{"id":2113,"date":"2016-04-07T18:50:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T18:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2016-04-07T18:50:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T18:50:01","slug":"stop-talking-start-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/stop-talking-start-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Talking, Start Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the great pleasure of hearing Sam Weber speak last night. \u00a0Sam had a great deal of insight to share, however, one of the greatest pieces of advice I gathered from her talk was her key phrase, &#8220;stop talking, start doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We live in a world that is all about perception, and that centers around us constantly attempting to &#8220;one up&#8221; each other by Utilizing social media platforms such as Linked In or Instagram makes it fairly simple for us to control how others view us, and how we are perceived by society as a whole. \u00a0The notion that makes us feel like we can completely control how others view us harms us. \u00a0The reason being that we are able to market ourselves as being fairly successful, without a great deal backing up those claims. \u00a0Sam indirectly addressed this issue with one simple phrase, &#8220;stop talking, start doing,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate this phrase for two reasons, it is simple and it is blunt. \u00a0Instead of us complaining about the issues around us we must act and do something to fix these issues. \u00a0Instead of spreading ourselves too thin in our extra circular activities just to get that killer resume, let&#8217;s invest in activities that we actually care about. \u00a0Let&#8217;s get genuine, and let&#8217;s start doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the great pleasure of hearing Sam Weber speak last night. \u00a0Sam had a great deal of insight to share, however, one of the greatest pieces of advice I gathered from her talk was her key phrase, &#8220;stop talking, start doing.&#8221; We live in a world that is all about perception, and that centers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2114,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}