria, the joy in what already exists. We need simplephoria, the joy in streamlining. We need enoughphoria, the celebration that what we have and who we are is already enough. Newphoria, at least as it relates to running a small business, is not always all it’s cracked up to be.
Today’s post is a crossover from Rolling in D🤦🏻‍♀️h—you can read the post and reply in the comments here: Climbing Down the Entrepreneurial Ladder.
Celebrate your own -phoria, the joy in running your business in the way that works best for you!
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102: 12 Systems-Thinking Steps for Moving from Friction to Flow
101: Run Your Business with Exquisite Greatness and Tiny Art Projects with Alexandra Franzen
100: Top Ten Lessons from đź’ŻÂ Episodes
099: How to Find Your Perfect Problem with Jim McKelvey (Part Two)
098: How to Build Your Minimum Viable Team (MVT)
097: How to Find Your Perfect Problem with Jim McKelvey, author of The Innovation Stack (Part One)
096: Book Sales Stats—One Month Post-Launch 🎉
095: From Scavenger Hunts to Speedy Retrievability with Nick Sonnenberg
094: Top 5 Tools That Power My Business
093: How to Sell Your Online Business with Alexis Grant
092: Train the System, Then the Person
091: Quarterly Planning with Charlie Gilkey
090: Paying for Consistency and Accountability
089: Is the Podcast Market Too Saturated? Featuring Megan Dougherty of One Stone Creative
088: Why I Moved from Asana to Notion for Task and Project Management
087: Why Podcast? Featuring Megan Dougherty of One Stone Creative
086: The Cyrano Strategy for Delegating Important Comms
085: Building an Aligned Audience with Brian Clark
084: Sprinkling the First 1,000 Serendipity Seeds of a Launch
083: Breaking through Buyer’s Remorse—Never Lose a Customer Again with Joey Coleman
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