You can never say what you really think for fear that someone will disagree. You can never tell other people what they really need to know for fear that you’ll ruin your relationship with them. You’ll never get around to writing the book or blog you’ve been planning for fear that no one but you will think it’s important.

– From:  7 Types of People Everyone Wishes Would Just Shut the **** Up

The whole discipline of decision-making theory is based on the understanding that people have warped perceptions of themselves. They don’t make rational decisions.

People consistently overestimate their own skills, influence, and importance. In one survey, 80 percent of participants reported that they were above-average drivers.

You have to let go of your own professional ego structure long enough to let the following truth sink in:

Your Baby Is Ugly: Your landing page has significant and fundamental problems.

The whole discipline of decision-making theory is based on the understanding that people have warped perceptions of themselves. They don’t make rational decisions.

– From Your Baby Is Ugly

You think you’re entitled to succeed. Ah, the ol’ entitlement complex. It doesn’t matter if you have a good idea — if you don’t see it to fruition and work hard to make that idea a reality, it’s not going to magically appear by itself. Nobody owes you anything, so suck up your pride and hunker down to get some work done. Respect is earned, sonny boy, and you’re not going to get any if all you do is sit around and expect success without getting off your ass and making it happen.

– From 9 Reasons Why Your Online Business Will Fail

note:  Really this whole post would be great to quote.  If you have a minute take the time to read it.

I always have a good laugh at the “whitehat” SEO’s making headlines on Sphinn about best practices in Google to do X. Most are Matt Cutts kiss asses that have never built a successful website let alone business. They talk about patents and theories but very few have any real world experience.

– From Google Gives in To John Chow; Proves Ends Justify The Means

If putting your time into something isn’t going to put money in your bank account, keep money flowing into your bank account, get you something of non monetary value that is hard to otherwise secure, or teach you something, it’s probably not worth wasting your “work time” on.

– From Crunchbait … or How to Be a Sucker on the Internet

Either way I’ve been trying to think of something to do with the site, that won’t cost me my job.