WLW #127

🎨 1. 4 Years of Design School in 14 Minutes – YouTube Video By Elliot Earls

This guy gets it.

After running a design business for over a decade, I’ve gained a 6th sense for whats “good” and what is “bad.”

There are a small handful of principles that move things from “amateur” to “advanced.”

This video breaks them down.

Elliot Early is a teacher at Cranbrook Academy of Art and a badass designer and artist in his own right.

Drop Elliot Earls a subscription and check out all his content – a hidden gem on YT.

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📗 2. Book I’m Reading This Week – Million Dollar Consulting by Alan Weiss

My clients put me onto the work of Alan Weiss.

This guy is a legend in consulting circles.

I’ve been an entrepreneur for 13 years and just found out about his books this year.

I started with Value-Based Fees, which is a 10/10.

Now I’m moving into Million Dollar Consulting.

If you’re trying to move to get paid for your thinking, instead of your time, this is a great place to start.

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🪑 3. Chair I’m Thinking About Buying – Pastil Chair by Eero Aarnio

My wife and I are under contract to buy a new home.

As a result, I feel like I need this chair.

Eero Aarnio made the first prototype of the Pastil chair out of polystyrene, which helped him to verify the measurements, ergonomics and rocking ability. In 1968 he received the American Industrial Award for its comfortable form and unique aesthetic. This ‘sweetie’ was designed in 1967.

What do you think? Where else should I be looking for furniture?

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💼 4. Business Is Self Development – Instagram Reel By Me

Over the last 6 months, I’ve become more convinced that entrepreneurship is of the best vehicles for personal development around.

If you want to find out who you really are, start a business.

• If you have money issues, you’ll feel it.
• If you have low self esteem, you’ll feel it.
• If you hate confrontation, you’ll feel it.
• If you can’t focus, you’ll feel it.

As an entrepreneur, there’s nowhere to hide.

But that’s the best part.

Because it reveals the truth.

Entrepreneurship will show you exactly:

• Who you are
• What’s your value
• Where you’re strong
• Where you’re weak

Business is a journey of self development.

The journey can be painful.

The beauty of the journey is how you respond to those challenges,

and the change you experience along the way.

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🐜 5. Nature Documentary Better Than Planet Earth – Microcosmos​

If you’re like me, my mind was blown away by the cinematography of the show Planet Earth back in 2006.

Turns out the French were doing it back in 1996.

Shocking.

This weekend, we watched Microcosmos on the Criterion Channel.

Experience the strange, beautiful, surreal world of insects as never before in this singular, artful nature documentary, which employs specially created cameras and lenses—developed over the course of three years—to capture an unseen parallel universe up close. With astonishing clarity, MICROCOSMOS shows us the secret lives of snails, spiders, caterpillars, mantises, beetles, and more as they live, love, and struggle to survive, inviting us to see life on our own planet through new eyes.

It is insane this came out in 1996.

If you like nature stuff, do yourself a favor and watch it.

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How we can work together

When you’re ready, here are 3 ways I can help you:

1. When you’re ready, here are 3 ways I can help you:
2. 🎧 My Podcast. Listen to or watch my free podcast The Rich Webster Show. It is an unfiltered look behind the scenes at my life and work.
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4. 🧪 Work Closely With Me. If you’re an entrepreneur making 6-7 figures and want direct mentorship and consulting with me, let’s talk and see if there’s a fit for us to work together.